[Gee]

I would recommend to anyone trying out the gassers. If the gassers aren't something you end up enjoying. It seem the 5th scales retain their value better then the rest of the hobby. You should get most of your money back when you sale it.

Sounds bad or lazy but I got tired of charging lipos all the time. I still got several of my brushless setups but don't run them as often as I use to. These guys you charge the rx pack throw in some gas. Pull the cord a couple of times and off you go. About an hour per tank. No messing with the carb everytime out. You get about 5 tanks per gallon of gas. So a gallon gas only being $3.25 at the most the cost of running these guys pays off in the long run. Five hours of run time for 3.25 is pretty good. Initially you will go through a few spark plugs getting the tune correct but after that you will not be replacing them. I went through glow plugs on the nitos I had a lot. They were 6 - 7 dollars a piece. These spark plugs are more like 3.50 a piece. A few month ago I lost compression or power in one of my engines. It took maybe 20 buck to replace the piston ring and some gaskets to get it back up to where it was. The nitro engines would have required a new piston and sleave to contineu to use the same engine at 70 - 120 depending on the nitro engine.


I know there are conversion going on with the 5th scale. I think ryu james has done one and maybe a few others. I doubt I will be going down that road though. I like the power they churn out and the run times I get running the gas engines in them. No better forum then RCM to get a conversion going for one though. Mike can build a conversion for anything out there. Alway a lot of help here with the broad experience of all the guys here.

Redcat came out with some new 5th scale trucks and buggys that are a lot lighter then these ones are. I think they are going to be available this Feb and are called XTs or something like that. Sound like those would be a better platform to go with a conversion on to get a 4x4 conversion going. I think Obeast44 has plans to convert one of these new ones. He's also a member over at the redcatrampageforum. I believe that redcat will also be releasing an electric 5th scale. Not sure on that though.

With the stock tires installedo on it. It was 34lbs when I had it on the scale a while back ago. The stock tires are heavy. I have some lighter tires the excavators to run when the weather gets better. The V3 of the Rampage has had a lot of corrections made to it. I am real happy with it and haven't had any issues with it vs what the owners of the previous versions 1 & 2 had gone through. Seemed that Redcat kept in touch with the owners and fixed the problems people were having. Other then the electronics but few rtr rc come out that the servos are not one of the first thing being swapped out.

Thanks for the comments and checking it out.