im an graduate student ! i hav a 3cc engine and thought of doing a nitro rc car as a project ! so plz help me how to start the project and im ready to buy any required part ...! thankyou

Hi Samalasharath,

Wt type of rc nitro car are you planning to make?

More specifics (like: buggy, monster truck, truggy, short course, touring/on-road car, drifter?) would be helpful.

Is it going to be 4wd or 2wd?

If you are not sure here are some links to help you decide:

monster truck:

drifter:

buggy:

truggy:

Also, if you dont want to go through the hassle of building one due to unforseen reasons, you cab buy a RTR (ready-to-run) kit from www.hpiracing.com for under 26k i think. Here is the link for that vehicle:

http://www.hpiracing.com/en/kit/101701

http://www.hpiracing.com/en/kit/101700

thank you,

Ajay S.

yeah thanks ! i came to knw its impossible for a student to build a nitro car manually ! its bettr to buy rtr kits

hey, it could be difficult but you shouldn't say impossible. moreover the pleasure to see your own hand made car run, will definitely be more than RTR models. since you are a student there shouldn't be a problem of friends helping out...

Quote from: samalasharath on December 08, 2013, 11:39:21 PM
i came to knw its impossible for a student to build a nitro car manually !

You'll have to rethink that bit.
I know a bunch of guys who put together an IC engine powered car with scrap metal, hack saws and epoxy glues in a couple of days. It didn't look really pretty, but it goes to show that RC contraptions don't always need to have CNC machined performance parts or space-age carbon fiber bits.

Work it out one-by-one and you'll understand how easy it is by experience.
Take a look at some cars for how the suspension, transmission ans steering mechanism works, grasp the general idea and get yourself some reference pics of the simplest RC car of whatever class you're looking to build and start rendering the CAD, use the designs to fabricate the parts or get it fabricated at some machine shop or CNC service.
You don't have to design and fab every single part, just some important parts that you can at the prototyping level, like the A-arms, shock towers, base plate, engine mounts, steering mounts, axil etc. The rest of the stuff like shock dampers, gears, steering knuckles, differentials, etc can be purchased.

Be sure to not complicate the build beyond which you lose interest in the project. And keep away from trying to replicate those "cool-looking cars".
Also, you should know this, if you break some custom parts in your DIY car, you'll have to fabricate it. You can't expect to buy it off-the-shelf. So keep some spares of parts that are likely to fail in a crash.

Good luck!

Good luck for your prokect

wat will be the range for building a normal trophy car?