The tinker factor with nitro is what gets me excited and I love the noise and the smoke! I think it comes from riding dirt bikes and driving buggys as a kid.
Hey man. I own bolth eletric and nitro. Yea eletric is more practical and easier to use and more reliable but there's no feeling like driving a nitro and seeing all of your hard work go into action. When you work on a nitro car or maintain it, it's way more rewarding than an eletric. Plus TWO SPEED BABY!
The information in this vid is incorrect. You don’t have to let nitro motors cool down at all. In fact the opposite is true, you have to let electric motors cool down. That’s the big draw to gas and nitro...if you have a gallon, you can literally drive all day, wear as most ppl only have , 2-3 sets of batteries max, so once those are done, your day is over, which sucks.
I have somewhere around 30 RC planes I keep in an 18 foot cargo trailer bought just for them. They are gas, glow, and electric. I love them all. I pull it around with a 36 foot motor-home. When I fly my nitro's though, I have to break out the chaise lounge so I can lay down, or get a bad kink in the neck. I'm gonna be up there awhile! I do have a four port charger for the electrics and even it wont keep up if try to fly only electric. Now, honestly, as far as field equipment and expenses. Electric has proven to be the most expensive as well. 1 replacement battery costs more than a gallon of nitro, a crash usually destroys the motor or at least bends the shaft. I have an O/S .40 which has lived through many crashes since 1984, and now powers a Sundowner 36" at 118 mph.
@@ConvairDart106 Agreed , Crashed My Hirobo Shuttle ZX and the nitro OS engine it had survived just fine. Was a great engine. I sold it while I was in College. I do wish I had kept it .
My kid has two electric 1/10 scale and I have seven nitro 1/8 scale rcs. Yes, he can go faster, yes he can swap batteries (all two of them) I still prefer my nitro because of the noise, the smell, the constant tinkering and adjusting. You don't have to 'cool down' between tanks and I can go all day if I want. It's all part of the hobby. My kid has no patience. It has to work out of the box. Where is the fun in that?!
I was wondering why he said that about cooling down, I’ve ran mine for over a hour before with no issues, if it’s overheating I would say it’s running lean but I’m no expert.
As long as you're checking temps, I feel you can run either for pretty much however long you'd like. I don't know if I'd be doing straight speed runs for that long though 😅
@@rcyalater...2305 type in vxl3s smoking. You can't get more than 5 minutes out of a traxxas at any gearing with a 3s doing anything off road without letting it cool down
I started out with brushless, but when I got my first nitro (a Hobao Hyper VS) it quickly became my most favorite and most driven rc car. Its like the hobby finally felt like what I dreamed it would feel like as a kid. Brushless just doesnt compare in fun for me and I qickly get bored driving them.
I dont think one is better than the other i think is what is your preference im a rc car guy and i like both but i choose nitro over eletric anytime of the day
The biggest complaints about nitro are why I love them. You can't just plug it in and go, it takes work and tinkering to just to keep it running well. To me electrics are like buying a brand new corvette and bragging about it being fast and reliable. Yea it may be true ... but I spent hours upon hours cursing inanimate objects, reading forums and pulling on strings to get to where I'm at lol
I have both ,love using both ,both have their pros and cons I love the sound and the smell of nitro,I have nitro boats and cars ,I have electric boats and cars just depends on what I decide to run on the day we all have our choices on what we want to use
@@10thScaleGarage well mines about 30 years old and is a 4 stroke nitro mtb scale boat am doing it up at the moment, it will look great out on the water when it's done
Some things, one I’m not hating just some constructive criticism, so first of all with batteries yea they use batteries but they last at least 20 tanks, mine do anyways and 2 you usually don’t have to let it cool down, although I love electric if you know what your doing, and you have plenty of fuel you can burn all day!
@@10thScaleGarageyou dont need to let engines cool down. When you do club racing, you just pit stop and go. However electric mains are limited to 10 minutes so that they dont spontaneously combust. Yes its obviously bad to let a nitro overheat, but good tuning will make it so it wont. Nitro mains go for over an hour sometimes, and the engines are fine afterwards.
I personally prefer nitro, with electrics you need to buy batteries which 6s's cost 200$ where I live which will last you 15-20 minutes and then you have to charge them. Where as nitro, or even better large scale gas you just fill up and go and you can drive all day.
Considering that most of my RC fleet are airplanes, I must disagree with you. With electric, power falls off as weight stays the same. Reverse for nitro. power stays constant while weight goes down. And, some of my nitro planes have a full hour of endurance!
For my Nitro's Ive always let it have a little warm up. No need to let them cool down unless you were doing some hard core bashing. Other wise fuel and go. As for the batteries for nitro , this is true they need charging but they should last 10x times longer as they are only used for starting and running the servos. Tuning is tricky if you are new but it does not take long to go on CZcams and learn something new. For after run maintenance , if you run something like sidewinder then no after run oil needed. If running Traxxas fuel it should be fine for a few weeks or even a month or two. But if planning on letting it sit for years yea add some after run oil for sure. Still there are people that have let there nitro sit for 10 years with no after run and ran good fuel and it started up and ran once more lol
I agree 100% BUT I cant part with my nitro!! I got my rs4 up to 87 mph with a 15ss hpi of course two speed,tension on all belts,tuned pipe 5.5 carburetor, fiberglass chassis, sway bars,foam tires...much more had like 1200 in it 15 years ago...wow😳 think if I had waited and put that in my infraction, typhon,or Losi 22s?? Love this hobby!! Thanks for posting!!
25 years ago I bought a Traxxas nitro Bigfoot and I was fixin it more than drivin it. And now I have jus bought an X-MAXX 8s and I absolutely luv it 😍,OH YA! BIGGER, FASTER AND MORE EASILY FIXABLE. WAY MORE EXPENSIVE $$$$, but worth every penny. Thanx for the video, and KEEP ON BASHING, OR SPEEDING! FROM BARRIE ONTARIO CANADA
its like saying a formula e is faster than a ferrari. yea true its faster and will smash it but when your in the seat smelling the fuel and the engines ripping you have more connection with it. true we let our engines cool down after 20-30 minutes. but we also tweak and play around with it. also the battery for the servos literally lasts 2 and a half hours! i like electric but nothing beats smoking up a street ripping a nitro and tuning it. its like if you got a built lego. when you build it it brings value to it.
The guy with this channel apparently dont have a clue about nitro engines. He say after a tank it must cool itself down. Thats just not true at all. Why can i just drive and drive AS long as i am sure it get enough fuel to lubricate and cool the engine. A example of this is in a race the final is three quarter. If one would drive more,its not a problem at all. Just make sure you have batteri to the servoes,and you could drive all day if you wanted it. This is typhical what electro guys often say,and its not true at all. But i agree that for most people is more easy with electric,AS long AS the electric components dont get on fire or the batteries dont svelling. It is things with everything that are pros and cons.
✌🏻😎🏴I enjoyed both of these videos dude 👍🏻. Worse thing about battery power is that once a battery is empty it still weighs the same & that’s just dead weight you have to carry back home. When your nitro bottle is decreasing in fuel so is the weight you carry.
I carry an RJ-45 network cable to tie to the front of the bumper and pull. I saw this guy in SF doing this while driving Ridrshare a few years back. Maybe an elastic rope or something similiar would be good too.
I’ve had both and I agree with all of your points, electric is better in every way BUT electric doesn’t do it for me, I like the little engines, it’s just so interesting to me having a tiny little engine on a tiny car, the sound and smoke and whole experience and cool to me. I don’t mind messing around and cleaning them up..that’s half the fun is tinkering around with it. When I first got a nitro I had a nightmare trying to tune, unlike large gas engines it’s not near as obvious in the sound but once I learned it then it was no big deal at all, just small tweaks here and there most of the time.
For me I like nitro it’s rewarding when you put the effort into it. It’s so much more fun than electric. I mean come on guys. It’s a freaking real combustion engine in there and all the smoke and etc., etc.
Ive had a few electrics after giving up nitro then left the hobby a while ago came back only to realise burning nitro is way more fun than electric but each to there own
Electric is easy for the person who can’t tune nitro. If you can tune a nitro engine it is so much more fun with the actual sound of a motor and they are for the most part just as fast. I prefer nitro cars all day for the whole experience but electric is the future for sure. Maybe nitro will make a comeback.
@@davidh5429 that happens when you don't break them in properly. I have an os .21 on a revo that has been working for 8 years perfectly. Take your time breaking it in and they will last.
The fact that you are lazy to maintain a nitro car does not mean that the electric ones are better, it has its advantages but the sound produced by the nitro car is unique.
Traxxas 3.3 nitros are faster then almost all 2s/brushless combos. 3s and 4s are faster then nitros in general but there are some very fast nitros out there and I don't think they're outdated
electric brushless better than nitro? NO , Faster a little if you are comparing with average brushless rc car no to A traxxas xo1 ,and you are right about buying more lipo batteries, but a good lipo battery cost around 70 to $100 plus a decent charger $100 and if you don't storage your batterys correctly they are going to be puffy ,dead and useless.and you can buy a traxxas jato or nitro 4tec they are faster than average brushless rc cars ,tell me if I am right or wrong, it is just my opinion.
Yeah electric is easier to use and more convenient....if your lazy or have no mechanical bone in your body....electric sounds like a TOYS 'R' US...toy...play toyish....there's some thing more visceral and aggressive about the growl and scream of nitro and the smell....the feeling of controlling a MACHINE rather than a toy....
Nitro is better ( feels more like a hobby) Takes experience and knowledge to be able to make it run right and reliable. For racing anywayz electric may be better for bashing
Battery last about 15 to 20 minutes and takes 40 minutes to an hour to charge. Nitro a tank of fuel last 15 to 20 minutes and it takes about 10, 15 seconds to fill tank and go again. As to letting the nitro engine cool off after a run. I run my nitro rich when I am bashing and just messing around. Running it rich will let you go through several tanks of fuel and not go over 200 to 240 degrees fahrenheit. I keep a laser temp gun in my kit and check the temps on the engine every now and then.
Electric can only last 15/20min and you have to charge it 45min minimum. Nitro engines can last years i bin driving 1 nitro rc for 5y and have changed nothing on it i also drive mine nitro rc for 2+hr straight , If you lose power in a nitro the car will not move it will apply brake and shutoff Electric is fast for around 5/8min after 8min the car slows down since the battery starts to discharge and you have to run home and charge it Nitro you just fill up and you are ready to go Electric also sounds like a buzzing mosquito is very annoying 😂
i have 20 nitro rc cars and 1 xmaxx battery ....... says it all ..... nitro is for the people who like realism tuning an engine battery is for plug and play
ehhhh nitros better ya electric is faster but nitro is just gas and go once you got a good tune. thats why nitro races last well over 30mins while electric is like 5-10min lol i got both and both have their place but i just perfer nitro
Ive got both...Nitro and Electric....both have their pros n cons...but both are RC's n both are super fun...i love my nitro mainly cuz i love to tinker with it...side crashed it into the wall yeaterday n ripped the weak @$$ control arm right out...i wasnt even sad cuz it meant i get to get dirty n tinker :D but yea...there is way more tinkering in nitro than electric...but maybe im just weird
"You have to let your engine cool down" This is misinformation. You only have to do that if you run your engine super-lean. How do you think the nitro racers can run hour-long mains when according to you and a bunch of other people who keep parroting the same misinformation, they shouldn't be able to?
Alain bellemare done right and maintained i am with you on that. Espesialy with the high en motors. I must say that i have both nitro and electric and gas rc’s. But i always use the nitros outside from spring to fall,becauase i get bored with electric. I never use them,but in the winter i use electric because its inside,and Thats fine because i drive with others. If it wasnt for that i get bored very fast. But i agree that nitro fuel is expensive and that electric is much faster in general. Thats the fact. But for me its more fun with nitro,and not much thinkering at all. But i have been doing nitro for many years. But i respect that others prefer electric. The best is to have them all. 😊
i got back into rc like 3 years ago with a plain xl5 rustler, i just bought a new RC and was debating between nitro or brushless. I went Nitro because they are not long for this world, they will probably be discontinued before too long, so let em rip while you can imo. The theatrics of a nitro is really the only point that a nitro wins on.
I can make a video with 5 times nitro is better but i dont want to say a lot of bulshit u saying to minimize nitro u dont need to say nitro is bad to say that electric is amazing they both amazing
Electric seems like playing with a little kids toy..nitro is ok...but 1/5 scale car with a 45 cc fuel engine in it is the best!!! The exitment u get from it no electric can go near it...sorry...
I've had a TMAXX since the 90's , eventually put a wide maxx kit and limited the shock travel and put a candy blue 72 bronco body made me a wheelie bar aftermarket pipe and I'm still running the same engine today and I bash the hell out of this truck into metal garbage cans and totally flatten them out and send the lids flying with a really loud boom and only thing I've had to change is the spurs gear two front suspension arms a couple servos , I run brushless with my son and after we get the old maxx warmed up she holds her own damn well ! I didn't get to buy one off the shelf cause family first ya know and just bought a new 2.5r and went through the whole truck cleaned and greased it up and put it back together and I keep it clean as I can but I'm not detailing the damn things and so far the only other rc that I've had that's held up so far is my mt10e, it really seems to be a brute as well . I like the videos bubb keep it up, watching from WV !!!
The only bad thing about nitro is number 1 Number 2 Tuning is fun and you need to wait for your engine to warm up before you start to tune Number 3 My nitro is extremely dependable. Starts in 3 pulls, most rc people carry lots of gear anyway Number 4 Your nitro must be messed up with the tuning if you have to let it cool down in between tanks Number 5 I guess it doesn't have scale looks but a cooling head looks sick!
Kinda reminded me of gas grilling vs smoking or charcoal. Ease vs flavor or attitude. But that’s why I have both style grills and would love both RC’s the mechanic in me says nitro, however you can still “tune” /modify an electric. Plus all the pros you mentioned.
I can play electric rc with my kids inside the house or garage without annoying the pets or my wife with the smell of fuel and filling the room with exhaust.
I've been DONE with nitro for 2 years now, I don't miss the messy wrenches lol, ELECTRIC IS BY FAR BETTER! Oh yeah ya hit the nail on the head with the tuning in, it's a major drag!!
Electric to me. Is better!! Buy more than one battery. An buy a big battery charger set-up. Charge more than once at a time. Get a solar panel. Or more. An can charge why you're out in the field.
A batterie depend which on and how much you want to drive keeep driving i think not so batterie depending how much throttle its in 5 mimutes to 10 minutes empty and if you want to drive like a ntro a full day you will need more than 10 batteries
My shop has sent me nitro version of the electric car that I bough, by mistake. I was contemplating keeping it as I didn't want to wait another week to exchange... Your video has helped to make up my mind - I am returning it and getting the electric one I originally purchased. Thanks a tone! Alex
Nitro is headaches, stinks, annoys neighbors, and need to constantly buy nitro fuel. With Electric, any kid or beginner just plug in and play. Great video, old G's get offended when I start comparing. My Revo 3.3 ran away towards moving traffic on low battery & had to chase it at human max speed with fast heart pounding moment. I will get nitro again after I get bored with Electrics or just too wealthy in a big house. Overall, I hate tuning and adjusting it to the max then engines goes bad. I do like it though with some benefits, great if I want to be technical or a mechnic but I just wanna have fun. Oh yeah, reverse seems like a big problem either for my Revo 3.3 or most Nitro RCs but not sure. I probably will get a gas RC before I get another Nitro RC. I'm waiting on something new like the Xmaxx 2. 👍😄
I think also one reason,for electric.Is they are not noisy.Most regular folks would prefer not to hear your noisy rc car.I am all for electric,just my suggestion.Stay safe everyone.✌🌍
The bad thing about nitro is it's grimy. Nasty. Gota mix ur own fuel now. Why I sold my nitro truck an put the money into my electric 2 motors awd truck.
Send me your nitro,lol...I will give it a good home,I like electric and nitro,I guess I really like nitros because I worked on motors for a long time and I like to tinker with the nitro motors
My opinion why you shoud at least have 1 nitro car in you colection is that 1 Nitros make a great Sound (planes/in air) and cars on speed Tests 2 If Batteries gone flat in resiver/car you can by Brand New ones cheaply . 3 Kyosos cars are very resistend , i ran my frezer in to a Wall on 50mph and it survieved with out a scratch . Sorry for the bad English . 😄👍
@@10thScaleGarage ß Yes the Plastic took it well nothing bend but the engin Was killd instantly , i just bought a New one and now it runnig again ! Nitro Baby! !
The only problem I have with electric is all the different plugs out here you have to change them all for different brands and everything to use the same charger
Not too big of a deal. I see your want for plug and play but soldering isn't too hard. Plus you only need to solder something once then just get a mess of connectors and transfer everything over and you're set. It's better than shopping around for batteries with a certain connector and paying more in the process. My planes and quadcopters and cars all have the same xt-60 connectors for ease of use with my charge boards.
I grew up on electric because I couldn't afford nitro. Eventually I did get a nitro, and it was kind of a pain. Then the advent of affordable brushless and Lipo's pretty much sealed it for me, electric is the way... Nitro's are cool, and if you love your nitro RC, great but I am electric all the way.
My Savage 36 would destroy the arrma big rock I am faster than all of my battery friends and all I run is Nitro it's called by a bigger Nitro motor the 36 is almost 6 horsepower
@@10thScaleGarage it's just what happens if you think outside the box big nitro will get you moving i have a nitro limitless as well with twin motor it's crazy fast but electric cars have made it easy to get into the hobby in the 90s nitro was all I ran and I still run it now
I like both I had a T-Maxx back in the day and I never could get that the right tune finally met a girl and stopped messing around with it and sold it just got back into it and bought an x-max
Nitro is fun. Loud. Fast. An just cool all the way sro. Electric. The torque behind electric is insane!!! I got one that has 2 brushless 390 motors on it. Running a 5400 mAh. It's freaking screams!!!! Can run 2 batteries at once as well. Use that for drag racing 😎. Iv out ran 2 traxxas trucks. A stampede. Electric. Built. An a nitro Revo. Stock.
The tinker factor with nitro is what gets me excited and I love the noise and the smoke! I think it comes from riding dirt bikes and driving buggys as a kid.
I hate the noise 😆 2 stroke was better
Hey man. I own bolth eletric and nitro. Yea eletric is more practical and easier to use and more reliable but there's no feeling like driving a nitro and seeing all of your hard work go into action. When you work on a nitro car or maintain it, it's way more rewarding than an eletric. Plus TWO SPEED BABY!
totally!!
Ohh hell no man. Neither is better than the other. It's all about preference !
Agreed.
Forgot one big one. If you live in the city, you can't run your nitro because it's too loud and neighborhood will call the cops
Some people have no sense of humor. Who calls the cops on someone for playing with a nitro truck? Those jerks. They're probably just jealous.
Yeah One time that happend to me 🤣
The information in this vid is incorrect. You don’t have to let nitro motors cool down at all. In fact the opposite is true, you have to let electric motors cool down. That’s the big draw to gas and nitro...if you have a gallon, you can literally drive all day, wear as most ppl only have , 2-3 sets of batteries max, so once those are done, your day is over, which sucks.
Boom. There you have it.
I have somewhere around 30 RC planes I keep in an 18 foot cargo trailer bought just for them. They are gas, glow, and electric. I love them all. I pull it around with a 36 foot motor-home. When I fly my nitro's though, I have to break out the chaise lounge so I can lay down, or get a bad kink in the neck. I'm gonna be up there awhile! I do have a four port charger for the electrics and even it wont keep up if try to fly only electric. Now, honestly, as far as field equipment and expenses. Electric has proven to be the most expensive as well. 1 replacement battery costs more than a gallon of nitro, a crash usually destroys the motor or at least bends the shaft. I have an O/S .40 which has lived through many crashes since 1984, and now powers a Sundowner 36" at 118 mph.
@@ConvairDart106 Agreed , Crashed My Hirobo Shuttle ZX and the nitro OS engine it had survived just fine. Was a great engine. I sold it while I was in College. I do wish I had kept it .
My kid has two electric 1/10 scale and I have seven nitro 1/8 scale rcs. Yes, he can go faster, yes he can swap batteries (all two of them) I still prefer my nitro because of the noise, the smell, the constant tinkering and adjusting. You don't have to 'cool down' between tanks and I can go all day if I want. It's all part of the hobby. My kid has no patience. It has to work out of the box. Where is the fun in that?!
I was wondering why he said that about cooling down, I’ve ran mine for over a hour before with no issues, if it’s overheating I would say it’s running lean but I’m no expert.
You gotta let electric cool down too. Doing roosters for 20 minutes a brushless will still get piping hot...a brushed will become toast
Over geared lol yes. Right gearing i can bash battery after battery. Went through 6 back to back no problems accept tires lmfao
@@mychalpstanton9188 right gearing you will go slow and right gearing on nitro you don't have to let it cool down either
@@mychalpstanton9188 also just because you ran 6 pecks though it doesn't mean you didn't overheat the motor and reduce it's lifespan significantly
As long as you're checking temps, I feel you can run either for pretty much however long you'd like. I don't know if I'd be doing straight speed runs for that long though 😅
@@rcyalater...2305 type in vxl3s smoking. You can't get more than 5 minutes out of a traxxas at any gearing with a 3s doing anything off road without letting it cool down
Even though electric is better it’s still nice to hear the sweet hum of the little one cylinder engine
There’s nothing like it.
I started out with brushless, but when I got my first nitro (a Hobao Hyper VS) it quickly became my most favorite and most driven rc car. Its like the hobby finally felt like what I dreamed it would feel like as a kid. Brushless just doesnt compare in fun for me and I qickly get bored driving them.
I dont think one is better than the other i think is what is your preference im a rc car guy and i like both but i choose nitro over eletric anytime of the day
me too.
The biggest complaints about nitro are why I love them. You can't just plug it in and go, it takes work and tinkering to just to keep it running well. To me electrics are like buying a brand new corvette and bragging about it being fast and reliable. Yea it may be true ... but I spent hours upon hours cursing inanimate objects, reading forums and pulling on strings to get to where I'm at lol
I have both ,love using both ,both have their pros and cons I love the sound and the smell of nitro,I have nitro boats and cars ,I have electric boats and cars just depends on what I decide to run on the day we all have our choices on what we want to use
I have a couple 2-stroke boats, but no nitro... Always been curious about them though.
@@10thScaleGarage well mines about 30 years old and is a 4 stroke nitro mtb scale boat am doing it up at the moment, it will look great out on the water when it's done
Some things, one I’m not hating just some constructive criticism, so first of all with batteries yea they use batteries but they last at least 20 tanks, mine do anyways and 2 you usually don’t have to let it cool down, although I love electric if you know what your doing, and you have plenty of fuel you can burn all day!
Exfuckinactly!
Boo.Hiss...why would you have to let an engine that requires heat to run , cool between runs,a warm nitro engine is a happy nitro engine.
There's a difference between warm and nuclear meltdown.
@@10thScaleGarageyou dont need to let engines cool down. When you do club racing, you just pit stop and go. However electric mains are limited to 10 minutes so that they dont spontaneously combust. Yes its obviously bad to let a nitro overheat, but good tuning will make it so it wont. Nitro mains go for over an hour sometimes, and the engines are fine afterwards.
I personally prefer nitro, with electrics you need to buy batteries which 6s's cost 200$ where I live which will last you 15-20 minutes and then you have to charge them. Where as nitro, or even better large scale gas you just fill up and go and you can drive all day.
That’s why I have a trillion batteries and half a trillion chargers.
Considering that most of my RC fleet are airplanes, I must disagree with you. With electric, power falls off as weight stays the same. Reverse for nitro. power stays constant while weight goes down. And, some of my nitro planes have a full hour of endurance!
For my Nitro's Ive always let it have a little warm up. No need to let them cool down unless you were doing some hard core bashing. Other wise fuel and go. As for the batteries for nitro , this is true they need charging but they should last 10x times longer as they are only used for starting and running the servos. Tuning is tricky if you are new but it does not take long to go on CZcams and learn something new. For after run maintenance , if you run something like sidewinder then no after run oil needed. If running Traxxas fuel it should be fine for a few weeks or even a month or two. But if planning on letting it sit for years yea add some after run oil for sure. Still there are people that have let there nitro sit for 10 years with no after run and ran good fuel and it started up and ran once more lol
I can’t stand to watch my neighbor mow the yard with a lawn mower and an extension cord and this is what electric cars remind me of. 😂
I agree 100% BUT I cant part with my nitro!! I got my rs4 up to 87 mph with a 15ss hpi of course two speed,tension on all belts,tuned pipe 5.5 carburetor, fiberglass chassis, sway bars,foam tires...much more had like 1200 in it 15 years ago...wow😳 think if I had waited and put that in my infraction, typhon,or Losi 22s?? Love this hobby!! Thanks for posting!!
Oh I definitely love nitro, too. It’s more of an enthusiast thing now though. Not nearly as popular as it was 15 years ago.
Neither one is better than the other. Its a personal preference. There are Pros and Cons to both.
Yes finally someone says this, i choose brushless over nitro
Thanks!
Nitro isn't better but nitro is there for people that love to tinker with small engines and all that
Being part of the RC community is better than picking electric or nitro
Well said.
25 years ago I bought a Traxxas nitro Bigfoot and I was fixin it more than drivin it. And now I have jus bought an X-MAXX 8s and I absolutely luv it 😍,OH YA!
BIGGER, FASTER AND MORE EASILY FIXABLE. WAY MORE EXPENSIVE $$$$,
but worth every penny. Thanx for the video, and KEEP ON BASHING, OR SPEEDING! FROM BARRIE ONTARIO CANADA
Nice!!
its like saying a formula e is faster than a ferrari. yea true its faster and will smash it but when your in the seat smelling the fuel and the engines ripping you have more connection with it. true we let our engines cool down after 20-30 minutes. but we also tweak and play around with it. also the battery for the servos literally lasts 2 and a half hours! i like electric but nothing beats smoking up a street ripping a nitro and tuning it. its like if you got a built lego. when you build it it brings value to it.
Electric= simple, soulless no sound.
Nitro =Educational, badass, sound and smell of nitro
Nitro all day everyday
The guy with this channel apparently dont have a clue about nitro engines. He say after a tank it must cool itself down. Thats just not true at all. Why can i just drive and drive AS long as i am sure it get enough fuel to lubricate and cool the engine. A example of this is in a race the final is three quarter. If one would drive more,its not a problem at all. Just make sure you have batteri to the servoes,and you could drive all day if you wanted it. This is typhical what electro guys often say,and its not true at all. But i agree that for most people is more easy with electric,AS long AS the electric components dont get on fire or the batteries dont svelling. It is things with everything that are pros and cons.
I choose 2 stroke gas over nitro and electric any day
Mmmmmm. Now we’re talkin.
I’m just one of the guys that want a Nitro
✌🏻😎🏴I enjoyed both of these videos dude 👍🏻. Worse thing about battery power is that once a battery is empty it still weighs the same & that’s just dead weight you have to carry back home. When your nitro bottle is decreasing in fuel so is the weight you carry.
I carry an RJ-45 network cable to tie to the front of the bumper and pull. I saw this guy in SF doing this while driving Ridrshare a few years back. Maybe an elastic rope or something similiar would be good too.
I’ve had both and I agree with all of your points, electric is better in every way BUT electric doesn’t do it for me, I like the little engines, it’s just so interesting to me having a tiny little engine on a tiny car, the sound and smoke and whole experience and cool to me. I don’t mind messing around and cleaning them up..that’s half the fun is tinkering around with it.
When I first got a nitro I had a nightmare trying to tune, unlike large gas engines it’s not near as obvious in the sound but once I learned it then it was no big deal at all, just small tweaks here and there most of the time.
The second mouse gets the cheese
For me I like nitro it’s rewarding when you put the effort into it. It’s so much more fun than electric. I mean come on guys. It’s a freaking real combustion engine in there and all the smoke and etc., etc.
Ive had a few electrics after giving up nitro then left the hobby a while ago came back only to realise burning nitro is way more fun than electric but each to there own
Electric is easy for the person who can’t tune nitro. If you can tune a nitro engine it is so much more fun with the actual sound of a motor and they are for the most part just as fast. I prefer nitro cars all day for the whole experience but electric is the future for sure. Maybe nitro will make a comeback.
My only annoyance with nitro is how these engines lose compression quickly sometimes.
@@davidh5429 that happens when you don't break them in properly. I have an os .21 on a revo that has been working for 8 years perfectly. Take your time breaking it in and they will last.
The fact that you are lazy to maintain a nitro car does not mean that the electric ones are better, it has its advantages but the sound produced by the nitro car is unique.
Totally.
Nitro is fun. But you need a cargo van to bring everything with you “just in case”.
haha. Yup
@@10thScaleGarage i don't care i love both
Traxxas 3.3 nitros are faster then almost all 2s/brushless combos. 3s and 4s are faster then nitros in general but there are some very fast nitros out there and I don't think they're outdated
electric brushless better than nitro? NO , Faster a little if you are comparing with average brushless rc car no to A traxxas xo1 ,and you are right about buying more lipo batteries, but a good lipo battery cost around 70 to $100 plus a decent charger $100 and if you don't storage your batterys correctly they are going to be puffy ,dead and useless.and you can buy a traxxas jato or nitro 4tec they are faster than average brushless rc cars ,tell me if I am right or wrong, it is just my opinion.
Enjoy both, haven't experienced 1/8th scale electric, but my associated b84.1 nitro is awsome.
Yeah electric is easier to use and more convenient....if your lazy or have no mechanical bone in your body....electric sounds like a TOYS 'R' US...toy...play toyish....there's some thing more visceral and aggressive about the growl and scream of nitro and the smell....the feeling of controlling a MACHINE rather than a toy....
Well said.
Nitro is better
( feels more like a hobby)
Takes experience and knowledge to be able to make it run right and reliable. For racing anywayz electric may be better for bashing
Totally agree
Battery last about 15 to 20 minutes and takes 40 minutes to an hour to charge. Nitro a tank of fuel last 15 to 20 minutes and it takes about 10, 15 seconds to fill tank and go again.
As to letting the nitro engine cool off after a run. I run my nitro rich when I am bashing and just messing around. Running it rich will let you go through several tanks of fuel and not go over 200 to 240 degrees fahrenheit. I keep a laser temp gun in my kit and check the temps on the engine every now and then.
You do have a few good points here...🤔👍🏾👊🏾✌🏾
I appreciate that!
Electric can only last 15/20min and you have to charge it 45min minimum. Nitro engines can last years i bin driving 1 nitro rc for 5y and have changed nothing on it i also drive mine nitro rc for 2+hr straight , If you lose power in a nitro the car will not move it will apply brake and shutoff Electric is fast for around 5/8min after 8min the car slows down since the battery starts to discharge and you have to run home and charge it Nitro you just fill up and you are ready to go Electric also sounds like a buzzing mosquito is very annoying 😂
Lets not forget that piston and sleaves wear out!
Guess I’ll always be old school about it. Just like I would prefer to track a corvette over a Tesla.
i have 20 nitro rc cars and 1 xmaxx battery ....... says it all ..... nitro is for the people who like realism tuning an engine battery is for plug and play
Holy Bejesus! I only have 4 nitros. (and four 2-strokes) You're a nitro legend!
@@10thScaleGarage ....... i just hit the subscribe button 👍👍
I Love both but i have to give the nod to nitro , so i guess im not on the fence anymore ! Lmao !!
Electric is easy nitro is hard, it's never the same each run. Some people like that technical aspect others not. Both are friggin sweet if you ask me
well said.
ehhhh nitros better ya electric is faster but nitro is just gas and go once you got a good tune. thats why nitro races last well over 30mins while electric is like 5-10min lol i got both and both have their place but i just perfer nitro
First! Thanks man. I ALmost messed 2 years ago.
Nice job!
I only needed one. Noise.
Ive got both...Nitro and Electric....both have their pros n cons...but both are RC's n both are super fun...i love my nitro mainly cuz i love to tinker with it...side crashed it into the wall yeaterday n ripped the weak @$$ control arm right out...i wasnt even sad cuz it meant i get to get dirty n tinker :D but yea...there is way more tinkering in nitro than electric...but maybe im just weird
You're totally right. That's half the fun!
Not weird tinkering is part of the joy
"You have to let your engine cool down"
This is misinformation. You only have to do that if you run your engine super-lean. How do you think the nitro racers can run hour-long mains when according to you and a bunch of other people who keep parroting the same misinformation, they shouldn't be able to?
it would be true if it works all the time , but nitro is more reliable
Alain bellemare done right and maintained i am with you on that. Espesialy with the high en motors. I must say that i have both nitro and electric and gas rc’s. But i always use the nitros outside from spring to fall,becauase i get bored with electric. I never use them,but in the winter i use electric because its inside,and Thats fine because i drive with others. If it wasnt for that i get bored very fast. But i agree that nitro fuel is expensive and that electric is much faster in general. Thats the fact. But for me its more fun with nitro,and not much thinkering at all. But i have been doing nitro for many years. But i respect that others prefer electric. The best is to have them all. 😊
my 2 cents, I like electric better ,because I can listen to my music as I drive around ,I don't use ear buds or headphones ,so there
Nice!
4:39 and if your battery starts to smoke and catch fire u can just go get a another one
No need to let a nitro engine cool down before tanks. Itll be cooled down below running temp before you're finished refilling. Its cooled by the fuel.
i got back into rc like 3 years ago with a plain xl5 rustler, i just bought a new RC and was debating between nitro or brushless. I went Nitro because they are not long for this world, they will probably be discontinued before too long, so let em rip while you can imo. The theatrics of a nitro is really the only point that a nitro wins on.
I can make a video with 5 times nitro is better but i dont want to say a lot of bulshit u saying to minimize nitro u dont need to say nitro is bad to say that electric is amazing they both amazing
You must not have seen the video I made about why Nitro is still cooler than electric. I made these videos for fun. I like/ have both.
Electric seems like playing with a little kids toy..nitro is ok...but 1/5 scale car with a 45 cc fuel engine in it is the best!!! The exitment u get from it no electric can go near it...sorry...
YESSSS! Two stroke is freakin awesome.
I've had a TMAXX since the 90's , eventually put a wide maxx kit and limited the shock travel and put a candy blue 72 bronco body made me a wheelie bar aftermarket pipe and I'm still running the same engine today and I bash the hell out of this truck into metal garbage cans and totally flatten them out and send the lids flying with a really loud boom and only thing I've had to change is the spurs gear two front suspension arms a couple servos , I run brushless with my son and after we get the old maxx warmed up she holds her own damn well ! I didn't get to buy one off the shelf cause family first ya know and just bought a new 2.5r and went through the whole truck cleaned and greased it up and put it back together and I keep it clean as I can but I'm not detailing the damn things and so far the only other rc that I've had that's held up so far is my mt10e, it really seems to be a brute as well . I like the videos bubb keep it up, watching from WV !!!
Do not forget the functionality that a nitro does not have reverse
Very true, although some do. My old Novak speed control didn’t have reverse either, but that was 20 years ago.
The only bad thing about nitro is number 1
Number 2 Tuning is fun and you need to wait for your engine to warm up before you start to tune
Number 3 My nitro is extremely dependable. Starts in 3 pulls, most rc people carry lots of gear anyway
Number 4 Your nitro must be messed up with the tuning if you have to let it cool down in between tanks
Number 5 I guess it doesn't have scale looks but a cooling head looks sick!
Kinda reminded me of gas grilling vs smoking or charcoal. Ease vs flavor or attitude. But that’s why I have both style grills and would love both RC’s the mechanic in me says nitro, however you can still “tune” /modify an electric. Plus all the pros you mentioned.
I never thought about it that way.
I can play electric rc with my kids inside the house or garage without annoying the pets or my wife with the smell of fuel and filling the room with exhaust.
How did I miss this video 😂
I released two at the same time!
I've been DONE with nitro for 2 years now, I don't miss the messy wrenches lol, ELECTRIC IS BY FAR BETTER! Oh yeah ya hit the nail on the head with the tuning in, it's a major drag!!
haha. You might not want to watch the other video...
Have great weekend 10th scale
Thanks, you too!
Electric to me. Is better!! Buy more than one battery. An buy a big battery charger set-up. Charge more than once at a time. Get a solar panel. Or more. An can charge why you're out in the field.
At this point i dont know which is better lmao i want both :)
Cool video
A batterie depend which on and how much you want to drive keeep driving i think not so batterie depending how much throttle its in 5 mimutes to 10 minutes empty and if you want to drive like a ntro a full day you will need more than 10 batteries
I am into both also, but I prefer electric myself. Great Vid Dude!!!!
My shop has sent me nitro version of the electric car that I bough, by mistake. I was contemplating keeping it as I didn't want to wait another week to exchange... Your video has helped to make up my mind - I am returning it and getting the electric one I originally purchased. Thanks a tone! Alex
Hey I have a electric rc and I live in Utica New York I need a guy that can customize my rc 10 scale
You can do it!
DON'T FORGET HOW LOUD NITRO ENGINES ARE!!!
#6 Most... MOST Nitros Do Not Have Reverse!
Very True! None of mine do.
@@10thScaleGarage That Tmaxx came with it. What happened?
Nitro is headaches, stinks, annoys neighbors, and need to constantly buy nitro fuel. With Electric, any kid or beginner just plug in and play. Great video, old G's get offended when I start comparing. My Revo 3.3 ran away towards moving traffic on low battery & had to chase it at human max speed with fast heart pounding moment. I will get nitro again after I get bored with Electrics or just too wealthy in a big house. Overall, I hate tuning and adjusting it to the max then engines goes bad. I do like it though with some benefits, great if I want to be technical or a mechnic but I just wanna have fun. Oh yeah, reverse seems like a big problem either for my Revo 3.3 or most Nitro RCs but not sure. I probably will get a gas RC before I get another Nitro RC. I'm waiting on something new like the Xmaxx 2. 👍😄
Awesome video I like the electric but then I seen a losi mtxl on pump gas and I really need one now. I wish losi would bring them back
That would be cool
@@10thScaleGarage have you ever tried one?
But you still need to worry about your car over heating with electric cars bc if u run em to hot the can catch fire
absolutely right. We've burned down a couple rigs....
Reminds me of “Men” who drives Teslas lol
Electric is king because of skill-less throw away society.
You're right about that!
Its just your opinion not everyone can tune a nitro engine very well
Battery operated electric cars. Just don't give me the same thrill.
And yes, you can make a gas or nitro powered r c faster. If you got the money.
I think also one reason,for electric.Is they are not noisy.Most regular folks would prefer not to hear your noisy rc car.I am all for electric,just my suggestion.Stay safe everyone.✌🌍
The biggest downfall of nitro in my opinion is the noise. It irritates the hell out of me. I doubt if my neighbours would be impressed either
My nitro isn't nearly as loud as my 2-stroke Baja.
I love the noise. Fuck the neighbors
@@rcyalater...2305 Gold lol
Great video !
The bad thing about nitro is it's grimy. Nasty. Gota mix ur own fuel now. Why I sold my nitro truck an put the money into my electric 2 motors awd truck.
Send me your nitro,lol...I will give it a good home,I like electric and nitro,I guess I really like nitros because I worked on motors for a long time and I like to tinker with the nitro motors
You pay for shipping
True ;)
Right on
My opinion why you shoud at least have 1 nitro car in you colection is that 1 Nitros make a great Sound (planes/in air) and cars on speed Tests 2 If Batteries gone flat in resiver/car you can by Brand New ones cheaply . 3 Kyosos cars are very resistend , i ran my frezer in to a Wall on 50mph and it survieved with out a scratch . Sorry for the bad English . 😄👍
Dang. You're lucky it's still in one piece!
@@10thScaleGarage ß
Yes the Plastic took it well nothing bend but the engin Was killd instantly , i just bought a New one and now it runnig again ! Nitro Baby! !
The only problem I have with electric is all the different plugs out here you have to change them all for different brands and everything to use the same charger
Not too big of a deal. I see your want for plug and play but soldering isn't too hard. Plus you only need to solder something once then just get a mess of connectors and transfer everything over and you're set. It's better than shopping around for batteries with a certain connector and paying more in the process. My planes and quadcopters and cars all have the same xt-60 connectors for ease of use with my charge boards.
Three reasons why nitro rules. It’s dirty, smelly, and slow. There you go
hahaha. Nice!
You forgot maintenance
Dang. You're right! that's an excellent point
Nitro ftw
I grew up on electric because I couldn't afford nitro. Eventually I did get a nitro, and it was kind of a pain. Then the advent of affordable brushless and Lipo's pretty much sealed it for me, electric is the way... Nitro's are cool, and if you love your nitro RC, great but I am electric all the way.
The golden age of Nitro is over :(
My Savage 36 would destroy the arrma big rock I am faster than all of my battery friends and all I run is Nitro it's called by a bigger Nitro motor the 36 is almost 6 horsepower
Sounds like a challenge....
@@10thScaleGarage it's just what happens if you think outside the box big nitro will get you moving i have a nitro limitless as well with twin motor it's crazy fast but electric cars have made it easy to get into the hobby in the 90s nitro was all I ran and I still run it now
I like both I had a T-Maxx back in the day and I never could get that the right tune finally met a girl and stopped messing around with it and sold it just got back into it and bought an x-max
Excellent choice.
Nitro is fun. Loud. Fast. An just cool all the way sro. Electric. The torque behind electric is insane!!! I got one that has 2 brushless 390 motors on it. Running a 5400 mAh. It's freaking screams!!!! Can run 2 batteries at once as well. Use that for drag racing 😎. Iv out ran 2 traxxas trucks. A stampede. Electric. Built. An a nitro Revo. Stock.