Sharkey
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last weekend i killed the motor in my nitro tc3. it was a rossi pixi black i had bought back when i first got my ntc3 way back when they first came out. the motor had been rebuilt last year and had around 1/2 a gallon through it, and the piston broke. a piece broke off the skirt and the piston was cracked all the way up, looked like a manufacturing defect. unable to find parts (took months to find a piston and sleeve last year), and the lack of nitro touring racing in my area made me decide to go a different route. also the talk about an rc drag club starting locally it just enforced the fact of what i needed to build.
yup, im building a big block nitro tc3.
the motor shown is an old ofna hyper 8 port .21 i had around (its junk, wrist pin clip came off, motor wasnt that old at the time) that im using for mock up. so far all ive done is build a set of mounts for it. unsure yet of what motor ill run, it wont be bigger than a .21 as ill be sacraficing speed with the lack of rpm of a bigger motor. the header and exhaust is going to be by far the biggest hurdle, i have a couple of options. one, build a long header and run a typical bigblock pipe, or two, build my own pipe thats the same design as the factory ntc3 pipe, just bigger.
let me know what you think.
yup, im building a big block nitro tc3.
the motor shown is an old ofna hyper 8 port .21 i had around (its junk, wrist pin clip came off, motor wasnt that old at the time) that im using for mock up. so far all ive done is build a set of mounts for it. unsure yet of what motor ill run, it wont be bigger than a .21 as ill be sacraficing speed with the lack of rpm of a bigger motor. the header and exhaust is going to be by far the biggest hurdle, i have a couple of options. one, build a long header and run a typical bigblock pipe, or two, build my own pipe thats the same design as the factory ntc3 pipe, just bigger.
let me know what you think.