Is 1/4 Scale too Big?

[Z.hb71]

Ah I've seen those, yeah those v8s are cool. Expensive and slow as fek tho.

 

[Rep732]

Yea if I had the money to waste yea its cool just to check it out on a shelf

 

[MonsterAir]

I'd hate to have ta trouble shoot one of those model engines.

 

[Markcarr]

Ah hold on Z https://quarterscales.com/1-4-quarter-scale-engines

Some of there engine parts are on ebay.
395. For the block
295 for the crank
I want that blown engine but for 4900. ??

 

[Rep732]

I know its insane how much that stuff costs

 

[Z.hb71]

Pretty sure the colony v8 was even more expensive then that

 

[TODD]

If you don't mind sharing, I've been interested for some time where you worked.

Sean

Quickdraw. We used to manufacture 1/4 scale cars. Sprint, super mods, and Grand National/ Outlaw depending which body was installed on our chassis. Plus we made parts for a few other companies. I did not want to say where I was from on here because I still have a flash back to when I screwed up on another site. But being on here as long as I have and also was staying mainly in the shadows just reading. Much more good ole boy atmosphere here.

Very cool! If you don't mind me asking, what were you charging for them? Did you do 100% custom or parts share from other models? I think speed cost and size of tracks is main reasons 1/5 is the more popular scale but since the last time I drooled over them motors got a lot bigger!

They varied depending on a sprint or a super modified car or a Grand National/ outlaw style. Usually around 1500.00 or so less radio. Came as a kit with a video and customer put whole thing together as they watched the video. We built everything in house except the wheels, tires, quick change rearends, the stock 23cc Zenoahs we were required to run. Pipes we did also for the industry too. Our pipe was pretty much was the pipe to run when racing. We actually ran on the 1/8 scale paved oval tracks a lot of times. Some places had special built tracks for 1/4 scales. With a lot of people traveling to the tracks for points. Back then the 23cc were only doing 1.25 hp. Put our pipe on the stock engine and you got 1.5 hp out of them. Doesn't sound like much but was a big difference in power. Than Zenoah came out with the 2 hp barrels where you had to rotate the piston around to use it. Than they outlawed our pipe on the 2 hp engines but you could run them on the 1.25 hp engines. Saying was too much and eating tires. We told them it was the setups no being right. We went to a race many years later when a customer traveled out here to see boat races. We went and watched them run. Man they were dogs. The 1/4 scale died when the 1/5 scales got popular. Old customers had contacted us saying it was coming back and we should build them again. I watched it for a little bit. But it got soooo rules strict and even tracks made people run restrictor plates on the intakes. How boring.

Ah I've seen those, yeah those v8s are cool. Expensive and slow as fek tho.

The Conleys some people tried to race in sprint cars. Got killed by 23cc Zenoahs with pipes on them. They even did a viper engine too. Was cool looking. Than if I remember it has been a long time. He had a fire and lost a lot of stuff. Even the supercharged version was not that fast. It ran on nitro fuel and you had to take them apart and clean them after running them.


Guys

I will look for some pics of them I sold my cars off after a long time.

 

[Seandonato73]

Thanks for sharing todd. You've always had a unique perspective and great insight into our little world, just never got the mystery behind the man.

 

[MonsterAir]

Sounds like a lot of drama @TODD. Do you have any pictures for us?

 

[TODD]

Here is some.. Have to find more. I know I have them. Just depends which hard drive they on and which computer.




Raco outlaw. I got bored one day and put our front end on it. Now had a fully adjustable setup. Looked funny with tires hanging out but ran killer.




My Super mod



My Grand National. We built the chassis and made it bolt together so you could change sections as needed. People called it the Erector set. LOL




Installed in the Grand National is one of our 35cc marine engines I made a cooling head for after I cut off the water cooling jacket. Ran it on alky/nitro and used a glow plug. Unless you got close to see the glow plug setup on it. You would never guess it had no ignition on there. Just glow plug. It idled and ran that good.
More info on 1/4 scale cars. Of course like normal. We get alienated out of it too. Typical. https://quarterscalelegends.com/index.html

 

[atom3624]

I suppose it depends how big your garage, garden / yard and bank balance are .... !!

I'd love to have and be able to rip around in a 1/4.

I had enjoyed my 1/6 and 1/5 gas / petrol beasties.

1/8 electric is just a nice size to bash around, and work on, without getting too much in others' way.

Al.