BIGGEST BREAK or DAMAGE

[racing mason]

whats the biggest break or damage you've ever had while racing or just goofing around with your RC ???

[racing mason]

mine is a caster block.

[gubbs3]

Bent a Ti hinge pin, broke a Ti turnbuckle, broke rear arm and arm mount.

A word of advise: Don't run into rocks.

[B3Tyler]

hmmm...broke my arm, bent my cvd and lost my ront out drive.

[Nos]

Off road (rc10gt) launched 15 foot cliff when i was aiming for the 4 foot high runout down the hill beside it. went way too fast!

On road (hpi nitro racer), clipped cement pillar at full speed. Tore right front wheel right off. Broke shock tower, steering block, outdrive, suspension arm, bent the rod, and cracked the wheel. Won't do that again

[DirtRacinFool]

Worst for me was a Front Bulkhead, a-arm, shock tower and body mount.

My 15 year old son has a Ultima ST-R GP, while racing his receiver pack came unplugged, the throttle return spring did not do its job, and his Ultima left the track at a rather high rate of speed. It clipped a tree, then a concrete step, and finally it slammed into a full size truck tire. It tore the entire front end off and bent the chassis in about 6 different places. :eek:

[bluesy]

I was working down by Palm Springs, CA and had just been to Vegas and came away ahead of the tables so I bought an AE B3....my first off-road. It took me a couple of nights to get it together then I took it out into the desert to play with. I didn't realize how fast this thing was and how many large rocks there are in the desert. The inevitable happened. And rock beats B3. One front arm, turnbuckle, ball ends, shock and wheel from the frontal impact. One rear arm, hinge block, shock, and shock tower when the rear end caught up with that darn rock. Needless to say, I now take a little walk around wherever I'm bashing before I even turn the Xmitter on. Luckily the LHS where I bought the kit originally gave me a pretty good deal on all the replacement parts. Still ended up costing me about $150. Rotten Rocks. :mad: :mad:

[maxxxracer]

On my t-maxx, I bent the chassis in half broke the front alluminum bulkhead and broke the front alluminum skidplate. I also sheared off 75% of the screws holding on the bulks. Tip: dont let your car run away and hit curbs.

[RC10T3]

I ripped the whole left side off my truck racing in mod truck on carpet. I sheared off the arms, turnbuckles, snapped the shock tower, hub carriers, and a-arm mounts. It was funny as crap :-)

[Spinner]

a guy at our track took a sledgehammer to a .12cv, ill see if i can get a pic

[jeepinator]

I pegged a dude in the forhead with my XXT. It was mid air after taking a pretty big jump at a BMX track. It was one of those make it or die jumps. You had to have BIG speed to clear the doubles (they were not tall but seperated by quite a distance).
Anyway, I had big ponies in the truck and a fresh pack. On my second attempt (made the first one too, barely) I saw this kid walking accross, between the doubles. He was clearly not paying any attention to us RC'ers (suprising, considering there were like 50 BMX'ers watching us intently). It was too late to stop my truck so I kinda yelled. He stopped, looked my way and BAM !
It was so dang scary. I thought for sure I killed him. I hit him HARD. He went down and I went runnning to him.
Fortunately, other than a little blood he was fine. He even thought it was funny after he started seeing straight again.
I can't even describe how perfectly I hit him. He stopped, looked, and got pegged. No stuntman in the world could time it better.

The moral of the story is: BMX'ers are tough as nails ! :p

[draggerman11]

hahaha. Nice moral jeepinator, I hope that holds up...

[B3Tyler]

lol...haha

[rc10gtman54]

HEY JEEPINATOR, TRY AND CHECK IF ANYBODY A VIDEO CAMERA GOING THAT DAY AND WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR TRUCK IF ANYTHING?1
:D :D :D :D :D :D

[jeepinator]

Keneth, nah that was years ago. The XXT kit was out maybe a year. I do not remember anyone having a camcorder. Would be sweet though !
It happened at the Hillsboro fairgrounds, where Tammie's Hobbies used to run their races. It was between the heats and the mains. A bunch of us decided to walk over there and break some stuff (you invariably break stuff at a BMX track !). We also messed around on this huge gravel pile. Anyway, if anyone from the Portland area used to race there, you probably remember hearing about this. 'Twas quite the tale for a few years ;)
BTW, when I left that track my truck was in many, many pieces. Had one doozy of a crash after I hit the poor kid. It wasa truly a yard sale type crash !

[mavrick0611]

leave it up to jeep :D

[squid]

We strapped a home made 12 cell to a "Toys R Us" Nikko Buggy complete with a rotary MSC. Needless to say, the MSC instantly melted wide open, the buggy took off and smashed into a dumpster. The buggy caught fire. We had to stomp it out. The buggy was totaled and one pair of shoes were slightly damaged. :rolleyes: :eek: :D

[Possumbot]

Wow, i cant compete with those, i did here a story through the grape vine though, my brother had a friend with a XX cr, and lived in a neiborhood with a large kid. The kid said he could jump over the car, well, he missed, broke the car in half, and ruined his esc, im pretty sure he scrapped it and bought a Tamiya new beetle.

[PCC]

I had an accident where I misjudged my distance from a parked car and drove into the tire then under the chassis with my NMT Racer. Broke the suspension arm, carrier, knuckle, pullstarter backplate on the engine. Bent the chassis, the heatsink head, and a CVD bone.

I've come to know my brother as "Crash". In the time he's had his NMT, he's run it full throttle into a concrete wall (he was on the other side and thought it was a grassy mound but didn't see the concrete retaining wall on the other side, he was tryin to jump it - smashed the entire front end nearly flat!) and into a lot of car tires and stuff. He's crashed his NRS4 Racer 2 so many times he's practically totally rebuilt it two or three times now. Just this past weekend he got it ran over by a car. He's downstairs rebuilding it right now.

[R390]

In the 5 years ive been in r/c ive broke the front spindle on my original crapfoot, OOPS! i mean blackfoot, which i dont see how it broke, i jumped it like not even a foot in the air and hit some weeds going maybe 20 at the fastest and it broke, ive deemed tamiya crap since then, and the other parts were broke on my xxt cr were the front chassis brace and body mount from my brother hitting me. Personally with that I consider myself a good driver. Also, i race my tc3 at the local carpet track every once in awhile and have never broke a part on that. Maybe its my driving or my luck.

[stupid13]

welp ive crashed my maxx into a vurb at wot the batteries came out im glad it stoped after it hit the curb cause there was one of the busiest streets in town siting right across a lil dirt and it woulda went bam right into a car movin at 60 mph that woulda sucked but anyways i broke a bulkhead 2 arms and 2 skids and a lil tire wear cause it stripped the spur when it hit and was reving out of control for about 8 seconds