Nitro TTTT?

[cheesehead]

Does anyone have a Nitro TTTT? A .020 engine should give LOTS of power, although a .049 might work if you want a screamer. The fumes and everything are a pain, but if you want power, you just can't beat Nitro. White gas is good for high torque applications, although it can hurt your engine.

[ZZ_King]

where would you get engines that small. ive heard of .15 and .21 but .020 and .049 also is there really enough room for a gas tank. a tank that small would need reffilling every 2 sec. unless it gets like a milligram a mile.

[Nutjob GTO]

Nitro...

Nitro is overkill for a TTTT application. The first two T's are for 'Table Top'; Trying to shove a gas engine into something that tiny would be well beyond the Point of Diminishing Returns.

Besides, if you COULD get it to work, it wouldn't fit the concept; These are huge military trucks, not stadium jumpers. You're looking for a nice, slow crawl.

[Daisycutter]

Hey, if i remember right, an 049 is bigger than a TTTruck, plus engine vibration will mean the thing will just shake itself to bits.

[sawhit4]

one more thing about nitro is gas comes out of the pipe which would get all over the stuff you had on your table or whatever you run it on. i thought about making a nitro powered mini x. i figured out how to do it by stretching the chassis and using a small airplane engine. but thats not a TTTT

[Racer9]

you can get .010 from COX

[Comrade_Boris]

heres the real stuff.....nitros, even .010's are too big...if you have a truck, you would know

[marc12]

Originally posted by Comrade_Boris
heres the real stuff.....nitros, even .010's are too big...if you have a truck, you would know

is one of those real trucks yours?? just wondering...
and they must shoot out alot of nitro, and do drivers wear a gask mask? that could be some serouse fuems and nitro...(i know hwta that smells/feels like i stood behind a top fuel nitro dragsters at the track as they cylced it)

[frizzen]

The real trucks are Diesel powered.

Anyway, they're talking about using RC car and airplane engines. Which run on nitromethanol, and are still too big to go into the 1/87 scale TTTT's. If they tried with 1/35 scale they could probably cram in a tiny engine and fuel tank. But I don't think it would work well even then.

If any of us could afford a real Trial Truck, I doubt we'd be on here building these.

[sawhit4]

1/35 scale would probably be possible but i doubt those small engines would have the power to move the wheels. arent they high rpm motors?