I Got My First NEW Nitro RC Car!

This is a Nitro RC Drift / Street Car from FTX could be perfect for Beginners. The FTX Banzai Nitro is 95% Ready to Run (RTR) and is the Cheapest Nitro RC Car (Road) currently in the UK (I think)

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[TomleyRC]

Who wants the Worlds Fastest Stock Traxxas Rustler?

[SoulPurposeGarage]

Hey man, I'm a nitro nerd.. Especially for the vintage and early 2000s stuff. Love how you explain why you don't prefer nitro and still showed much respect. Much love from upstate NY!

[iCancelFlights]

I've always been a mechanic, still am for a major US airline. I love my nitro cars, have plenty of Electric as well. Nitro always strikes a cord being an actual little engine.

[KevinTalbotTV]

Blew my engine up already! Run it in fast….

[TheFlood]

Great to see those friendly comments from the drifting facebook group, no gatekeeping there at all :')

[lawrencewinter]

Be sure to turn the flywheel to bottom dead centre after each heat cycle, so it cools with the piston at the bottom. Also, get a nice bit of filter oil. Love the content as always Tomley, thanks for giving Nitro some love, we need all the help we can get. Power to you! Also make sure you can always see the blue smoke of unburnt oil, which is needed to lube the piston.

[mitsuman]

Seems like nitro is having a bit of a comeback on YouTube, love it! I got caught up in it and even bought a couple nitro cars. It's been fun to come back to it after abandoning it for brushless motors and lipos many years ago.

[alantaylor]

Those Force engines are really really good.. HPI & a lot of other big name manufacturers use them.!.. Rebranded of course.! 😉

[Stempy]

These morning video releases are a gem as a teacher, have my coffee after dropping kids off their school, watch some Tomley and then teach some robotics haha cheers sir.

[kopigangrc]

Never had a nitro before. Ain't gonna get one anytime soon, but I love how you tune it up and video you've done. Just watching and listening, my ears are screaming too. Hahaha. A great video 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[denisrichardson]

Just got into the hobby and loving your content went and got electric and nitro love how easy electric cars are and how fast they are now but nitro the sound of it round a track is fantastic. Again keep up the great work 👏

[Luke-entk]

That engine on the FTX offroad vehicles starts so easy as long as it's primed, it's always worth checking the idle gap as that is usually set a little on the slow side. Actually it's better to keep the engine warm when running in but not over heating. Your idle is a little low which is why it's trying to cut out

[Zangle]

I remember trying Nitro with an OFNA 1/8 buggy. Never got it started, the hobby shop couldn't get it running. They even put a brand new engine that was much nicer than the RTR and it wouldn't start. Finally after tinkering with it for about a week and the shop not having any luck, it was returned. I took that money and bought RC10T4 RTR. That experience was enough to turn me off from trying nitro again. With that said, I think it would be a ton of fun to try again.

Surely, it was bad luck but to be honest, I never knew about the break in procedures and likely would've ruined the buggy, so perhaps it was for the best at the time.

[electricnitrorc]

Would love to see more nitro on your channel. Sure it has a steep learning curve but much more rewarding than electrics 🙂

[henryfoster]

Hi Tony Alex back at you giving Nitro a chance most people forget dead Niceville is part of the RC world and it's been around for a long time and I'm glad to see that you would not afraid to bring it back on your Channel thank you and you have a good day I love watching your video because you're from England and it's good to see other YouTube people from other countries thank you Besitos to getting into Nitro🙏👍

[geraldscott]

Nice. The sound and the smoke is what it's all about. Battery stuff is SO boring. Tinkering is part of the fun. Don't lean it out too much, it will overheat and destroy the engine. I have to drive over 30 miles to a place where I can run my off road buggy. You'd need a truckload of charged batteries to get much run time out of a battery powered one. With nitro you can run it for hours, no batteries, no chargers. Just have several filters with you. In the sand they get dirty fast.

[ciarancdc]

Tuning depends lot on the fuel you're using, if you're using fuel with a high oil content like 18 or 20% (optifuel) then you need to tune for more smoke than fuel that has around 10%.
Type of oil is important too, synthetic doesn't give the same protection as castor oil. You want some castor oil in the fuel because it gives better high heat protection and leaves a slight varnish inside your engine which makes it live longer.
If the fuel has no castor oil in it I think you should always run the engine richer than fuel with castor oil even if there's more oil in the fully synthetic fuel

[simon]

Nice, it runs fine, and tuning is pretty decent. For “drifting” is good with the single speed, but in parking lots or track use for better speed and not ask constantly full rpm from the engine, the 2 speed conversion is a must have.

[Swiftershock]

I like Nitro because you have to do something like after run maintenance and stuff like that, and when you get the tune right its really satisfying to drive

[wyvern]

Those cheap Force engines can sometimes be absolute gems.

I have had both power systems and if you have the time and the place to run it, nitro is more rewarding, plus I like the fact that you do not have to buy more batteries if you want to go out and bash for hours, just bring some extra glow plugs and an extra C-battery or two.

I will say however, nitro RACING is very difficult because you need a pit-guy and one that actually knows how to tune on the fly, electric is so much less drama on race day.