Speed Racer Jeep [Archive]

noen

12-04-2003, 11:18 PM

Ok so one day my roomates and I were all bored so we went to the toy store and bought these crappy R/C Jeeps. They could only go forward or reverse and turn. Yeah the super crap stuff.

After playing with them for a while I noticed they had some serious torque to the engines. So of course I popped the cover and checked out the pretty hefty motor inside. The cars only used 2 AA batteries in series to run. So of course the next thing that anyone would logically think is, "lets try 8 AA's in series".

So we did it, and clocked it at nearly 30mph going down the road outside. Of course the engine only lasted about 45 minutes, and it melted all the bearings and most of the internal parts, but hey for a total cost of 50 cents per mph, I'd say well worth it!

http://www.snotmonkey.com/files/jeep1.jpg
http://www.snotmonkey.com/files/jeep2.jpg

curtisjade1

12-05-2003, 06:19 AM

thats cool i should try that
did you mod your cable box remote or did it come that way because i have the same one and its all black?

noen

12-05-2003, 08:05 AM

Amazingly it came that way, it's the only silver one I have ever seen too.

curtisjade1

12-05-2003, 10:46 AM

thats wierd

kisa

12-05-2003, 11:47 AM

my father has the same/or similar remote, color and all. I did the same battery increase in my old Nikko avalanche truck. I did it with a 18v DeWalt cordless drill battery though. it just fried the ESC. it was fun to watch it pull wheelies for the night though :)

Marty1

12-17-2003, 08:01 PM

you have to much free time. jk

YaYoGakk

12-18-2003, 01:16 PM

That's soooo geeky! I mean look at it!! I love it!
http://www.snotmonkey.com/files/jeep2.jpg