Worlds Fastest Xmod???
 

Does anyone have any idea what the fastest car to date is? I would like to see some pics or vids of this plz plz plz!

No real way of knowing.... numerous members have built cars that top out the 99KM/h limit on the Tamiya speed checker so you need some other way of measuring scale speed in order to determine who has the fastest.

hmm, i believe we had one member not too long ago that had a car that hit 107 kmh i believe, im not sure who

I remember that winner but the problem is they stated that the speed checker went up to 99 and then looped back to 0 then up to 8 which they took as being 107 but thats not accurate because we have no idea of the logic used by the speed checker once it hits 99KM/h

Speed checkers really don't tell you how fast an Xmod can go because you can use taller gears than would work in real life actually carrying mass and having air resistance. Other than that, of course, it doesn't take into account varying weights of cars. You'd have to actually clock it with a radar gun. I've seen people do it with those new brushless 1/16 E-REVOs.

im getting ready to build a 1:28 style funny car with a lexan body... my friends a cop ill use his radar gun ;)

IIRC, almost all the really fast xmods where Gen1's...

It's been years though. ****, my memory fails me.

Check my thread XXX project make your guesses. That car went to 99 then hit 106. No one can verify that 06 actually means 106. That was less then a year ago. Other then that there are videos on YouTube of crazy speeds. My 99+ kmh car used .. Locked diff, V2.2, 4 lithium AA cells, 18g wire, and Atomic Chilli motor.

my guess would be viperdouts brushless xmod

I will have to check that out.... I do remember Zippo885 or someone doing a brushless. I don't remember speed results being posted but maybe they were.

cowboysir's brushless gto, (if i am remembering the correct person) had a sidewinder or mamba brushless in a gen 1.
i know my subawow maxed the dyno with normal size tires, locked diff, nos aluminum chassis, lipo, and custom wound motor. i only ran my brushless (pocket change) on the dyno with some low gearing and it was the lower kv motor.
i do have plans to do a gen 1 with higher kv motor sometime over this next year.

yep it was cowboysir03's

If memory serves right, mnm also had a very low wind brushed motor that had an absurd top speed.

Cheers,
Kyle.

Funny....

It was a successful venture in that i was able to put it together from a scratch hand built chassis. It was a Mamba/6800KV with very tall gearing and vibrated apart at high speed bench testing.:lol:

The whole "fastest xmod" thing really depends on your definiton of xmods in general....whether it the parts that make it "xmod" or the electronics that make it so.

I've been thinking of a real usuable high speed effort lately...a 1/24th scale project that could do 50mph ground speed would be an interesting thought experiment.:nod:

Didn't Brick Moder do something fast too?
And way back that guy that sold decals built one of the first 40mph xmods, along wit Team MNM....
I remember Moebrown(40?)'s Impala motors that where used for fast xmods...

Performance Xmods/Underground Xmods made some rediculously fast motors along that had to be run on Ph2t's Stacked Nelly's....

Who else? I know there's a few others that where fast.

Gives me an itchin' to build something again. Too bad I'm broke. :(

That's an amazing build. I hadn't seen it before. Makes me want to do a custom chassis GEN1, not neccesarily brushless or anything. Props to Cowboy, nice build.

i thought reapers zenith was a brushless bastard child as well??:-? i know pocket change was scary fast though
Edit: nope zenith was a lipo brushed car. oh well

i really liked cowboy's brushless gen 1 build but i dont think it would really be considered a xmod

i saw a vid on youtube of a mini-z do 135 but he had a whole different screen so he must have modded his speed checker. heres the vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POz_5Ki7_0o
edit again saw this one right after 174,****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmb6yxnKVEQ

Speed Checkers aren't accurate.

And there's been a few brushed motors that have supposedly turned up to 70,000RPM...

Most of the old school 'fast' xmods where brushed.

Then again, a brushed xmod can be made to do 30mph fairly easily.

i know they aren't accurate i was just using that as an example