What is fastest Nitro or Electric?

[coolhandcountry]

Well it depends on how you look at fast to. If you look at fast as over all speed or if you look fast as overall accelleration. Nitro is nice as far as the speed and accelleration. The brushless is faster in the accelleration department. It has good speed to. It really depends on the person.

[Gustav]

I like to consider it in terms of power to weight ratio,with BL/lipo having the edge over nitro.If you take the weight of the Nitro(engine,engine mounts,pipe,tank,RX pack,clutch assembly,servo)then BL/Lipo (packs,esc motor,motor mount) can come in under that weight with power to spare.A BL/NiMH can't beat nitro for power:weight but has an abundance of instant torque that usually see off Nitro in a straight line.I think the power delivery of nitro has it's advantages too.

[coolhandcountry]

I think with the right set up and emaxx can go 100mph.

[crazyjr]

No problem with going, stopping worries me, ouch

just hope you dont hit a wall but that would stop it pretty quik :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[nbcaznmaster]

why stop??? lol, i say keep on going till it travels back in time!

[MetalMan]

The way I see it, electric has way more potential than nitro. Nitro is limited by fuel, and electric by the batteries. Nitro fuel can't really be improved much (except nitromethane %), but batteries are getting better every day.

Originally Posted by MetalMan

The way I see it, electric has way more potential than nitro. Nitro is limited by fuel, and electric by the batteries. Nitro fuel can't really be improved much (except nitromethane %), but batteries are getting better every day.

to much nitromethane and the engines will turn into fireworks :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

wouldn't the esc be more limiting than the batts? well - currently anyways..... i mean - you can always have massive voltage batteries or whatnot in some rc, but you still need the esc to run those batts.......
spose batts are limiting too with size and weight?....

i dont really knwo what i'm talking about, so dont mind me -lmao-

[MetalMan]

With Lipos you can get really high voltages, and then match those with a 36cell NiMh controller (up to 11s Lipo), and you have a setup that is far superior to nitro. The maintenance would also be a lot less, but the cost would be greater (there is a price for superiority).