Which is better? ELECTRIC vs. NITRO
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In this episode, we see which is the better RC car, The ELECTRIC Redcat Lightning or the NITRO Redcat Lightning.
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Objectively, in 2020 when it comes to price, performance, maintenance, upgradability, tunability, etc. brushless + lipo is leaps and bounds ahead of nitro. Nitro had its place back in the 80's and 90's when the only option for electric was brushed motors with nicad batteries. But in the mid 00's when brushless + lipo became mainstream, nitro became a thing of the past.
Subjectively you should run whatever is fun, and I understand why nitro is a lot of fun. But objectively no one can say that nitro is better than electric.
Well said. I totally agree
Agreed for sure...
There is just one other angle in RC Nitro- 1/8th (or larger) racing- simply due to the run time. Even with lipos, electric races (including 1/8th e-buggy) don't last nearly as long as 1/8th nitro races. This obviously creates a totally different dynamic, which is just not possible with electric (at least for a while)
not only does it have an advantage here, but is also essential to that entire side of racing.
Nitro is definitely not a thing of the past hence still having an ifmar nitro World championship and many other competitions for them going 100mph in a straight line yh fun the 1st couple of times you do it but dude what a yawn fest. Speed run cars or stupidly powerful Electric rc's just wheelie and flip can't corner as well due lack of weight Nitro is much much more fun. The sound the smell you just get so much more feeling driving nitro rc yes tuning is a pain in the ass but that's part of it being a hobby.
E is way better than N.
@@charliebrown238 Love the double negative, cheers and enjoy the hobby no matter what the power may be.
Electric is nice cuz you don't need fuel or a drill to start it but nitro sounds so nice
Agreed
Recently EU basicly banned nitro rc's by applying a ban on nithrometane concentrated above 16%.
@@Ev0ltion Got any link?
nitro fan
Nitro sounds just like ur driving a real car. But electric is so easy
Electric for inside, nitro for outside
Nitros always untune and it’s annoying so that’s why I like electric better I still love nitro tho
@@Carguy-fn5nf I suppose it's like real engine cars vs electric cars. Electric for convenience, and petrol for loud noises and crazies. I find it hard to choose just the one..
There off road nitro carrs
Nope. It just depend on design of the car.. but I prefer electric. Less maintenance
Electric for both nitro for outside only
The World record for Nitro RC 125MPH. The World record for electric RC 202.02mph
I’ve seen that. So cool.
You are way off now mate record nitro is about 195 mph
@@rickouwendijk2695 Have not heard that news. Where did you see it?
@@rickouwendijk2695 Probably one of those cable cars
@@rickouwendijk2695 official 85.66 mph www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-internal-combustion-engine-powered-remote-controlled-model-car-(rc)
Gotta love 2 speed transmission 🤤
A brushed motor on 2s? That's an unfair comparison.
Just wait. I’ve got a plan to make it go like the clappers!
Was about to say my slash was clocked at 67 mph right out of the box with its included racing gear on a 3s lipo
My wltoys 144001 with brushed motor on 3s done 85km now I've put a big brushless setup and it's insane
Nitro vs brushless is an unfair comparison because brushless would win easily lol. The XO-1 does 100mph+ right out of the box and it came out like 10 years ago.
True I have an brushless motor running on 3s
I really like you guys and you energy, subbed.
Welcome to the 10th Scale Squad! I’m glad you’re here.
I drive electric but after listening to this, would definitely be getting a nitro. That sweet sound!
I highly recommend it.
U can get a thing that makes it sound like u have a real engine
Nitro gas is a little expensive
I'm my experience nitro cars break down all the time once they're a month old
@@esotericman22 that just means you don't know how to tune.
Starting out electric 3s lipo brushless and maybe one day I'll get into nitro but it seems like way more work than I'm willing to put into atm as a beginner
Is there a purpose the tread is flipped on the rear wheels of the nitro car?
I am so glad I started out on nitro because it allows me the ability to enjoy both.
Exactly
Same I started on nitro and when I got to electric you don’t feel that same pressure of breaking something because the nitro experience gives you that. As in I wasn’t afraid to break something on my nitro and it gave me the confidence to drive better. Now that I have electric I haven’t crashed since. And nitro gives you a more hands on experience. With electric you just charge, plug and play. It’s not as hard and that’s why some people stick with electric. Plus nitro is cheap now that not a lot of people know how.
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Thanks dude!!
Great comparision brother ❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥
Thanks!
Cool video. Well, you know I have both nitro and electric. Nitro was one of my first rc cars.
I know brother!
Me too I love nitro I have electric but the only thing I have about nitros is RUNAWAYS!
shoutout for the camera man for going 40 miles xD
Word.
Awesome video
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Really cant believe you only have 500 subs man
Me either. I was surprised I made it to 100!
After being a nitro guy for so long , I just can’t find excitement in electric cars
I get that. Like gas vs electric cars. Yeah, some electric cars are sweet, but there’s nothing like turbo noises and giant displacement V8s.
Yeah i had a traxxas bandit years back but now i want a gas rc
@Brian Allan yea man I’m looking into getting my first electric and give it a go , any recommendations on good 6s cars or 8s?
@Brian Allan that limitless car looks amazing , thanks man
You tried 8s ? That shit is crazy especially the outcast for its size it moves fast af
Nice 👍 comparison video I love those bodies looking cool 😎
Thanks dude!
You should have picked a brushless version for a more far comparison
That rushed car did 47 mph with a brushed setup.
Had a nitro 1/8 buggy I used to race in unrestricted modified with a novaroasi power plant. Topped over 60 on dirt, 72 on pavement.
Would give electrics a run for their money. Plus nitro you have to have a bit of knowledge and understanding of basic mechanics, electric is just whoever has the most money if the fastest
Dude, you need to Google "Nick Case RC" and or "The Insane
Speed Run"
Nice Comparison video 10th scale....
Thanks Bob!
Faster isn’t always better. Maintenance more often
I totally agree.
Here here, half the fun of nitro is working on them ..
Great video🙂👊
Thank you.
I'm not sure you ever got the Nitro car completely wound out. Sounded like the rpms were still climbing when the assault with the wheel happened. Y'all from somewhere near Iowa? Great video, pretty much what I was looking for except I'd love to see a Nitro vs. a healthy brushless setup, actually comparing some laptimes around a course, to get a better idea of overall performance instead of only which has the higher top speed. To keep it as fair as possible, I'd shoot for a course layout with a straight long enough to allow the faster car to reach top speed and ideally stay there for a split second before having to get back off the throttle and/or get on the binders for a turn. Something as simple as a lopsided oval with one set of turns pretty much a hairpin and the other allowing a bit of speed to be carried would test both acceleration and top speed and give a better idea of which car is more likely to be faster around a race course. Just in case you were looking for any future video ideas. 😉 Thanks for doing this one. I'd love to see the comparison between practically identical cars except for Nitro vs. electric propulsion explored in more depth. I'm just wondering if given modern brushless motors and battery performance, Nitro isn't more about some of the aspects you mentioned, like the smell and noise and tinkering with the two speed than about actually being faster around race tracks than electric.
You’re totally right, and I would love to make a video like that. I’m still a small channel with an even smaller budget. I wasn’t even really trying to compare top speeds. Top speed was just one part of the comparison. In the electric’s defense, that thing did 43 mph on a brushed setup. The nitro has been faster, low 40s but in much cooler/ denser weather. I WISH we had an RC track close to me. (NW Ohio) anyway, thank you for the kind words, and I’m glad you liked the video enough to reach out. I appreciate it!
What I like about this video:
There was a grown man on an electric scooter filming at one point.
Dang right.
Hello great vidéo and nice rc car 👍🙏
Thank you.
The nitro sounded a bit rich as you said, not terrible because its not stalling when coming off the throttle but there is more performance left on the table there and adjust the shifting to second gear to be higher in the RPM range will get you to top speed in less time.
Its nitro for me. Ive seen nitro beat electrics and that was it for me.
It’s been known to happen.
Nitro is fun but the record for nitro is125mph. For electric it is 202.02MPH. 20 years ago, I believe it was RCCA tried to break 100 with a nitro and it cost them over a $1,000. Electric is less complicated than nitro. That's one reason nitro is not as popular as it once was.
NITRO 🔥 POWER The smell, smoke, and grime …………oh and the sound of the 2nd gear kicking in. It’s just old school RC and it’s fun.
Totally agree.
RC car is gas station win
That was awsome
Thank you!
I wanna get into rc cars under 300, is that possible with nitro? I wanna be able to hear my little car! Any tips?
New sub for redcat lightning str .I'm going to buy a new one for $220 I have owed the OG hpi RS4 nitro cars before .
Nice! Those RS4 chassis are sweet.
When you do electric rc videos you put background music... but when you do nitro videos you don't need background music! The engine sound is the music to your ears! Lol... yeah I know nitro goes lot of maintenance compared to electric... but hey maintenance and tuning is part of the fun where you get more involved and proud of your car... it is my personal preference though
Couldn’t agree more.
Hi
It's unfair to test on a brushed motor but if U like working on motors nitro is more interesting & the smells & noise is addictive !
Totally agree.
He’s trying to compare out of the box. Given the 2s lipo to give it a better chance of performance. He should’ve just gone with a normal battery to show how much slower it is. Though a 3000kv brushless motor swap would’ve been a good way to compare against the nitro bc many rtr brushless cars come with the 3000kv setup (no lipo battery)
Intro is my favorite
Thanks! I’m glad you liked it.
New to rc. Was the nitro one shifting gears ? Or was it like a blip of throttle
It's a two-speed. It shifted.
Haven't you tuned it or is it just not powerfull? I have a nitro car myself and I get 80mph+ on a long flat road
It’s a teeny tiny nitro engine.
@@10thScaleGarage im no expert but it seemed that nitro rc car was running a bit lean
jocus I need to know what you’re driving!
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Now I want one of both 😂👍 great video bro
I fully support that decision.
3s lipo with 550 12t brushed motor and 80A esc is the fastest cheap brushed combo for 1/10 scale I’ve ever tried. Obviously my 5.5t brushless with 160A esc is obviously faster with 2S, but it’s about 10 times the price of the brushed electrics. A top-tier esc, motor and several best 2S batteries can cost much more than a whole RTR Kyosho nitro car. Anyway, if you’re a little bit lazy like me, not having enough time to maintenance the engine, a battery car is obviously the better option. I’m always looking forward to try the 1/8 scale hpi rally car, but I really don’t have enough time to take care of it😅
Where can I find those speedometers to put on my rc cars?
Amazon. Bang Good. Ebay.
There's 2 types of fuel, one for the summer, and one for the winter.
And you have to be tuning it all the time, especially if your going to be using it at the beach...
My “winter fuel” is Natural Gas, get it? Ok. I’ll leave now
I like them
Wrong. If you want stable and easy tuning, just run 30% all the time. Get a nice base tune for the season and touch up the tune during the first tank or two at the start of the day and rip away on a medium plug all season. Lower nitro percentage will cause you to have to tune more to account for weather conditions IME. There are no warm or cold weather fuels or glow plugs for that matter. Nitro % = Tune Stability and Glow Plug Temp = ignition timing.
Well that's not fair. Doing a brushed motor against nitro.. now brushless and nitro would be the comparison. Awesome video buddy. Thanks again for the content
To compare I have a revo 3.3 it is crazy fun and fast but my arrma kraton which is about the same size, a little bigger actually.. on stock electronics the kraton will stomp a hole in the revo.
The electric one did 43mph on a brushed setup. It’s the faster of the two now.
@@10thScaleGarage Not bad at all I have my 1/8 Nitro Hyper 7 hitting 65mph average top speed but few more little bits to do to it yet just luv nitro. Electric is fun for speed runs but need a long stretch for it Nitro is anytime anyplace fun slow or fast on road or off the noise the smell just can't beat it
Thanks for the brief explanation now I can decide which car to take😀
No problem!
I’ll be doing my own comparison between the Kyosho Inferno GT2 AMG’s, nitro and electric. I have the latter; the former is on order.
The electric GT2 is a blast and very convenient. It could be even lighter as electric Infernos are retrofits from nitro.
I wish there was a nice onroad track nearby to do either justice.
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Nitro!!
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Thanks bro!
the only reason I would get a nitro over electric is to be able to refuel and keep driving and not have to worry about the battery dying in the middle of bashing
Good point.
To be fair you could just swap the battery lol
Does the nitro have 2 gears Bc it sounds like its shifting
Yup!
so cool
Thanks!!
I have a 60/km electric GTR and its awesome!
Nice!
It won't be faster its a brushed motor on 2s ofcourse the nitro will be faster
I got that brushed Lightning up to 43mph on a brushed setup.
@@10thScaleGarage my electric etc hits 75mph bro
Rc
I have hpi rs4 and evo traxxas tmax all nitro cant part with them and still is fun BUT since my infraction v2 and newest baby the losi 22s and a 16th scale buggy by traxxas (I gave to my girl)...a total of seven but will stick with the electric. My fiance is my sponsor. Shes dropped 2600 in two cars trying to get into dragging for money in tournaments in the southeast. Keep dropping videos my friend I watch and subscribed to your channel.
Nice! Welcome to the 10th Scale Squad.
I got them same glasses lol
well i got a nitro buggy 1/8 cen matrix it’s old but i got a new motor servo air filter controller and a new igniter i tuned it and it rips next rc i want is the white and black fox traxxas truck
Ya guys congratulations on 20k subs and over 1M+ views on this video. You guys deserve it💯💯
Thank you so much.
which nitro rc drift car would you recommend? i don’t know anything about nitro rc cars, i’m just getting one for my boyfriend so i’m kind of stuck on which one to get. so which car would you recommend to a beginner under $300?!
A nitro drift car? If he’s a beginner, please think twice about getting a nitro. If you’re adamant about getting a nitro, I’d buy a Traxxas. If you’re adamant about getting a drift car, I’d recommend the Redcat Thunder drift or HPI sprint 2 Drift.
Dayum whats that car plate :)
Cool beards, guys!
Thanks! We grew them ourselves!
The nitro sounds amazing
I agree!
Does anybody have a vxl esc or motor that you don't need?
I have an off-road rc car, it can reach over 35 mph, how are these so slow?
Smaller wheels, shorter gearing, less powerful motors.
So I'm going to be a first time buyer on nitro rc cars I'm try to put up a new hobby what would you recommend for nitro RC cars I'm looking into a fast controllable car I work for valet and I at times it's slow at night so I take off my adventure Force RC car and drive it around on the street it's nice and all but it's not as fast as the box says
Traxxas Nitro Rustler.
whats the batery life when using a nitro compared to an elctric? im asking because i know the sevos and other electronic components are still there before anyone makes me look like an idiot
If you’re asking how long the batteries last in a nitro car, that varies, but hours and hours. All they’re doing (in most cases) are powering servos and receiver.
@@10thScaleGarage thanks for the info! Even if slower than my 1/16 brushless.... by a lot XD I think I should get one for trail running if that is the case!
Hell
Ya bro bro.. gotta say. Ima electric guy myself.. try them again but with a 3a in the electric
For sure! I’ve got big plans for the electric.
I just got a drift RC for Christmas lol
Sweet! Let’s go slideways!
I have no xmas and i never get gifts lucky americans iraq sucks
I’m thinking of getting a nitro car but the hole in the top just wondering did you cut it for engine airflow or was it already there
It was already there.
O thanks
Idk why my uncle gave me a drifting car and I saw this on reccomend
Sweet! I hope you like it. I have other videos about drifting.
You know too do this right you need a 3s with a brushless motor and I think things will be different.
Awesome video. I'm betting a decent brushless setup would even things up a bit.
That car does 43 mph with a brushless system in it now!
Would destroy it
Yeah
Yessssss
I like nitro because of the awesome smell and how fucking fun and epic they are also there just so awesome
Me too!
Nitro Baby...
I have this redcat lightning pro on 3s.. fast as hell.. electric is just much easier to tinker wit.. plug n play
Nice! Mine is still brushed, but I managed to get 43 mph out of it
Nothing is better. It’s whatever you like. Some like RTR some like to build it,, Some like electric some like nitro. It’s a beautiful hobby. For me in my opinion, old rc running NIMH gave us the challenge to find speed. To be innovative. Nowadays you buy a brushless and it’s faster than it needs to be. One persons opinion.
I totally agree.
I really wanna know which one is heavier
Nitro, until you put an enormous battery in the electric.
@@10thScaleGarage nice body shell btw, I love it, where you get it from?
It’s stock.
Nitro makes a mess on race tracks with multuple laps an cars your foam get soaked with greasy semi burnt fuel an desintagade alot quicker. Alot more engine maintenance is required with Nitro an they are not aloud in some indoor rc tracks, colloge or in school gymnasium events. Lastly you can not water proof a nitro rc engine but u can an electric. Nitros are considered noise pollution in most subberb areas, they smell offensive so they must be stored outdoors an they leak fuel presenting a very minor environmental displeasure. Also they sound like string trimmers 🤗 loved this video tbh an Nitros look like alot of fun' she just needs underglow n lights
Where can I get that car at I really want it
OMGRC.com!
The chassis does look similar to the tornado!
I have the tornado. They are super similar
Should I get into rc I don’t know if it’s worth it?
I think it’s a great hobby! I can’t answer the question on if it’s “worth” it to you though.
I do like this car
Me too
Where can I buy one
www.redcatracing.com/?ref=Mt54_7Ks9wD7n
The Thunder Tiger Challenger.
NITRO!
My Slash goes faster than the electric one
Sweet!
When it started shifting🥰
It’s a good noise.
Super
What size motor is in that nitro. My memory of my old .16 nitro 2 speed with a lovely escort body was somewhere in 50ish mph range. I is your motor broke in and tuned? I used 25% mix for a fast motor or only about 10% for mucking around.
It’s a 1.6 I believe. It’s broken in and tuned. Just a touch on the rich side. It’s geared pretty short. It’s not a race car. It’s super inexpensive.
@@10thScaleGarage Last car I had was a CEN so cheap and cheerful. .16nt motor on 10% nitro so only 45-50ish mph. On the other hand my SG Red One was .21 running 25% nitro on the belt driven 4wd system and a Porsche style enduro racing body. The 2speed was very well suited to the rpm range and wheel size. Not the fastest 1:8th out there but blistering acceleration and about 65mph. It was a proper SG with a thick 5mm chassis plate before the firm got bought over. Only real pain (in the wallet) was the foam tyres.
I would love to see you compare any nitro or real full size car to my 12s 5th scale 🤭
Soooooon.
I have the electric one and you need to upgrade the esc to a 3s one then it gets a little above 30mph I think. I haven’t tested the speed yet
I put a 1060 in it and did 43mph. I have a video on it!
@@10thScaleGarage awesome. I’ll go check out the video
I love electric since it can go in side and outside
True. Assuming you have enough space inside.
@@10thScaleGarage yep
i like this car
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Me too.
The nitro sounded like it was changing up way too early
For as many comments about it changing early, there are just as many saying it’s changing too late. Haha. It changes right as first gear winds out.
So what about driving distance?
Distance as in signal range or distance between tanks/ batteries?
Where can I buy a nitro car
Your local hobby shop, amazon, eBay, manufacturer website, Craigslist, FB marketplace, garage sales (if you’re lucky) and usually at your local race track. One of those guys will almost certainly have a car for sale.
Where Shop With tht rc car? i want to buyy tht
is that english?
U could probably put the speedometer thingy inside the body of the car
Yeah, hindsight isn20/20