2WD A-Main 1~ 1991 IFMAR Offroad Worlds - Trinity Kyosho 

Haha like Larry Huffman that used to announce Supercross back in the 80s. “All over him like a Krishna at the airport” Baha 😂

7 cell packs weren't legal, it was 6 cells only for IFMAR and ROAR. And Sanyo made SCE (yellow) and SCR (red) cells, and the subsequent SCRC (black) cells that give the best of both worlds

I had a feeling Losi introduced the Hydradrive at this race. It was plainly obvious that Kyle Reeds Losi went through the whoops way better than Masamis Stealth car. I has a BNIB Hudradrive with both light and heavy hydradrive fluid (gear diff oil) and was going to adapt it to my old 22 3.0 a few years back. Todays black CRC carpet "off road" tracks don't need it! I race on road now but love this era of RC

30 years ago now

@@dragonsnipero509 yup, 30 now!

@@2006gtobob time flies bro

Holy hell.....we are old!

@@2006gtobob it's amazing that you have the same YT account 10 years on and respond in like the same hour the comment was made.

The batteries were 1500 milliamp sanyo cells but probably had 1800 actual milliamp because they were the best of the best saved for the top racers .

They used 540 sized brushed motors that were hand wound and they were in the 11 to 13 turn range. As far as the batteries, they were Sub-C sized but I believe they still used NiCads in 1991 and had 1800mah. I'm a little hazy about the batteries but what I do remember was that you wanted to get a set of Matched batteries if you wanted to be competitive. Matched batteries were batteries that were put in a machine that would charge the batteries at something like 5 amps but then then would discharge at 20 amps! This cycle was repeated a number of times and then the final time they did it, they printed a little label with the amount of time in seconds that it took to discharge that cell at 20 amps and then they would group the batteries in a set of six and those six batteries had similar discharge times. This was done so the voltage of each battery would drop at the same time so the effect you had was a car that would be going fast and then slow down to a crawl when the battery pack ran out of juice where Unmatched batteries would gradually lose voltage instead of a sharp drop because there are cells that are discharged before the other cells so the battery pack gradually loses voltage instead of dropping all at once. Also, the Matched batteries with the longest run times went for a lot of money.

Yeah umm Lipos and Brushless motors were a long way away in 1991.

@@PeTroL420 Great write up☝️👍

@@robertturnip7850 Matched batteries was very good back then. When the lipos became aviable, the nimh batteries was low priority and was not of good quality. And has been ever since. The only "good" nimh batteries today is from Traxxas, Reedy, LRP / Nosram and Team Orion. A matched pack cost 80-90 bucks back then, when a ok basher pack cost 30-40,- After each run, you discharged each cell individually down to a spesific voltage. After charging the battery, they allso boosted the pack, with a bigger pack, to push in as much power as possible just before race start.