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Re: Old School Rocket Car Build

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treystoys wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 6:34 pm Came in to say this is awesome! Very cool builds!! Would be a neat way to introduce my son to rockets lol
Thanks! runs strong too!...it's prolly my favorite of all my cars
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Re: Old School Rocket Car Build

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coxbros1 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:17 pm
treystoys wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 6:34 pm Came in to say this is awesome! Very cool builds!! Would be a neat way to introduce my son to rockets lol
Thanks! runs strong too!...it's prolly my favorite of all my cars

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But isn't this your favorite?
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Is this like when parents tell one kid "You're my favorite" but then whisper to the other kid "you're really my favorite" :lol:
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Re: Old School Rocket Car Build

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coxbros1 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:17 pm
treystoys wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 6:34 pm Came in to say this is awesome! Very cool builds!! Would be a neat way to introduce my son to rockets lol
Thanks! runs strong too!...it's prolly my favorite of all my cars

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Re: Old School Rocket Car Build

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Frankentruck wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:26 pm But isn't this your favorite?
Not after it got its ass kicked in BOTY!
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Re: Old School Rocket Car Build

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Just discovering this because Trey bumped it up!! Jesus, what an awesome build this is Coxbros!!!
It answers so many things I've been wondering for years on Estes powered cars!!
I'm so glad the car is in great shape to make more runs! :D
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Re: Old School Rocket Car Build

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coxbros1 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:54 pm
Frankentruck wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:26 pm But isn't this your favorite?
Not after it got its ass kicked in BOTY!
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Re: Old School Rocket Car Build

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pma1123 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:32 pm Just discovering this because Trey bumped it up!! Jesus, what an awesome build this is Coxbros!!!
It answers so many things I've been wondering for years on Estes powered cars!!
I'm so glad the car is in great shape to make more runs! :D
Thank you!...the Estes F15 ran good but only about 60mph the way the car is setup now with engine mounted really frontward (much better control as it pulls the car more than it pushes it, containing the fire under the body is tricky)...but cheap and easy to buy....I ran dual Estes "E" engines that accelerated pretty good and would run 82mph...but in the last year and half I only run 'Aerotech' composite engines..they are alot more expensive (even the rebuildable ones)....but they have so much power and aren't like a "bottle rocket" like the Estes black powder engines...the Aerotechs are insane and the sound in person is actually scary!...especially the "Blue Thunder propellant
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Re: Old School Rocket Car Build

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Single AEROTECH engine:
https://youtu.be/STgTBBXjFpE?si=Ft_OM58UDteWFkbE
Dual Estes engines:
https://youtube.com/shorts/2yTMpkCDZXM?feature=shared
-this run actually had 3 engines in it...one F and twin E's...the 1st stage malfunctioned off the line...so I just hit the twin E's and it took off
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Re: Old School Rocket Car Build

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Still the best thread of 2024
If a jobs not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well.
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Re: Old School Rocket Car Build

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Dadio wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 11:46 pm Still the best thread of 2024
2023!...the car is real old now
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Re: Old School Rocket Car Build

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coxbros1 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2025 1:15 am
Dadio wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 11:46 pm Still the best thread of 2024
2023!...the car is real old now
No ....
That's not possible
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Re: Old School Rocket Car Build

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Frankentruck wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:44 pm
coxbros1 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:54 pm
Frankentruck wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:26 pm But isn't this your favorite?
Not after it got its ass kicked in BOTY!
Rough times and tough love in the coxbros1 RC home:

"Boy, you're worthless! You'll never be nuthin' but a loser! You are no longer part of this RC family!!!"
Coxbros are Cobra Kai of the RC world :lol:
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