Nic Case is a Southern Californian who has had a lifelong passion for cars, RC cars that is. But unlike RC enthusiasts who buy off-the-shelf parts to modify their cars, Nic modifies cars with a combination of stock parts and custom-fabricated parts. One of his latest projects was recently recognized by the Guinness Book of Records with a World Speed Record certification, because of his car’s 161.76 mph run.
To get to this level of performance, Nic spent $4,000 and the better part of six months testing and tuning his car to set the speed record. Using a Schumacher Mi3 carbon fiber chassis, Nic fitted a streamlined body that looks like a land speed record vehicle. Reportedly, computational fluid dynamics was used to design the streamlined body. Underneath that simple-looking exterior, this extreme RC builder installed top-of-the line components such as a 12-cell Power Edge Lithium-Polymer battery, a Castle Creations power management and speed controller module, and an 11 horsepower Neu motor. Radio control components from Futaba are used.
Although this car’s specific weight is not known except to a few, lightened Mi3 cars run around 1265 grams and this world record car should be lighter. The power-to-weight ratio for this car is off the scale, so much so that performance calculations predict this car’s 0-60 mph time at 0.285 seconds. On July 5, this car was ran again and it has unofficially reached a speed of 175 plus miles per hour. Not bad for a 11-horsepower car!
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