DeAgostini's Nitro Racer - Page 11

**Bluewavestudios** · 25-02-2006

Hi Markie and welcome to the forums.

Yes that is a good price for the GX12 on ebay and is exactly what I paid for mine on there too. Did you get yours with or without the Carb..??

If it came without the carb, do you have the carb retaining bolt..?? as these can be hard to track down. My Engine came without the carb as do a lot of these on e-bay, there are a few complete engines for sale on there.

The Carb to buy new alone is £29.99p, so best have a look on e-bay for one as I did. I got a brand new one for £18 on there. I was fortunate in that a local model shop was able to match up a carb bolt for me. Without this bolt you cannot run the engine as the carb will just fly off.

Regards......Mark.

purpletimbo · 28-02-2006

I'm a newbie to nitro and just bought my first one. A fully built deagostini astra from ebay, needs a receiver and glow starter but all seems complete otherwise, it has never even had fuel in it!!
I know they are dear to buy in bits but £40 with all the mags sounded too good to miss.
Only thing missing is it has a large silencer not attached and the exhaust goes straight out under the car, is there an extra piece of pipe to adapt?
Thanks tim

Seaspray · 01-03-2006

Hi all
One or two of you are building trucks. Am I too late to start building ie what issue are the truck building model on

dynamite25 · 01-03-2006

Hi seaspray i am upto issue 60 on the nitro truck and will get issue 61 this friday and you could subscribe to it if you want to and you should still get four issues a month even starting now,and there is no harm in trying.

You can subscribe to it by ringing the customer help line on 0870 920 1133 [monday - friday 9 am- 5 pm] Alteratively you can write to

Nitro Monster Truck
Jacklin Enterprises UK
PO Box 77
Jarrow
NE32 3YJ

or fax enquiries to 0870 920 1135 or e-mail:hachette@jacklinservice.com

puregooner · 11-04-2006

Hi all..New to nitro myself and that made some interesting reading..I did subscribe to this about two years ago and like some others,did have to wait a while before receiving issues.But i was patient and have nearly finished building it.its all sprayed and just now being sent a load of upgrades...but in truth all i want is the damn starter kit so i can get it going.I have thought of going on ebay or going out and buying the last few bits but i am finding that with receiving all the magazines as well it gives me a little bit of nowledge before i get going.

Ant · 13-04-2006

Another noobie here, and yeah building it in Oz at the moment. Just under half way through. I know it will work out more expensive than buying a kit, but it is a good way of pacing myself and picking up useful information from the mags. I also no all the components of the vehicle quite well.

Ant.

Seaspray · 14-04-2006

cheers dynamite sorry for the delay in answering gota work all week can't get near the keyboard till weekend will give them a ring
cheers mate
martin

Peter88 · 07-05-2006

Hi have finished this car and have run for about 2 hours now with no problems. Have got a GX15 engine of ebay (£40) a set of oil filled shocks, Am also looking at getting a two speed upgrade.

**Bluewavestudios** · 15-06-2006

Hi Pete,
Glad to hear you have got yours running, the running in process doesn't take long as I found out recently with my Nephew's Skyline...it seems ages ago since we did that...now we just take it out and drive it. It starts reliably everytime and just keeps going till we run out of fuel...we have even got it timed now to bring the car in and refuel it with the engine still running and then off again.....proper pitstops lol

My Honda NSX has a GS15 fitted and the 2 speed box, that is on a separate post on here though

Regards......Mark

puregooner · 09-07-2006

HELP PLEASE...have just completed the car and gone to start it..it ran for about 5 seconds and now wont have none of it...i have gone through all the procedures that the magazines suggest to do but with no joy...PLEASE HELP!!!!