Building the WORLDS FASTEST Jet RC Car!

New chassis, longer wheelbase. The power is there, and with improved stability you can aim for some very fast speeds. World Record is only 205mph. You'll need to use a better radio for a full length airfield. Consider a DJI FPV to help you stay on the road next time.

I think that a mangled wreck is a cool piece of set dressing, like the red pickup from top gear.

Opinions of a Skydiver: The parachute is getting caught in a ‘burble’. The pocket of dead air directly behind the car, is the same as the dead air right above your body and rig when skydiving. You use a pilot chute and throw it out to the side when skydiving to make sure it gets out in the air flow. My thoughts are; either using a similar deployment as a reserve parachute by using a spring to deploy it and fire it out away from the car which would be easiest, or, a pilot chute to pull it out deployed from a point in the air flow.

Hit the brakes and the throttle until you build thrust, then let off the brake, also remember PID, let off the throttle a certain amount of time before you actually want to stop... Yikes expensive Crash 😣.

Great video! It's incredible how fast it went without even going for full throttle. Maybe a FPV camera might help with noticing deviations earlier? Or maybe a gyro-based solution that automatically keeps it going in a straight line.

Definitely consider a gyro to help you keep it straight and consider taping the front of the body down to the splitter to really seal up the front end aswell maybe print some infills and sideskirts like something from Scorched RC or alike. Crazy build, really exciting to see the development and running!

one thing to look into is having a highspeed steering setting that makes you inputs scaled down so its doesn't get twitchy at high speeds 1:1 inputs wont work very well north of the speeds you already achieved. Great work and keep at it!

Pro tip: Heading Hold Gyro hooked up to the steering. Then it will kind of shift left and right a bit (like a lane change) but always stay parallel to the straight road.

A POV system might help for steering. I also wonder if you could have adaptive controller gains that decrease the steering rates as the car goes faster. Or maybe you need a stability and heading assistance system like a lot of RC Test Flights Ardupilot systems use. I think when you're going this fast you probably want a microcontroller in the loop helping you maintain your heading down the track. Actually, there is a technology that I can't for the life of me remember the name of right now that uses base stations and triangulation to calculate positioning of an object. I know it's used as an alternative to GPS sometimes when you need really accurate positioning, so you could take this to the track, set up some base stations and have really high speed calculations of your position. This could be used for a fully autonomous run. Or semi-autonomous, with you handling the throttle and the system managing steering. EDIT: Real Time Kinematics, or RTK. That's the name of the system I was talking about. You can get centimeter level absolute position accuracy. Don't know if you're at all into microcontroller stuff, and that's a huge project, but this could be a cool way to go. Or do something else, like run two charged cables down the length of the track that generate magnetic fields which you sense with Hall effect sensors or magnetometers on the vehicle and use a PID controller to steer a straight line down the middle of the cables. They'd be like touchless guide rails.

Really cool build! Excited to see where you go with this and how fast you get it! I’m currently also shooting for the fastest wheel driven RC car 💪🏼

I can just watch that fly-by over and over again. I love this project!

Since you have more than enough thrust, you could add something similar to anti-recoil vents seen on high caliber rifles that pops up to redirect thrust forward. Like a simplified commercial airplane engine.

The car is epic! Maybe you can do a car/plane hybrid, in which you extend the wings at a certain speed? Then once at a certain speed, (maybe world record) extend wings and go airborne!

You need to have a control system to make sure that next time the car tries to stay locked on a heading once you start your run (with the exception of your inputs). The other thing to try is shove some sensors (mainly an IMU) on that car to see the forces involved!

It's a learning curve and that's how engineers develop their skills. You did well. Just don't stop learning and improving.

10:48, How can such small tyres spin this fast?! This is just blasting my mind

Hi, love your projects!

Imagine this car being able to fly when needed. That would be interesting. :)

Thank you for the clean video with no bad words used, I can show this to my son with no issues.

I.. friggin.. LOVE.. your Mini! Beautiful!