HPI Racing - HPI Racer's Gallery

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How the HPI Racer Gallery contest works: Each week, we will update the Racer Gallery with our most recent submissions, in the order we receive them. We will choose one submission each week (which can consist of multiple pictures of multiple cars) to be our Pick of the Week. You may enter the contest as many times as you wish (using different pictures and cars), however you may be Pick of the Week only once per year.

At the end of each month we will choose from the Pick of the Week our Pick of the Month. At the end of the year, we will choose from our Picks of the Month the Racer Gallery Pick of the Year! The owner of our Racer Gallery Pick of the Year will receive a free HPI kit for their efforts! Pick of the Year winners will be contacted by email. To be eligible for the 2003 Pick of the Year we must have your entry by December 1, 2003.

Please note that although your Racer Gallery submissions may not appear in the Racer Gallery immediately, be prepared to wait 2-4 weeks, depending on the amount of entries we receive. For hints and suggestions on how to make your car or truck look its best, see our R/C Photography Tips!

The fine print: By voluntarily submitting your car or truck to the HPI Racing website for use in the Racer's Gallery, you agree that HPI Racing has the right to use (from the email(s) you send for the Racer's Gallery) any images, any text, your name and your location in [city, state] form, but NOT your email address or mailing address, on any HPI Racing website. Any use of this information will be strictly for purposes of inclusion on the Racer's Gallery section of the website, in possible future additions to the HPI Racing website and in possible future public advertisements, for promotional use only by HPI Racing. HPI Racing reserves the right to edit any text and images included in your email(s). If you do not agree to these terms, please contact the webmaster so that we may remove your entry. These rules may change at any time and without warning, however they will be considered in effect, immediately and retroactively, as soon as they are updated on Racer's Gallery web page. This contest void where prohibited. Any taxes, tariffs and duties on any prizes are the sole responsibility of the winner. A list of winners may be requested after the contest ends by contacting HPI Racing USA by letter, email or phone.

What's up everybody at HPI! Here's a letter from Holland to wish all you guys a merry christmas and fast wishes for 2003! Keep up the good work with those bodies.
Included you will find some pics of my Pro 2 with the Sylvia bodie I painted this summer.
Except the carbon hood and adjustable rear wing this ride also features head- and fog lights and neonlights on the chassis. Fast and Furious Supra eat your heart out! Maybe a cool site for your link page is the following: www.dmrcp.com This site is all about racing and other things my friend and me are into. It is in Dutch but worthwhile checking out. DMRCP stands for Dutch Masters R/C Posse. Articles you can expect are reports from the Essen Motorshow and recent trips too the Nordschleife circuit at Nurburg Germany.

With kind regards,

Mathieu van den Oever
Zoetermeer, Holland

Here's a picture of my HPI Nitro RS4. It has a .12 Pro Star engine, a 2 speed and a bunch of aluminium.

Deb Steigerwald
Albany, New York

Hi!

I've got some pics for your racers gallery. The body I painted is a Beetle Cup Racer.

I'm from Germany an so my English is not so good and i hope you understand me!

Christian Lauer

Here's a picture of my HPI Nitro MT. Its all aluminium and powered by a Novarossi .12.

Jeff Steigerwald
Middle Grove N.Y.

This is my first HPI kit, I think is the best truck in the market, here are some pics of my truck in the park,
The truck is a little duty but I like the pictures, I hope you like 'em too.
Juan P. Hernandez
San Diego, Ca

this is a RS4 3 TYPE SS!! right out the box!!! different body of course...painted with PPG products ....
Nelson from Florida.

Attached is photo of my first HPI truck. Great kit. Runs great too! Could you please put in your gallery?

Brian J. Hummel

My name is jay and this is my nitro rs4 corvette.

HPI,

Just wanted to thank you all for doing such a great job on the kits...Just picked up a Micro RS4 and the Pro 3 and will eventually end up getting the entire family of cars...What a great past-time...I've got all of my friends convinced on HPI Products...Thanks and enjoy the pics...

Sam

from "pimpnboy"

plz show these in your gallery thanx

Hi just finished my SNRS4 BMW this is my second Super Nitro built from a kit
this one features a graphic Y brace lightweight flywheel and 1703 cooling head.
I live in Lakeland Florida USA and my name is Joseph.

Dear HPI,

First of all, thanks for making the highest quality rc parts ever! This is my HPI NITRO RS4 RTR 3. This is my first and only RC car. This modified car is equipped with an HPI Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R body. I got the custom green-to-purple chameleon paintjob from using parma faskolor paints. My RS4 also has a 2-speed tranny and a racing clutch from HPI. Other mods include, an aluminum exhaust from THS racing, and an intake upgrade from dynamite. These hop-ups are only the beginning to this car... What's next? I need to find a way to drop a .21 in there... Thanks HPI for making the most high quality RC cars and option parts out there! These upgrades are just the beginning... There are many more to come! Thanks HPI!

Sincerely,
David Lewis
Warren, PA

Take a close-look on Team Orion CRF U-chassis kit with a cooling fan, which
is very powerful to cool my Peak-Performance Turbo Coreless motor down. I am impressed by the HPI Concours accessory set including high quality alloy muffler, disc rotor and sport mirrors. They look really cool! I believe the following is the ideal set-up for micro rs4.

Here is my list:
KO Propo EX-I Mars system FM 75MHz
Hitec HS-85MG servo
LRP Quantum Micro ESC
Peak-Performance Turbo Coreless Motor Modified
Team Orion CRF U-chassis kit
Team Orion 7.2v 1100 Ni-MH
HPI Concours Accessory set
HPI Front Universal Dogbones
HPI Front One-way Diff set
HPI Rear Ball Diff set
HPI Spring set
HPI Heatsink Motor mount
HPI Titanium Antenna
HPI Pinion Gear 9T steel
HPI LED Light set
HPI Dual Link Tie Rod set for micro servo
HPI Skyline GTR kit

Alex C
San Jose, CA

This is my Super Nitro Rally. I just wanted to thank you guys for making such a fine car. I've never raced a better car. I dropped a more powerful engine in there and 2-speed transmission. This car is perfect for the desert I live in. Thank you again.

Nick
Tucson, AZ
USA

Deventer/netherlands

My name is Ivo Wewer and this is my first body that i paintid for my hpi rs4 3
it`s a ford f150 body from hpi. I like painting the bodie and make it look nice and i can`t wait to do my next one.

greatings from:

Ivo Wewer
Deventer/netherlands

Hi my name is Bryant Peters and I just bought the car and it's a lot of fun to drive. I am trying to get my local track to start racing them. I hope you enjoy.

From Stevie B. in New York

Dear HPI,
This is my nitro mini. It is bone stock. I live in florida where this thing drives super fast.
Signed,
JOEY GAGLIARDI

Here is a pic of my nitro mt with a new painted body, it also has a 1 horse engine and an aluminum radio tray that i made myself, the sam goes for the aluminum A-arms.

This is my nitro rs4 it got plenty of hop ups like you see in my pictures i change my servo's tune pipes the head on my engine the and has a 2 speed trans a reciver cover

Hi HPI-Racing Team

My Name is Chris Richter I´m a German 22 years old. I Love fast Cars so i tune my little Models! I send u pictures of my ECLIPS! It`s a RE from the Film THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS. LOOKS cool or not.

Bye Richter Chris

Hi, this is my PTG M3 GTR replica on Micro RS4. The original PTG M3 GTR
muffler has been relocated under passenger side door. So I removed the rear
concours accessory muffler to match the actual appearance. This M3 GTR
consists of Team Orion Ultra Chassis with cooling fan, Peak Performance
Turbo Coreless Modified Motor, Concour Accessory kit, HiTec HS-85MG mini
servo, LRP Quantum Micro Reverse ESC as well as KO Propo EX-1 Mars system.

Alex
san jose, ca

thank you for your great stuff.

david rowe

hey, ken from Edmonton ALberta Canada here. i've got a couple of shots of the new body on my super nitro rally.
nothing outrageous but I do take tremendous pride in my work. Also have the impreza body done up but it's seen some serious action.

thanks
ken

Im Chris Benny from Australia

my hpi s15 silvia with hpi pro 3 i love your sleek s15 and your pro 3 best car! I think it has been bashed too much i have won many races at my local track againsed x rays and many other cars and never have had any problems! keep it up hpi :)

Here are some photo's of my HPI SS.I just finished building it and spraying a cool custom paint job on it.I hope you can put it in your gallery.
Thanks
Frank Toscani

Dear Sirs,

Please find as attached a few pictures of my HPI Transam body kit. it will be highly appreaciated if you put the pictures to the racing gallery.

Thanks in advance and with best regards,

Mr. Sukru Balci
Istanbul / Turkiye

Note:
The car is HPI RS4-2 Nitro with two speed, HPI 15 FE engine, tuned pipe, I am
using 30% felix fuel, Futaba 27 Mhz Radio system, etc.

Hey we have this picture of a couple RS4 RTR, from Punta Arenas in Chile (the most southern city in the world).

Thanks a lot IVAN

From "theexpertkuo":

i painted the stratus body like this .

From
Jimmy V
Toms River, New Jersey

My cars are way too fast for pretty paint jobs. I have show bodies for them, but I think I prefer the down and dirty look. When your Savage 21 hits my operating table, I will change the TA's sponsor. Love them RS4's forever, Jim

From Jurgen Neudorfhofer:

I am Robert from Germany and I am sending you a few photos of my new RC-Car! It´s a Mitsubishi Eclipse HPI Body 200mm. The blue sign is painted like the Mitsubishi Eclipse in "The Fast and the Furious"!! I know that my English is not perfect, but I hope you will understand this short message!

Nice greetings

Robert

Here are two Pictures of our RS4 rally car. The Imprezza body is awesome and drew allot of attention at the track. The BMW body is equally awesome and really turned some heads while launching off the ramps and launching for a good 10 feet!! Not bad on a track 70' by 40' ! The indoor carpet track really lets me put this car through its paces.We have not broken any pieces yet, even with a multiple cartwheel landing!! This car is awesome and we recommend everyone to try rally, you cant beat the speed of a pan car with the jumping performance of a stadium truck. HPI ROCKS!!!

Dale S. Le Bar and son

D2 Racing...Racing times two!!!!

my name is luis cruz i live in new york qeens i am 14 years old my rs4 has a os motor and associated pipe and a honda civic body.

this is pictures of my dodge stratus shell with XXX main carbon flames

Phil Bunyan
England

From Lenny Kidman
las vegas, nv

these r some pics of my car. It is simple and very clean looking yet is stylish as well. Nothing to fancy but it still looks really good!!!

Hi My name is Mike Onstott. I am form Arvada, Colorado. This is my brand new super nitro with the porshe 911 body... This is my first body i have painted and decaled and this is my first gas powered race car so i hope you like it!

Here are a few shots of my new eclipse hpi body done by me it was alot of hard work but as you can see it payed off.Please post these pictures in the gallery if you like the shots there is nothing that would please me more than to see my hpi racer on the site.The car means alot to me I put alot of time and effort into making it look the best I can.It is a Hpi RS4.

Yours Truly
Randy Rivera
Yonkers N.Y

This Micro from Kiev, Ukraine.

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Best regards,
Oleg Zakharenkov

This is Aureliano from Davis, CA. I am 20 yrs old and i just wondering if u could put my car pic online... thaxx alot.. i love yr web site

J. Bush Williams
Springfield, Missouri

my name is simon and im from australia and this is my nitro RS4 2

Goodies Toyota

GM tuned pipe and header
Kyosho vented disc brake
Purple heat sink head
Hayabusa Digital pistal grip control

More additions to come...

Osan AB Korea..

JERMAINE "GOODIE" GOODMAN, SSgt, USAF

Hi, my name is Massimiliano Ricca, from Turin, Italy. This is my first HPI and also my first R/C Car: a Super Nitro RS4 Rally. I hope you enjoy my body’s photo even if it’s a standard paint job one.

Greetings from Italy, Massimiliano

I still have to trim the body posts but this is my raised nitro MT. hope you like it

J.J. Enecial

sAn JoSe, CaLiFoRnIa

HPI RS4 RTR converted to HPI RACER 2... Mugen MT12 ported+polished, super nitro front shock tower, polished (all done by hand except muffler) 3mm chassis, side belt tensioner, universal dogbones, Paris muffler and polished headers. This is not a show car, it is my everyday racer. (pretty clean isn't it?) Representing 5.0 & 5.7 Unlimited Racing Team, bay area's original street racing kingz.

Hi, my name is Mike from San Diego, CA. Heres a few pics of my HPI RS4 3 with a Proline Jetta body along with my Associated NTC3 with a HPI Civic body for your Gallery. My RS4 3 has been upgraded with GPM front/rear aluminum shock mounts & front brace plate, Lunsford titanium turnbuckles all-around, Robinson Racing lightweight flywheel, HPI racing fuel tank, 5.5mm slide carb, stiffer (green/blue) tuned progressive springs, X-pattern belted radials, 19T/23T pinion gears, 45T/41T spur gears, swaybars and racing clutch, THS racing tuned pipe and header, Motor-saver air filter, Ofna servo horn, GPM heatsink engine mounts, Venom Speedster chrome wheels, Dubro fuel filters, Ko Propo fail-safe, Airtronics FM TX, RX and servos, GS Racing fuel lines, and GPM heavy-duty ball cups.

From Ivan:

This is my first R/C it's an RS4MT F-150, I have a Novak Rooster ESC, Futuba Controller, 2 1800 Piranaha 6 cells, and a Trinity Midnight 2 Pro Motor. I did everything myself, took about 15 hrs from opening the box to driving in my living room (It was very late, and dark out).

Thanks

WiL

My HPI Peugoet 206...with undercar neons!!!

From Matt Vider
Melbourne, VIC
Australia

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