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I know but currently they are only supplying existing pre-orders in the US,I have asked. They did say they would help with me getting one into the UK as and when the pre-orders were fulfilled but they currently have no plans to make them widely available in the UK.

I have to admit I saw that and thought it was a very small motor for a car that big but what do I know.

Is there a boat there,cant see anything just some splashing

I was in the same boat as you (pun very much intended) and I looked at this more than once. http://www.wheelspinmodels.co.uk/i/245209/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwxLC9BRDb1dP8o7Op68IBEiQAwWggQHjnDbm9-QIuZ0P5O84-iFI3p1r54QdDA9AwauaVA64aAvqz8P8HAQ But never bought one,seems to be quite regarded when you look online,nothing really bad said about it and it is quite big so you get quite a bit for your money although it is over your budget.

http://hpiracing.world/en/kit/115485 http://hpiracing.world/en/kit/115484

Slightly off topic but I saw somewhere once about a Kraken Baja. A RTR Baja with the Kraken cage/body already on it,did that ever happen?

Only "problem" I had with FP was them showing stock that it turned out they never had. Happened quite a few times when I was rebuilding my 5ive.

Might be worth getting more than 2 gudgeon clips as well. One pings out somewhere and you will on the floor trying to find it,just a though for an extra 75p.

I wouldn't get too hung up on the whole waterproof thing. Just don't go driving through standing water is the simplest answer. Even wet grass might be a problem if the electrics start to get wet but they do dry out again. You have to ask yourself would you be that happy standing in the pouring rain running a toy car,if the answer is no then don't worry about waterproofing too much,just do like I said which is avoid standing water. Whatever you do make sure you buy something you can get spares for,people here have bought cars and then not been able to easily get spares,it might limit your choice a bit but sticking to one of the major brands such as Tamiya might help in that respect. Fun is the thing to bear in mind,you can have as much fun with a £100 car as you can with a £400 one and the £100 one is probably going to be cheaper to fix as long as you can find the spares.

The lipo you have chosen is only slightly longer,2mm longer in fact,than the NIMH battery that comes as part of the package deal for that car so it should fit okay,it just depends if there is 2mm spare space in the battery compartment or whether or not the battery compartment is only 135mm long as opposed to the 137mm long the battery is. The width and height aren't a problem by the look of it.

You just need to take into account that Tamiya models in general wont handle a very powerful brushless system. You would need to consider changing the ESC (speed controller) and motor as they are both brushed types at the moment. The lipo battery you have chosen might also not fit in the car,not sure what size battery is the maximum size for the buggy you have chosen so you might need to check. Also the battery has no connector on it so you will need to either solder one on yourself or have Modelsport do it which costs extra,maybe you have chosen that option and it just isn't showing in the picture you put up? In a brushless set up I have got 20-30 mins out of a similar sized battery before,in a brushed set up you could find it running for anything up to 40-60 mins

How much is it all in total? Only ask cause it might almost be cheaper to buy something ready to run,I appreciate you might want to built it but just a thought. Also that set up is based around a brushed motor set up,brushless is considered more the "norm" these days and again like I said you might be able to buy a ready to run brushless set up for similar money.

Pretty much all basic 2 stroke RC engines work the same way so everything that is in this series of videos can equally apply to the 26cc version as well. You may as well replace the bearings and seals whilst it is open,would almost be silly not to

Had another problem when I ran it yesterday afternoon as well. Ended up snapping off the air filter,or so I thought. One to many rolls/crashes and I looked inside the car to see half the air filter assembly with the Outerwears on rattling around loose inside. At first glance I though it was completely broke but turns out it has just "popped" off as it is in two halves and the clips holing both halves together had just come undone. Couple of minutes and it was back together. The air filter assembly is very close to the side of the body shell though which is why I think it came off after one too many rolls

Wouldn't spend money on the tool to be honest. How many times will you realistically use it? Quick and dirty method