SimonG

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Difficult to tell from the photo, but looks like the TC02C is fitted with plastic shocks, not the threaded alloy ones - is that right?

I see a few of you are running Proline Desert Rat shells on your Carnages. I know it's a straight fit for the Carnage but thinking of fitting one to my Durango truggy and wondered if someone could take some measurements for me? Would need overall width and length, plus the size and placement of the wheel arch holes along the side. If anyone could check those for me it would be much appreciated. Cheers.

Worth noting that if you're bashing and looking for strength then avoid the carbon upgrades - these are very ridged, so good for racing, but brittle when smacked around. The standard plastic parts are more flexible, so less likely to break than carbon. As you say, parts are cheap, so just get a bunch of spare plastic parts and accept you'll need to change them. Or, if you need more strength than the standard parts, aluminium is the way to go!

Yup, get whatever is cheapest for the capacity you want. A lot of people use the Turnigy ones and like them, and the Gens Ace lipos from giantshark are good too, check which site is cheaper overall with delivery. If you're not racing it then no need to spend more! Have fun

Not sure I believe the manual on that, but I could be wrong. I think as long as you stick to a 2S lipo it shouldn't hurt the ESC, as it won't be over-volting it and the ESC decides how much current to draw from the battery. Re. the C rating, this is just a rating of how much current the lipo can deliver at one time, so if your motor/ESC is getting as much current as it wants then a higher C rating won't make any difference. You can do the maths on how much current the motor can pull at max, but my bet would be that it's not going to need more than a 20C lipo to deliver that. A 4000maH lipo with a 20C rating can deliver 80A peak current, which is plenty for a simple brushed setup. If you can borrow some different C rated lipos and test back-to-back then you should be able to confirm this, but all I'm saying is don't go out and buy a lipo with a high C rating thinking it will give more power. The battery can be a bottleneck for power delivery, which is why the lipos improve things, but the motor/ESC is what defines the maximum power you can deliver to the wheels.

The C rating won't make any real difference, it's just the amount of power the battery is able to deliver. The power draw will be based on what motor/ESC you have, so on the factory brushed setup this won't be a huge amount. So don't spend loads on batteries, a 20C rated one will be just as good. You can get a hardcase lipo for under