Karl Hungus

Five years ago I bought a Hong Nor Sabre X3, then moved abroad for a job ,gifting it to a friend who never used it. Flash forward and I'm back in the UK having a blast with a 144001, but not wanting to dump money into it for upgrades. I would love however to convert that X3 to electric. How easy would this be both technically and to acquire parts for such an old car? Also would this cost me more than buying something of similar spec new today?

This, this, a million times this. It is amazing and with your budget you could easily grab another engine to stick in. I took mine to my local club just to have some fun on their track, obligatory let the pros have a go as thanks and they were blown away with how good it is for an RTR

Yup though I hope it's as much fun stripping it down and cleaning it lol. Track was just outside Norwich at Norfolk Buggy Club.

So finally have my new RC broken in and found a course to go play at. Many thanks to those on here offering advice as its made things much less painfull than they could have been, and after seeing how badly I drive I'm sure you'll agreee I'll have more to fix soon XD Apologies for vertical video, Also there is one expletive after a small crash so NSFW for some...

Yes. Then test by releasing all controls and switching off the transmitter which should force the servos to the position you just set. Also theres a guy selling shock socks in the forum marketplace and considering these get filthy with the exhaust emptying on them, I grabbed myself a set.

Kyosho Inferno Neo 2.0? Two blues in picture, I'm after the dark blue ones? If so, one dark blue and one black set please.

Just thought I'd share my learning for the day. The hex screws mounting the engine are not threadlocked and as they are a metal on metal connection should be. I've now applied a small amount of blue threadlock to these. The failsafe will work with loss of signal but not if batteries run out. (also note it is not setup out the box and should apply full brake) A seperate low voltage failsafe is my #1 next purchase. I'm glad I saw this video. Probably saved me wasting tons of money on unnecessary parts.

Nice, It's quite terrifying how fast it will actually go lol

Break in complete using traxxas method but honoring the manual by running first tank at idle off wheels. Had a little stickiness at tank three but is now purring along. Can't wait for tommorow to begin tuning!

Couple of quick questions: Do you get a light buzzing from the servos sometimes (in default position). I can eliminate it by adjusting trim but as soon as you use the transmitter they will do so again? Do your wheels look angled / ------ \ Mine really don't seem straight but I guess we'll see when we get to the next tank XD

Cheers mate. Manual with all bold text caps DO NOT AJUST SCREWS THEY ARE ALREADY PERFECT is lies lol

yup wan't helping. Not sure if it's becuase I was starting with 25% fuel. But anyway squirt into the glow plug hole and away it went. Now I have wheel rotation in the idle position (started about half a tank through and only slowish) so off to google and fix this before continuing. Sure is a rollercoaster of pits of despair and highs of problem solving lol

Getting seriously narked off with mine now. Really hard to get it to start made nightmarish because the pull start string keeps coming out a slot on the spool (not the gap between both pieces) and snagging in the engine. Why would you put a gap on the thing for this to happen???

Cheers for reply. Loosening did not help so had to disassemble. What a PITA. Putting the spring into the main housing and then fitting the wheel with string on top proved a much, much easier way than coiling the spring round the wheel and fitting it all into the housing. Almost feel like a real RC'er now. Perhaps tommorow I can even drive it lol

So my brand new toy was immediately put out of action by the pullstarter. On removing it a large amount of cord had become knotted around the spindle? marked in the picture below. It's now moving but the cord remains mostly out of the pullstarter as shown in this video http://youtu.be/Q1uTkxBz55g How to fix please?