Shadyacres29 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Afternoon all this my first post and any advice would be greatly appreciated please. To be honest I haven’t owned a Nitro since 2002 and it was a Hobayo Hyper 7 with a Novarossi Top engine, can’t remember the model. It went like **** off a shovel . Sadly back then I didn’t have the knowledge and lack of Internet forums and no one to advise me on how to do things properly. Cant remember even breaking it in sadly, I’m looking to buy a new kit in the next month or so and don’t mind spending the money. What’s the best of the buggy’s out there there now and looking for max power, with reliability. I’ve heard a lot about the armma Kraton but I prefer blue smoke and noise 🤣 Probably asking too much aren’t I however i need to start from ground zero. Thanks in advance for any replies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant.p Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Welcome to the forum 👍🏻 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMballistic Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Welcome aboard ~ glad you decided to join the forum after the FB link. I'm more an electric RC user although I did have a nitro (Thunder Tiger TS4N) but it was probably as long ago as yours so things have changed some. Hopefully you can get some good info off the nitro members on the forum (may take a little while as members come & go offline). Sub forum here might be a good place to post a question; https://www.msuk-forum.co.uk/forums/forum/52-general-nitro/ Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadyacres29 Posted January 3, 2022 Author Share Posted January 3, 2022 5 minutes ago, GMballistic said: Welcome aboard ~ glad you decided to join the forum after the FB link. I'm more an electric RC user although I did have a nitro (Thunder Tiger TS4N) but it was probably as long ago as yours so things have changed some. Hopefully you can get some good info off the nitro members on the forum (may take a little while as members come & go offline). Sub forum here might be a good place to post a question; https://www.msuk-forum.co.uk/forums/forum/52-general-nitro/ Good luck. Cool mate thank you 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yrkoon Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 welcome to the forum, how about a new hyper 7? yup they still sell em https://www.modelsport.co.uk/product/hobao-hyper-7-tq2-rtr-buggy-with-hyper-21-turbo-engine-24ghz-radio-black-403868 converted mine to leccy a while back and it is insane 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom1208 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Hello 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Hi and welcome to the forum As Yrkoon said you can still get the nitro H7 brand new mate (he my boy lol ) and we both converted to leccy If you want to try leccy out box the VSe is really worth looking at 4s version https://www.modelsport.co.uk/product/hobao-hyper-vs-1-8-rtr-brushless-buggy-red-396615 6s version https://www.modelsport.co.uk/product/hobao-hyper-vs-1-8-rtr-buggy-150a-esc-red-439894 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom1208 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 I was looking at the hyper vs 150a 6s version. align trex on ebay whose actually AT models are doing the 100 amp (4s i think for) £375 and the 150a (6s ?) for £410. i though this was a decent price for a good piece of kit 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggy8 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 1 hour ago, Shadyacres29 said: Afternoon all this my first post and any advice would be greatly appreciated please. To be honest I haven’t owned a Nitro since 2002 and it was a Hobayo Hyper 7 with a Novarossi Top engine, can’t remember the model. It went like **** off a shovel . Sadly back then I didn’t have the knowledge and lack of Internet forums and no one to advise me on how to do things properly. Cant remember even breaking it in sadly, I’m looking to buy a new kit in the next month or so and don’t mind spending the money. What’s the best of the buggy’s out there there now and looking for max power, with reliability. I’ve heard a lot about the armma Kraton but I prefer blue smoke and noise 🤣 Probably asking too much aren’t I however i need to start from ground zero. Thanks in advance for any replies welcome to the forum bud 🙂 if i went back to nitro, i would definitely get either a hyper 7 or losi 8. they are both great buggies. spares are good for hyper 7 but i havent been looking at losi so not too sure about that one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yrkoon Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 1 minute ago, Tom1208 said: I was looking at the hyper vs 150a 6s version. align trex on ebay whose actually AT models are doing the 100 amp (4s i think for) £375 and the 150a (6s ?) for £410. i though this was a decent price for a good piece of kit 🤔 unfortunatly prices on some hobao stuff has went up a fair bit recently, used to be 325 quid for the 100 amp vse and around 380 for the 150 amp, dad and i have the 100 amp vse's and they are very good bits of kit, just a shame about price increase. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadyacres29 Posted January 3, 2022 Author Share Posted January 3, 2022 The Losi 8 looks interesting, a bit dearer but quality im sure. Needs to be nitro really. It’s all about the smoke and noise haha 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James.S Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Hello mate, welcome to the forum 1 hour ago, Yrkoon said: unfortunatly prices on some hobao stuff has went up a fair bit recently, used to be 325 quid for the 100 amp vse and around 380 for the 150 amp, dad and i have the 100 amp vse's and they are very good bits of kit, just a shame about price increase. Oh wow I hadn't even noticed this. £399 for the standard VS now! I'm glad I bought mine when I did 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Yeh same here big price hike 🥴 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yrkoon Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 (edited) nitro hyper 7 has jumped up as well 😞 Edited January 4, 2022 by Yrkoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yrkoon Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 4 hours ago, Shadyacres29 said: The Losi 8 looks interesting, a bit dearer but quality im sure. Needs to be nitro really. It’s all about the smoke and noise haha losi 8 is a quality bit of kit, they make the hyper look like a barge for handling 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom1208 Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 12 hours ago, Tom1208 said: I was looking at the hyper vs 150a 6s version. align trex on ebay whose actually AT models are doing the 100 amp (4s i think for) £375 and the 150a (6s ?) for £410. i though this was a decent price for a good piece of kit 🤔 This is ready to run btw not the kit version👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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