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Something to think about is are you used to 2WD or 4WD, if your used to 4WD a rear wheel drive buggy/truck can be a bit of a handful to handle on low grip surfaces, but can be fine on grass and other hi grip surfaces. 2WD can give you more 'fun' but if your used to the ability's of 4WD there is quite some difference. It all depends on what you want from a large scale car. The real budget cars (smarttec, Nitrotec) you see on ebay and alike are not that great, they will do a job and look the part, but if you try and push them beyond their limits they will easily let you down. The next price range up (FTX, Mavrick, FG)will take more of a bashing, and give you much more for your money, as they are built to be stronger cars. Then you move up to the higher price range of cars (HPI, MCD, Hormann, Elcon) these are built to take more abuse before failing, hence they do cost more to buy and maybe repair. but they will last longer, and give you good service. The Mavrick range is a rebadged HSP, which are sold as Redcat in most other countries around the world. Not bad cars, but a lot of the components are pushed to their limit on such a big truck as the Blackout, which is why they do have a bit of a reputation of breaking easily, but many people have them and have no real trouble with them. The MCD's still has problems with their diffs, even on the V4, if they are pushed hard on rough ground, they have tendency to fail. A bit of food for though? But buying a good used car, may be better than a middling new car, to give you your first taste of the large scale world.

its all down to centrifugal force. as the tire spins it gets pushed outwards and makes the tire "balloon" the new traxxas xo-1 has metal belts in the tires to stop this happening, duct tape on the inside of the tires also sounds like a good alternative. as far as I know, manufacturers do not make the tires to do this. if you check out my youtube channel and subscribe i am going to look into this and make a video showing how to prevent tire balloning. http://www.youtube.com/user/ExtremeNitroRacing?feature=mhee hope this cleared a few things up for you

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Cheers rich, you can be sure i'll be leaving that needle well alone till i level up considerably Think im actually getting somewhere! Idles ok and can get it moving with lots coming out of the exhaust. With an unresponsive throttle it oftens stalls try to accelerate, if i get through the bog it picks up pretty quickly. Currently i think im too rich on the hsn and too lean on the lsn Ran out of fuel now though so will have to get my order in with MS..

It's so good to have my car back on the road!

a clean car is for wimps lol

well the MCD shells fit my increasingly modified Punisher. This shell is fibreglass.

Perhaps a name change is needed: "Great White Wallet Bite" to keep with the fishy theme

Dave, have you any idea, how wrong that comment sounds Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2

Haha, I knew you'd get back into it Bergs just feel so much more solid than XR10s, Never had any problems with mine.

007 has a post count of 894, And I have one of 670, Please, After all this time, If I ever ask a RC question worded like that, Ban me.

I'm considering redoing my CC01 and fitting it with a Landy body, but I'm not sure which body to go for. Is there any difference between the Hong Kong ones on eBay and the RC4WD one? They both seem to be about the same price, although I'm not sure how much shipping is from RC4WD. Was just looking for links to post here, and the eBay ones seem to have gone! Do you think they will be relisted soon? Here's the RC4WD one anyway: http://store.rc4wd.com/110-Land-Rover-Defender-D90-Hard-Plastic-Body-Kit_p_18.html

Managed to get a response from graham. Three of them from giant cod team still work there but they have merged with another company. But doesnt look like i will end up with any bits coming back as they have "lost" my parcel!!!!! I wont be buying another one, may have to sell my roller if they dont sort me out. This is how it started

the 3.0 is a nice engine, if your after somthing bigger then there is some bad news. anything bigger tend to end up needing a new engine mount as you next step is a bigblock engine (3.5cc or larger) you may be able to get somthing in the middle but i don't know of one. in honesty i tihnk you need to look into something different such as a good tuned pipe to wake the engine you have up. rather than post somthing like that why don't you actualy try helping the guy out with his question, isn't for telling him to get somthing he may not have the money for.

look in the gallery section

nick knows what he's doing. these are castle motors, just not castle if you dont beleive it, then buy one and see for yourself.

core code 2.4ghz and i have re calibrated it to the code and can't get it to work does all the flash/beeps it ment to do when setting it up to the new radio and does work then

No centre diff and a locked slipper, so ALL the torque could be used and not wasted, she did like destroying diffs tho

good stuff mate! i been working loads this week on my cars, missis aint happy at all!

My Drifter with added Boost! Sorry

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got a phone call off kieran today. "can i borrow some tools my cars making a knocking noise". found one front wheel with 1 wheel nut left in the wheel. it nearly fel off when jacked up the car. checked the rest of the nuts that were checked "a few days ago" got another half turn on most of them.... sorry mat i wasnt going to say but just cos you said i shouldnt

Lunsford "Punisher" Titanium Turnbuckles.

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http://www.msuk-foru...__fromsearch__1 the second one is probably the best choice, but the last one is good to