Leaderboard

I started the Fj45 tonight Wheel and Transmission im love all the steel parts ,havnt got a motor or servo yet i thinking a 35t motor but not sure what the best servo is .Will a 25kgs be ok ? i see some as mush as 75kgs One last thing would you like a build thread?

Spotted in Costco, this RTR toy-grade Bronco that was at least 1/8 scale (my normal sized hand for comparison!) £99 with the VAT included. Or £105 for members online??? https://www.costco.co.uk/Toys-Baby-Child/Toys-Games/Vehicles-Action-Toys/Extreme-Bronco-4-Wheel-Drive-Rock-Climber-Monster-Truck-RC-8-Years/p/1536113 A nice shell if a little blunt on the details.

Yesterday I fitted oil shocks to my Tracer Truggy. @hillbillyracing25kg should be enough.

20T pinion attached to 8-4.0 An abusive run, i.e. full throttle and brake (with it set to 100%) constant up and down the road with full throttle and brakes...on 6S. I'm

Oh dear, I have just realised I only have 1 Rc left!! Best start buying more again!

Just a FYI @Nick new member with two identical threads that may want merging. Other: @Chicko so many variables to consider. When you say off road is it dirt, gravel, mud, grass? You hoping to jump it, go fast or more sedate? budget? etc etc. Something of a similar size (ish) to the Summit and price that is very capable off road on a variety of surfaces as well as being a great RC choice for beginners & experienced RC users alike is the Arrma Kraton 6S. Link: https://www.modelsport.co.uk/product/arrma-kraton-6s-v5-blx-blue-1334288 Something like that you could start to use on 4S initially and then as your driving improves and you want more speed simply upgrade to a 6S battery for more power.

Added a fastrax roto start to the Montana lol ballache but it's now on and should need replacing again 🤠 Had to grind the chassis done jus to fit it but ahwel lol

Its been a long week waiting for the postie this week

Good morning. Been reading a while and now joined. Not new to RC, having had an RC model shop in the past, but I've been out of the game for 15 years or so. Now fancying building a crawler kit, and look to be entering the market at a time when retailers stocks are pretty low. I'd like an Axial, but reckon I'll start with a Hobao DC1 KIT.

Its the same with 1:1 cars! I specced a VW Golf upto mid £40k the other day! Im sure I couldve made it £50k with a few more tick boxes…… that “in my head” was M3 money…… which are now £80k….. Worlds gone mad!

MP4/4 was 1988, the last year of the turbos. Won 15 out of 16 races.

Cheers I've been reading up on some of your exploits with the DC1. Its a good price at the minute, so I reckon a good choice for my first crawler kit.

Monty's new shoes delivered today 🤠 bit narrow but I think I prefer the look now lol

A Kraton is probably the better RC BUT its in no way comparable to a Summit? You cant lock the diffs, drop the gearing with a flick of a switch and crawl over rocks at 5mph with a Kraton? A Kraton would be a better choice than say a E-Revo, but if the slow crawl aspect of a Summit is the appeal than the Kraton isnt a valid option IMO Again. Im assuming the OP wants the crawl type stuff as he has originally gone with a Summit?

Personally, I can't count the 919 Evo. It's not a race car; it's more of a demonstration car. It does not meet any racing regulations and will never race in any official capacity. It's a monster, no doubt! An incredible machine. It's a 2 litre, 4 cylinder turbo hybrid, though!!... give me the 917K's flat-12 ANY day of the week! Hamilton's Mercedes is the single most dominant F1 car of all time, but I can't even have it in the discussion for "greatest", as it was merely a response to the new hybrid regulations, rather than a breakthrough in design philosophy and a pioneering legend. Plus, it brought in the dullest era of F1 possibly ever. I stopped watching, such was the yawn-factor. And it sounds like a vacuum cleaner. Mercedes do have a few contenders: W125- Built for the 1937 Grand Prix season, it had a 5.6 litre, supercharged straight-8 engine; producing up to 637bhp!! That made it the most powerful road-racing car ever... until the late 1960s! Grand Prix cars wouldn't match it until the early 1980s, by that point they had become "Formula 1" and had turbocharged engines. It won on debut (Tripoli Grand Prix, non-Championship) and took the Grand Prix Championship, winning 4 out of 5 races. W196- 1954 & 1955 Grand Prix Championships. Had a 2.5 litre, direct-injection, desmodromic valved straight-8 (everyone else used carbs), Scored a 1-2 on its Grand Prix debut and won 9 out of the 12 races it competed in (and would have won 10, but the air intake clogged-up at the Spanish Grand Prix). Scored a 1-2-3-4 at the British Grand Prix and won both World Championships it competed in. Goodness knows how much more dominance the car would have enjoyed, but Mercedes pulled from racing in 1955, after the Le Mans disaster with the 300 SLR. OK, maybe THIS is my pick for greatest race car of all time!... or the 917K... or this... or the 300 SLR... or... 300 SLR- 1955 World Sportscar Championship. W196-derived 3 litre straight 8. Missed the first 2 rounds and had a big gap to catch-up to Ferrari. The car debuted at Round 3: the Mille Miglia, where it scored a 1-2 (the Famous Moss record-breaker). It was running 1-3 at the next round in Le Mans, before being involved in that colossal, tragic accident, which resulted in over 80 people being killed. Mercedes abandoned racing, at the end of the season and withdrew the remaining Mercedes' from the Le Mans race. The car then scored a 1-2-3 at the Dundrod RAC Tourist Trophy and a 1-2-4 at the Targa Florio. The 300 SLR won the Championship and 3 out of 4 races it competed in (all of them at least 1-2). As with the W196, goodness knows how much more dominance was on the cards, were it not for Le Mans. The SLR does have one thing over the rest of my list, though; it's utterly beautiful.

depends what your budget is.... and what sort of offroad driving you enjoy. The Summit is not that fast for the cost.,..as it's more of an oversized trail truck

@mini antwelcome! Good choice! I bet you’ll be off your neighbours’ Christmas card list this year with the noise you’ll be making! 🤣

I had a similar problem ages ago and realised I had the ABS switched on

Yes, however it's pretty big. Also you don't need to start two topics asking the same question.

have a read through the build threads mate it lets you know how to sort the shocks out for wheels i would go for metal bead locks ohh and weight them as well and if you run the stock wheels tyres weight them up as well

8pro needed some work with geometry, hyper 7TQ shocks, droop and geometry set and it handles like a different car, massive improvements, reminds me more of my Losi 8ight 2.0 than my Hyper 7(s). 8pro: 7tq: I can't praise the 8pro enough, with these TQ shocks it's a beast! So much different from the 7/7TQ we have.

Hi and welcome to the forum My son (Yrkoon) and I both have the DC1 kits and really love them

Finished extending the pipes and now starting work on the interior.

Ok got ya mate thanks again

..... you need to charge it slightly differently. In the settings , you can tell the charger to drop the voltage. It's in the first layer setup, NOT in the battery charging options on the B6. It allows you to drop the voltage to the required level per cell. Then you cxan charge it as a '2S' pack with the cells at 3.2v. do it like this:

Added some brass portal covers and took it for a drive no wheels lost, no screws backed out. Not the most challenging route, but my four year old was less nervous of this truck 😀

Finished my builds, losi 8ight 4.0 nitro to electric on 6S with HD diffs all around, Hobao Hyper 8 Pro with spider diffs all round. The worn tyres are intentional, they're great for tarmac, don't throw worn tyres out if you run on tarmac they're pretty much slicks 🤪 The losi shell was stripped with acetone then repainted on the inside with a sea green I think, make up shimmer and then lacquered off in both sides to make it pop. Its a bit rough but I like it, especially when the sun hits it, it does shimmer 😁

Today's RC adjacent arrivals aka zoomy speedy thingy and cleany brush brush wagglers. (Don't worry half the time I don't know what I'm talking about either..too much monty python, carry on films and bottom in my formative years 🤣)

I have to ring this old bell again as we've had an established member take a payment with a bank transfer of over £200 and then not dispatch the goods, this user is now banned. The buyer has lost all of this money because there was no safety net. Please be mature and sensible and both agree on a payment method that gives both parties security, such as PayPal Goods (not gift/friends). This is more common than you would think. Don't lose big money over a few quid in fees!

Perhaps I was not all that clear. Yes a temp. gun can be useful for certain tasks...but tuning is not one of them. My comment about the temp. it runs best at is trying to say that we do not know the ideal temp. and the temp. gun will not tell us. So tune it to run correctly. I am not disagreeing with you.