Freestyle RC ZEI Scale Monster Truck Chassis Kit

I fancy a monster truck! 

What scale is that?

I want one of these!

What motors can you run in these?

"The Freestyle RC ZEI Monster Truck Chassis is street priced at $485 and you can hit up This Link to read more monster truck news right here on BigSquidRC." 

 

 

ouch

It’s 1/10 scale, so same size as the SMT10, motor wise it will take a 540/550 👍 

Quite steep in price compared to the CPE Barbarian, or even SMT10.

Perhaps it's a little step up in quality and design, but that's a lot still.

2 hours ago, .AJ. said:

It’s 1/10 scale, so same size as the SMT10, motor wise it will take a 540/550 👍 

Oh lmao. Expected 6s 2200kv lol Nevermind.

 

Looks cool, Id take out the driver and interior etc, but Im beginning to think this isnt aimed at someone like me

Edited May 26, 2020 by Guns

Be interesting to see what gearbox and axles are a drop-in fit - the axles pictured have some pretty specific hardware to attach the kit's links to;

 

 

Link to their own axle

https://freestyle-rc.com/products/axles?pr_prod_strat=copurchase&pr_rec_pid=3563890999359&pr_ref_pid=2004385628223&pr_seq=uniform

And even then you need Traxxas innards 😜

 

 

Edited May 26, 2020 by TWINSET

Loads of people run ar60 axles with these

I know i'm perpetually a tight arse.... but surely it's not just me that sees this as massively overpriced?  Some pretty straightforward carbon, alu parts and run of the mill plastics.

 

 

3 minutes ago, capri-boy said:

...Some pretty straightforward carbon, alu parts and run of the mill plastics.

 

 

and a 3D printed engine

 

Edited May 26, 2020 by TWINSET

2 minutes ago, TWINSET said:

and a 3D printed engine

 

 

Mustn't forget that....  looking at closeups of the print that level of resolution has gotta make it a $10 part.

 

the axles are $420 and you can see how many people have bought them! crazy stuff. i presume you get both a front and rear for that? 

 

if you add up the cost of build vanquish axles they are not far off if not more as well. 

 

maybe he does want to make loads and spend all day machining, so he puts the price up  maybe he has to pay someone else to make them and he just designs them.  

 

by the time you bought a set of axles, chassis , wheels and tyres thats basically $1000. lol 

Edited May 28, 2020 by Jumper