not had a vapour but same as any car alloy arms bend and when straightened are weak as hell so i stick with the plastic arms on all my cars admitted they dont look as cool but plastic has resillience that alloy doesnt
when holes start appearing in it , if you mean by how often you clean em then i would say after each bash at least depending how dusty it is ( then clean it during bash) using nitro fuel poured in to it from reverse of air flow
stock settings are both needle screws flush and hpi is best source for the roto start plate thru your lhs or online say here or je spares etc
look for rush or mt2 as both use same engine
theres a model shop selling new 1,s on ebay sorry but cant remember the name and they are selling a new rtr for 189
check out this on ebay
BurnoutModels
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130363166504&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT
what about this 1 ? the rtr version
http://www.ishimaracing.com/html/rave_m1_0s.html
or this 1 with hop ups
http://www.ishimaracing.com/html/rave_m1_0r.html
theres also a r version thats kit form
and the s is 189 on ebay and parts are easilly got from here
http://www.centuryuk.com/
sorry to add another contender
well guys i voted savage but i just bought a sledge hammer and like it loads , dont get me wrong savages are great truckks but this is a tad better imo(mta 4 s50)
had 1 of those in fact still got it in the box of bits pieces , worked great in the 27 mhz but when i changed to the 2.4 ghz it was problematic , just as well the spekky has a built in fail safe
i guess its craigie jumps your meaning mate ?
we were there last saturday but it was only myself kev and vinny turned up
the place does need the marder touch tho as some of the grass is getting long lol and i got a new toy as well lol a thunder tiger sledge hammer
so if all goes well i could very well be up for a bash in perth
have you move the servo arm round on the splines when refitting the linkage , sounds like you havnt maybe put linkage back on right and its sitting at good bit of throttle on