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I was reading up on it, the diffs appear to be the same, only differences in the driveline that i can see is the hexes you mentioned a centre diff and the propshaft is alloy as opposed to plastic, but being a traxxas there will heaps of aftermarket available for it

A number of reasons, i like the look of the other better 1 and it wont be for sale for Christmas

I quite fancy 1 of these, but i would want to change the power system and sell the bl2s system before i run it as i dont think it would be powerful enough for me and i dont have any 2s lipo and instead of investing in a couple i would be as well upgrading the power system, i have been looking at hobbywing systems but have no idea what i would need i was looking at this but would it be a good match? https://www.modelsport.co.uk/product/hobbywing-combo-max10-g2-140a-esc-3665sd-3200kv-g3-motor-1350919 some advice on this would be greatly appreciated I did consider the corally syncro as i like the look but aftermarket hop ups doesnt seem to really exist for it looking online and i dont really like the look of the arrma buggy and the notorious breaks pretty much every time i have it out so that is also making me shy away from another arrma product

Decided more speed was needed and changed the pinion to a 15t hardened steel 1 and also the spur to the same as stock but also hardened steel, first pull it ended up on its roof and no matter how i accelerated it just lifted up and tried to flip, so i changed the body shell to a prepainted proline flotek which was a challenge to say the least as none on the dimples to cut out matched up with the clipless system so after lots of measuring and marking i ended up with this its not 100% perfect but i think it will be great

Yea would be just as well waiting for the 3s version too come out, just like the mini maxx

Get some pics up, we all like pics

What about using longer bolts and a few washers between the engine mount and engine to space it up? Or you could get 2 strips of alloy same length as the engine mount and drill holes so it lines up with the existing holes and use that as a spacer

I know traxxas are expensive but you know i think they are worth it for a few reasons, 1 spares are cheap in comparison to other brands, 2 parts are readily available, 3 they are well engineered and 4 they really are tough little suckers. So for example i have a maverick and it likes eating diffs i couldnt tell you how many i have replaced in it but parts are also cheap so at least thats something, exactly a month ago today i got an arrma and it has broken pretty much every time i have had it out and parts are expensive for it, i know traxxas practices are questionable but they do make a great vehicle. I remember my hpi cars breaking quite a lot as well in comparison, the only other brand i have which is equally as tuff as traxxas is a cen gst, only issue with that was the stock engine which it no longer has so is bulletproof now but parts arent readily available for it

I recently bought the ultimate and i really like it a lot

I would like to buy the second set down please with the hpi tool

I have never had a fire with a lipo but have seen enough training videos at work to take caution

Acoms is just the brand of radio gear, that could have been fitted to any model, the chassis if i mind correctly is a ta01, search for tamiya ta01 and you will find plenty info on it

I had 1 of these chassis but a bmw body when i was a kid, had a lot of fun with it, i mind it used to enjoy chewing spur gears, i believe spares are still available

Use a rocket fan or a surpass hobby 1 as the casings of the fan are aluminium so you wont break blades off

Funny you say that i have some lipo batteries that i ruined and they currently are living in a metal unit in the garden and have been ever since they faulted as a precautionary measure

Try it and see, it would be well fast and if it doesn't last long you can say “i did science” 🤣

Here is a linky to what i bought, i decided to put the holes under the metal lip of the box so the box could still breathe but minimise the flame thrower effect https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305815529600?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=0lrsFbmbSvi&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=MRHag3XmRgm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Yes that was something i pondered over over when buying this big 1, but just thought overall this was a neater solution to have in the house

This was something that was concerning me especially this time of year as my batteries live inside this time of year as i destroyed some last year as they were stone cold before i used them and killed them, so i bought an ammo case from ebay i went ahead and drilled some holes and job done

Reporting back on these fans, they were an absolute win, now i just need to get a set of wheel arch liners for it

Took it out today and broke it again, never even got 1 set of batteries through it snapped that pin there and damaged the plastic bit in the alloy pin retainer, so since not having a replacement hinge pin i did have a length of 4mm round bar and decided to cut a bit off and make a new pin got that installed along with the original pin retainer and we will see what breaks next time although i dont think it will be tomorrow as some serious wind has been forecast i was having an issue where grass kept getting sucked into the fans on the motor and stopping them turn, did this with a bit of mesh and hopefully will cure the issue

Having had a couple of rc motorbikes in the past , back in the 90’s was my first a kyosho kit which i got pretty good at driving, then many years later a thunder tiger nitro ducati which i just couldnt drive to save my life you could be in a huge car park with only 1 small obstacle in it and no matter how hard you tried you were going to crash into it. When the Anderson mt5 came out i thought it was quite a cool concept but never bought 1, but this promoto looks better in every way, my wife was asking me what i would like for Christmas and i gave her a link to 1 of these, so heres hoping and not chocolate and socks and trainers

I got to say this thing is a lot of fun, only thing that concerned me was temps, so hopefully thats has been remedied with these rocket fans, i had to grind a couple of slots so the fan would fit secuely/clip in to the shround on top,of the esc

So pretty much every time i have had this out something hasnt quite worked out, well its fixed and back together again now so fingers crossed for tomorrow

You know i really dont like that type of servo horn, every 1 i have ever used has done exactly what yours did (the 1 bolt ones too)