Sharkfat78

I'll have a look at those spurs/pinions, cheers! 👍 A mate of mine must have done 3 sets at Bashfest and it was driving him nuts. In the meantime I'll remove the pins and mesh it by eye. I've never been too bad at setting gear mesh. It's the driving I blow at haha.

Well I've stuck a standard Spektrum receiver in it and the ESC calibrated ok, so that's just saved me £40 lol. I flattened a new grub screw for the pinion and thread locked that in place so hopefully it won't come loose costing me another spur/pinion. I've tried looking through this thread for info but it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Just got to fix the body where the screws pulled through (amazed me how quickly and easily that happened) and she'll be good to go. Fitted a nice Savox as well so fingers crossed I might have some decent steering

Cheers Doddy. Yeah not bothered about the telemetry stuff. Just slightly concerned with the wires not being plugged in, but if that doesn't affect anything that's good with me I'd seen people mentioning using a Max 5/6 with them. Are the stock ESC's that bad?

Need some Xmaxx advice folks. Had it a few weeks now and ran it a handful of times. I wanted to swap the stock receiver out for a spare Spektrum AVC receiver I have. Wanted the AVC and to be able to use my Spekky to adjust all the settings. ESC wouldn't calibrate then. Stuck a standard Spektrum receiver in which worked, but as with the AVC receiver, the sensor/telemetry wires are useless. Other option is to drop £40 on the link module thing so I can use the app on my phone to set everything, but then I still have to mess about with two transmitters. Ideal scenario would be to use my Spekky gear, not have to worry about the sensor/telemetry wires and have everything calibrated and working properly. Not had this with any other RC I've owned 🤯

Its their larger size that makes them look slower. When one travels right past you at 50mph plus it's certainly and experience!

Proline ABC Hobby Tamiya Killerbody Addiction RC Pandora Kamtec APlastics JConcepts :)

If you get a new body leave a 3-5mm 'lip' around the fuel cap part when you cut it out. Doesn't get in the way and helps stop them breaking in that area I didn't run the pods on mine, or 'Daisy cutters' as I call them. But I do run that plastic guard that fits underneath.

😁

The main problem you'll have with that is the size of the tank. It'll empty within seconds when using it to blow something down, so you'll be constantly waiting for it to top up again. If you're only going to be using it to blow down the baja after a run I'd go with an el cheapo with a larger tank if possible

I'd have this. Don't really know anyone who does crawling/scaling, but it looks awesome

Is there a minimum C rating for the stock electrics on the V2? I'm crap with lipos lol

You're not going to get anything even half decent for £100 unfortunately. I had an El Cheapo kit bought for me from eBay for about that and if I wasn't a stubborn person I'd have just given up straight away. I thought I'd start with a cheap kit in case I didn't like airbrushing but it was that which nearly made me give up. As far as the compressor goes as long as you get one with a tank you'll be fine. No tank will cause you massive moisture issues, even with a moisture trap. I'd spend as much as you can on an airbrush personally, as this will make all the difference. The 'cheapest' one I would go for would be an Iwata Neo, but with a .5 needle set up. Around the £50 mark. Along with an inline moisture trap you'll be laughing. If you can add another few quid for a quick release fitting that'll save you some swearing also

AsiaTees used to stock MT2 parts (more than HPI by all accounts!) so it'd be worth looking on there too

It's a huge shame that they're essentially gone, especially as they were pretty much one of the 'Big 4' back in the early 2000's. I don't think they helped themselves though. While a lot of the other companies were bringing out new vehicles HPI just stuck a new body and wheels on the Savage, stuck an extra letter or number on the name and charged you extra for the privilege. The fact that they'd discontinue a vehicle 10 minutes after it being released didn't help either. No point in buying a new rig if in a few months it's going to be impossible to get parts for it.

Yeah it'll melt the paint right off. Found that out the hard way lol

Depends how it's painted. If it's a decent factory body I'd go with shoe-goo and the plasterboard/dry wall tape as the other guys suggested. If you've had it done by a painter don't put shoe-goo anywhere near it and use clear Gorilla tape instead

It's got the statutory paint 'splats' so should sell like hot cakes! ?

I love it when there are new things brought into the RC world like this, but unfortunately I can't see it doing well. It'll sell a few in the US simply because it's big and expensive. "Yeah bro, it's hella sick. My buddy has three". ? Now if they had done exactly what they've done, but kept it 1/5th scale, I think it'd be a winner.

How long before it gets discontinued do you reckon?

The Mach 454 wasn't it?

It's vinyl! ?

Alright guys, Does anyone know if there are any RC related events on next year at all please? One's where there are traders and stuff as I think it'd be cool for me to have a table or something. Failing that is there a list anywhere of what's on? Google isn't proving as helpful as I'd like. Thankies

Here's ol' Dirty ?

Unless you're decanting the Tamiya PS range most of the other paint available to use is acrylic/water based. And any of those can flake if you're not careful.