thewootts

It genuinely does 60mph out of the box on 6S.

Had my first mechanical failure other than the maiden voyage kerb encounter. I have been using this car loads, 90% of the time its been on a wet salty beach. I always give it a wash off with a hose when I get home. however today I lost drive on the rear and it sounded pretty terminal! After removing the rear diff housing both rear diff carrier bearing s had collapsed. 😫 I Pleasantly surprised it was just a couple of bearings. Its clear to see some Sh@t has gotten in the diff housing has to be between the diff and chassis plate, exactly like the Arrma chassis. Although I don't have a picture here when I opened the diff it was dry as a bone... no oil at oil. I thought they felt quite open! I will be checking the other two later. Side by side with my mates Arrma Typhon 6s, these chassis are identical. At some stage I will be stealing the typhon and figuring out what parts are interchangeable. Making possible upgrading parts more likely.

Short video using the buggy over the weekend.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4593001 I have just created a 3D printible version of the part , whilst i am waiting for my metal replacement. Cad is not a forte of mine as you can see, but the part is functional. I originally pinned the broken part with some spare hex pins and some epoxy but the torque just twisted it apart straight away. I

Whilst i've had a few different cars over the years this is the biggest and fastest. Currently running 6s. Took it out for a few passes out in the road earlier and the writing was on the wall for what happened. Slight altercation with the kerb. I wasn't expecting reverse to be as aggressive as it was and I snapped the rear bottom arm pin mount, that is mounted to the back of the diff housing🙄 . so, the part in question comes as a set is on backorder everywhere . It must be common bit to break. Ftx9506 After a bit of digging around I found that this buggy is also sold under the brand name Reely and FS racing Reely Raptor (couldn't find a Reely web page) FS Atom 6s http://www.fs-racingart.com/detail.php?pid=2132 The Reely part number for these suspension pin mounting blocks is Reely 312024C https://www.conrad.com/p/reely-312024c-spare-part-wishbone-bracket-1408910 The FS racing part number is 312024 https://www.aliexpress.com/i/33047701146.html A little more digging and I found a german engineer that is making these parts out of billet aluminium https://www.pos-modellbau.de/shop/alu-tuning/reely/ Hopefully This will help somebody out!

I have just purchased a FTX DR8 1/8 Desert Buggy. I couldn't find a thread knocking around anywhere so thought id start one . Knowledge is power and any information shared good or bad is knowledge . Here is a link to the official FTX DR8 web site for spare parts https://ftx-rc.com/index.php?_route_=ftx-spares-parts/ftx-dr9-spares