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01-05-2012, 10:28 PM

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It's not a Castle system, it's a watered down version built to a budget, cheaper magnets, different stator giving less efficiency and more heat.

At least the SC8e gave you the real Castle Neu motor not a Walmart clone.

01-07-2012, 10:26 PM

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So they take 3 or so yrs to catch up to the SC8e and launch a competitor, but fit it with the cheaped out Flux 2350 with it's cheaper magnets and stator laminations, undergear it, throw a MMP with it and expect it to last? The MMP has to be drastically undergeared to pull a 1/8 truck around, the SC8e has a 14t pinion on it stock, how low will this be geared?

MMP is fine for it just like the SC8e has. Tons of people beat the hell out of their sc8 and the MMP holds up. If thats a problem you could sell the system to a 1/8 buggy owner and get a mamba monster for it. Probably make money on it.

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Sucks that they used a castle system in it.They cheaped out period,no aluminum shocks?Plastic?

The pics on their site are pre-production and that the final version will come with aluminum. Tower says "Shocks: Aluminum body 16mm Big Bore, oil filled". So these are going to be identical to the d8/ve8/vorza shocks. GREAT shocks.
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXBWAN&P=ML

Available on Tower and Amain NOW. Waiting for some real reviews for a better verdict.

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01-07-2012, 10:30 PM

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Its Castle......

+ YouTube Video

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01-15-2012, 07:30 PM

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The shocks that did come with the rtr are plastic. Same size as the standard aluminum big bores, but with plastic caps and threaded bodies.

A member from another forum posted some videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRYp_...ature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNNn_6sYXpw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOYrCl40h0k

02-26-2012, 01:04 PM

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With the recent rise of 4x4 SCT's based on the tried and true 8th scale buggy platform from Mugen, Xray, also possibly an AE RC8 based 4x4 SCT...this thread may be of relevance, so up she goes.

This nice piece of kit which may have been forgotten by some since it didn't even have a class (see the whiners earlier in the thread... though quite funny now reading reading back on it