Originally Posted by Wildcat1971

ran a friends xb4 tonight. It is not a super forgiving car, but is very fast when it is good. But man you have to keep an eye on the lawn darting. It reminds of a touring car the way it drives. The d413 felt more like an 8th scale. completely different feeling cars.

Originally Posted by Wildcat1971

Dont get me wrong, it is not that I disliked the xb4. It definitely has a low CG. I assume this is because it was designed for high bite astro and carpet. I was running on high bite clay with slicks, so that was fine. I could drive the car really hard into corners and not worry about traction rolling. My comment was that it just feels more like a touring car than an 8th scale. I disliked my d413 for a few reasons. cheap plastics and not a fun car to work on. But the d413 really soaks up the track, but it is also more prone to traction rolling, maybe because of the tons of droop. My friend that owned the x4b commented about changing the diff oils because the cars felt darty with m4 slicks. I had to lower my dual rates to 70% and only sauce the rear tires to make it drivable for me. Once I did that, the car was much better. I did have a couple incidents with the walls, lol. Nothing the first time and the second time the entire link came off, I had to go find it on the track. car seemed pretty durable. I think I hit a pipe nail a couple times too.

Originally Posted by handyman77

I stripped a metal pinion gear already and another guy did too so I am not sure why this is happening....any ideas??

Originally Posted by HeavyD99

Just to break up the conversation, here's a few shots of mine - from outdoors and indoors.






My pit space at home is a lot brighter than what this pic shows.

Originally Posted by HeavyD99

Just to break up the conversation, here's a few shots of mine - from outdoors and indoors.






My pit space at home is a lot brighter than what this pic shows.

Originally Posted by MaricopaAgent

Mine

Originally Posted by Hacksback

Anyone's car do this too?

Car runs fine if wheels are straight, but if I turn the front wheels and give it throttle at certain rpms and steering angles I am getting some weird feedback.

Originally Posted by jmcelroy42

I'm not sold on the metal gears, guy at our track has already stripped a set (suzukipro) and were running same motor/esc/gearing and his motor comes off 40° hotter in the main. Also I have had my '14 for a year now and have yet to have a ring/pinion strip out (knock on wood LOL).