Hot Bodies D413 1/10 4WD Buggy
#1396
Tech Regular
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I am by no means a Zen Master, or a Yoga Pro... but here is the thing.
I'm not a pro-lever racer either.
I play with toy cars because playing with toy cars makes me smile.
smiles make me happy.
if the idea of this toy car makes you smile.... buy it.
if you think you need to buy a certain car to make you faster around a race track.... you've got a lot to learn.
(go look at the lap standard deviation on the pro guys from the Cactus Classic:
92% consistant
1.7sec standard dev/ lap
22. avg lap time.
Take a look here...
http://www.neobuggy.net/wp-content/u...cactus-mod.jpg
it shows you it really doesn't matter WHAT you have. So you might as well get what you WANT to have~ (the 4 best guys in the class race 100% different trucks, and are super competitive.)
#1397
Tech Champion
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It's alive!!...at least here in Japan!
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#1399
It's alive!!...at least here in Japan!
http://www.rcmxstore.com/index.php?m...ducts_id=32480
http://www.rcmxstore.com/index.php?m...ducts_id=32480
#1401
if they're on the water, i don't know why they aren't available for pre-sale yet.
#1403
Tech Regular
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As we get closer to this car arriving, any one have opinions on what parts one should get as a support kit. I don't have much HB support at my local shops and don't want the car to be out of commission if something breaks (even though things are supposed to be tough).
Torrance, any suggestions for things that would be the weakest link or something that wears and I should have in hand. I think you mentioned the arm hinge pins are designed to bend to absorb the energy of a crash instead of an arm breaking. So any other suggestions like that?
Thanks
Torrance, any suggestions for things that would be the weakest link or something that wears and I should have in hand. I think you mentioned the arm hinge pins are designed to bend to absorb the energy of a crash instead of an arm breaking. So any other suggestions like that?
Thanks
#1404
Tech Addict
As we get closer to this car arriving, any one have opinions on what parts one should get as a support kit. I don't have much HB support at my local shops and don't want the car to be out of commission if something breaks (even though things are supposed to be tough).
Torrance, any suggestions for things that would be the weakest link or something that wears and I should have in hand. I think you mentioned the arm hinge pins are designed to bend to absorb the energy of a crash instead of an arm breaking. So any other suggestions like that?
Thanks
Torrance, any suggestions for things that would be the weakest link or something that wears and I should have in hand. I think you mentioned the arm hinge pins are designed to bend to absorb the energy of a crash instead of an arm breaking. So any other suggestions like that?
Thanks
so far on my car the things I've broken are the steering rack from repeatedly clipping a pipe coupler at high speed, a rear tower (the carbon piece) when somebody jumped the track and hit me full speed at the end of the straight, and a front shock shaft from a heavy head-on collision.
I think on Ty's car he finally broke the shock towers (plastic part) on his practice car at the Cactus. but these parts though were from the original sample batch we got a year ago and we think that the cold and dry climate of Canada's winters made the parts slightly brittle after sitting all these months. the arm mounts have been replaced after wear from running on an abrasive surface. other than those I don't think anything else needed to be replaced on Ty's car.
#1406
Tech Regular
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it's not the hinge pins that bend, it's the mounting screws that bend and absorb the impacts. these are just M3x20 flat head screws. you can get a bag of them cheap.
so far on my car the things I've broken are the steering rack from repeatedly clipping a pipe coupler at high speed, a rear tower (the carbon piece) when somebody jumped the track and hit me full speed at the end of the straight, and a front shock shaft from a heavy head-on collision.
I think on Ty's car he finally broke the shock towers (plastic part) on his practice car at the Cactus. but these parts though were from the original sample batch we got a year ago and we think that the cold and dry climate of Canada's winters made the parts slightly brittle after sitting all these months. the arm mounts have been replaced after wear from running on an abrasive surface. other than those I don't think anything else needed to be replaced on Ty's car.
so far on my car the things I've broken are the steering rack from repeatedly clipping a pipe coupler at high speed, a rear tower (the carbon piece) when somebody jumped the track and hit me full speed at the end of the straight, and a front shock shaft from a heavy head-on collision.
I think on Ty's car he finally broke the shock towers (plastic part) on his practice car at the Cactus. but these parts though were from the original sample batch we got a year ago and we think that the cold and dry climate of Canada's winters made the parts slightly brittle after sitting all these months. the arm mounts have been replaced after wear from running on an abrasive surface. other than those I don't think anything else needed to be replaced on Ty's car.
I'm really excited for this car.
#1407
WOW nice that means it might hold up to my driving style then unlike others.
#1408
to who at proline do I need to talk to come up with an lexan undertray for this carbon chassis?
#1409
Tech Elite
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Let's not get too ahead of ourselves about this. Pros are such that they seldom crash or punish the cars the way the average competitive driver would. The real test will come at the hands of the masses. Then HB will have a better assessment of which components will require revisions.
#1410
Tech Regular
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Let's not get too ahead of ourselves about this. Pros are such that they seldom crash or punish the cars the way the average competitive driver would. The real test will come at the hands of the masses. Then HB will have a better assessment of which components will require revisions.
I'm sure there will be more. Just trying to collect data so I can understand what my initial support kit will look like. I also don't want to buy a complete second car to cover everything that could possibly break.