I plan on doing allot of jumping and would like to know what truck offers the longest suspension travel stock and the longest travel modified.
I have owned ran a brushless e-maxx years before and it had allot of travel, but I was thinking of getting a LST platform and then converting to electric. I like the large shocks but I dont know how the travel compares to the others. These are the trucks I am considering for the longest travel. Also if anyone could put them in the order of longest travel with travel #s, that would nice. This truck would be used for bashing. Thanks for any input.
Revo
Emaxx
LST(after shock ect.)
Savage flux
others?
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If you re going to jumpalot. Consider the weight distribution and gravity center also.
The LST I saw with a brushless transformation had a pretty high and acward balance.
Flux with upright shox shouldn t be too bad.
Revo with RPM Arms so they don t snap on landing would probly have longest travel by about 20 mm over the Flux. I have no idea about the weight distribution on the Brushless Revo. I personally dislike them stock ( Snappy plastics and over complicated construction)
Your ground clearance is going to be influenced a lot by the wieght on the jumps landing, so a lighter well balanced truc will need less travel than a wobbly heavier truck on landing.
okay what I am about to say is going to sound a little off to you but I promiss you that your truck will be the best it can be if you do this.
Shock set up is not just about how much travel you have. a truck that can soak up those big air jumps without bottoming out is going to handle like crap and be snaping off bulkheads like crazy. You want your truck to set level have the arms flat and recover to that position a low center of gravity will keep your truck from rolling over in turns and increase the over all handling of it. You can mod your shocks by adding tubing inside of them so that you can preload your springs and still keep the correct rid hight. I keep mine so that they do have a bit of droop to them but not to much.
You want the shocks to be set up with the correct wt oil and springs to keep the rid nice and smooth. You want your suspension to absorb the little bumps and recover fast but not to fast as that will again cause a bouncy truck. To correct one common misperception: Springs do the recovery the shocks absorb the impact. with that said it is a fine balance between the two and will differ from one truck to another based on weight of the truck, type of shocks and so forth and so on.
My truck will bottom out from a drop of around 3 feet. (It is a savage) Does this mean that it will not take big air jumps absolutly not I put my truck 20+ feet in the air with out even thinking twice about it but at the same time I can put my truck on a track and it handles great.
My truck is built for racing but will take any bashing you can throw at it no problem. But as with most things alot of it does rest on the driver. When you have it set up like this you have to make sure you are landing flat w/ no t/b or you will destroy stuff.
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I believe the revo with the long travel rockers is the longest out there with 120mm
I 100% agree with pope. You can have the most travel in the world but if its not the correct oil spring combo it wont matter.
The current monster trucks are leagues above what they were years ago, and any of the current suspension set ups from the name brands will hold up to the abuse you throw at it.
Eventually everything will fatigue and break.
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having all three trucks I would definitely have to leave the heavy jumping to either the LST2 or the Savage they just built allot tougher than the Revo IMO.
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okay what I am about to say is going to sound a little off to you but I promiss you that your truck will be the best it can be if you do this.
Shock set up is not just about how much travel you have. a truck that can soak up those big air jumps without bottoming out is going to handle like crap and be snaping off bulkheads like crazy. You want your truck to set level have the arms flat and recover to that position a low center of gravity will keep your truck from rolling over in turns and increase the over all handling of it. You can mod your shocks by adding tubing inside of them so that you can preload your springs and still keep the correct rid hight. I keep mine so that they do have a bit of droop to them but not to much.
You want the shocks to be set up with the correct wt oil and springs to keep the rid nice and smooth. You want your suspension to absorb the little bumps and recover fast but not to fast as that will again cause a bouncy truck. To correct one common misperception: Springs do the recovery the shocks absorb the impact. with that said it is a fine balance between the two and will differ from one truck to another based on weight of the truck, type of shocks and so forth and so on.
My truck will bottom out from a drop of around 3 feet. (It is a savage) Does this mean that it will not take big air jumps absolutly not I put my truck 20+ feet in the air with out even thinking twice about it but at the same time I can put my truck on a track and it handles great.
My truck is built for racing but will take any bashing you can throw at it no problem. But as with most things alot of it does rest on the driver. When you have it set up like this you have to make sure you are landing flat w/ no t/b or you will destroy stuff.
I agree that one needs to have a properly set up truck, but having longer travel in the first place will help a great deal when landing 20-30+ jumps.
syphon68-Since I have not had either the savage or the LST, which would you think is better for jumping as an electric? anyone else? Really I am biased towards the LST but I know the Revo has the travel numbers and the flux can be bought now set up with electric.
How do these monster trucks compare to the eight-T for travel?
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a proberly set up truck will bottom out even on the bigger jumps that are found on a race track. That is not a bad thing. It is fine that your truck bottoms out on those big jumps. Your suspension will soak up quite a bit as it compresses and your truck will be fine. I will launch my CF race savage 30 feet in the air and not think twice about it and that truck is pushing 3000 dollars now. You are miss lead if you think your truck should not bottom out on these jumps. Now if you are just going to bash it you can set it up with thicker shock fluid and stiffer springs to get it to soak up lets say 6 foot dead drop.
I promiss you that if you make your truck super high for the sake of suspension travel and make that super stiff you are going to make it so unstable and handle so bad you will curse the whole thing. Set it up right and you will love it. Like I said what I said will seem wrong till you try it.
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I have a brushless converted LST and I love it. Once it was done I raped my revo for its brushless system and sold it off. The revo just wasnt for me after driving the LST. The savage was my second pick but the LST was just a better deal. I picked up a roller for next to nothing, then got the motor mount and single speed hub, and tossed in my electronics. It was basically all bolt on until I got to the battery mount. Thats the only part that takes a little thinking and in the end its completely worth it.
This thing is solid. The revo gave me lots of downtime but the LST just keeps coming back pack after pack charge after charge.
a proberly set up truck will bottom out even on the bigger jumps that are found on a race track. That is not a bad thing. It is fine that your truck bottoms out on those big jumps. Your suspension will soak up quite a bit as it compresses and your truck will be fine. I will launch my CF race savage 30 feet in the air and not think twice about it and that truck is pushing 3000 dollars now. You are miss lead if you think your truck should not bottom out on these jumps. Now if you are just going to bash it you can set it up with thicker shock fluid and stiffer springs to get it to soak up lets say 6 foot dead drop.
I promiss you that if you make your truck super high for the sake of suspension travel and make that super stiff you are going to make it so unstable and handle so bad you will curse the whole thing. Set it up right and you will love it. Like I said what I said will seem wrong till you try it.
Definitely the setup is very important but hands down with the LST being a better handling truck it is the one I grab for Monster air and BMX track excursions. Doesnt hurt that it is heavily reinforced either
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How many MM of travel do some of these MT's have ? Just out of curiosity... tho I agree completely on letting the truck bottom out on the big jumps... I am just curious how much travel some of these trucks have....
Longest travel monster truck?
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