flou

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So now you resort to name calling. What do you mean by chewy. No one here asked for your opinion. This isn't a negative forum. Yep my truck was cheap In price.so you don't own either but you trying to say one is better than the other. Grow up. You have no say cuz ya don't own either. You want to support American made go right ahead. I support what I can afford. Ill never spend 1000 dollars on a rc.you have neither so your opinion is useless. Move on Lil boy. We don't care if it's a clone or whatever you wish to call it. You have no real info to add. Other than what you think. And you have already proven thinking isn't your strong suit.

scooper

I'd just ignore him. Eventually they'll move on and voice their opinions elsewhere. I'm looking forward to getting back home and getting the Beast set back up. I'm vacationing and ended up bringing the e-revo with me, so I could race my kiddo. If the Beast was ready, I definitely would have brought that instead! I'm sure the Beast will fly on 6S, I just gotta make sure it's stable at the speeds it will attain.

BAMAFAN

I had a Exceed infinity. It was a decent RC especially for $175. With prob $100 worth of upgrades which you have to do to HPI, LOSI, Traxxas anyway it would have been a beast. The only reason I got rid of it was the parts support is terrible. My LHS didn't carry any parts that would work with it and ordering them from the manufacture took forever. Other than that it was a decent rig. I would say for getting into the hobby to see if your even going to like it there a great starting point or if your a once a month basher. I wouldn't recommend them for track racing merely for the parts support. That's just my .2 cents.

flou

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Parts are never carried at the lhs for exceed. But nitro has them. And extremely cheap. Majority of the time shipping is more than parts.

BAMAFAN

Yeah that's what I found was the shipping was more than the actual part LOL. I don't bash much anymore is the main reason I sold mine. Both my electric rigs are track only cars and my too bashers are my revo and jato that are dust collectors now but I have so much money tied up in them I would rather them sit than give them away. I did try to interchange some Traxxas parts and some worked but the main driveline I couldn't find any parts to interchange. There not a bad rig though especially for the price. I enjoyed mine while I had it. My buddy has a exceeds drift car with a castle ESC and man that thing is a beast on 6S. It is a awesome drift car too. The one thing Exceeds has going that no other manufacture makes besides them is they have 1/8 scale drift cars. Redcat may have them now but Exceeds was the first.

scooper

My son and I started with a couple of those 1/10 scale Exceed Dynamite's. They were okay, but they kept breaking rear uprights. I swapped in some aluminum A-arms on mine and bought a bunch of replacement uprights. I dug the thing out of storage a few weeks ago and realized the missus drove it into a gas meter years ago, breaking the front hub carrier. I'll use the other car as a donor vehicle and get mine running again just for kicks. It won't hold up to mild bashing as it stands right now, but I'm looking to see how I can turn it into a 1/10 scale terror! Oh here's a few pics of it and also a pic of my beast from last summer. It's gonna look a bit different in few weeks...can't wait!!

JatoTheRipper

iTrader: (11)

HobbyPartz and NitroRCX changed their shipping policy for spare parts.

HobbyParz: $6.95 flat rate or free for orders over $50
NitroRCX: free for orders over $25

scooper

I've played the "anticipate broken parts" game with my rc's in order to prevent high shipping costs from those sites. I still feel they are a bit excessive. Luckily my last order from Hobbypartz was over $50 and got some stuff for the Beast and my son's Mad Warrior.

flou

iTrader: (18)

No matter the difficulty of parts. I still love my beast.

scooper

Goliath's installed (which are HUGE!!), shock repaired and installed, basher body reinforced and mount holes just need reaming. She's gonna see 6s this afternoon.....and I'm frightened!! I should get around to painting the body today. It'll be my first go at it, so I expect to make some mistakes, but it should be a fun experience.

flou

iTrader: (18)

Tell us about it. I like those wheels. What's the size difference to stock. My stocks are 6.75 inch tall

scooper

The shoes are HPI Goliath's on Tremor Wheels.
I got this info from Tower Hobbies:
Tire-
Outer Diameter: 7.01" (177mm)
Inner Diameter: 4.4" (112mm)
Width: 2.84" (72mm)
Wheel-
Outer Diameter: 4.4" (112mm)
Width: 2.84" (72mm)
These are some big heavy shoes for the Beast. This truck seems to like 6s. Had a bit of a boo-boo today-bad solder joint on BEC came apart doing a standing backflip. Now BEC is not working, so some troubleshooting is in order! Oh, and I clipped a mailbox going about 20mph and bent the aluminum steering linkage. Had to hammer it flat again, and works like a charm! That's a lot of weight I'm throwing around to have it come to a sudden jolt like it sustained, and still she begs for more abuse. Looking forward to hitting some big dirt jumps with this!

flou

iTrader: (18)

I'm not 6s capable but when I am I do believe I'll be after a set of those. I haven't upgraded stock servo either so I'm not needing bec.but I will be. Just got called back to work so the rc fund can replenish

scooper

Here's a few pics of what I'm working with when I go out and bash. Both are fun to drive, but the Beast is my baby. I've spent a considerable amount of time getting to know what it prefers!

scooper

Prepped and ready for paint. Now to decide what color scheme to run with.