Hi everyone, I've been reading this forum for the last few days getting any info I can about the RS4 Sport 3. I just got the thing about two weeks ago, in fact I just got into RC cars about a month ago. I went into a hobby town looking for parts for my DJI drone and found myself wandering around the cars for a good while and picked up a traxxas rustler. I have since then, converted it into a low center gravity 2WD slash and it is a blast to drive. I still felt like I wanted something more road specific that I could drift around and do some speed runs with, so that's why I came to the RS4 Sport 3. While I'm still very new to this hobby, I've learned a lot in the last month and I'm continuing to learn.
Now that I am into working on and upgrading my cars, I found it very hard to find parts for my Sport 3. I then came to find out that it had been released not that long ago. Well, luckily for me I found this thread and it steered me in the right direction, no pun intended. Before coming here, the only mods I had done were, adding a castle sidewinder 3 motor and esc combo, tetsujin super rims with bridgestone potenza drift tires and stealth body mounts. After coming here I ordered the Spec R CVDs and plan to swap to adjustable turnbuckles. Right now I'm using the stock bmw body for bashing and drifting, I do also have a British racing GTR that I recently finished and I'm working on my lexus IS-F race concept body next.
I have had a few issues, but nothing like what some of you have experienced. Pretty much I had the steering give me problems with little rocks getting stuck in the bellcrank area, I believe some other people had that happen. I have been thinking of something that will protect it. Maybe something similar to what the offroad trucks use, the mesh fabric with a zipper sewn into it. I would like to know what servo would be good to upgrade to?
Anyway, here are some photos of my car...