finished product!

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Fells good to finish it, don't it!

I had my first outing with my Serpent this weekend. Race was Saturday with practice Friday night. I ended up having issues with my corr so I was not able to practice at all with the snake. Saturday moring I got a few laps in before the races started but not much. I've never drivin a E Scale before so it def felt different to me. My first qual went ok and I started really getting the feel for it. My second qual went really good and I turned fast enough laps to put me in the bottom of the A main. I really was feeling good and getting the hang of this buggy. My 3rd qual was not so great and ended up at the top of the b main. When the b main started I have to admit I was feeling a bit off and with some bad driving and some luvly help from my b main companions I did not make the A.

From what I felt so far (I did not make any changes between rounds) is this thing jump like butter, very smooth! We had very good grip and this buggy used all of it! I would come in hot at the end of the straight, do a endo, have to use more brake around the turn and then get on throttle. This thing just grabbed and got gone! We also had a sweeper/corner coming off a step-up table top. I could down side the table and get on throttle prety nicely around the corner and the back end just stuck. At the end of the day the track was drying out some so more control was needed. All in all Im extremly happy with getting this buggy. Like I said I've never drive E scale or a motor like this T8 1900, which is a LOT of motor! I think with time I will only get better. Bad part is now I'm scared to make any changes cause I don't know if I'll actually need them?

I have to give a big thanks to Chambers (Stealth RT) cause he's the master mind behind my setup. If it wasn't for his help I know I would not have done so well.

The cars look good fellas.

I finally got to drive my car last night and it felt great. The claims of great acceleration are true. This car seems to put the power down really well. Its nimble and the stock setup is pretty dialed. Now I have to enter a race.

One thing that I didn't like was that the non serrated wheel nuts come off easily. Thankfully, the hot bodies wheel nut is a direct replament and I just threw some of those on.

Cant wait to race it!

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I will buy this kit soon.
What tool does i need to assemble this kit.
Is there some parts i shall buy with it?

webbed bladders
alum wiing mount post
alum wing washers

blue orange front springs

yellow gray purple rears springs

8 and 10 hole taper pistons

As far as tools, a full set of metric wrenches. I would suggest a battery op drill with quick connects. Those screws start to get hard to turn after a while.

What size mm metric wrenches?

.05, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0

5.5 nut driver
7 and 8mm open end wrechs

I would also highly reccomend an m3 .08 pitch thread tap for the gear boxes. Those suckers are really hard to thread into.

sometimes u have to use low weight oil to help those screws go in. that help a lot for me.

That is good solution as well. These cases are nice and rigid, but this makes driving the suspension plate screws into them very hard. On top of that, the screws are 2.0mm hex which are prone to srtiping even with high quality drivers.

I need to get a set of barcodes as well. It looks like your rears are mounted the wrong way. I have always ran with the VVV facing out on the rear with barcodes. How does it work for you with like that?

i have 3-40 cap head screws for the rear toe plate use 2.5mm wrench

i got huge bag 5 bucks and i send you 4 of them

Will be my next pickup. All COBRA in my stable.