Originally Posted by aloksatoor

Yep its a compromise. Wonder if anyone has thought to just put a belt drive instead of drive shafts in a 1/8 scale buggy... Would be super low cg but with loss of center diff.... I don't mean like the sc10 4x4 but the super easy maintainence schumi ones.... Basically a zoomed up 1/10 scaler...

Originally Posted by Pulse_

Here ya go

http://www.neobuggy.net/modules/news...p?storyid=4949



A french guy designed it and started to build it but I can't find the page on rcmag anymore..

Originally Posted by aloksatoor

Yep its a compromise. Wonder if anyone has thought to just put a belt drive instead of drive shafts in a 1/8 scale buggy... Would be super low cg but with loss of center diff.... I don't mean like the sc10 4x4 but the super easy maintainence schumi ones.... Basically a zoomed up 1/10 scaler...

Originally Posted by Cult Racing

Hey you know were racing offroad not onroad?

Originally Posted by aloksatoor

if its faster/ lighter more efficient and legal (which is what the tekno buggy is) whats the problem with this approach

Originally Posted by Cult Racing

if that was true wouldn't more companies run belt? Also last time I checked the losi scte can beat the ae sc10 4x4 (which is lighter and supposedly faster which is belt too).

Originally Posted by aloksatoor

Prob cos the thing is a PITA to work on. Most drivers at the track I frequent give up trying to fix its many other issues...

But looking some mature 1/10 scale 4x4 buggies (this IS a 1/8 buggy), they are pretty evenly matched between the belt drives and the shaft drives (losi and schumi's belt drives vs AE rangos shaft drives)

Ebuggy classes started out with nitro conversions which are all shaft drives. Anyways buying the tekno once its out

Originally Posted by Antimullet

Well Tekno you made me cancel a buggy I was about to order thanks to this car! Now I gotta find something to do while waiting for it to be released!!!

Originally Posted by teknorc

We actually started the company making plastic parts for the Revo. Wing mounts, RX boxes, a-arms, etc. We are quite confident that the plastics being used are as good or better than what most companies are using. And some of the parts are exactly the same material as what other companies are using.

We understand that this is our first car and we'll have some issues, but we've been making parts for years. We've made many types of parts on a car already (driveshaft, gear, wing mount, chassis, mud guards, a-arms). We just put them all in one kit this time.

Other companies have bigger budgets but they also have more overhead and more waste. Additionally, we're not rushing the car out to meet a deadline like some of the bigger companies do. I don't know exactly how much testing they do before a release but we have tested this car and tested this car some more (since September 2011). We have 7 prototypes racing many times a week and sometimes testing all day. We're always evaluating and trying to make the car better.

We can't rush the car out with bad quality, no one will stick with Tekno if we did. We're trying to create a relationship with our customers that lasts for years. Not just for this car, but for our future cars and parts as well. If we have a major issue, we're going to solve it and take care of the customer so they want to keep running our products.

Originally Posted by aloksatoor

Yep its a compromise. Wonder if anyone has thought to just put a belt drive instead of drive shafts in a 1/8 scale buggy... Would be super low cg but with loss of center diff.... I don't mean like the sc10 4x4 but the super easy maintainence schumi ones.... Basically a zoomed up 1/10 scaler...