Well said i coulndt agree more also as a side note I also own Castle escs thats what i fly my airplanes , and helis castle has always come through with any esc problems issues , i might of had , just recently I bought a SCTE castle combo for losi 2.0 SCTE the esc gave out sent it back castle took care of me and replace it , just need it show proof of purchase , what i`m trying to say all the escs have problems whether is Tekin , Castle , Novak , Hobbywing , Etc they all will take care of the issues you might have , is electronics give them a break guys stop bagging on any particular brand nothing is bullet proof my two cents thats all , LOL

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I got my kit a few days ago and decided today to start putting it together. Nothing new, so far the build has been smooth as silk like all the Tekno kits I've had the pleasure dealing with. I'll post some pictures as soon as my painter gets done with the body. Speaking of the body, I LOVE it! It's going to look so awesome flying off a big jump, so sleek. This time of year I'll have to drive 130 miles north to Tacoma RC Raceway to run it indoors. Can't wait!!!

One thing I forgot, I bought my kit direct from Tekno they threw a skull cap in with my kit. thanks' Tekno that's pretty cool! I got to wear it for about a min until my wife spotted it, looks like I lost my cap. That's ok it looks better on her than on my fat head. LOL

The hobbywing 150a fits perfect in the buggy, there is plenty of room so I'm pretty sure it will fit w/o issue in the truggy as well.

Tower is in stock.. not sure if any shipped today or not but they are shipping asap.

Really... I'm sponsored by Tekin and they don't pay me.

When your a racer you run and conduct your program like a business. You surround your self and program with the best possible products to put you in the best position to win. You associate your brand with others that do business the way you believe it should be done. I didn't sent out 7 resumes to electronics manufactures to see who would help me out. I sent out one and I sent it to a company I'm proud to represent. Same with Tekno.

I'm not putting a sticker on me, my car, or my pit unless believe they are doing the best they can to be the best they can, and they can help me be the best I can!

I've been trying to get as much info about this truck and look forward to build pics and hopefully videos and feedback about the truck. Let's get back on topic and take the esc specific talk to other threads.

Sorry to be that guy.

You represent them well... kudos. Now I'm not sponsored and I can speak the truth,, as I said before the t8's are great motors now super reliable, they didn't start out as a great product years ago when they released they had a ton of issues with the rotors.. but now they are among the best at this point and have a ton of kv offerings and I highly recommend them as an option to any racers vehicle. Tekin stands behind their products and they do replace or work with to in most cases, when there are issues and let me just say that is a good thing for rx8 owners (any version). There is no other ESC at any track that I have raced at in the last 3 years that has as many issues as the Rx8, drivers don't win because of this esc, it doesn't out perform most of the main competition in this market; but they can certainly loose when they "let go". The HW 150a and even the SCTpro over the last couple years has earned bragging rights to easily being the most reliable and in most opinions smoothest option available. If you have not tried it, you really should. I don't like the sctpro as much as the xerun 150a but to each his own, the size is nice if you run 4s lipo. I run 6s lipo so it doesn't meet my needs anyway. I'm only sponsored by my wallet :P, I'm not bashing anyone only speaking from personal experience in our north east climate, take it or leave it :)

Exactly. When I was early on racing on my own dime I was the same way. Cheers!

The build is awesome and I like the new diff shims. Finished for tonight and will finish the rest in the morning. I'll send the body off to Joe for paint and will be up and running soon.

Mark

Awesome Mark!

Raced my et48 for the first time tonight it is amazing if you like how the eb48 and sct410 drive you will really like this I actually turned faster lap times with my truggy than my buggy I did make some changes to the kit. I raised the roll center to center hole on inside all the way around took out steering limiters completely stood the front shocks up a little more and tomorrow I'm gonna swap out diff fluids to 10/15/5 definitely wouldn't go any lighter on shock oil might even go a bit higher. I'm running on an indoor probably 80x120 smooth medium traction will try and get a setup sheet posted after I do some more tuning tomorrow. Unfortunately wasn't able to get good video as the qualifier that was recorded my t8 gen 2 end bell blew apart about a minute into the race amazingly I put it back together and works fine and I did still tq and won the 10 minute main by a lot

I'm so jealous!

We had a big club race last night and I too got to try my truggy out. Box setup and it did very well. Gotta tweak a few small things here and there but first outing it did well. I was in the A Main (we had 20+ truggies) and about 3-4 laps into it my motor came loose and ate the spur.

Couple hardware things I have noticed so far:

keep an eye on the hinge pin inserts as I did a few SPECTACULAR cartwheels and noticed a little play in the inserts.

When you make the body up make sure to put shoe goo and the drywall type stuff where the front shock towers will hit the body. Didn't do it on mine and 4-5 battery packs made some holes in the body. The rest of the body held up real well, even when I landed on it and it bent it in pretty good on the roof it came back out after pushing on it.

had a rear input gear bearing dust shield come off so had to replace both bearings.

had a rear shock end break on one of the cartwheels mentioned above.

Holy crap you really do need two kits for spare parts.

I drove this truggy a litlle last night. It has a lot of the same characteristics as the EB48. 2. The box setup was lacking for my drive style and our home track. Over all a very nice truggy and if you like your tekno kits you should add the ET48 to your lineup. There are some things I don't like about the body but over all not a bad body. I do think for medium size tracks that a buggy motor in the 2000kv range on 4s would be a very good setup for this truggy. Therse are just my impressions after putting about 7-8 laps on it.

Will I get one? I don't know yet. The characteristics that it shares with the EB48 are the same ones that I don't like. There not as bad as the buggy but they are still there. I will say it will be between the ET48 and the mbx6tr for my choice of etruggy.

I got to drive a couple laps with the et48 with the box setup. The truck drove very nicely
I think the spring may have been a little too soft for out track, but it wasn't bad at all. Between the truck I drove and mullets, I noticed they both had some minor setup differences in the hinge pin insets I.e. orientation. The one I drove had a lot of turn in and pushed a little on exit. I believe it could easily be tuned to get a linear stable steering feel...... I wouldn't say it drives revolutionary, but it should definitely be considered by anyone who is looking to buy an e truggy. If I were to buy a new truggy, this would be the one for sure.