Got my second taste of outdoor racing yesterday with my 8T 2.0. Man, is this truck fun! Qualified second for the A but had engine troubles at the
half way mark and pulled it. Just a local club race and didn't want to hurt
the engine anymore than necessary as it is my only engine. Not sure why
but it just went stupid rich about 12ish minutes in and kept stalling. Track
was super loamy and eating air filters all day so but I can't believe that
it would have chocked the engine that bad. Too hot to mess with it today
though so time will tell. ;)

As for the V2 rear tower, where is that helping you guys again? More slow
speed rotation or ???? I'm still running the box setup + front and rear adj
hinge pin braces set to AD's settings. It did seem to lack some slow speed
rotation but I figured that it was just me and being use to my buggy. A
little extra throttle or brake seemed to solve those issues for me. :lol:

How new is the engine? It just may have fully broken in. They do that when they finally break all the way in. Some do it all at once and others a little at a time. The v2 tower takes away some push and makes the teuggy drive more like a buggy.

my intention isn't to run the life battery dead.. i just want to avoid swelling the pack as the lipos are junk after they go under a specific voltage. im glad i don't have to deal with that. im really considering ordering this pack.

back to voltage runtime, i think the hitec's quit after 5v, so deep discharging won't be an issue, but i didn't want to run a voltage cut off, and whatever lipo precautions for this life battery.

the losi lipo is 2000 mah.. the Helotes life is 1700.. and this cobra is only 1350. im currious its not the BEST bang for the buck. even though the losi is lipo.. which i wouldn't mind getting away from, even the US Helotes battery is higher mah, its still life.. and bigger. i don't know which way to go.

I am running the rear camber links on the new lower outer hole on the V2. Seems to let the truck rotate more off power.

Does this life pack fit.

http://teamhelotes.com/catalog/i1406.html

I think you will have to mod the top. IDK

i checked the dimensions and its similar to the losi, so it should.. im considering this over the cobra battery since it would save a tad on shipping. larger MAH doesn't hurt either.

I had that 1 and it wont fit without cutting the top

Just cracked open the 4th gallon of fuel on this engine so I don't think that
it finally broke in. It lost all of its metal pinch a good 2-3 gallons ago. All
compression pinch now. That is exactly how it acted though, now that you
say it Frank. Its been hot and rainy all day here and I've been too lazy to
go pull it out of the back of my truck to mess with it. :lol:

Gonna have to get me one of those V2 towers then, by the sounds of it....:nod:

Now I have that pack and had to cut the battery lid to use it.

The Cobra pack says "1400mAh" on it. I haven't run it down all the way yet so I don't know how true the claim is.

:lol:

All this talk on packs when these are 5$ a piece.

http://cgi.ebay.com/3x-7-4V-900mAh-L...item3efa810aec

i just started having runaways! i can run practice then charge it,then run a qualifier then charge it,and then usually during the 2nd qualifier it starts glitching...but i start to notice my steering starts glitching first then 5 mins later or even sooner the throttle goes wide open so i always get to it before it actually runs from me!i have a REEDY 1600mah nimh hump pack that is a couple months old...a couple racers said it was cause i never let the battery run down before i charge it! i just wanted to completely avoid runaways so after every use i charge it!....is that not good for the hump pack?...somebody else also said it was cause i charge it @ 2 amps instead of 1amp...my manual for my charger says 1500mah-2100mah charges @ 2amps?....is this wrong?

I run a Reedy 1600 in my XXL, lets say I used to. That thing has caused me some grief! I will charge it at .2 amps all night and it will take 1500mAh. I go to use it that day, it works good for a few minutes and then the glitching starts. I put it away, charge again when I get home and it takes in another 1500mAh. It's a leaky bucket! We don't work together anymore...NiMh in general is not reliable IMO. I slow charged (.2amp) a brand new Losi 1400 Hump pack the other night, it took in 1404mAh. Just for fun I hit charge again while I brewed some coffee and two hours later it's still taking more juice. It took in 200 more mAh! That's just too loose for me. Life or Lipo is where it's at.

ive actually ordered 2 4s batteries for my starterbox and 2 2s batteries for my blitz,Its alot cheaper then paying 150 bucks for a lipo :) i got 600 in batteries for 80 bucks