12LikesTekno NB48
02-19-2015 | 01:57 PM
#3122
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 3,595
From: Covington, La.
02-20-2015 | 02:42 AM
#3126
Drews, it would appear that way, but I bought the NB48 thirdhand from here in Australia. My son the driver had a factory drive with another brand (Cars, all parts all free!) We had just won a race on a Sunday and borrowed the Tekno off another driver on the Monday to test. The person we borrowed the car off was the second owner and hadn't even driven the car himself!!
The Tekno was more than a second a lap faster than our present car.
After the car was cleaned and our motor / electronics removed we jokingly asked the second owner if he wanted to sell it, he said yes and we did a deal. We got a complete EB48 included as well!! I had sent a queery to coast2coast but got no reply. I called them a few days later and spoke to them, That night I ordered an NT48 through them, got it 3 days later.
The original owner of the NB48 and EB48 was at the track and told us where he had brought it from-FierceRC. He had bought it when the $ was above parity with the US, therefore making it cheaper even with shipping!
There you have it we had a full factory drive and won many races with it but we needed a change, hence now we pay for everything again..........
The Tekno was more than a second a lap faster than our present car.
After the car was cleaned and our motor / electronics removed we jokingly asked the second owner if he wanted to sell it, he said yes and we did a deal. We got a complete EB48 included as well!! I had sent a queery to coast2coast but got no reply. I called them a few days later and spoke to them, That night I ordered an NT48 through them, got it 3 days later. The original owner of the NB48 and EB48 was at the track and told us where he had brought it from-FierceRC. He had bought it when the $ was above parity with the US, therefore making it cheaper even with shipping!
There you have it we had a full factory drive and won many races with it but we needed a change, hence now we pay for everything again..........
02-20-2015 | 06:53 AM
#3127
Attachment 1272685 here is my nb48. Finally decided to just go ahead and buy everything new. I live in chico near amain. So everything in it is protek.
02-20-2015 | 04:39 PM
#3130
Tech Adept
iTrader: (4)
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 222
From: In the present
See Rob when you win and have consistent good results sponsors actually come forward and ask you to use their product. Some are free, some heavily discounted. We have been asked to use some products for free which didn't work for us, therefore I'm happy to pay for something that suits us rather than get something for free that doesn't
Still have sponsors for Tyres, Radio/ Electronics, motors, the car and you know which brand we were running isn't having any development work done on it now and was becoming uncompetitative. I have 7 chassis in the RC room that I got from the factory and customised, some were blanks that I drilled and milled and bent up to change the weight distribution and layout. All we believe were faster than the original, but someone buying that car wasn't going to get the same as what we had
02-20-2015 | 08:23 PM
#3133
Tech Fanatic
Joined: Jul 2013
Posts: 762
From: somewhere near Japan
What i see: new arms (f and r), new toe blocks (all four), uni's, new caster blocks, new rear hubs (Al), new camber links, new brake linkages (maybe frankenparts from other vendor), new wing mount, "new" shock towers and shocks. Enough to pack it all into NB48.2.
02-20-2015 | 08:44 PM
#3134
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 3,808
From: Texas
That's what I see too. They appear to be running all the new suspension parts on the EB48 as well.