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Old 04-01-2014, 01:53 PM
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Hey everyone I am looking at buying a Nitrage for $200. Is this a good deal? Kinda new to the nitro thing. I read this truck is discontinued. Is it hard to get parts for now? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Old 04-01-2014, 05:56 PM
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noone has an opinion on this truck? Need some kind of input please.
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Old 04-02-2014, 11:15 AM
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Hi,

I have a Nitrage fitted with the optional 2 speed tranny and truggy wheels.
It's a great basher truggy, Tough as nails.
It comes with a Force .32 motor so it runs like a raped ape...
never had a tuning issue with the engine either.
It just needs a better steering servo (Hitec 7955), pipe (Dynamite 086) and stronger springs (TNX 5.2r)

It's not a race truggy.
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Old 04-02-2014, 11:47 AM
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Old 04-02-2014, 11:54 AM
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There is pretty much ZERO support for this truck anymore. Id pass based on that if I break it, its pretty much a pile of unusable parts.
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The plastic spur gear in the center gear box (no center diff) don't last, the clutch bell had a slot for a tiny dog bone to turn the center gear box and so you cannot change to the common clutch bell with 3 shoes, and... the original 2 piece spring 'wrap around' clutch shoe also don't last...

The gears in the rotor-starter don't last too.
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Old 04-04-2014, 07:57 AM
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Three years of bashing mine pretty hard and haven't had any issues yet
I bash with mainly Savages and the Nitrage whips them good.

I did convert my rotor start to pull start.
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Thanks guys. Bought the truck but being new to this nitro thing i am having trouble getting it started lol.
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