Originally Posted by
RobbieS
Just for giggles I just weighed my truck. Ready to race with the body on it. It is a dead even 7 pounds. Checking the tekno website they show the truck out of the box rtr at 6.6 pounds. So I'm 8 ounces heavy. I realize that could be motor, esc, battery, body, tire & rim , servo weight differences.
On their sight it says you can get down to 5.7 pounds with optional parts. I want to know how they dropped a pound off the car. Looking at the weight reduction chart back on the first page all of those parts only add up to about 7 ounces. Where did they shave off the other 7-8 ounces?
I would love to knock a pound off my truck.
Mine is at 6.6 pounds rtr with a heavy shoe goeed body as well (started as a tlr hi perf body with no holes cutout). Things to shave were the trimmed side guards, braces in center and rear (not needed for outdoor anyways), trimmed body posts from below. Things which added weight were, full aluminum shocks, full aluminum hingepins, rx8/4600, 7200 promatch, bls351, sanwa 92524, 10 GA wiring. I recently added around 40 grams of brass behind the battery and 30ish under the rear drive shaft. Helps my times a bit.
I am planning on putting some driveline parts but shaving weight on chassis is going to make traction worse. The tekno shock towers are only 30 grams lighter I think. The next thing to shave could potentially be the shocks themselves, I think each is around 30 grams or so high up. Maybe invert the shock so weight down low :P or put thinner kyosho SC shocks on them with spring adapters for 1/8 springs
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