Originally Posted by
Edumakated
J, were you running the center brace? Mine started making that noise you are referring to recently. It only does it under full throttle and I believe it is caused by chassis flex. At King Hobbies, mine would do it on one part of the track where you accelerate hard right after a jump. It sounded like the center diff guts were getting ripped out. I haven't been running the center chassis brace.
The front dog bone is so long, there is bound to be some warping in it with the chassis flex front and back.
I think it is a relatively minor design problem all things considered though. I've owned just about every major 1/8 brand buggy and the Tekno is one of my favorites.
My car actually did it more with the aluminum dog bone.
Yeah I was running the center brace and the rear brace. I've bent it back to correct it twice. It seems to fix the issue for a while. I'm gona try takin the rear brace off like your car. See how it feels.
I wasn't trying to bash Tekno. I was just a bit disappointed and it came across more than I realized. I'm probably gonna re edit the video.
On a side note I just had a factory driver tell me he never reads the magazines anymore because the reviews never seem say anything other than the good points. Once he said that I kinda noticed that its more or less true.