Originally Posted by
Aether4E0A
The truck looks like a Tamiya Stadium Blitzer.
The old batteries may be limiting the speed of your truck; I would recommend buying new NIMH batteries. Older batteries may barely hold a charge, but wont give enough power to the motor. A new transmitter and receiver never hurts, the flysky would work great, though only buy it if the old radio doesnt work.
Inexpensive Tamiya kit trucks like this usually have weak transmissions, and cannot handle too much power. I would NOT recommend upgrading this to a powerful brushless system; the transmission might be damaged with the power. You might find it has plenty of power with the brushed motor, when you get a new NIMH battery.
Thanks for the info! That's what it looks like exactly!
What battery do you recommend? I'd like it to be something that can be purchased from the local hobby shop. As for the radio, the car is twitchy and doesn't have good range. It's more than bearable so the radio isn't first on my list, but it's there.
That's sad to hear. I will try a new battery and see how I like it. I'm a lot more of an on pavement kind of person even when the car is made for offroad, that's why I find it so slow I think.
Out of curiosity, are there any "kits"(On an extreme budget still) that come with everything but a Tx/Rx/ESC/Motor? But does have like the Servo, Transmission gears and stuff. Just throw in a motor/esc and rx. I know they probably don't make anything on my budget.. Again, sorry for the stupid questions!