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Old 12-17-2019 | 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by fyrstormer
The center diff makes an immense improvement in the 4Pede's handling. It actually got so boring and predictable that I stopped driving mine after a couple years, and eventually took it apart to move the upgrades to other vehicles. It turns out that it is, in fact, possible for a monster truck to drive too well.

Nowadays my Electric T-Maxx serves the same purpose, but because it's bigger and substantially heavier, I'm a little more on-edge when driving it close to top speed, which makes the driving experience more entertaining.
At some point you improve the handling to where it just winds up being a bad truggy instead of a good monster truck. I never put a center diff into my Stampede (which I then turned into a Slash MT), because I don't really want it to handle better. I'll use my good handling vehicles when I want that. The Stampede's purpose in life is for doing dumb stuff.
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