Originally Posted by
Werty Yui
I can guarantee you that your experience would've been different with the 8ight buggy and not because it's a Losi but rather because it's a standard (or proper depending on ones view) 1/8 platform. You would learn how to tune a standard carb and not that Mickey Mouse traxxas one, you could buy any standard engine down the line and drop it right in, you can used standard 1/8th clutches, pipes, bump boxes, etc, etc.
I'm not claiming you wouldn't have run into issues, you are admittedly new and don't know how to tune well (no insult intended) so you WILL run into issues but tuning a Traxxas carb may teach you bad techniques you will have to undo later.
I think this thing both has a leak somewhere in the engine and the flywheel was coming loose the more I ran it. I think that contributed mostly to the tuning problems I had. I took the tuning slow but it was never consistent for me. The Traxxas was a bad buy though and I'm kicking myself for it.