going4#1

Picked it up Friday. 2 guys and 6 hours later it was done. I've owned Kyosho, Serpent, and Mugen. This is my first Xray and the car is pure quality. The fit and finish are definitely way above the rest. The car almost doesn't need screws it fits together so well. Even the instructions are the highest quality. Not hard to see why 15 of 24 cars at our last race were NT1s.

Some complaints though. Getting the pivot ball holders into the uprights was a real challenge. It was very easy to mis-thread. And the shocks . . . I wish they had contracted out the new Serpent RCC shocks. The multihole sounds great in theory but is a pain in practice.

Options? Just a few. The XRay multidiff, 3Racing one-piece engine mount, aluminum wheel hexes and aluminum middle bearing block. I think I'll run it like that for while and see what I can get out of it. I hear the car needs few options. I'd swap the battery (i'm using 5 x 2/3 cells) but I want to keep weight in the centre of the car.

Rob