I must not drive hard enough. I only ever broke my rear pivot block and I saw that coming what I tail ended on 1 wheel. I hit a steel pole a few times and landed in the straight and got plowed by half the field and didnt break, lol. I always thought this truck was a tank.

Just to point out, don't learn your lesson again on the pro tec or whatever you get. The melted case is not a nano tech thing, it's any lipo that you use a bird cage too long with. Or even the bullet plugs will squish together after a while once again a loose plug will arc. Bird cage or bullet. Difference is you can visually see the bullet prongs getting closer to each other so you know when to replace, bird cage you have to go by feel.

I learned my lesson the hard way as well but hasn't happened since now that I keep the bullets fresh. $2.50 bullets, or $50+ lipo.

yeah, I am switching out my cages to the protek solid bullets, but i heard someone else makes really good ones.

This
http://www.rctech.net/forum/electric...y-problem.html

Other good bullet
http://www.tqrcracing.com/shop/produ...yword=&pg_no=1

yeah, the turbo plugs. Several people said they rock.

I watched the a1 video from the ROAR nats. A couple of observations:

1. Ryan is superhuman. That truck steps out a bunch of times on the sweeper and he saves it every time.

2. He was able to get away with it because the WCRC surface is wet clay and the overdrive.

3. Ryan never made any big errors that Ty could capitalize on. There was no pace to pass on that track unless the guy in front made a mistake without driving through him.

4. There are no "send it" big air jumps on that track. If you are running this truck at WCRC or TCRC or even Exeter Hobbies in its current configuration and having trouble with the jumps, it's the driver (and his/her technique) to blame.

5. Did I mention Ryan is superhuman? That guy can wheel a shoebox. He isn't getting enough credit in this equation IMO, the truck is getting too much.

Your opinion ?

Then the VTS slipper, even though it handed all those 3rd diff rides their azz ?

That credit all goes to Ryan M IYO .......



hummm ....
K ....I'm all kool with with that ......

Absolutely. I noticed that, cringed and watched as he took it back and kept on going.
But did you see how badly Ty wanted to go by him? I think if he had on A1, ty would have been gone. He was driving faster that main. Full credit to Ryan for holding him off. I would have shat my pants and messed up mega-bad.
+100

...wat?

they should have a World touring car championship like rule.
Reverse the sequence of those top 8 drivers (maybe 3-5 in RC term) in first main's result, and set it to be the starting position on second main. Same thing done to third main, etc.
for example, A1 result is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
then A2 starting grid would be: 8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,9,10

Qualify results will be less effective, but still affects (i.e. TQ can go A1, A2, A1, while qualifying second can only get A2, A1, A2).

meanwhile, since all these actions and results are basically a marketing scheme, they will still fight hard for TQ then.

Cain, here's how I did mine. http://www.rctech.net/forum/11028754-post27347.html

Will do

Ok good point, I'll pick up some of the solid connectors instead.

My lipo isnt that bad I tired taking a picture but its hard to tell. You can see on the corners, where it melted and you can see the entire connector. Both batteries have the same effect but seem fine. I need to do some further testing with them.

Yeah, I think that guy had more than just old plugs going on. Probably connected reverse polarity or something. Mine melted the case a little on the hot side. Still runs, but I canned it. Don't want to take a chance with that thing going up on fire in my truck. more than likely not but just don't wanna deal with it.

But the comments in that thread are the same as what's being said here.

I only watched the 1st main in the video. My thoughts.....

1. Track is exactly what the sc104x4 was built for, smooth indoors have never been a problem. Big, rough, outdoors is the problem.

2. Tessman looked faster to me than Ryan. Looked like Tessman was running around %80.

3. If Tessman would've started out front, he would have checked out.

Vega , watch 2nd video , Ty had no one to follow & keep the pace with then ..


Was only spinning his wheels trying to get back to position...

We all know Maifield is a great driver. We also have seen it proved that the truck excels on indoor high bite tracks. I mean come on, the rear end steers even on high bite and factory drivers like those rear ends to rotate. The didnt race on a fluffy outdoor 8th scale track and if they did it would have been a new story probably. I have run this truck on both indoor high bite and low-med grip outdoor. I have seen the truck win on both, but I find is very hard to drive on the later. But I am not a pro, but i would have gotten a losi if i had it to do over again. Or get a RC8.2B. I see guys at my track that take crap care of their losis, use baling or the wrong tires and still finish 3rd in the mains. They are being beat by AE's, but the AE drivers are pretty fast local guys. The losi guys I am thinking of use duck tape and bubble gum to keep the trucks running and still place. They just point and shoot and keep the trigger fulled. As WC say, they just punch it everywhere.