That will be the big test for me. My track can get quite rough and rutted at times. My ECO (1st edition) was terrible in those track conditions. I assumed that it was just part of the deal with light buggies.

If the EB48 can handle Revelations well, then it will become my flagship.

We raced there recently at the JBRL. Finishing order was Drake, Truhe, myself (in a truggy), then an EB48 driven by Chad Panek. Chad's buggy was handling great all day, no breakage. This was the layout with all of the bumps, ruts, and all of the insane flat landers.

At the following round of JBRL at ARC the conditions were moon-surface-like. Chad took 2nd behind Drake and actually beat me in my truggy. The buggy can handle it, just have to tweak the setup a little for harsh conditions.

+1

Buy tweaking the set up, do you mean softer springs and shock oil and removing or loosening a chassis brace?

servo horns available at Amain

The EB48 handles rough tracks very well. There were alot of ney sayers at my local track when i 1st bought my car. I was the 1st EB 48 at my track. Everyone said it was too narrow,too light,too frail. I broke 1 arm in a year of racing and am a regular in the A main placing top 3 most of the time. The car handles better than anything i have run. Rough tacks are rough on all cars but this car takes it well. You cant go wrong with the Tekno.

Can you be more specific ? Tweak which parts ? Do you have a setup sheet for that ?

Most of the new parts are not more expensive, they are just different. They are only expensive if you have the original kit and want to upgrade to the new parts. Almost makes more sense just to buy a new kit and start over.

I had the same thing, people saying "they drove one and it's fragile" don't get one and so on, well I have broken 1 shock shaft and am always top of the amain!

Turned lots of people's misconceptions around

Nice run. Nothing more annoying than those nitro motors firing up while your trying to finish the race.

exactly !

In france this buggy came with a lot of interogations .....
Everyone think it was an US chassis conception and said It will never work on european's tracks. They said US has only very cleans shorts tracks "packman style" with jumps jumps and jumps........ poor guys.
They said "we have long high speed corners , destroyed , bumpy and dusty tracks and this buggy can't work on these. He have no stability, he's too narrow, his suspension can't work into holes section, under 8 lbs it will never works......." and blablabla blabla bla


I'm first in my regional championship (number 15) with this buggy.....and I'm not a supersonic pilot.
I take pleasure at every run, every race with it.
Oh sure it's not a perfect chassis, but it's a only one year aged buggy and tekno know how to became it better, faster, stronger......
This buggy can work very well on every kind of track and in every condition. I'm sure about that !
It's a very reactive chassis with minor changes.
It's need just time to find good set-up.

like protc3 : you can't go wrong with a eb-48..........sure !

+1 the losi guys at my track have seen what tekno can do. Losi and associated is the 95% at my track and everything else, including tekno, is the other 5%. Makes you feel so much better when you beat the popular car with a fast driver at the wheel.

im in the market for a new car and i was thinking of the mugen x7 eco. but its a roller which kinda sucks.
so i thought about the EB48.2
but i have afew worries.
1. the track i run in is dusty, bumpy, and kinda loose. but you kinda answered that it will do good. (?P
2. i read that the metal parts are not such high quality. like a bent from factory center front drive shaft.
is it true? or how is it compered to mugen?
3. how are the plastics? is the braking front arms thing is solved in the .2?
4. how are the shocks and diffs? any leaks?

thanks.

Traction is easy to adjust on this car.
They include the new lightweight center drive shaft now, no more bent ones.
The new tougher arms do not break easily at all!
Shocks and diffs are great, my diffs do not leak, and the shocks are a joy to build and they stay consistent.

The Tekno rigs handle the biggest super cross style outdoor tracks here in NC without issue. Both the eb48 & sct410 are the highest quality, most durable vehicles I've ran, period.

I am on a gen 1 buggy and older sct410. My buggy has had zero failures except caused by me driving "over" my head as they say in motocross. only thing I replaced was a broken front arm-totally my fault-full speed off track into a pipe stake. I had nearly a duplicate mistake with the truck and I also snapped a part of my right a arm- same kind of driver error-different track-similar impact with an immovable object. Both my fault-both impacts would break Wolverine's claws...

Never had any bent driveshaft issues, and the shocks and diffs -I'm still on original gear sets in all diffs, ring and pinions in both gearboxes and still no concerns.

The breaking arms thing-never had it except the driver error ones. I am still on original arms sans the ones I mentioned above-gen1 stuff, no issues ever and the tracks I beat my rigs on, these platforms are the only ones I've found that hold up. I still have several of the original bearings as well, including the gen 1 gear box pinion bearings. I have spares but haven't needed them.

Here's the key- I try to never go more than two race weekends without blowing both rigs apart down to every nut and bolt and completely rebuilding, inspecting, and setting back up, including cleaning bearings by hand and re-lubing.

I've replaced diff gaskets once in each vehicle, replaced just a few shock bushings here and there, and a few diff orings. I consider these consumables and honestly considered diff planetary gear sets consumables until I started running these rigs. Haven't replaced them in either yet. This is minimal cost of upkeep to maintain a race worthy vehicle IMHO.

I have ran several other manufacturers rigs and nothing I've ran compares so far. I haven't had a rig this race-ready, excellent handling in all conditions, and drive trains that are this efficient in anything offroad.

I may purchase the EB48.2 and a new sct soon so I can get my oldest boy running, but besides that my originals are still running strong.

I've had several racers try my rigs and really like them to the tune that Teknos are really gaining in popularity in the area. Really top notch product...