The only thing ae needs to change IMO is optional gear diffs,stronger arms and ball diff gears. The car handles as well as anything out just needs better durability. Don't need a total redesign for that.

Jconcepts steering rack and the Avid slipper. Other than that run it Luke you stole it. Lol

I don't want stronger arms. If you keep making them stronger then other, more expensive things will fail. I've run my .2 for a year and haven't broken an arm yet. Will it happen, eventually, but I'd much rather go through those than suspension holders/hinge pins, towers, etc.

There's nothing wrong with the platform per se, it's just not what's in vogue at the moment.

Biggest is definitely the diffs. I think the car is very robust for what it is. Yeah, the front arms break fairly easily. But I have to tell you after running a Durango DEX 410, the B44 is a TANK compared to it!

I agree 100%. The arm's breaking point is almost spot on. I have not bent a pin in a very long time but have broken MANY arms. The fact that they are reversible is also great. Despite all the nay-sayers, the B44 is still an amazing car.

What gear diffs are people using in this car? I'm working out a list of changes for a B44.2 kit.

Has anyone tried the new hard arms? Are they more durable than the stock arms?

I dont know what you are talking about, this car is great. You must be a losi fanboy...

So is the VTS slipper a huge advantage of the original B44.1 slipper? I may purchase a B44.1 to start with.

Has anyone done a modified chassis layout like the D413? If you mount the center mounts so that the slipper spring was connected to the rear shaft you could mount the motor on the left side and a Shorty on the right. I may just pick up the B44.1 lightly used for $180 and experiment.

The VTS makes the slipper much more consistient than the standard arrangement on the .1. I've over-heated the slipper before, and when that happens, the car will lose punch when you grab a handfull of throttle.

The VTS employs more slipper material (3 disks vs 2), so it can handle more abuse before it starts to act up.

I don't know how you'd rotate the motor mount and keep the cam setup, but I never really looked into it. FWIW, the chassis is milled out where the motor is intended to sit.

Too late , the stiffer HARD arms
are already available and on my B44 ...

HARD arms improves the handling , car becomes a lot more consistent on the sweepers and accelerates straighter...


Suggest to everyone to purchase a set of these arms , you will only go faster with them ...

I have an avid triad slipper left over from an old car, do you guys think it's an upgrade from the vts slipper? Also have some of the red pads to try.

I just ordered the Triad. Fingers crossed....

Triad works like a dream. I run white pads against the spur an one red pad. Make sure you get the B44.2 Avid spacer as well for the Triad.

Thanks for your input T0p. I have used the VTS on my B4.2 and SC10.2 so it should like it is the same.

In regards to the rotation of the motor, I am working on the design idea fo this. I plan to start with a B44.1 so it will not have the VTS which widens the distance between the motor mount and the bulkhead. Flipping the motor mount will allow the motor to mount fine but the milled chassis design would require that I cut a new chassis plate. So I have a design in mind.

Simply using stronger arms does not necessarily mean that something else will break in a crash.

There's an area between the point where an arm will break and where the next item in line will break. That area may be very small, or it may be very large; let's hope that it's large.

I would much rather bend a pin then break an arm. The way I look at it is "will I be able to finish the race?".

I'd rather break a $10 part and finish the race than break a $5 part and be out of the race. After all, it's only money, and racing is all about winning.