So what kind of 1/8 Truggy are you going to get?

I'm a MT lover. I like how they look and the fun they give me when bashing. They are much harder to race then Truggies and that is what I like about them too. More of a challenge I find to be as fast as you can without breaking anything. Truggies are the bastard sons of a drunk MT and a slutty buggy. Yes in my mind, buggies are female :mdr:

By the way, remember the E-ST 4X4 truck Vantage Racing was supposed to come out with? It's out on their website. Maybe my expectations were too high but the company well known for their wonderful carbon fiber chassis made a plastic truck.

hahaha
oh the irony.

What pisses me off is they've had the carbon fiber arms on there product truck (you have to look close) for like 2 years now and sure enough, still haven't seem em...:whip:

Contact them, they will sell you a complete set of CF Revo A-Arms, for $389.99...I know because I asked, they gave me a price, and I bought a set! They come with a written disclaimer clearly stating that they are NOT covered by their warranty, and once you take ownership of them, anything that happens to them is your fault and you are on your own to fix or replace whatever breaks. They have only made around 30 sets for testing as well as personal use by people in the company, so you better get yours before they sell out of their "non-advertised" product, heh! The only way I found out that they actually made/had some, and would sell some, was because I saw them on the truck pictured on their main page and then emailed them. I ended up selling my set for $600, but am thinking about buying another set pretty soon.

Edit: According to Brian, the employee I spoke with, Vantage has redesigned the arms slightly, and the new kit should be available soon.

I contacted them quite a while back and they said to expect them soon, but that was a LONG time ago. Haven't bothered since...
So would you say to wait for the new kit or to get a set ASAP? My only concern is I'd like to have a true-trac...I really hate this dilemma to be honest. Is it to much to ask for Tekno knuckles all around with carbon fiber arms and a true-trac setup? :oops: Seriously, why can't the companies combine the best of the best? True-trac concept from RPM, awesome 8mm knuckles from Tekno, and carbon fiber arms from Vantage? That would be TITS. :mdr:

ok more smart diff testing needed...
this time i'm gonna take the springs out!! :rofl:

If you have the money to spend, I would go ahead and grab a set now while they still have some, because who knows if they will ever go into production. I really wish I hadn't sold my set, but I couldn't turn down such a huge profit, so I will probably buy another set myself.

So the truck is all put back together with new stock chassis, new bulkheads and new front arms. It is cold again today and we wanted to play with the trucks so out we went. I started with a pair of Turnigy 2S and did the same things I usually do, mostly jumping as I wanted to know if the bulkheads would hold up. Ran until the LVC kicked in. No broken parts other than a lost body clip. Then I put a couple 3S Zippy-H in and ran the truck again. Going faster and jumping higher. near the end of the lipo's cycle, I jumped a snow bank at almost full speed, the truck went high, I was looking up at it, it clipped the Realtor's ''SOLD'' sign that's in front of our house and went into a weird flat spin and landed hard on the asphalt on the left rear wheel.
This broke the left rear rocker and cracked the left bulkhead. one bulkhead is cracked, not shattered like all the bulkheads were with the Kershaw chassis.
So with the stock chassis, the bulkheads are much harder to break, it took a real bad and hard crash to only crack one.

I am going to change all the bulkheads and go to un modified ones because I want to try going back to the stock E-Revo diffs. Later.

Oh no you done with the LST diffs permanently or just till it warms up?

I want to see how long the stock diffs are going to last. I know the LST diffs last a long long time and don't seem to break a sweat even on 6S. After close to a full year of racing and bashing, my LST diffs only needed new lube recently, the gears and bearings were all in top shape. I want to find out for myself if the stock diffs can last and take abuse like the LST diffs did. I know a lot of people run the stock diffs without problems but I have to test them for myself with my kind of driving.

*Yoda's voice* "A long journey it was, MC, and the full circle you walked..."
nevermind I'm tired lol
At least the stock chassis are cheap and easy to replace. It was fun reading up with your trials!

ive run stock diffs and only ever killed one rear diff but that was a completely different issue that caused that.
driveshaft boot got torn, sliding shaft siezed, pressure put of diff beaering, powdered bearing, ring gear moved and got stripped.

other than that, no troubles, you will need thicker oil in them than you run in the LST diffs though.
i run 500k in the front but that is a tad too thick, i run 5k in the rear and that feels ok.

My son's GERBE runs stock diffs in which I put 50k in front and 10k in rear. I find them a little too loose so in my ERBE I will try 100k front and 30k rear. I will still run my 8th scale diff in the center.