What is THIS!?! HPI goes wild...
 

Yeah it has been out for like 2 weeks or 3 it is cool i seen a guy wheelie about throught 3 isles in the hobby store (about 15 yards) and he could have kept going but he had to stop because the store ended. They look fun i thought about getting one just for laughs and as a backup when my others are sitting but that is about it.

Ive seen this about 2 weeks ago ; looks like fun!

For me honestly wheelies absolutly no fun.
I can understand crawling on rocks but what u do with wheelies?
No handling, high CG and ets, for me its waist of money :)
just my opinion :eek:

Same goes for me tom, i could do it for one run, but after id just get bored, thats why we put BL systems so we could bash, jump, race and do wheelies! :)

Too bad it's only 2wd. I know of a few people who bought 2 kits to build a crawler, but seems like a waste to me. The axles look pretty nice though.

its acutally not badd, i read up a review about it and it scored high 9's and 10's and its overall wat 9 i think. said it was great for wheelies and awsome from rock climbing.

yeah thats a flaw right there.......2wd.(would of scored 10 if it was 4wd)

It doesnt looks as if it would be the greatest crawler.. atleast to me.

Deffinately not in stock form. The only thing I would use from the Willy King is 2 rear axles.

if you could change battery position it might be a fun basher without all the useless wheelies.

I think it needs a 4 wd installed.

It sure does Leroy.. I think it will be(come) an upgrade...

I saw a review on it in RC action they said it is a pretty well designed car exept for the no 4wd but the also said it has the capibility to be 4wd. I do not know if this means hpi sells a 4wd upgrade or making one is possable. But from the pic it apears all that is needed for 4wd is a front cvd to conect trans to front gear box. It is fun to drive and crawl they said but it only does 12 mph which is to slow for me IMO but for crawling that is not to bad.

It reminds me of Tamiya's Wild Willy. The name that is.

Absolutely! 4WD is a must have!

Captain ; The wild willy is awesome! :)
Wheely king
Wild willy.
Very similar.

There have already been folks over on rccrawler.com that have converted the WK to 4WD. The inner axles are the main part holding up the conversion process for many folks. Some have gotten around it by using custom dogbones or buying 2 kits to scavenge the rear axles.

there is an article in this month's rc driver showing exactly what parts to order and how to do the conversion, no need to buy two kits

I recently received my parts from tower to convert mine to 4wd. I bought everything but the bearings from tower and got the bearings on eBay. It cost me about $53 for the parts necessary to convert it. Although, that was with a $10 off $50 order code from tower.

So how are you liking your WK skellyo? I was thinking of getting one to mess around with in the snow/dirt.

To be honest with you, I haven't driven it yet. When I bought it, I pulled out the stock radio, ESC and motor to be replaced. I've put a new brushed motor in there, new ESC and new Rx, but haven't driven it since I've been waiting on the 4WD parts. At one time I was thinking of going brushless in it, but with it not having a slipper, it's not such a good idea. Hopefully this weekend I can take it out in 4WD form and see how it does.

Ok. Let us know how she goes, even if i were to get one, it wouldnt be BL anyway.

Ok, so I took out my new WK today in its 4WD form. I'm running the stock steering servo, a Novak XRS ESC, Venom 21T motor (nice and cheap), IB3800 stick pack and stock gearing. It's not going to break any land speed records, but it's a pretty fun little truck. It's got a very high CG and is stupid easy to rollover as you'll see in my videos. So, anyhow, on to the videos...

www.skellyo.com/WK1.wmv

and

www.skellyo.com/WK2.wmv

Yep! that's a wheelie king for sure! it needs a wider stand.. i think with a bigger motor, a (bit) lower CG it would make backflips and frontflips with ease..

Looks like fun! Id second what Serum said, would be a funner basher for sure!

That id what I like to call the king of wheelies, lol. Looks fun. It would be so cool to install rear steering and steering onto the wheels on the wheelie bar, so you can steer while doing a wheelie.

Surprisingly, it tracks very straight while wheelying (is that a word?!?). It's so different than anything else I have because you have to really be on your toes to keep it from just barrel rolling every time you want to turn it.

That's why i would make it wider. tipping over is uncool..

yeah it really does what its name says!