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mistercrash · 06:24 PM

I'm back from the track. Today was an open practice day so I got to run this truck on 6S with a new set of Panther Pythons mounted on TRX dish wheels. These tires give good traction on any kind of track surface, dusty, loamy, blue groove, it doesn't matter, the tires just have great bite and I love them. I didn't have any problems clearing the big jumps. It was even easy to over shoot them farther than the Truggys did. I still had the stock springs on and my diffs were way too stiff. The truck was squirrely and it bottomed out in many places. Other than that, the handling was very good and with yellow springs and lighter lube in the diffs, this truck would be an awesome racer.

The temps after a set of 3S Turnigy 5800 mah were 150 motor, 125 ESC, 110 lipos. The weather was sunny and very humid with no wind and a temperature in the 30 Celsius. Very hot day.

My driving was rusty to say the least, I hadn't been on a track in over a year so I made quite a few mistakes. But that is fine, all those missed landings and hits and cartwheels really tested the durability of the truck. That thing is tough!The only thing that didn't hold up to the abuse was one of the battery boxes. I was very disappointed with that and it put an end to my day prematurely.
There is a huge double immediately followed by a small single. I had to come in at a controlled speed to just make the double and glide through the small single. That is the fast way of doing it. I over shot the double and lawn darted the small single from 12 feet high. One of the battery box wasn't strong enough for the weight of the lipo moving forward and the front of the box completely snapped off.
So I will have to find either a better to mount these boxes or find a stronger alternative.

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mistercrash Guelph, Canada, eh! Offline Posts: 1,083 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Guelph, Ontario, Canada	05.30.2010, 03:29 PM I'm back from the track. Today was an open practice day so I got to run this truck on 6S with a new set of Panther Pythons mounted on TRX dish wheels. These tires give good traction on any kind of track surface, dusty, loamy, blue groove, it doesn't matter, the tires just have great bite and I love them. I didn't have any problems clearing the big jumps. It was even easy to over shoot them farther than the Truggys did. I still had the stock springs on and my diffs were way too stiff. The truck was squirrely and it bottomed out in many places. Other than that, the handling was very good and with yellow springs and lighter lube in the diffs, this truck would be an awesome racer. The temps after a set of 3S Turnigy 5800 mah were 150 motor, 125 ESC, 110 lipos. The weather was sunny and very humid with no wind and a temperature in the 30 Celsius. Very hot day. My driving was rusty to say the least, I hadn't been on a track in over a year so I made quite a few mistakes. But that is fine, all those missed landings and hits and cartwheels really tested the durability of the truck. That thing is tough!The only thing that didn't hold up to the abuse was one of the battery boxes. I was very disappointed with that and it put an end to my day prematurely. There is a huge double immediately followed by a small single. I had to come in at a controlled speed to just make the double and glide through the small single. That is the fast way of doing it. I over shot the double and lawn darted the small single from 12 feet high. One of the battery box wasn't strong enough for the weight of the lipo moving forward and the front of the box completely snapped off. So I will have to find either a better to mount these boxes or find a stronger alternative. No brain, no headaches. Last edited by mistercrash; 05.30.2010 at 06:24 PM.