Traxxas Summit New Truck

[George16]

I'd rather buy a Tamiya Land Cruiser CR-01 for $242 instead of this e-revo clone.

Hmmmmm, I think I remember my wife telling me to go ahead and buy the Land cruiser when we went to the hobby shop last weekend. I wish the value of the Japanese Yen drops against the dollar so I can get it cheaper.

[jefierro]

Comparing body post, i think is the same separation or thereabouts.


yeah those are big tires!

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

The bulkheads have likely changed to fit the new diff, so they must have had to re-engineer that interface also. Maybe these new bulkheads will make it easier to fit the 1/8 diff's in it now....Linc, get ready.....

My thoughts exactly. The new diff looks a bit wider and the diff case must be a bit bigger to fit the diff and the actuator arm in there, which appears to be bearing supported. Those bearing would most likely be the 8mm od bearings, and will take up some space. I will most likely pick up the summit (as long as the price is ok) and see if the lst diff cases will fit in there. That would make it easy, lst diffs are chaep on ebay and the bulks are about 6-8 bucks for a pair for the std revo (IIRC) so the summit ones will not be much different in price...

[TexasSP]

RPP has them listed for preorder at 479

Prices are looking reasonable.

http://www.shop.rpphobby.com/product...productId=1152

[The Mook]

Traxxas doesn't call the Summit a crawler, it is more of a wicked expensive tiny ATV.

[E-fanatic]

Originally Posted by suicideneil

Que?

What has the slayer got to do with anything? The slayer has a completely different chassis to the nitro revos, so yeah, its going to be a different size ofcourse.

Its just that comparsion picture that lots of people are cooing over:



if you jack up the Erevo and add P2 rockers, it looks pretty much identical; it just looks bigger due to the larger shell and big tyres. If I jacked up my Gmaxx, it would be even bigger than both of those still... thats all I ment by its not actually 'bigger'. Its all an illusion....

It does look like traxxas put a 1/2 in offset into the summits rims (so it would be an inch wider) But I have aready done that to my e-revo. I just wish traxxas would put that 1/2 offset into all there rims b/c a truck thats 23inchs long needs to be wider than 16 inches

wow, that thing really does sit up high dont it!

i may get it in a year. Really depends how much money i have to throw around

[RideIcon]

If it came with the same 2.4ghz radio and the mmm and motor the brushless erevo had it would be an awesome basher!

[hootie7159]

if that were the case if it really did come with the MMM combo.....those tiny servos that lock the diffs would definitely be the first thing to go along with the locking mechanism....maybe they'll have the a-arms/drive shafts/wheels to transform the e-revo into summit specs.....

[rhylsadar]

imo the summit is sooo cool! i am pretty sure this truck is going to sell like crazy. nice compromise, nice features, nice look, nice compatibility with already existing parts for the revo. all the talking about crawling is misleading imo. on the page it says it is an "extreme terrain monster truck". and yeah exactly thats what it is. i would prefer "all terrain truck". but i see the the appeal in the word "extreme". lool

nice christmas present.

bye
rhylsadar

[RideIcon]

I think that at 4s or 5s the steel lockers would probably do just fine, and just like a real rig you shouldn't be slamming the lockers in at anything more than a slow crawl....

[suicideneil]

Exactly, but I can see lots of little kids trying to lock the diffs at speed, which is where the issues will start...

[The Mook]

True, but money isn't an object when a kid's dad buys them a Summit anyway...

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by suicideneil

Exactly, but I can see lots of little kids trying to lock the diffs at speed, which is where the issues will start...

You never know, traxxas may have an optidrive setup so that the locks cannot be accessed until the truck is not moving. The trans case has a provision to mount the optidrive sensor...

[brushlessboy16]

this would come inhandy as a center diff for bashers.... where your bottomed out on a rock, rear tires are down but fronts are in the air ballooning as you desperately try to get traction