Traxxas Summit New Truck

[suicideneil]

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

[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...

[RideIcon]

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...

dude i've got arb air activated lockers front and rear on my truck with over 900ftlbs of torque,

its not a kids toy, maybe a child that would flip that switch while driving shouldnt have that toy

[Tempted]

Originally Posted by RideIcon

dude i've got arb air activated lockers front and rear on my truck with over 900ftlbs of torque,

its not a kids toy, maybe a child that would flip that switch while driving shouldnt have that toy

Sure, I had a 600+hp twin turbo SBC in a lifted truck on 35s and no problems from the Detroits, but we are talking scale here. Imagine if your truck accelerated as fast as some of these MTs do. If you scale the speeds, acceleration and weight up to 1:1 they would obliterate our real trucks. That said, could our real diffs and driveline handle that kind of torture? The simple and correct answer is no. I don't believe these drivelines(Summit) will handle any more power than they already have, meaning brushless is out of the question. And I will bet that that two speed isn't going to hold up even to the 775 motor. The gearing is just too low. Unless its a metal geared tranny, I think they will fail. This truck as a whole is a failure on Traxxas' part, but with some real crawler upgrades could become a worthy truck.