Project fast 1/8 buggy on a budget

[jayjay283]

thats where its at ! ... we as gentmen trying to have fun. some to tame sppeed for a track, some trying to conquer it for no reason. 70moh tires must be had. Members here have gotten us what we neen Lu esc, now we need the fat tires boys... 70mph was a wow really last year... we can all hit it with a rcm 22 tooth pinion now. Tires cant hang, Axial bead locks , TAPED, and real tight are the best ive pulled. Anyone got a foam fat monster wide style tire they can produce... $100 here

[speedracer1129]

Originally Posted by jayjay283

thats where its at ! ... we as gentmen trying to have fun. some to tame sppeed for a track, some trying to conquer it for no reason. 70moh tires must be had. Members here have gotten us what we neen Lu esc, now we need the fat tires boys... 70mph was a wow really last year... we can all hit it with a rcm 22 tooth pinion now. Tires cant hang, Axial bead locks , TAPED, and real tight are the best ive pulled. Anyone got a foam fat monster wide style tire they can produce... $100 here

Jay,

The only problem that exists right now is that there is no tire truer to true them. There are ways to get the foam donuts to glue them yourself. I have been bugging JACO to see if they will release the 40 series foams they had a few years ago for the Maxx in a 17mm version.

A wealth of good information here for sure but let me throw in my opinion of running 6s vs 5s.....I have learned that running 5s seems to be much more efficient due to the high RPM jump when going with 6s.......the very first thing you should do is learn to use BrianG's speed calculator
http://scriptasylum.com/rc_speed/_top_speed.html it is the key to dialing in any truck.....you can get just as much speed out of a 5s truck (with the exception of speed runs) and run at a much lower rpm ...hence less fatigue and heat on the motor.....let the gearing do the work

LEARN TO USE THE CALCULATOR