Boca Bearings vs. Acer bearings...ceramic sets.

Wow. I don't believe any of that. I went through 2 sets of Acer bearings last season in a Losi 8ight. I was HIGHLY disappointed. I am running Boca Bearings now with 7 races on them. 2 races were mud, and I mean mud, and 1 one was on an exrtemely "gritty" track thats notorious for tearing up bearings and anything else. I have yet to have one failure. I still don't even have a "crunchy" bearing. Not one. Good luck with your Acers but I'm telling you, save your money and buy the good stuff. You get what you pay for.
For any of those who doubt what I'm saying pm me your address and I will personally send you some used Acers. Its not pretty.The bearings were actually so useless that I was reconsidering ever buying any ceramics again. Boca Bearings 100% or you'll be sorry. Not an opinion, this is fact.

[Ryu James]

Originally Posted by cdbias

Wow. I don't believe any of that. I went through 2 sets of Acer bearings last season in a Losi 8ight. I was HIGHLY disappointed. I am running Boca Bearings now with 7 races on them. 2 races were mud, and I mean mud, and 1 one was on an exrtemely "gritty" track thats notorious for tearing up bearings and anything else. I have yet to have one failure. I still don't even have a "crunchy" bearing. Not one. Good luck with your Acers but I'm telling you, save your money and buy the good stuff. You get what you pay for.
For any of those who doubt what I'm saying pm me your address and I will personally send you some used Acers. Its not pretty.The bearings were actually so useless that I was reconsidering ever buying any ceramics again. Boca Bearings 100% or you'll be sorry. Not an opinion, this is fact.

wow, thats good to know dude. thats 2 people now that have had acer problems. i have yet to have any problems with any of my acers but i am going to get the boca set to try them out. thanks for the heads up.

You won't be disappointed with the Boca's. The first "mud" race I had to hit with them I was mad at the fact I had just dropped the $$$ on them, thinking they would get destroyed like the others. Not the case.

For any of you that hit the warmup to the North Carolina state championships at WCRC know what I'm talking about. If they can make it through that weekend, then I don't think there is anything you can throw at them. Same set, not one crunchy. Amazing!

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just playing the devil's advocate here

a car needs a teardown anyway after a muddy race, I would much rather just replace the bearings with cheapies as opposed to cleaning/relubing/babying bearings that cost me a days wage. It's more time and cost efficient to use cheapies and replace them at any sign of wear/dirt.
After one lap outside any efficiency gained is lost by the addition of dirt, dust, bugs what have you. Unecessary fluff! Especially for a car driven in dirt.
Save them for the gold plated shelf queen!

that's just me though.........

[jayjay283]

I kept burning through those traxxas stock blue paper bearings on the 3905, I bought some of those Bocas and they run like champs. 8-9 months of bashing and they are fine. ( a few drops of trinity bearing oil when I break my truck and take it apart) The Traxxas ones were like $1.97 for 2 and the bocas were $15 but I think it was worth it just not to have that issue anymore. The traxxas ones blue cover thing kept flying off and then the whole bearing was toast

zero maintenance on the Boca's. Zero means nothing. I only take them out and wipe them down. Thats whay amazed me after racing them in rain!!!

No greasing, no relubing, no air blasting,.......nothing.

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wow! two users happy with boca, and testimonials of longevity. very interesting food for thought. thanks for the input cdbias and jayjay