My custom carbon fiber 8ight 2.0 brushless style. pics!

[Mentat]

Originally Posted by stum

It's much cheaper and easier to just convert your current center or front diff (reguardless of versoin 1.0 or 2.0) to a smart diff. In fact I have a set of the gears and return springs that are new on ebay for a nice deal. All you need is to make sure you swap to the heavy duty diff case, get some smart diff grease, the gears and return springs and build it yourself and save a few bucks and have more options as you get a full spring set.

So are you saying that if you have the HD Diff with the metal inserts that u can just purchase the gears and return springs along with the oil and you have a smart diff? I had been wondering about that.

[stum]

Originally Posted by Mentat

So are you saying that if you have the HD Diff with the metal inserts that u can just purchase the gears and return springs along with the oil and you have a smart diff? I had been wondering about that.

Yes.. it's that easy, one thing to note though while this simple conversion saves a TON of money the Losi assembled smart diff's do come standard w/ the lightened out drives and lightened spurs which are costly, but are NOT needed.

[florianz]

what a great car!!

one question: is there a kick-up in the front, or not?

if yes, how did you do it? if not, is there a difference in driving it w/out kick-up?
I had planned and already started to build my own carbon chassis, but solving the kickup-problem stopped me.

florian