My First Savage

[Finnster]

I would highly suggest the dual rate springs from RC Raven for those shocks. Losi springs never felt right on there, esp as it got heavy. Power coated, but cheap at only $7 set. Many colors too.

Are you going to have something instead of the body to protect the F shocks? May get mangled a bit

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by Finnster

I would highly suggest the dual rate springs from RC Raven for those shocks. Losi springs never felt right on there, esp as it got heavy. Power coated, but cheap at only $7 set. Many colors too.

Are you going to have something instead of the body to protect the F shocks? May get mangled a bit

Finnster - have you actually used these? Now that I have a mini-fleet of these shocks, I need to get a spring selection going. Guess at seven per set, can't go wrong with trying them.

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

Finnster - have you actually used these? Now that I have a mini-fleet of these shocks, I need to get a spring selection going. Guess at seven per set, can't go wrong with trying them.

YEs, I have these on my savage now. I had Losi yellows. silver, black and white springs (came w. the used shocks I bought from a trader here) but none of them were ever quite to my liking. Plus I hated having two different color springs F&R. ;)

The Ravens are plush and fairly soft for small bumps, but get quite stiff and stop bottoming out the chassis even off big drops. (my truck is quite heavy also w. 1kg of batts, FLM bits, and a big 1521)
I have never gone back to the Losi's.


Thanks on the wing mount info. Most mounts I saw either didn't have the correct mounting holes or some wierd tab. The LSP mount was the only one I ever saw that worked, but was short and the wing was under the top of the shock tower and silly looking. I'll have to keep my eye out for an LX-1 mount.

G/l on the chassis. Perhaps you can convince Jaime to make some XXL ext Savage arms as well. A 1" extension per side would be really nice for the longer chassis ;)