All about Jammin truggies & conversion.

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by simplechamp

Yeah I wasn't too impressed by the NEXX8 either. But I think they are trying to have another car in the entry level 1/8 e-buggy category, so you kind of expect it to have e-clip hingepins, and other stuff like that to keep costs down. I think buying a used X2 and refurbishing it and converting it will give you a much better vehicle, but for people entering 1/8 electric the NEXX8 is a lot easier to deal with.

Either way, the NEXX8 should ensure those of us with Jammin vehicles have plenty of parts available.

Yeah, that was my take on it too. A truggy version on an LX1 or something.
I'm just disappointed as they killed the low budget hyper st, but seemingly replaced it with something of lesser quality. Ie, got my hyper pro kit for $360 or so, and had captured pins, spider diff, etc.

I know there have been many evolutions of the hyper buggy, and was hoping for a truggy version of the H9e buggy or so. Maybe something is coming out, I just have no idea, and haven't seen anything in the few places I looked.

Its too bad if they are killing the X2 also. Nice price @ $360 when alot of the other brands are over $500.

I still have my HST, and parts are harder to find as cheap as they used to be when the ebay chopshops were running, otoh I've almost never broken anything, and got a whole barely used roller for $100 as spares, as well as the other bags of spares I have. I just bash w/ it, so I plan to keep it for quite a while.