New traxxas castle mamba monster extreme?

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Originally Posted by lincpimp

The car does have an al chassis, all of the plastic chassis parts are basically an undertray for aerodynamic assistance. Plus they have a motor cooling duct on one side, that may also generate some down force.

I think you guys need to take a better look at this, they put alot of thought and design into it.

The diffs are the revo spec ones with the steel supports inside, and they are running a set of 1/8 buggy tires/wheels, which weigh at lest 2/3rd less than a std MT tire/wheel. Wheel and tire weight-force kills diffs. If the diffs are correctly assembled and the ring/pinion mesh is good I do not see why the diffs will have any issues.

I built a slayer a while back and ran the snot out of it, buggy wheels with buggy badlands. Never had the slightest bit of diff or driveshaft trouble, even after breaking numerous arms and blowing tires of the wheels. I really think the diffs will not be an issue here.

My concerns center around how strong the chassis will be, flexibility wise. I see they have a center support that the center driveshaft passes thru, and a top deck of some sort. Hope that keeps the flex down to a minimum.

And the 1717 on 6s will be plenty of motor to get 10lbs or so up to 100mph. Not so sure the 25c traxxas lipos will hold up, would prefer to see some 40c lipos there. I will be keeping the dual tray setup, as even weight distribution is key to going fast and being stable.

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You can bash TRX for a lot, but they really put effort into this car.

Yeah you can buy the ofna cheaper, but what will it take to get it too 100mph with full telemetry???? I can guarantee when your done you'll have at least 1k if not more into it. After all, the ofna is a roller nothing more and has none of the air control surfaces built in as the TRX car.

It's funny, everyone always complains that TRX never does anything new, just rehashes other designs (pretty much like every other RC company but nevermind that). When they do come up with an extremely well thought out and engineered design that is all new, people still bitch.

Traxxas hasn't really designed anything to get my heart pumping since the revo until this, so I give it up to them for nailing it well. They will sell these like hot cakes.

Like I said, my only hangup is the idevice requirement. However, seeing as used 3g's and 3gs's are everywhere for cheap, including the one my wife doesn't use, it's not a huge deal. I will still be okay when I decide to get one of these.

When you consider the package they put together, even at 1.1k, it's not a horrible deal.

MMM is 150, batteries would be in the 200 range, motor will probably sell for around 300, roller is probably a good 300 seeing all it has including the aluminum parts, telemetry system is at least 300. Right there you are at 1250 and I am sure there are things I missed.