New Traxxas Products

[mistercrash]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

I find the two manufactures tranny's to be relatively the same. Out of the box, not reliable for 6S.

I can't comment on the Flux tranny, some are very happy with it with upgraded gears in it. I know for a fact that the gears in the Traxxas BL E-Revo tranny don't need to be upgraded. I ran the E-Revo tranny on 6S in a 14 pound LST XXL all summer remember? The E-Revo tranny is very reliable on 6S. I will admit that it does need one inexpensive upgrade though, the Hot Racing double slipper. If you happen to have the newer model of tranny that comes with the aluminum slipper pads then you're all set, absolutely no upgrade needed for 6S.

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by mistercrash

I ran the E-Revo tranny on 6S in a 14 pound LST XXL all summer remember? The E-Revo tranny is very reliable on 6S.

That's true. I wonder though what the outcome would have been if you hadn't blown your diffs all the time (may have been the same outcome....nobody knows for certain).

[reno911]

Originally Posted by lincpimp

I think the pede 4x4 is killer, would buy one tomorrow if the lhs had it.

Not too fond of the vxl stuff, but I bet on 3s lipo geared way down to 45mph or so it will do just fine. Never had any issues with higher rpm cheaper bl setups geared down. I ran a crap load of feigaos before medusa came out and they all did well for me. Would like to see a 15l sized motor in there on 5s lipo with a mmpro or something like that esc. Way too much power!!!

As far as traxxas making crap... I have owned just about every platform traxxas has made, and their stuff is well engineered and easy to work on (save for the jato tranny).

I will say some other platforms (cough lst couch) may be better than traxxas' MT offerings, but they are still good. If you keep an emaxx light and run stock sized wheels/tires on it they are quite durable, add some rpm parts and they are much better. Same thing with the revo, they are 10th sized trucks, leave them that way and they do well, if you want bigger go up to a converted lst or cen monster.

As far as rtr goes, traxxas blows everyone else out of the water, in price and specs. Maybe losi gets close, but most of their stuff is badge engineered (worse than traxxas) and I never cared for their fragile race vehicles.

Traxxas makes good entry level stuff. At least their E-MT trannies stay together under power (cough flux cough)...

+1

Traxxas makes quality RC in my eyes. Every RC has it's downside. Even the extremely over engineered RC's aren't perfect. My local indoor track runs many different Short Coarse trucks. The more the Slash 4x4 wins on the track the more of them I see. The truck is very competitive out of the box, a few tweaks and your done. Nothing major needed to race it. For someone just joining the hobby that is a thing of beauty.

[Muggydude]

Traxxas Tranny=Perfect
HPI Tranny with Mods=Good

Traxxas Drivetrain with anything=Sucka$$
HPI Drivetrain=Great (With few upgrades=Awesome!)

[TexasSP]

Freeze, you are like a teenage girl with RC's so pardon if no one really pays attention to your opinions. Anything that happens to you with an RC even slightly negative and you are running around screaming OMG OMG OMG the sky is falling. Not trying to be mean but it's true.

Traxxas does a damn good job at what they do and have hands down changed the RC market forever. They broke down the layers of the hobby snobbery which existed so heavily pre 2000 and made hobby level RC available, affordable, and understandable to every one.

Name one RC company that has literally redesigned anything in recent years? What that is so revolutionary has come out of HPI, Losi, Team AE, Ofna, etc?

I would also wonder why not use the slash 4x4 platform more? Have you actually experience with it those who are knocking it? It's one of the toughest and most versatile RC platforms ever. While not particularly revolutionary in design it works very well. Why should they reinvent the wheel at every turn?

[josh9mille]

Originally Posted by TexasSP

Freeze, you are like a teenage girl with RC's so pardon if no one really pays attention to your opinions. Anything that happens to you with an RC even slightly negative and you are running around screaming OMG OMG OMG the sky is falling.

You hit the nail on the head with that one!

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by TexasSP

Freeze, you are like a teenage girl with RC's so pardon if no one really pays attention to your opinions. Anything that happens to you with an RC even slightly negative and you are running around screaming OMG OMG OMG the sky is falling. Not trying to be mean but it's true.

I would also wonder why not use the slash 4x4 platform more? Have you actually experience with it those who are knocking it?

Ditto on both of those.

I guess you could have taken my first response as bashing the Slash platform...that wasn't the intent. Merely dissapointed that I can take one of my two slash 4x4's and make a Stampede 4x4!!!