Pass on your experience/advice about buggies, setups, accessories, etc.

[Gee]

It might be nice to have a thread that had some general or specific advice from buggy owners about what they've learned. Could be what to look for in a used/new buggy. Throw in a tip you found the hardway. Something that improved your setup. A trick you use when you paint a body. Just a cool thread to browse through and look for tips or things to do to your buggy. Anything you think would be helpful to others.

I've got a thing for tires and have started my collection of buggy tires and found a couple things out. Some or all of you may have already known this but I didn't until after I had them glued on the wheels. Anyway here's my contribution to the thread. Hope the rest of you jump in and share what you think would helpful to other new and old buggy owners.

One thing to look out for when buying rims for you buggy is to check the indent around the nut. I already had the badlands glued to the rims when I found this out. Once I took the wrench out to tighten the nut down on the tire. I found that the indent around the nut wasn't large enough. The indent wouldn't allow my wrench to slide down on the nut to tighten it. I did my best to tighten it but I ended up losing a 17mm nut due to this. I will be able to use the setup on my slayer with the 5mm locknut. It would be a pain to run these on the buggy all the time. You can see in the picture below the amount of space around the nut on the white rims that your wrench will fit down into. The yellow rim with the badlands indent comes right up next to the 17mm nut.





I like the looks of the spoked rims better but I am finding they do have thier downside. The rims that have spokes in them are more prone to getting locked up by rocks, twigs, etc while I am out bashing. May not be a problem while you are on a track that is cleaned of that material.



Also in order to get my esc to fit under the Losi Shell I cut a peice of lexan and used a torch to bend it. This allowed be to mount the esc below and behind the center diff. Also to use the mounting holes that are onto of the center differential to secure it in place. If you going to try this a trick to bending the lexan is to keep the flame moving and try not to heat the lexan up to fast. If little bubbles start forming in the lexan it is being heated to fast in that area.




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[SpEEdyBL]

I have few things to share regarding wheels and tires. I've notice that they can vary in weight quite a bit. For example

Ofna star rim: 42g
Ofna trulite rim: 35g

Proline Moab tires w/ molded insert: 90g
Ofna treaded onroad tire w/ belt: 66g
Panther soft slick tire w/ soft foam: 50g

Hotlaps autocross mounted on unknown rims: 125g
Losi pins mounted on losi rims: 115g

[Gee]

Thanks. Hey which tires are those in your avatar? Those look sharp!

[RCShocker]

Originally Posted by Gee

Thanks. Hey which tires are those in your avatar? Those look sharp!

These were posted in "Speedy's" thread.

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXHMH6&P=SM

Plus I want to bring this back up to the top and see if anyone can offer some buggy suggestions..................please.

I am very interested in set-up tips, etc. as well.

Here's a tip that I found:

The RCPD battery tray/splashguard combo for the Losi 8 is $135 That's for just the tray. The complete RCPD conversion run's $175-$185.

I see people "braggin up" the RCPD stuff but at that price can it really be worth it?