new brushless hyper 9 buggy coming??
 

check this out....some interesting mods for new hyper 9 brushless..
http://www.redrc.net/2009/02/toy-fair-2009-hobao/
...check out the center diff set up...

That is pretty cool!! One can only imagine how much it would cost $1300???

I wonder how long till the rest follow...

Holy cow!

Nice to see a manufacturer try to come up with something different.

Sad to see they are still trying to push the 2 x 2S LiPo packs.:grrrrrr:

Just saw that an hour or so ago. Definitely looks cool. Just more like a traditional electric 4wd buggy. Now just make that rear diff a slipper and I would really be excited. Really looks like 8th scale electric is starting to really kick off.

Maybe Mugen, Koyosho, Xray will be next...:whistle: I know, wishful thinking!:mdr:

I know what I'm getting myself for Christmas, if it's out by then and if X-Ray dose'nt beat them to it. :whistle:

That HW esc looks like its from the 80s

You guys should look at the Ishimira (Don't know if I spelled it right). Now that's a design that should've been done. Strange thing is that I contacted most of them asking for the front and rear assembly to make a electric version and now they have one lol. It's nice now as this can only mean some nice 8th scale racing to come.

The hyper9 is a trribute to MrC's car... and most current 1/10 4wd buggies lol

I was working on the exact same bloody design with another caster guy... I was surprised that AE didn't do it this way

I just hope they sell it as a roller so the customer can put the electronics of their choice in it. That Hobbywing/Speed Passion stuff isn't going to cut it.

I love the ishima buggy. cant wait for there e-truggy... might get one if it doesnt cost an arm a leg and some fingers:lol:

So the Hyper 9 is a tribute to Mr. C, the Mr. C from Germany who probably makes the best 8th scale conversions? If I was Mr. C, I would not allow that.

lol.... well, you know what I mean. :) those of us who remember/know what he has made, will know that the hyper9 is not revolutionary...

I wouldnt say its that much like the MrC conversions. Only similarity is the spur gear moved to the back. MrC used slipper instead of center diff, 2 battery packs instead of one, CF chassis instead of aluminum and had a full length front to rear chassis top plate as a stiffener.

The Hyper 9 is by far the most revamped and (in my opinion) optimized layout that has been released yet. Especially from the big name manufacturers which to date have all pretty much just copied the rear dif bulk replacement and battery box that bolts into the nitro chassis holes approch. Glad to see one of the big guys taking a stab at rethinking things a bit. I'm sure this wont be the final word in the electric 1/8 layouts, but it has certainly steped out a bit from the efforts of most of the other big names.

This is by far the most revamped one yet: http://www.redrc.net/2009/02/toy-fair-2009-ishima/

The one item I'm questioning is the motor mount which looks very similar to the one Mike has made.

Yes. That is very different from anything else Ive seen so far. And yea I agree with you the motor mount has been done before, but lets face it there are only so many places you can put the motor mount relative to the spur gear and only so many places you can put the center diff. At one point or another someone on this board has probably tried just about everything already so you cant be too critical of that IMO.

The only thing I dont like about it is it still has all of the weight pushed out to the edges of the buggy. It looks balanced, but very spread out. That and where the heck am I gonna find an Ishima here in the US? :neutral: LOL

I don't really like the Ishima, but they did do more than most other mfgs, and I think it's a good balanced car. I'm pretty sure there was a mag review a while back that had a similar layout, but not done nearly as nice. And I think that car used odd size small lipo packs.

Jhautz... you still think we should do the Hyper9 layout?

:)

Yep.

That was the Mega Motors 1/8 conversion a while back. it used plywood for a bunch of the parts. lol

That Hyper 9 chassis is not going to flex hardly at all with those two big stampings running the length of it.

Yea, they probably did that because of the long drivshaft running from back to front.