[Thirdgen89GTA]

Ahh, finally bought all of the replacement diff parts. After driving the Mini8 and the Hyper 10TT for so long I had forgotten just how much FUN the truggy was.

The other cars you can feel it. The Mini8 hates grass with a passion, its truly too small even for short grass. The 10TT is okay, but you can feel the drag on the car. Its just too much. And it overheats much easier in the grass than it does on a track.

The Jammin truggy? Blows through the grass like its riding on glass. I stuck a set of my Proline badlands on it from the buggy and stepped up the gearing to compensate. It was tearing up grass left and right, leaving ruts in every bit of dirt it found. Flooring it on dirt would send a cloud of dust about 10ft back from the starting point while it dug half inch trenches in where the badlands scrabbled to lay the power down. I broke the glue bead on the front tire. Gonna have to clean it up and reglue it. Hopefully it'll last longer this time.

I need to get a 22t pinion so I shove my GRP Grandini slicks on the truck and see just how fast it can go in a straight line. Calculated the pinion to keep its existing gearing at roughly the same RPM/MPH. But I don't think a 22t will fit.

Had a guy come over and ask how much it would be to buy one, and I had to tell him he couldn't buy one like that. I did point him to the HPI Trophy Flux though. Figure if someone wants a brushless truggy thats the only one on the market. One of the guys at work asked me if building a eTruggy would be better, or if he should buy a Revo BL. I told him go for the Revo. He is much more of a basher, and not so much as a hobbiest. Enough grease hasn't gotten into his veins yet for him to start hungering to convert a car.