recommendations?

hi everyone i need your opinion.
i am looking to buy a rc car i want a 1/8 truggy but dont have a clue what one to get. i will do a conversion on it to make it brushless or if it already comes converted i wont worry about it. anyone got any ideas like im going to race at my local track but dont really want to be a serious racer so i dont need a serious racing car. it can be a roller already converted and others. also i want to be able to bash with it in between the races so it has to be strong. i was thinking an erevo or something but they arent the best racers. can anyone point me into the right direction or maybe which type of car you like. i am wanting to spend $300 shipped on a roller no more. thanks for your help
Braden

[el tomaso]

I am very happy with my Hobao Hyper ST Pro. I bought a used car with lots of parts for about 200$. I used RCM motor-mount and battery tray. I modified a D8T tray, but I think the MBX6T tray is a better fit, or custom. I had to change to MBX6 mudguards to get enough room for the battery, the 6T mudguards would be even nicer.

To make it bulletproof I upgraded the front and rear diffs to spider's, the center spider diff is stock on the Pro. I also changed to hobao 20mm big bores. Now the car could be raced(I haven't yet), but its a little heavy I think. Its the perfect basher though, very durable.

Other cars I like from what I've read/seen/heard; MBX6T, RC8-T w. RCM chassis conversion, XT8 w. RCM chassis kit, or D8T with Tekno v4 maybe?

Thomas G

I think you will be hard pressed finding a good 'racer' truggy roller for under $300.

Sure you can buy a HST. I have one, they are a tank but very heavy compared to today's truggies.

Plus i'm not sure what will be different here to before...

[x-y]

if you search a long life good quality buggy buy a kit version .......... if you search a shit with problems/brokens very week buy a rtr version :p

mugen, xray, losi, jq, ofna, ....... all the companys have kit versions

[JERRY2KONE]

You are going to receive all kinds of advice in here from people who are racing at many different tracks and also playing at all levels of bashing. It sounds to me like you are really wanting to get involved with the R/C social scene in your local area. My advice to you would be to hang out with some of your local R/C'rs there and see what is popular at your local track. If you want to be part of that crowd then you want to have a vehicle that will fit into that realm. If they are all racing Revo's and you bring in a Savage, then you are going to have a problem. See what all of them are using and then base your decision on that information. Otherwise you are going to be an outsider not allowed to be a part of that click. Unless of course your intention is to show up with something totally different and just want to out run them all together. But from your first post that is not your intention at all. There are so may choices out there that you will end up with easily a dozen suggetions from almost any forum including this one, that could leave you even more confused. We have read many times about people who have picked up this great new R/C toy, but can not race at their local track because there is not a class for that particular vehicle. Just my 2 cents.

[mac3194]

If i was you, I would get a losi 8T good for racing and good for bashin and its a very common truggie.

[pinkpanda3310]

bundyracer?? Is that anything to do with rum? Hmmmm, rum...

Jerry has good advice, check out what other people run and what your LHS stocks parts for.

[DrKnow65]

I bash and race with my family at the local track, I've got 7 RC's from large to small feather light 1/10's... My best combination car that does well on the track and can bash hard without issue is definitely the Losi 8T. It's a hair on the heavy side and being large it doesn't have the snappy steering of some of my smaller rides. The trade off is that it's rock solid and the trucks you race with at the track are all in the same performance range. Also, it takes big tires to run in the grass at the park...

I would however look to my local track FIRST to see what vehicles are raced most, I.e. 1/10 2wd buggy, 1/10 4wd buggy, 1/8 4wd buggy, 1/10 2wd truck, 1/10 4wd truck, 1/8 4wd truck... ect. THEN ask around about the most reliable vehicle in that class.

Just make sure you dont fall into the Novak/maxamps trap on the electronics side. Buy a properly sized Castle Creatons ESC and an appropriately low KV 4 pole motor. Get midgrade lipo's like Turnigy, Sky Lipo, or Blue lipo, no need to spend an arm and a leg on thunderpower or the like. Buy at least 3 sets of batteries and a charger that will do more than 1 battery at a time (or you could buy 2 cheap chargers). Radio gear and servo's can be expensive too, I'd recommend a good servo (Hitec HS-7945SH @ $79) and a cheap radio (Flysky GT3B @ $45).

Hope that helps, but I'm afraid you may find it more expensive to originally set up for the hobby than you think. Look at all the advise you can find and hopefully you'll only spend the big money once.

Originally Posted by pinkpanda3310

bundyracer?? Is that anything to do with rum? Hmmmm, rum...

Bundaberg is famous for it's rum

Kieren