Novak Kits Out Now

[BL_RV0]

Originally Posted by lincpimp

Have you guys seen the latest crop of magazine articles? I saw two bl vehicles, a revo and an emaxx in there, both with novak 4.5 systems. Not much mention was made of the lack of a lvc, and the gearing on the revo looked suspect. I also saw a recent revo conversion that had the novak setup, stock 2 speed tranny and no mech brakes! Plus he was running a 6.5hv on 3s lipo?!?!?!?!?

Some of the magazine guys are strange, and I really question what they know....

I can only imagine what they will do when the mamba monster w/motor combo comes out.

Yeah, personally I think they know nothing. They just build a truck to complete a conversion to advertise a "new" product, and don't custom make anything, to just show what you can get. As far as I'm concerned, you can beat anything "out of the box" with something with that great personal touch.

[lutach]

A company as big as Novak and this is the best they can do? Do they really think everyone will buy their HV (Not HV if you ask me) esc/motor for 1/8 scale? They have the buying power to actually make a kit of their own. Lets not forget, Castle too will be offering a similar kit, but you can use other motors with that one. I would really expect something different from this big companies. I posted some pictures of what I designed in radiocontrolzone's Caster thread and some of the guys there didn't like what I did. I was just trying to prove a point. If a guy like me with no experience at all can make a kit from the ground up, why can't the big companies do one as well? Are they too proud that they only think what they make is the best for all of us? This is my wondeful thought. Most of you will not agree, but hey I sometimes like to be different and stir up trouble .