new brushless hyper 9 buggy coming??

[lutach]

Originally Posted by jhautz

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.

[jhautz]

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? LOL