The *Unofficial* GPF RC Thread

[Bronco Boy]

If your running a 4wd, street tires will pop off of those rims.... I've tried them, they are only 2.2" and most on road are 3.8" so your not slinging so much rubber.

It's a rock crawler, so doesn't see more than 2 mp/h. LOL

I might go look at this green thing this weekend to get my speed on.... http://vancouver.craigslist.ca/pml/spo/5175675674.html

[J57ltr]

That dude must be high. For that price it should come with a 3 S battery and charger.

[Bronco Boy]

That dude must be high. For that price it should come with a 3 S battery and charger.

Um.....Canadian dollars..... 30% higher than US dollars. That truck new up here is $450-500.

[J57ltr]

It's up to 30% now? Man I remember going years ago and paid for lunch with an American $10 and got back a Canadian 10 and change! Then I am not sure when but maybe a couple of years ago it was 1:1 and then this last year it was about 20%.

Jeff

[Bronco Boy]

It's up to 30% now? Man I remember going years ago and paid for lunch with an American $10 and got back a Canadian 10 and change! Then I am not sure when but maybe a couple of years ago it was 1:1 and then this last year it was about 20%.

.76 to be exact. You'd get that $10 CDN back now for sure. It was October or November of last year when we were at par with the US dollar. It was 20% a few months ago. Look at you paying attention to Canada. LOL

[J57ltr]

Well I do get up there a fair amount..... usually in the damn winter though. By the way I am a horrible judge of time unless I have a reference. The battery on our Forklift died one time and I told our Pres. that I thought it was still under warranty and as it turns out it was 8 years old.

Jeff


I like going because Per Diem is like $120 a day in some places and usually about $90 or so in others.

[Bronco Boy]

8 years old, BTDT, only cuz I'm getting old. LOL

[J57ltr]

What's BTDT, what does that mean? We call it CRS for Can't Remember Sxxx.

[Bronco Boy]

BTDT = Been there done that.

[J57ltr]

Then your not that old, you and your kid speak.

[Bronco Boy]

I just type like that to feel young. Aight? LOL

[J57ltr]

Laugh out loud.....

[Slick2500]

Why oh why ECX, did you think that plastic was a good material to make gears out of, the least they could do is offer metal upgrade gears.


This is what the gear should look like.

[J57ltr]

There's got to be something you can fit in there. If it don't fit force it. Either that or order parts in bulk. When is your new motor coming in?

Jeff

[Slick2500]

The diffs out of a Losi Mini 8ight fit right in, but there are not any axles that bolt up to the diffs that fit. Well new diffs are ~$17 a pop, they don't sell just the gears so it is not cost effective to buy diffs all the time.
Ordered the motor on Sunday, and they didn't ship it out until today at 4:00, so it won't be here until Tuesday. Really wish I would have noticed the threads about how bad the diffs are in this truck. The ECX 1/18 trucks all have this issue.

The problem with the ECX Mini diffs is the internal gears are very soft plastic, and the sockets on the backs of the output gears round-out and stop transmitting torque to the outdrives. Horizon denies the existence of a problem. It's probably a classic case of "functioning as intended" vs. "functioning as expected" -- they never intended the ECX Mini vehicles to be run hard; that's what the bigger ones are for.

Their 1/10 trucks are actually pretty good. Jang at Ultimate Rc did a review of the 1/10 Torment, and during his durability montage all that happened was one of the axle slider shafts popped out.
Fast forward to 5:07 if you want to skip all the boring stuff.

[ItHurtz]

lol at guy with 1/18 problems.

[Bronco Boy]

Somebody try this. LOL

[Slick2500]

Jesus, the battery flew out of that thing lol

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[Slick2500]

And so Cory can shut up about the 1/18 **** I stopped by the LHS after work and picked this up. It looks so big compared to the 1/18.



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[ItHurtz]

I am confused, I see no madforce, gt not even a rampage.....