Buying name brand race kits as the new ones are coming out. The "last years" kits are still great for most people and sometimes on huge discount from amain and other retailers. Or used cars from market place are a good deal. they sometimes come with extra parts and tires. Great videos as always keep it up.
Yep Traxxas sued HPI over a rubber seal. Claim the invented the waterproof radio box which had long been used in RC boats and the first 1/8 scale four-wheel drive buggy the kyosho land jump and that was made back in 1981 before there was a Traxxas anything. The best thing that could happen is tracks is going out of business someone else buying the company
Great video, looking forward to part two! One point though: The B7 might be the first to come with a 5-gear out of the box but the Rudebits 5-gear transmission has been available for a few years now, way before the B7. It's pricey but totally worth it if you're running Serpent on indoor tracks. Some even built a Frankenstein car with a LD3 front end and a custom chassis plate around it just because the transmission is so awesome.
11:12 thats so childish of agama. obviously if someone is redesigning one of your parts they think its a garbage design. unless they were nasty or attacking in their advertising i see no reason for this. 2:42 dude the kit setup for the b6 is so damn good and easy to drive for everyone. any time someone asks for setup tips when building a new one almost EVERYONE says just build it with the kit setup and run it.
I feel lucky to have been racing during the heyday of stadium trucks in the mid-late 90’s. Outdoor, loose dirt, mod-truck & mod-buggy days were awesome. Think my favorite pairing to race was my RC10 Worlds buggy & the best truck ever, the RC10T2.
na, i find the noise of nitro annoying, and you spend more time playing with the engine than playing with the car, which is fine if your into to that but i rather just drive
If you are an 8th scale fan and don't mind a drive to Omaha Nebraska check out our 8th scale tekno winter series at the Hobby town Hobby plex. Get that Nitro fix on the indoor dirt track
On my 74.2D CE I use 40wt up front and 35wt in the rear. Right now I have 20k - 200k - 10k for my diffs. I think it runs pretty well as compared to my last 4wd. Springs are normally what I change around for tuning. So far I have not had to change the weight of the oil for different track layouts. I personally like 4wd better than 2wd but that is just me I guess...
Got back into racing about a year ago with an Associated 6.3 and now recently just got a new Schumacher LD3 and am really liking it so far. It took a bit of tuning to get it to do what I want but it feels so smooth and predictable
On what basis do you think the LD3m is more fragile than others? What experience do you have. I have seen many b7 break trans and c blocks all the time.
I've never bought and likely never will buy any rc rtr or kit new especially for racing. This hobby imo is over priced. Plus like real cars it depreciates in value and mods dont hold value. i've scored plenty second hand deals for way cheaper and use them instead. Much prefer this way.
Unless there is a B7.1 sometime soon I am thinking of the Mugen MSB1 for my son when he outgrows his RB10. I never went to the B7 from my B6.4D, I got it just before the B7 came out and I don't see the point right now.
Its strange the team associeted site they dont mention the fact that they won the 1/8world Champion in Spain problaby they dont know 😂 ! My Next 1/8is a Mugen .beacuse they dont make A new 1/8 pass on month like the xray 😕
The LD3 may be using propriatery springs, but they are cheap. The full set is around 20€ per axis. Now compare that to other brands... When I receive my PR B10R I'll probably 3d-print some spring cups to run Schumacher springs cause all my other springs are for 12mm shocks.
Great Video! Definitely agree with you on your thoughts across these brands, ive been running xray in 1/10 and 1/8 for a few years now, you can basically upgrade your kit every year if you race solidly week in and week out, for me, i would say its worthwhile upgrading every 3 years as that's when the major uodates happen, ie: the 21, 22, 23 xb2 are all relatively the same, just with some small upgrades, the 24 has been alot of changes, you also get 2 gearboxes, highly likely the 25 wont have many changes and you won't get the second gearbox like you did in the 24, they have just teased the xb2 25, looking forward to seeing the changes as im ready to uodate my 21 xb2c 😊👌🇦🇺
Always a good well thought out video mate.... As a new buggy racer( 3rd race this Wednesday) I plumbed for a couple of second hand TA B6. 1. And as you say finding the abuse they can withstand surprising.... Keep the videos coming buddy 👍
I never ever been into race..im a newbie...but what if stock spec..and as well as mod spec...what is the typical motor they use mostly for the competition..in terms for buggy 1/10 dirt clay track..
Well if you're doing stock 2wd than 21.5 or 17.5 motors are the standard. Best way to figure it out though would be to go to your local track and see what they're running
Don’t let others opinions shape your decisions , the B7 has handed me EASY wins over ALL the brands with MUCH less tuning and effort. The only brand I would potentially put over a B7 is a Shumacher. Go look at big 10 scale races from the last few months. I promise you will see B7 more than anything on podium pics. There is a reason the B7 is the number 1 selling buggy right now and with that comes the super aggressive drivers that break parts and blame the platform. B7 going on 2months with constant podiums and no breakages AT ALL.
@@louisCrashes So you think i should get a B7 instead of a Schumacher LD3S for 17.5 stock spec? I’ve been asking around. It just seems like the b7 gearbox and c/d block issue would make the car cost more because of breakage.
Depends on what type of surface you’re running on. Team Associated will have the best parts support and community to help out with issues and problems. The B7 is also insanely easy to tune. Schumacher depending on where you are will be a little tougher to get your parts and help however the performance on high grip is INSANE! Those Schumacher buggies are B7 killers for sure lol Stay neutral and always know that all buggies have potential and more then the buggy it’s the driver. Also just as an FYI I don’t consider myself aggressive to drive but I am not passive either and def take risks and haven’t had a single problem with either C or D blocks. Casing FAT JUMPS lol
8:54 completely disagree. it makes it wayyy more complicated as you have to figure out what you need to do and buy to make it work for your surface. its also more expensive. im going through that right now with a t6.4. luckily im not brand new to racing but if i was i would have never bought it. with associated its pretty obvious which one you should get for which surface.
Sounds good. But, how does anyone justify $400 for basically a chassis, arms and gearbox? Then, you have to change and add everything else from aftermarket sources before you can even drive it. I'm staring at the B7. Would it not be better to just build a car from scratch at this point?
People’s money don’t come from nowhere. Agama put in effort in the n1 doesn’t mean them treated the 2wd any seriously. When I looked at it a while back then it looks like a scammer, now they just changed the design, like wth is that
I have a Serpent SRX8-E it’s a pretty good lightweight car that is quite stable. I genuinely believe it’s a better buggy for racing than all these other RTR’s. At $453 shipped from desoto racing no tax, it’s unbeatable. However the downside is that the electronics are the cheapest of the cheap. The motor is decent but the esc, servo, and radio is all MUCH worse than spektrum stuff. However at $453, replacing all the electronics is still a great value proposition when you consider that it is often called the most “kit-like” RTR. It’s actually a pretty solid car for me now that I have done that.
How did you cover Losi but not Yokomo? Nobody uses Losi anymore. The YZ-2 CAL3.1 and SO2.0 are amazing vehicles. They also have the RO1.0 which is basically the same thing but a RTR for beginners. In addition Yokomo and Associated have a long history together and if you look closely at the vehicles you'll notice many similarities.
