Hello all,
This thread is a very popular search result on Google. Thanks for everyone's input! I've been reading through as this car has literally just popped through my door this afternoon.
My impressions, for the curious:
I'm running 16% nitro, on which it seems happy. Haven't even started break-in yet, but I did manage to get it running after a lot of panicking about how hard I had to pull the starter cord.
You really have to be a bit vicious with the initial movement, don't you? Otherwise it seizes up on you. I'm hoping after run-in this gets a little 'looser' but it suffices to say the engine has a lot of pinch right now.
Out of the box instructions are crap for a beginner like me - just one page of text telling you to "break it in" but not how; the rest is construction diagrams which is great, but not for setup. No setup for the engine either, which was set wrong out of the box too. Thank heavens for the internet!
The stock servos are a bit naff. Especially the steering servo. I tried switching to a 2.4Ghz system, and it just can't operate on it. It bugs out and whirls from side to side at top speed if you give more than very slow changes to the input. If both servos are plugged in at once, they both bug out regardless. Flippin' proprietary radio systems! I have much bigger and more power-hungry servos that respond fine to that system. I'm using an Ansmann W3 and R3 receiver. I'll switch both of the servos out first opportunity I get.
So far this car has sat blarping on my desk and not much else, I'll try an apprehensive 27Mhz bash tomorrow and see what happens