Hey there,
I've gotten the mrs4 disease and went on a buying fest so I've got some pictures, and LOTS of questions.... so yeah I'm kinda new to the mrs4's, I've got a HPI Savage (well 3 of them in the family, mine, my brothers and my dad's). I've kinda got addicted to the electric side of R/C, I had no idea how fast these things could go, I mean I just tried one of the cars which isn't even the best out of the lot and it goes FASTER than my savage!!! anyway just a few things on myself, I'm 17 years old, still in school cept I don't go to school daily, instead I go every Wednesday and they give me alocated things to do, which is awesome. I'm in a family of 7, 2nd youngest. Can't really think of much to say so I'll get on with the cars already.
I first got interested by these things cause they drift, and they are small, I liked the fact that it was small enough to take places easily. So I bought like 3 before christmas, one for my brother, and one for me (this was the first time we bought presents for one sibbling only, and the alocation of money was $50 US.... lol). So I'm sure all of you know these things are no where near $50 bucks but I thought I could justify it cause I didn't get him a Bday present. Anyway it turned out to cost more than I expected, but I didn't care.
Then I bought 5 more off ebay, knowing 2 of my friends want one, (stock) I thought it was a good idea to get them second hand rather than spending huge amounts of money all brand new and then giving them our old ones.
The Cars:
???? what is this chassis ????
Penguin P3500 Wide
Penguin P3500 Narrow
Motek Exo1
Aktion Sleeper 480
And the parts that came with them:
Wheels gallor
WHAT ARE THESE RIMS???? PLEASE TELL MEEEEE THEY LOOK FULLY SICK!
I'll make a photo of all of them with bodies later on, I still need to get some paint and stuff for my and my brothers body. That brings me to one of my questions, can I use automotive paint on the lexan body? or will it chip off easily and stuff, cause my plan is to use the same paint im using to spray my BMX.
And I might aswell start with the rest of my questions:
Which chassis do you guys thinks handles best?
What is the limit of cells on a stock ESC?
Why does the stock rear diff (4 bevel gears) setup slip so much when you do it they way they want you to do it, kinda hard to explain, but you have those plastic washer things at the end of metal rod which connects to the wheels, one of them sticks out a bit, and the other one is flush, I find that you can't tighten it enough (too loose), is it just me? is there something wrong?, If I swap the sides on which the plastic spacers are spossed to go, i can tighten it heaps, but the other wheel is loose.
I noticed that they actually super glued the front and rear diff in one of them, is this done just for speed? like a spool on a real car, it doesnt break under huge power, is that the reason for it?
Then I noticed on one of the cars, it has a BB rear diff cept a standard front diff (not one way) are standards better for somethings and one ways better for other things? - same goes for rear, is there a benifit of having the stock 4 bevel gears for some things and the BB for other things?
Is all alloy in the front better than some plastic? Cause the only thing that is really void to breaking in these things are the drivetrain cause of the pressure. When it comes to buying hop up parts on hpi savages i was told to stay mostly with stock cause plastic absorbs the impact (flexes) where as metal is solid, and everything would get shaken up, plus plastic is cheap to replace. So is there a benifit of making it all alloy in the front? or is it more for bling bling....
I got a little fan from Justin too, lol what the heck is that for? a motor fan or something, where does it go and how much does it really help?
I'm also wanting to upgrade transmitter and receiver. I heard about those novak ones that dont actually require a crystal, cept then I saw the price.... so could I get the receiver and buy a normal transmitter with crystals and make them interlink? Only problem is that crystals get sold in pairs :/.
If that doesn't work, is there a small good receiver you guys know about?
Also I find that the transmitters I have, have really crap connection with the batteries, is it the transmitter or my batteries? is it worth getting a pack? how do I go about that?
What does 480 can mean? is it a diameter dimension or something? They have a large motor with everything, in the pics u can see it, its soldered to the esc.... but it says 7.2volts, and the sleeper that has the 480 motor mount has 9.6volts battery output, so whats up with that? :/
I just looked at the aktion rc website trying to see if i can identify one of my cars and they sell a chassis with 4 sub c batteries, doesnt that mean 4.8 volts? whats the point of that?
LOL thats alot of reading, sorry everyone....
I would very much appreciate anyone who answers some of my many questions.
~Danz