danielst
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Joined: 9/29/2004
From: Laurelville, OH, USA
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I second that... I picked up an AWD chassis the other day. While it's cool in its own right, I vastly prefer the MR-02 (both MM and RM) to it. They are faster out of the box and handle better (with the caveot that you replace the stock tires on the 02's). The funny thing is, I put some 20's on the front and 8's on the back of the AWD and hated the way it drove. I felt it drove much better with the stock, hard rubber tires. With the good tires, it was very twitchy and hooked up so well that it was actually harder to drive. There was no slide at all, give it the slightest of steering input and the thing went that direction right now. For the record, all of my running has been on RCP, so I can't comment on any other surface.
I know that when we have our bi-weekly races at the hobby shop, an occasional X-Mod will show up, and stock for stock, it is completely outclassed by the Mini-Z's. Even some rather modified X-Mod's have been run and they struggle to run anything near the pace of the stock Mini-Z's. Once you jump up to the classes where more modding is allowed (i.e. ball diffs, bearings, etc... but stock motors), it is even more of a gap between the two. But, if your just bashing around and doing it for the fun of it, buy what you want. If your running with your buddies and everyone agrees to go X-Mods, then the racing will be just as fun.
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