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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/15/2011 7:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		my aluminum finally got here from hong kong! got the silver gpm steering knuckles sitting in their purple c hubs. i like how it looks, clearances are good, now all i gotta do is try it out after my damn finals are finished.

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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/16/2011 2:58 AM   
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Maybe they'll let me run it as a 4X4 nitro SCT at the track lol.





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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/16/2011 2:16 PM   
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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/16/2011 4:11 PM   
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any1 know how to improve the turning circle on an mt2 (apart from a better servo)?
heard good reports from the GPM alloy steering assembly, can any1 confirm?
thanks

btw, thanks for the responses on getteing a hump pack into an mt2.
its a pack like nitrokillr's, so may look at swapping reciever & pack over


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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/16/2011 11:19 PM   
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Looks good! How about some topless shots?

The topless shot was on the last page.

BTW it's a MT1 with a G3.0 engine installed, picked up the Blitz wheels and MT2 body for cheep on ebay.



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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/17/2011 1:49 AM   
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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/18/2011 5:08 AM   
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GPM steering

the collars are made out of Delrin, a brand of polyoxymethylene. i just did a report on that stuff for my materials engineering class, and its intense. super strong polymer (plastic) with a very low friction coefficient (0.25).

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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/18/2011 2:57 PM   
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Looks good! How about some topless shots?

The topless shot was on the last page.

BTW it's a MT1 with a G3.0 engine installed, picked up the Blitz wheels and MT2 body for cheep on ebay.



love those tires
I still have a set in similar shape from my 1st MT1 that I bought used. I actually glued them to a new rim set cause the old rims were breaking.
I swear the original pro-line dirt-hawgs seemed to never wear out, and had damn good grip.

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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/18/2011 7:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		+1! Dirt Hawgs are my alltime favorite ST bashing tire!
Never wear out unless you are just roasting the tires on pavement with an RC10GT..
And wheelies on pavement with the GT no problem!
Here's a bald one from roasting em with a stock O.S. .12



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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/18/2011 8:28 PM   
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does it adjust braking strength or f/r balance?


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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/18/2011 9:20 PM   
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This is the setup I use for my throttle/brake set up



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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/18/2011 10:38 PM   
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+1! Dirt Hawgs are my alltime favorite ST bashing tire!
Never wear out unless you are just roasting the tires on pavement with an RC10GT..
And wheelies on pavement with the GT no problem!
Here's a bald one from roasting em with a stock O.S. .12



I have mine on a 4wd electric tamiya buggy that I slapped a RC10 body on

They still look like new though
I think I paid $5 for the rim set they were thrown out on clearance at my LHS from what I remember.

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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/19/2011 5:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		as long as we're talking about tires, anyone run proline mashers? they look like a fun bash tire.

also, good sand tire anyone?

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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/19/2011 10:53 AM   
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Braking strength. There is only one pad so you dont have the front rear balance. This is the setup I use for my throttle/brake set up


Cheers m8,
so which ways stronger, just my brakes @ the mo are crap


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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/19/2011 1:33 PM   
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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/19/2011 3:28 PM   
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as long as we're talking about tires, anyone run proline mashers? they look like a fun bash tire.

also, good sand tire anyone?

yea used to run them on my MT2 before I went to 2.8inch rims with the HB Lightning GT10 ST tires (they are the same outer diameter as masher 2ks)
to make em work you will have to cut the wheel well out slightly to allow it to turn or it will catch the body.
The mashers worked great IMO Would still use them on my MT2 but its just that I got a few sets of the lightning GT10 tires for a steal ($5 a set of 4), and 2 of my mashers needed to be replaced(I got 2 used, and bought 2 new) so the GT10 tires were cheaper in the end for same diameter

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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/19/2011 6:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		nice! thanks man, im looking for something to lift me up out of the grass a little more. ill have to check out those gt10 st tires too...

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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/19/2011 9:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		ive herd masher 2k's are a bit too big and heavy for an mt2?
how do they compare to dirt hawgs?
SLAYERPRO, how do the blitz wheels fare?

also, any1 runnin shock socks? do savage ones fit?

(sry for a mahoosive overload of questions in a sinlge post)


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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/19/2011 10:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		the mashers are quite a bit heavier, and will slow it down a tad. But they are so big they act like a 2nd set of shocks
In my case I need bigger tires for when I drive out front due to the poor state my street is in(or what the city calls a street). I mainly own MT's for a reason


On the Lightning GT10 tires They were DC'd a while back I bought them straight from hotbodies over a year ago when they did a giant blow out sale to get rid of the overstock on DC'd RC parts they had (also picked up 3 sets of savage tires + rims for $5-$10 a set, and 8 sets of 1/10th scale buggy tires for $3 a set ) Finding a set now might be extremely hard. I also needed to get 14mm hex's (think they came from a pede) to use the rims.

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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/22/2011 11:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		OK found a pic of my MT2 with the lightning GT10 rims/tires
didn't know I took actually had a pic of it
Only real issue with the rims is they have a lil less offset than the HPI wheely king rims so they are closer to the body

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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/23/2011 1:12 AM   
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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/23/2011 1:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey SyCo, I'm looking for some measurements of the mt2, for a project I have in mind. Can you tell me the width of the entire axle from wheel nut to wheel nut for the from axle as well as the rear axle? On either the nitro MT or the MT2.

Looking to pick up a rally body, but it's pretty wide at the axles..about 240mm front and rear..

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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/23/2011 11:48 AM   
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as long as we're talking about tires, anyone run proline mashers? they look like a fun bash tire.

also, good sand tire anyone?

yea used to run them on my MT2 before I went to 2.8inch rims with the HB Lightning GT10 ST tires (they are the same outer diameter as masher 2ks)
to make em work you will have to cut the wheel well out slightly to allow it to turn or it will catch the body.
The mashers worked great IMO Would still use them on my MT2 but its just that I got a few sets of the lightning GT10 tires for a steal ($5 a set of 4), and 2 of my mashers needed to be replaced(I got 2 used, and bought 2 new) so the GT10 tires were cheaper in the end for same diameter


@SyCo_VeNoM - Thank you for sharing the info on the MT2 tires and wheels.  I'm new to the MT2 nitro trucks and I'm looking around for 2.8 (inch?) black wheels to match with some tires for higher clearance off-road bashing.  It is not clear to me what tires/wheels fit and/or if any changes need to made to the stock setup to fit larger sizes (you noted haveing to cut wheels). I currently have what I believe to be are the stock HPI racing dirt bonz tires/wheels that came with the truck.

Any recommendations beyond the HB tires/wheels?



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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/23/2011 10:13 PM   
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as long as we're talking about tires, anyone run proline mashers? they look like a fun bash tire.

also, good sand tire anyone?

yea used to run them on my MT2 before I went to 2.8inch rims with the HB Lightning GT10 ST tires (they are the same outer diameter as masher 2ks)
to make em work you will have to cut the wheel well out slightly to allow it to turn or it will catch the body.
The mashers worked great IMO Would still use them on my MT2 but its just that I got a few sets of the lightning GT10 tires for a steal ($5 a set of 4), and 2 of my mashers needed to be replaced(I got 2 used, and bought 2 new) so the GT10 tires were cheaper in the end for same diameter


@SyCo_VeNoM - Thank you for sharing the info on the MT2 tires and wheels.  I'm new to the MT2 nitro trucks and I'm looking around for 2.8 (inch?) black wheels to match with some tires for higher clearance off-road bashing.  It is not clear to me what tires/wheels fit and/or if any changes need to made to the stock setup to fit larger sizes (you noted haveing to cut wheels). I currently have what I believe to be are the stock HPI racing dirt bonz tires/wheels that came with the truck.

Any recommendations beyond the HB tires/wheels?



outher diameter is around 4.9 inches
I had to cut the wheel well on the body to make it larger to allow the tire to spin freely when I turn the wheels


prestonlal According to tower (they sound about right from what I remember, kinda misplaced my tape measue at the moment)
Wheelbase: 11.75" (298mm) wheels on-center front-to-rear
Tread-Front: 10.25" (260mm)
Rear: 10.75" (273mm) wheels on-center side-to-side
Front Track: 12.5" (317mm)
Rear Track: 12.5" (317mm) wheels at outer edges

IMO persay a rally body won't work. I made a rally out of one, and ended up using a HPI Savage body on it, and HPI RS4 arms. I also had issues finding tires that looked right for the body, and ended up with traxxas 1/16th slash tires on it
shock towers are off the super rally (wish I remembered the parts list) body posts are from the RS4
That is an electric converted one, but outside the 2 plates everything would work for a nitro edition(I might turn it back to nitro actually)
I'll be honest I wanted the charger body more so for it (I think it would have looked better), but my LHS had a deal I couldn't pass up on the cude when I was looking (70% of on it)

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RE: Official HPI MT2 Thread - 5/24/2011 2:38 AM   
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