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RE: 8ight Truggy - 5/22/2007 3:24:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		does anyone know exactly what all the changes(cheapifications) are? im thinking about just buying this and dropping the 427 into my aftershock and buying a picco .28 like i had planed for the kit.

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RE: 8ight Truggy - 5/22/2007 4:40:58 AM   
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RE: 8ight Truggy - 5/24/2007 4:19:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		That would be a nice starter truck, but i don't like how thin the towers are

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RE: 8ight Truggy - 5/24/2007 4:28:06 PM   
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RE: 8ight Truggy - 6/23/2007 9:56:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have an RTR buggy, so I was disappointed to find out the Pro Truggy was already built, but I scooped it up anyway. We will see how she does during the week

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RE: 8ight Truggy - 6/26/2007 7:18:24 PM   
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Status: online 		The 8ight's are here in cali and they are going for 599.99 at hobby town and a other place is selling them for 629.99 so it will be fun to see how many end up at the track over the next couple of weeks????

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RE: 8ight Truggy - 7/15/2007 9:41:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well I went and ordered my 8ight-T roller.....should have it by tue.....(hopefuly)......Still stuck between what mill to drop in...leanin towards the OS v speed.....Hey I figured I'm going to race it in the old fart class ....and shure don't want to be runnin around like an old fart......so......and figure too I'm a Big boy and it's only money..."LOL"...and it's a good lookin engine too...with a little power to back it up.."L"....or I could go 5K...(nova)...?????

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RE: 8ight Truggy - 7/15/2007 11:54:09 AM   
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RE: 8ight Truggy - 7/15/2007 1:45:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		I just got my new Mugen starter box setup and ready to go. My truck is a race roller and I used my RTR buggy engine, and it is hard to impossible to start when hot. Hopefully the starter box's power helps.

Have any of you guys with the RTR 427 noticed when the motor is hot? When the fuel from the tank hits the hose barb at the carb, the fuel seems to boil and shoot back towards the tank. I have to let the motor cool to get it started, but my temps are usually at 230 and barely over 250.
I have taken the motor apart and sealed everything with high temp RTV, I am not sure what else to do. Since my buddies RTR 427 does THE EXACT SAME thing, I am thinking it is just a design flaw somewhere?

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RE: 8ight Truggy - 7/16/2007 1:20:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		When an engine is hard to start when hot its usually a sign of being to lean or the P/S is shot.

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RE: 8ight Truggy - 7/16/2007 7:24:51 AM   
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Status: online 		Ran my 427 all day today at the track and it was in the 90s out side temp and the engine temp never got over 270 to 276 mostly ran in the 250s. Never had the boiling thing??????. Even smoked a set of clutch shoes and like a dumbie I did not replace the bearings in the bell gear and then that went about five laps after the new shoes were put on and swing smoked the bearings, slaped some new bearings in it and ran the rest of the day flawless.

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RE: 8ight Truggy - 7/16/2007 12:47:56 PM   
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When an engine is hard to start when hot its usually a sign of being to lean or the P/S is shot.


Agreed, but my buddy and I have both tried richening the engines more and more, and it does not help. I tune for performance, but as I said before my temps are normally around 230s. It has plenty of compression, and has about 2.5 gallons through it. My buddies engine and mine were fine for the first couple of gallons and then it seems the past few weeks we have had this problem. I tried taking the temps of the carb, when I brought the car the engine was almost 240 and I checked the carb temp and it was just over 200. Now I know the cheap little Duratrax temp guns arn't the most accurate, and I had to get right in there so the exhaust temp didn't affect the reading too much, but I just wanted to get an idea of how hot the carb was getting. I will be getting a new motor next month, I have just accepted it

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RE: 8ight Truggy - 7/16/2007 1:25:39 PM   
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ORIGINAL: coololdude

Well I went and ordered my 8ight-T roller.....should have it by tue.....(hopefuly)......Still stuck between what mill to drop in...leanin towards the OS v speed.....Hey I figured I'm going to race it in the old fart class ....and shure don't want to be runnin around like an old fart......so......and figure too I'm a Big boy and it's only money..."LOL"...and it's a good lookin engine too...with a little power to back it up.."L"....or I could go 5K...(nova)...?????


I got a WS7III in my Losi 8T and love it. The C6 would work great too! Go to bmainhobbies.com and email Lisa to see what kind of deal she can get you! I got my WS7III for 280.00 shipped!

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RE: 8ight Truggy - 7/19/2007 12:02:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey, I was wondering what the stock shock oil is in the 8ight-T?
Also, what is the stock spring rate?

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RE: 8ight Truggy - 7/24/2007 3:59:57 AM