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Hi guys,
I want to buy another nitro truggy, but this time I'm looking at something with a centre diff.
I am still new in this hobby and my driving skills are not up to standards yet.
I tend to accelerate too hard, with the result that I flip my model and damaged it by that.
My experience is that with a model equiped with centre diff ellimanate this problem.
Can anyone recommend a model (s) with this feature?
I want to buy another nitro truggy, but this time I'm looking at something with a centre diff.
I am still new in this hobby and my driving skills are not up to standards yet.
I tend to accelerate too hard, with the result that I flip my model and damaged it by that.
My experience is that with a model equiped with centre diff ellimanate this problem.
Can anyone recommend a model (s) with this feature?
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RE: truggy
Like what nitro said, all truggies have center diffss, its what make em a hybrid truck/buggy. Unless your truggy is brushless (electric) or has some serious nitro power it wont wheelie, and flipping them is pretty hard, they are very planted and awesome rigs.
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RE: truggy
I highly recommend the Losi 10 T. I have had mine for a month now with about 1 gallon of fuel through it and it is held up to rough bashing. This truggy is fast, has an onboard starting system you start from the transmitter. The radio is a Spektrum DX3S that retails for $250.00 by itself and has full telemetry features. The Ten T has an MSRP of $499.99, but I got mine for $454.00 and with tax it came to $489.00 out the door. This truggy is FAST and durable. The only fault I can see with it is the smallish 75 cc fuel tank, which is good for about 7-10 minutes of run time depending on how heavy you are on the throttle. Mine stops on a dime and so far in the limited space I have run it, a soccer field and baseball diamond, I have gotten it up to 43 MPH. With the body off, you can see that Losi really went all out to make this a tough, quality truggy. Losi recommends no exetended breakin and I ran mine through four tanks of Thunder Power First Run at 1/2 to 3/4 throttle slightly rich. On the fith tank I opened her up and I got a taste of how fast this truggy is. I just finished running through some 20% Nitrotane and the power is amazing. Get the 10 T. You won't regret it.
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RE: truggy
Thanks for your reply, though I am not quite convinced.
At present I have amongst others a Traxxas T-Maxx 2.5; and a Savage 4.6 - both are offroad 4x4 MT's, but are NOT equiped with centre diffs.
They do have 2-speed boxes with slipper clutches only.
Or are they not classified as truggys? - what is the differences?
At present I have amongst others a Traxxas T-Maxx 2.5; and a Savage 4.6 - both are offroad 4x4 MT's, but are NOT equiped with centre diffs.
They do have 2-speed boxes with slipper clutches only.
Or are they not classified as truggys? - what is the differences?
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RE: truggy
Your cars are monster trucks. Truggies by definition are borne of buggies, just turned into trucks. Buggies came first.
The 1/8th buggy platform is arguably the most proven off road race platform in the hobby. There are some things that define this 1/8th buggy chassis layout, the first and most important is 3 differentials. There are two reasons for this. 1) To control front/rear power distribution, and 2) to provide adjustable braking bias between front and rear. There is simply no comparison around a race track, a car with a centre differential will whoop a car without one. The tuning options they represent are needed and have a dramatic effect on a car's acceleration, steering and braking performance. You will NEVER see an off road race car with a 2 speed (Monster trucks are not considered 'race cars'). A truggy with a 2 speed would handle very poorly, pushing hard, and the 2 speed or another part of the drivetrain would fail in short order, which is why MTs have slippers. A slipper would simply bleed off wanted power on a race truck. They are not needed because the cars are much lighter and the drivetrains built much stronger, of course including a centre differential to act as a buffer in cases of very sudden and drastic speed differences between front and rear (such as when landing awkwardly from a jump).
PS. You will definitely want to change your username to not be your email address, every email address crawler (robots that collect email addresses for marketing companies to spam) on the internet will pick it up and you will get spam like you wouldn't believe. Welcome to RCU by the way.
The 1/8th buggy platform is arguably the most proven off road race platform in the hobby. There are some things that define this 1/8th buggy chassis layout, the first and most important is 3 differentials. There are two reasons for this. 1) To control front/rear power distribution, and 2) to provide adjustable braking bias between front and rear. There is simply no comparison around a race track, a car with a centre differential will whoop a car without one. The tuning options they represent are needed and have a dramatic effect on a car's acceleration, steering and braking performance. You will NEVER see an off road race car with a 2 speed (Monster trucks are not considered 'race cars'). A truggy with a 2 speed would handle very poorly, pushing hard, and the 2 speed or another part of the drivetrain would fail in short order, which is why MTs have slippers. A slipper would simply bleed off wanted power on a race truck. They are not needed because the cars are much lighter and the drivetrains built much stronger, of course including a centre differential to act as a buffer in cases of very sudden and drastic speed differences between front and rear (such as when landing awkwardly from a jump).
PS. You will definitely want to change your username to not be your email address, every email address crawler (robots that collect email addresses for marketing companies to spam) on the internet will pick it up and you will get spam like you wouldn't believe. Welcome to RCU by the way.
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RE: truggy
Hi Foxy,
Thanks very much for that info! now I know excactly what the differences are.
However, it leaves me with one little problem - besides my collection of MT's, I have to obtain some truggies!
But now at least I have a good excuse to tune my wife!
And yes, thanks for that warning tip, I never thought of that.
Thanks very much for that info! now I know excactly what the differences are.
However, it leaves me with one little problem - besides my collection of MT's, I have to obtain some truggies!
But now at least I have a good excuse to tune my wife!
And yes, thanks for that warning tip, I never thought of that.