ORIGINAL: spuznick242
Hey everyone,
If you couldnt tell I'm new here but I have a few questions. I'm just getting back into the RC car world and I'm planning on upgrading from my previous electric rc cars but I'm kind of at loss. I'm looking to build as much of it on my own in my advanced metal shop class at school but I still want to use an off the shelf frame, electronics, and suspension. So mainly I'm going to build the motor and as much as the drive train as I can. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction on how to do this. I'm looking to go off-road with my build and deffinatly 4wd and the ability to upgrade is a must...something along the lines of the HPI MT2 (or anything similar) but in a kit form where I can just buy what I cant build. Thanks, any information would be great.
IMO look at the various RC's, and download a manual from the makers website. The manuals have blown up diagrams with part #'s. A kit will have all the parts (-electronics and motor usually) so that would defeat you wanting to build parts.
A MT2 won't benedit much from metal parts outside its steering knuckels
It also depends on how much you want to spend. You might want to look at the Jammin .5 crt in all truth its a pretty low priced, solid RC, and has some parts that would definitely benefit from metal ones being made.
Or if electric would be better there is a truck called the Monster XX at target for $99 that is a knockoff of a tamiya DF-02 that is pretty decent and has a fair bit that metal parts could be made for it.(only thing is the monster XX radio SUCKS but a $30 2.4ghz flysky radio from hobbypartz.com will fix it good) It could use a metal shock towers, steering knuckles, out drives, axles, rear uprights, steering linkage, etc... (and if you really want a challenge make the chassis outta metal
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