So here's the story.
I got my nitro rush about 2 years ago from the safty guy on a high rise building I was working on in Chicago. He had it stored in his closit for a year or so & I picked it up for a little over $100. It was all stock & ran OK but needed a little help. I added titanium turnbuckles, A ball diff, mip cvd's, heavy duty middle gear, RS4 SS racing fuel tank, Dynomite pipe, & a Wasp .12 engine. It ripped pretty good at this point but was still a little heavy so I got the carbon upper chassis & it lost about a pound with just that. I then heard about a titanium chassis from f4iracing, checked it out & ordered it. When I installed it the truck seamed pretty bullit proof at that time.
Barb & I then took her kids ( Brian-17 & Eileen-14 ) to Cincinatti to see her mother for a 1 week vacation. I brought my rush & Brian brought his ultima evo so we could race out there. While we where racing I took a full speed run down the parkway & as I started to cross the neighbors driveway I heard a solid SLAM & my truck went about 5 feet straight up in the air & flew about 10 feet further down the parkway before landing & coming to a rest. What it hit was where the neighbors would pull into their drive way just next to the cement but on the grass. It was about 7 or so inches deep & I slammed it topped out. When I inspected my truck all 4 front bulkhead screws had blown out never to be found. Also the upper graphite chassis had shatterd.
The suprising thing is that the titanium main chassis was completly undamaged, not even a scratch. That thing is pretty tough. When I got home I contacted Larry from f4iracing & had him send me his titanium upper chassis & he modded it to fit the laydown steering setup I had installed as an extra, no charge for the extra cutting.
When I got the new upper chassis & installed it I noticed the the spur gear was trashed from the crash also.
I did some research & found that the Robinson steel spur gear for the savage would fit the rush so I installed that.
Now this little rush is toughened, lightened & ready to take on all RC10s & Losi's.
So thats the story of the Titanium Nitro Rush.
Larry makes titanium parts for most HPI nitros & it is exellent quality.
http://www.f4iracing.com
Here's the list of parts on my rush,
Titanium upper & lower chassis,
Wasp .12 se/ps engine,
GPM aluminum shock towers & rear chassis brace,
HPI ball differential, RS4-3 racing fuel tank, Heavy duty middle tranny gear, aluminum rear uprights,
Dynomite pipe,
Duratrax shocks,
Lundsford & HPI titanium turnbuckles,
RC10GT steering bell cranks,
MIP shinny CVDs,
aluminum clutch,
Masher tires,
Ofna fuel filter/primer,
Robinson racing Savage steel spur gear & clutch bell.
I think that covers it.