ORIGINAL: Dale Gribble
Glad to hear you are happy with the buggy so far, since I was the largest proponent of getting it. You can't beat that price. Did you paint the body yet? Ya, let me check and I will find you some stiff spring part #s. It should be stiff. The chassis should just contact the ground, it shouldn't slap on a jump. That kills all of the buggy's momentum. Definitely stiffen it up. For some reason, RTRs come with too soft of setup. I guess they just tune them for good bashing not all around performance.
Glad your girl liked it! Time for her to get one.
Yes, Ive very glad you took the time to convince me to get it! With the price gap I was looking at, Id probably still be sitting here RC-less, hah. Yes, I painted the body solid metallic black. Thinking about stripping it and redoing it with lots of clear spots (almost like having a clear body with black stripes), to keep things like that from happening again. I had that idea at first, then decided to just paint the whole thing. Then again, the all-black look, while somewhat toy-ish looking without windows, does have a nice stealthy look to it, heh. Yeah, new springs would be good! I think I have some extras lying around from my storm pile, but I dont have any spring force numbers (either on the Turmoil or the extra spring I have), so Id really be going by nothing more than the "squishiness" test when determining what springs to use. So yeah, anything with numbers would be nice!
And yeah, my GF did like it! She wanted a MiniT or a MicroT at first (just looking at the videos on youtube), but I think she might start liking the big stuff! At the very least, I might try to get my old Nitro Rustler going for her to bash around with.