ORIGINAL: ssllc902
My WARHEAD EVO came today! Looks like a great truck spent the night putting on the decals or rather capy stickers and did a check over on the truck. I was suprised there was not one bolt or screw that was lose as i checkd them all. I seems like there was a thousand screws. I stoped at LHS and as very lucky to see they carry alot of replacement parts for the warhead but no upgrades, so going to order a couple hundred bucks of alum soon and call it good. Anyone know where the cheepest place to get alum upgardes? I also put it a vernon fail safe that has 3 diffrent points to moniter with a onborad temp gage.I figure since the stock engine has had probs with over heating its a nice feature to be able to set the fail safe to kick in when it gets to a certain temp,that way i know right away if i got one of those heating issues. Plus I didnt have a failsafe or a temp gage on hand so a bought the all in one deal for the same price of them seperate. Will Brake it in tommarow if weather is halfway decent and let u know how it went.
QUESTION***** is the stock am transmiter crap? Is the range worse then most?
Also they sent be the green one!!!! I hate green!!! IF ANYONE HAS ABODY THEY WANA TRADE LET ME KNOW!
My stock radio works good but the receiver eats batteries. Get a rechargable hump pack. If you get aluminum for the truck it is heavier than the plastic. Alot of aluminum parts are 100% heavier. So the plastic arm that weighs 50 grams will be 100 grams alum. If you want alum parts I suggest the servo saver and the control arm for the steering. Aluminum diff cups, metal spur gear (remember to loctite the six screws they don't do it), hardened clutch bell and the bulkheads for the truck. You do need a failsafe for the truck. Buy a good fuel filter because the truck doesn't have one. Just keep the engine rich for breaking in and follow the video on the dvd and take your time. If the motor overheats once you tune the high speed needle open up the low speed needle to richen up the low speed to keep the engine cooler. Remember only 1/8 turns when tuning. My truck was used and the kid who owned it before me had the carb all screwed up. I started at factory settings and my motor runs 270 tops and averages around 240 before I replaced it with the axial engine for the hell of it. Make sure you use a temp guage. It you want to start the truck easy you can buy and fuel primer bulb to pump the fuel to the engine. I put one on my truck and it is the best 5 bucks I spent. It makes it so easy to start the truck. Good Luck