ORIGINAL: darksoul242001
ORIGINAL: lazyboy12300
Since the Hyper ST is deemed as a heavy truggy, what are you guys doing to get over this? Any weight saving? Or just living with it?
Scott
I remember reading somewhere in this forum that some one had tried the Hyper 7 carbon fiber shock towers which do fit. There are pictures posted as well. That same person made the hyper 7 chassis braces and the hyper 7 upper plate fit. I haven't been able to find the carbon fiber towers so I would assume that they could be cut out of some carbon fiber sheet. I don't know how that project ended or how much more of a performance gain that provided. Rob Bender from Nitrohouse supposedly had some weight reduction projects line up for this truck. I have to check with him and see what he came up with. If I find out I will post. He runs the truggy with an old Ninja .21 and has no problems pushing the truck around. Now I believe he is using a Jammin .28 or a Picco .28. If this truggy was a lot lighter it would definitely be a lot better. It's sad to see that most of the Hyper st trucks that had pictures posted here have now ended up on ebay. I'm still going to hang on to mine but like Herrsavage I will be getting an RC8T.
i got the cf towers on ebay, holeshoteng was the store but they have no items right now. the project worked pretty good, truck was a lot lighter and was more nimble. i could even go up a tooth on the clutchbell. i was happy with the results. the truck seems fine and able to keep up with the other truggies but once you lighten it substancially or drive another it is a hog. way over weight in a lot of areas, but thats good cause thats where it gets its toughness. for tight technical tracks good luck getting into the a main, but for bigger open tracks with big jumps it does fine. i sold mine on rc tech and it soon sold again to canada, so there is a diet hyper st pro up there somewhere kickin' ars.
