What is a good starter box out there that is around 100$? Some may remember that my 9.5 MBX was hit by a car, and I finally got the parts and put it back together. I was using my shaft starter to turn over, and it sometimes doesn't catch. It has done this before, and I'm tired of it. I am just going to wait and buy a good starter box for Christmas. So as I asked, what starter box should I get?

the crome top ofna... works great

not many people have this box but a guy at my lhs recomended it to me and it works so great. its the starter box made by xtm for $99. it comes with a 12v batt, charger, powerpanel w/ igniter for it...its mostly put together, there is a little bit of work to do which will maybe take 30 minutes. great bow, great price, i highly recomend it.

My personal favorite is the Crono Stainless Steel Box. It's a direct drive, single 12V motor that will turn over even the most stubborn hot rod engines when they are new. It's much simpler to set up for your car than the regular 4 post locater style, and the switch and wiring are the stoutest I've seen in any starter box. I prefer to hard wire (solder) my starter box connections and the Crono box is the only one I feel comfortable doing this with. The switch bodies are made of a heavy, heat resistant material that won't melt 2 seconds after you put your soldering iron to it.

Regards the on board power panel. I've never had any luck with them.

If I do get a starter box, what do I have to do to the back of the engine where all the starting equipment is? Can I just take out the one way bearing and keep the shaft in there that would have gone into the bearing?

somebody must know...

Different engines require different things to do away with the pull start assembly. if you don't mind it hanging on the back of the engine, leave it like it is and use a starter box, it will work just fine.

Thanks, I will probably do that

You can buy a back plate for around $12-$15,
I did this with 2 of my hyper motors, they are very easy switch out.

But I remember I removed the pull start for a motor one time and had to grind off the pin that engages the pull start, I just can't remember which motor that was??

One of my motors I ran with the PS on the back the cord had broke, so I put a screw and high temp silicon to seal the hole, worked fine like that for a long time.

Good to here you're back in business


OOh and BTW I run the Ofna True start (non chrome top version) for my buggy, they work awesome. But just about any of the smaller boxes will get the buggy started once you have a nicely broken in engine. The smaller 1/10 size boxes have a hard time turning over brand new .21 size motors during break in. Hope this helps.