Sorry for all the questions but i love this forum. anyways basically what im gettin at is what trucks will run with the T-Maxx.. Thanks!

... i hate to be mean but look in the mt forum there are literally tons of tmaxx vs savage vs other mt's, just a click away, or you can search... this question has to have been asked like billions of times

but honestly its all about preference, if u like the tmaxx get the tmaxx, most people dont put into consideration other people's opinions when buying their actual trucks because of dicks who shall remain nameless that only like 1 brand (losi, traxxas, etc)

all im sayin is that for a nitro mt, the tmaxx is nice and so is the savage, whichever you pick you will be happy with

also the tmaxx is a bit faster out the box if you are just gonna keep it stock

bout 10mph faster, thats not jus a 'bit' but anyways, Most ppl do get the savage or tmaxx, i decided to be different, but thats not always the best option if your new and dont know how to get parts.

oooshutdown...

Since you are new I'd stick with what you can get at the LHS. since I live in the chicago suburbs I can tell you that you can't go wrong with the savage or t-maxx.. every LHS in the chi town area has parts for those usually in stock. on which is better? again personal preference. go to the LHS and look at them in person to decide. I can tell you now that a 2.5 maxx is faster out of the box than a savage but the savage has more overall potential due to its made to handle a .21. a Savage with a good engine, clutch, HD bones, and 16t clutchbell is very fast and reliable. to go .21 on a t-maxx will cost big $$$. I know because I've had a maxx for years and now its a heavily modded .21 powered beast. again like was said its all personal preference.

After you make a decision and buy a new RC or even if you want to see what we have in action a few local chicago guys on the traxxas forum and I have been planing on forming a kind of bash club. you would be more than welcome to join us. check this forum for more info

Good luck with the purchase.
John

all you have to do to make a tmaxx have equivalent power to a .21 savage if not better, is get the sirio .18 and jus gear it, it'd eat most .21's otu there that people buy.

All you have to do is get the sirio .18 to keep up with .21's? mabey for half a tank or so.. after the .18 look to replace the tranny with a good forward only conversion, replace all the plastic sliders with CVD's, get Al chassis braces and alloy skids (stops chassis flex and striping spur gears). A friend of mine decided to go sirio .18 and he ended up buying all the above which made his maxx reliable again. Yeah it was decent quick but still in a drag race he was no faster than my 247 powred maxx or my friends 247 powered savage. then he submerged his sirio maxx into a creek after a failed jump and soon after his sirio snaped a con rod after the bronze bushing let loose. (fyi a p/s and con rod for a sirio is about $140!) Needless to say he gave up and parted out the maxx and just got a hyper 7 pbs. when it was a stock 2.5 maxx he never had problems breaking things left and right like he did with a .18. A maxx with a 2.5 is at its limits of what the stock driveline can handle. anyhitng more and it begins to have driveline failures that aren't due to wear.

you make it sound like ppl dont get skid plates anyways, and like a forward only conversion costs more than 10$. you dont neeed aluminum braces with it, and he apparently didnt gear the thing properly if it asnt faster than a 24/7.

I wonder.. Do you have a t-maxx? do you have a maxx with a .247 or a sirio .18 or any first had real world experience with them?

My maxx with a 247 and 1/8 scale 20/51 gearing vs my buddy's .18 sirio with stock 20/72 was no faster than my maxx. they were about equal on all counts. Trinity said to gear the sirio just like the stock 2.5 and it was. He had the engine running really strong too temps in the 240's.

T-maxxes suffer from pretty bad chassis flex especailly with they have super powerfull engines in them. that is why they strip lots of spur gears hence aluminum braces and alloy skids which helped solve that problem. It worked wonders on his maxx as he didn't strip out any more spur gears. The $10 traxxas forward only conversion is junk and breaks with any real power droped into it. heck I striped out my traxxas forward only with an os .15 CVx. So the only other alternative is a good and more expensive forward only converion. A .247 has a heck of a lot of power. easily more than the sirio but the sirio revs to a higher rpm. A .247 with a large clutchbell can easily have just as much top end speed as a sirio .18 and not loose in aceleration.

yes i have maxx experience, but im not going to argue with some1 who wont change there opinion if they happen to be incorrect, just because trinity says this doesnt mean its necessary, if you leave it stock, you arent taking advantage of any of the opwer the sirio is able to put out. and a more expensive high quality fw only is 25$ whoooo thats pricey

I let my neighbor drive my maxx once so I guess he has maxx experience too.

lol.. I'm done.