My sprint 2 is back up and running after a complete rebuild every electronic is working again brand new esc, servo, reciever, motor and it was all free except the battery but thats a drop in the bucket compared to what i would have had to pay for all these brand new parts

What did you do to your Sprint 2 to warrant a rebuild?

haha i posted a thread about this its called Whats the worst thing to happen to your car while drifting.

OK. I read it. Man sorry that happened to you. Atleast you retrieved the vehicle.

yeah i thought about jumping in after it but i realised that wasnt a good idea but thanks it was a horrible ordeal but at least its working again its nice to be able to drift again

Wow. I would've been devastated. It seems that you have a lot of experience with this hobby or that you are mechanically inclined. I, on the other hand, have only had my car for about 1 month and I I'm still learning as I go. I only had one problem dealing directly with wear and tear and that was a piece of sand/rock being stuck in the tooth of my gear (pinion?). Not sure exactly what it's called. Anyhow, after I heard it making noise I stopped use of the vehicle. I was able to pinpoint the source of the problem and fix it myself. The HobbyTown clerk was able to educate me a lot more about it after that. According to him, most people would rather have someone work on their toys than rather work on it themselves and understand and appreciate the hobby itself. I feel that if I'm already spending this amount of money, I need to learn it. It has become my focus other than drifting.

As for drifting, I really haven't spun out much. More of the spin outs have been on purpose. Question for you: While I can make a lot of the turn around drifts, I am struggling on drifting in tight areas. For instance, I took a bucket and drifted around it, my car tends to stay far from it instead of being tight and close. Any suggestions?

Lastly, did you happen to document your rebuild with your camera? If so, I would like to see it.

I have more experience with airplanes in this hobby because ive only been driving cars for about 7 months now i just switched over and im very mechanically inclined which helps but this car is very easy to learn you just have to stick with it no matter what it throws at you just make sure you keep your manual it will become your bestfriend after you have to do some work on the car like the more stuff you have to fix/replace you will learn how to take it apart and put it back together its not to hard just make sure you dont accidentally put a screw back in in the wrong spot ill tell you what ive learned so far about this car theres only four types of screws droop screws are what adjust your ride height their not used often set screws the same i think theres only one or two one the entire chasis then theres the screws that go into the plastic and the threads on those are spaced kind of far apart so you can identify them real easy then theres the machined screws and their the type that have metal to metal contact only and thier threads are really close together and theres alot of threads on each screw for that type then the screws that go into the plastic if you stick one of those in where a machined screw goes your F-ed and so is the part you tried to put the screw in so always check what screw your using and where your putting it
if any of this is confusing tell me and ill explain in greater detail