freemind

The baja's front a arms looks like it could break with a mild crash. http://www.hpieurope.com/graphics/wa...snow-4-800.jpg
What do you guys think?

StefanL

This topic has been hashed to death during the last six months or so....

We won´t know until the Baja´s are out there in the dirt. So I will refrain from having an opinion until the car has been tested IRL.

jimbo1890

Mate, that's either a genuine question or a hand grenade.

if it's genuine do a search on the hpi baja you will find lots of opinions on the matter and also the reason for this post , if it's the latter then shame on you!

Mouton

It does not need to be a problem. FG has excellent plastic, which, sometimes is stronger than alloy. Plastic can flex, something alloy cannot. When I crashed into a tree a month ago only the alloy steering rod broke. The plastic parts were all fine in spite of the cold wheather (appr. -12 degrees Celsius).

Some of FG's plastic parts also look brittle but still hold together so I would rather wait and see before I voice any opinions about the HPI's rigidity.

J_D

and even when the plastic parts break - They are a lot cheaper to replace than alloy lol

TurtleRacing

HPI has already said they are the prototypes & were to be beefed up in production.

Crash_Dummy

Not wrong about the toughness of of FG plastics. My Leopard survived a full throttle runaway into a tree. The front left suspension arm and wheel was pushed back hard into the body and rebounded with no damage.

Dr.ArmoMaxx

Its made in over there, its hpi, so its made to be broken and it will. Save your money.

Acs_guitars

My Feedback: (3)

At the risk of starting a Savage VS (insert MT here) war..... HPI is very well known for having durable products, especially their plastics. Look at the Savage if you want to see that.

Dr.ArmoMaxx

I owned a tmaxx, so i always hated the savage because how ignorant the savage owners were. We would race, i would win. And there is not a single thing that a tmaxx can do that savage cannot do and vice versa.

subarubrat

My Feedback: (1)

My first experience with HPI was a RS4 Nitro in 98 or 99, I lost the Xstal and the car went into a loop beating itself against the two 6 inch curbs on either side of the road until I got my foot on it and killed the engine. The only damage was a hub and a lower A arm. HPI has done allot with their products. That said, I look at those A arms and I get the same thought, that they will break and are so obviously undersized that no engineer would have done such a thing unless he was an idiot and that the first few tests would have show that they break easily. I also think that while no company would ship a product with such an obvious point of failure that the shelves are stacked with products with such clear and glaring problems. Yet, I have to say that the rest of the car looks so spot on that their must be something too it. I am betting that there is either something to these A arms and that they are tough as hell or that they are pure junk and I will just make my own.

jeepfreak1972

Like Turtle said. They are prototypes and HPI said the arms will be braced for the production models. In fact, in the March R/C Car mag I just got in the mail, on page 51, you can see the wide open arms that look weak but on page 48 at the top you get a good view of the bottom of the car as they jump it and you can the new crossed braced arm in that pic.

HeatFire

Dr.ArmoMaxx you cant blame a company that some of the users of their products are kinda.. funny..
i think even those arms can take some beating.. and after the new version it will be perfect

TurtleRacing

Man, I owned several Maxxes & I currently own several Revos & I tell that there are just as many fanatics driving them as Savages. I haven't owned a Savage but have been around a few, they are very good RC's, I have confidence that HPI will release a very good Baja. Once again, they have already said the A-arms will be strengthed in production so this is a waiste.