93octane

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Exactly!! works great!

Sir Not Appearing

Well, what was going to be my first full tank ended in tears. I got the motor tuned a little better and was running very well. I flipped it once and that broke the wing and cracked the roll cage. Then, as I was getting ready to head back indoors, a curb jumped out in front of the Baja.......

Total destruction for the day:

[ul][*] front left wheel[*] left rear upright[*] shattered wing[*] cracked roll cage
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93octane

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sorry but join the club! could have been worse! was it cold out? plastic gets real brittle in the cold! have a spare wing if you want..

srt10

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Bugger!
that the one thing I like about Traxxas they have parts at all hobby shops..
Looks like we will be ordering online to get our buggies rollin!

srt10

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the plastic on these is a bit junk.. [:@]
the biggest thing I don't like about my KM

blackyz250

I hate when that happens! The same thing happened to me, broke the lower control arm all caught on camera LOL...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=610y04MHGX8

BigGrump

The best thing is you have the better HPI plastic available to replace it with........ Or aluminum.

Dennis

willclark77

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I hope I don't have to eat crow after saying this, but I disagree. I posted a crash vid of mine where you can see the plastic flexing much farther than I would've expected it to without breaking. I haven't ran mine in very cold temps yet though. They all get brittle and break stuff when the temps drop. My 1/8 nitros break from lesser impacts that the Baja has survived.... Now I've jinxed myself.

I did finally bend a rear shock shaft. Straightened it back out in a vice Works fine for now but I expect it'll leak eventually. I'll get a good set of shocks after Xmas. The holidays break me!

Just a heads up, if anyone tries to use the sfl-10mg servo from the SS, you will have to do some modifying to the servo mount. The km servo is rounded whereas the sfl is square. Some creative hacksaw work and hole drilling made mine work. Also, the servo horns are different splines.

I was hoping to get some new vid footage of mine but I didn't have a camera operator today and had to come back to work. I hate working EVERY Sunday. Ugh!

Everybody record some vids!

ace@

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I went with the HPI ones I don't have a dremel and would have messed it up. The HPI ones are solid you can see/feel the difference. On ebay they have a set of front and rear upper and lower with the e-clips and the brackets in orange for i think $20, I may get that and the HPI front and rear shocks.

Here are some pics!

willclark77

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Lookin good @ce! Have you got to run it with those Hostile rear tires yet? I was wondering how they compared to paddles in the loose stuff. I bet they're much better in grass and fairly hard dirt. I plan on gettin a set eventually.

DarkFire989

I have the Hostiles on mine. Great for grass and dirt. Horrible on pavement lol.

srt10

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I hear ya man!
all the plastic I break is replaced with HPI parts and they hold up.
This is the only rc I have that breaks its plastic so fast
my 60mph revo has only broken the rear bumper and I bash that thing hard!
I did make a big score on ebay.. front plastic and rear plate (with front plate and extras) HPI SS parts and also a SS sway bar kit, for dirt cheap!!
all for about the same price as the aluminum front shock mount...

I'm laid off from work again, and will have lots of spare time.. so I hope my parts coome in quick [:-]

BigGrump

A lot of times with different models, all you have to chose from for replacment of breakage is actual origional equipment. With the KM's replacing with either all the aftermarket aluminum stuff, or the HPI plastic, you have little worry that replacment parts are of less quality.

Anyway, I have never had any problem with the KM plastic, but I live in Southern California. Only real plastic stuff I changed was A-arms to the RPM ones, and that was not because anything broke that was KM, it was just that I wanted the rpm stuff.

My point is everything is looking up for us KM owners. Not too much to worry about.

Last I put in a Rhino steering servo yesterday. It is a little smaller than the KM servo, as mentioned above, so I used the billett aluminum frame DDM had on sale. Fit easily and is solid. Now I have the origional KM steering servo as a spare. The new Rhino works OK, but I run it in analog, so it is not as powerful as it could be run digital. I did notice quicker steering, but not more of it.

Dennis

DarkFire989

With some modification to the stock Radio box I got the rhino to fit in my no problem. The stock servo's gears cracked.

srt10

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I picked up a 1/4 scale servo off ebay all metal gears for only about 25 bucks, after my stocker smoked..
went right in with no issues, and alot more power over the stock one

snowmachine

Hello all

I thought i would share with ya'll my baja its ready for winter driving when we get snow..lol  many,many mods  many parts i made by hand (ski's,braces,etc) gp290 race ported head running 18/56 gearing also electronics have been dipped in red plastic dip to match my color theme. throttle mod, brake mod, all for winter driving rpm a-arms,hitec servo,windows all the way around,etc to many thing to list..lol

snowmachine

ohhh and yes wing is handmade to

DarkFire989

That is sweet!

ace@

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Looking good ! Cool mods! have you used it yet?

snowmachine

thanks no i havent used it yet iam STILL waiting for snow..lol firgures when i want it to snow it won't...lol 

ya so as of this writing i dont not know if the ski's will work..lol    its hard to see in the pics but the windows i made go all the way to the back! i hope this will help to keep the motor heat in also i mod the throttle linkage so it wont freeze up   the ski do have a runner on them hard to see in the pic but the runner are replaceable so if they wear out i can unbolt them

snowmachine

ohhh the "yellow" thing up front is gps   i hope to get some speed readings

blackyz250

I replace with plastic cause it's alittle bit forgiving then aluminum.

Johnnysplits

snowmachine -
damn man...I would hate to get run over by those spiked tires!!! that looks awesome!!

snowmachine

thanks johnnyspits and the rest of yall to

if anyone is interested in some of the mods i did for winter let me know i can post some pics to

magnum500

post them anyway , it is something new to talk about .