Yeah I shimmed my pinnion gear as well as my diff on the crown gear side.

thanks for the answers guys, glad to know that a few others thought of the same thing. I will move ahead on that...i am sick of searching for dogbones while the others are driving[&o]

I dont know why they just didnt make the dog bones a few mm longer there is room to make them longer

ok so i was thinking of getting one of these trucks but just want to have an idea of the problems with the truck eg have they fixed the diff stripping yet?

thanks!

If you upgrade the diffs and shim them properly you wont have any problems

hey minirio

i live up in the north of western Australia and i have a hpi mt2 18ss+ its a good car and the diffs are alredy upgraded im pretty sure i go really hard on it and so far ive stripped one set of gears because of those tiny little rocks and i keep poping the steering knuckles off because of the big jumps im still waiting on alloy ones titanium universal driveshafts and alloy shocks other than that its a great car i will get you some pics up soon

hey do you think 25% nitro would be alright for an 18ss engine?

I bet it would be great.

It will work fine. You will just have to re-tune it a bit.

hey all its been a little while but i have that brushless mt2 i made and have made a few changes such as deans plugs and such but nothing major except i have ordered purple springs for front and rear seeming electric weighs more with batteries and was curious to know if any of you know how much difference there is between the purple and blue springs? should i get both?
thanks!

Sorry I dont know what the differences are between the purple and blue ones but im sure some one does. Here is a vid from last weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXMJu7lvpXw

Those are some nice jumps eminent. Its been raining here for almost a week straight already. Its ridiculous. Im ready to build an Arch

that sucks man. Its been really dry here for just about 5 weeks. It looks like its going to rain right now there calling for it tomorrow. I have burned a galon of fuel already this spring lol. That video was taken from about 7 hours of bashing, not all of that was running time but you know how it goes run for a bit adjust things tuning and all that stuff. There is alot of construction going on here so there are alot of good bashing spots here your going to have to get some vids of the tz soon man

I had an ebay order get lost in the mail - globman on eby is a great seller and backs his sales to a fault. The lost order has kept my MT2 G3 offline for the whole time. I have two mt2's. Actually I have anMT, Mt2 (with a G3) and an Mt2G3 with most of the SS upgrades to represet the whole family. I had my fun with the Mt2 with the G3 and am going to sell it and move on to the full G3 that I built that is in brand new condition. I even have two brand new HPI bodies for it that havn't seen any driving time (actually the whole truck is new). I bought some great shocks today, not GPM, they are a higher grade aluminum and look really cool. Pictures are coming.

Don't look at spring colours, look at the number of coils. The less coils means stiffer springs.

Eminent,
Good video, that looks like a killer place to bash. What is it? The only negative is that you are driving a traxxas truck (I really don't like traxxas trucks). I would love to take videos and have a camera and can edit easily but because I don't drive with anyone its hard to get video because I only have two hands. I plan on doing some driving where I work that has some great hills so I will try to get a video posted. There are three hobby shops in the area and a lot of drivers but I havn't been successful in finding them yet....

I have a fleet of HPI RCs but only get a litre or so in a week with one truck - too many trucks, not enough time. Its frustrating but at the very least my trucks are alsways in perfect shape to drive when I do get out.

hey keithjv

how long did it take for your gpm shocks to get to you its 2 and a half weeks and i still haven't got my parts yet my mt2 is the only nitro car i got besides my dads road car i have been driveing my mates firestorm i just want to get my mt2 on the track again[]

Maybe a week tops. Did they send you a tracking number?

I have these coming for my MT2. They are 7075 aluminum.

those look great! and i believe the ones i ordered have 12 or 13 but thicker as well. who makes those threaded shocks?

Team Blue Star, http://www.teambluestar.com/

Traxxas has been good to me lol that spot is so much fun its about 1/4 mile square there is one hill thats about 60-80 feet tall the curved ones are about 20 feet and the small one we were launching off of is about 10-12 feet tall. We just bought a tripod for the camera and a 16 gig card so we have something like 360 hours of recording time lol we just set it up and go. I bought some of those team blue star shocks for my rc's I found that there not consistand some are really stiff some are soft and so on. I busted every one of mine and I bought 8 of them. But I bet you any money that im the hardest on my rc's out of anyone here. I have launched my mt2 with the os 18tz off of a 30 foot tall hill from about 100 feet away full out top speed and I bet you any money that I had about 3 or 4 seconds of air time lol. That only busted......... lets see........... just about everything a arms chassis was bend engine mount shocks steering parts and so on lol. I couldnt get it to land right so it nose dived and cartwheeled for about 20 feet on really hard ground lol.

what would youse recomend? a firestorm or mt2? how fast is the mt2? and is it worth the extra money? and finaly, how durable is each truck? thanks guys!

hey keithjv

i didnt get a tracking number the gears i orderd from them a while ago took a week to get here and is just about 3 weeks and i still haven got my shocks steering knuckles and drive shafts[] if its not here tomorow i will be emailing the to whas is goin on and if i can get a tracking number did they give you one keithjv?

thanks

I have both and don't think you can go wrong with either truck. The MT2 is a bit of an older design than the FS. I am biased towards the storm for no stand-out reason.

3 weeks is a long time. I would be emailing them now and find out what happened to the stuff. Maybe something was backordered? They should have notified you though. I always ask for a tracking number so I know when to expect a delivery. Helps keep on top of the sellers and UPS/USPS...