Hello, Im am rather new to the hobby. I Recently found an old electric truck I bought as a youth in my mothers attic. I never had the money for the remote and servos as a kid. Well Long story short I have the truck up and running and even found the same model on ebay for spare parts since its hard to find parts for a 13 year old truck(Kyosho Outlaw Raider ARR 3162h). I love every minute I have spent driving this truck. But I want more power and longer run times. I have been looking into the benefits of nitro and have seen several different trucks i would like to own. But they all come RTR, I really want to hand biuld a gas truck from start to finish and use my current remote and servos if possible. I have a Fatuba Magnum 2PL and 2 3003 servos. I also converted my old manual speed control to a fatuba mc230 E.C.S.

I would like 4wd with some decent speed on and off road. But strong enough to bash around, jump and crawl. I like the savage I have seen in many videos, as well as the evader. I want to keep my budget around 2-300. I would like .16 or higher engine. I understand I may need a high torc servo for the steering on a 4x4 truck. I'm a severe do it yourselfer, Rebuilding a 74 impala full scale. As well as Install Car audio, and hand build my own P.C.s. Just to give you an idea of my previous hobby background.

Any suggestions? any good nitro truck kits out there with no remote and servos? So my money can Get a faster truck with a tall stance.

I only know what i have read here and seen on towerhobbies or in videos.

the hpi mt2 looks like a good truck and its 4x4. my friend has a savage and loves it. it doesn't break much, but he has snapped all the drive shafts at least once. the nitro stampede is also really durable. i had one and the only the only parts i had to replace were a stripped spur gear, servo arm and a drive shaft.(i did a wheely for about the 1000th time and the torque snapped it)

well if you want to go up 50 or 60 dollars i'd get a savage ss becuz im not sure if your gonna find a 4x4 s/t kit

Well I have been really leaning towards the savage SS. but My wife will shoot me if I drop that much. I may have to wait a little bit and get the savage SS. MT4 looks nice if it was not RTR, Tower still has the older MT version in non RTR form. Looks decent.

Any thoughts on a kyosho T15 http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXFBW2&P=0

OR MT http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXCFP2&P=0
To bad its a ford body.

or another kyosho http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXCGR3&P=0 4x4 and everything.

wow that kyosho is 1/8 its prolly gonna be hard finding parts for that

but im not sure about kyosho i never had one

What is different about the MT vrs the MT4 RTR

bump any input out there fellas?

I dont think 4 wheel drive cars are that great. [&:] i say you go with the rc10gt rtr or not yet built. the car runs great you should really look into it

yeh but 4wd handle better but if thats your opinion but if i were you i'd jus throw out 60 more dollars and get a savage ss becuz im not sure if your gonna find many 4wd s/t kits but if your in the uk hpi europe makes hpi mt2 kits (only hpi europe)