BugattiFreak

I have a jato which i bought as soon as it came out, but im getting board with it because the lack of hop ups and just the fact that stadium trucks are for racing, and no one in my area races, just bashes...... should i trade in my jato for a savage or trinity spyder? i heard the spyder was absolutly great, and the same body structure as the savage. should i trade in my somwhat hopped up jato? i have new A arms and a weird home built shock tower and new metal shocks....

A.B.U

I'd trade it in, and then get an LST. If you can't afford one, get the Savvy.

ICrashThings

go for teh savage.

BugattiFreak

I forgot to add, im not much into nitro cars, i want something which would pretty much maintain itself, i have no problem building s***, i build plastic models on my spare time and work on car engines... real cars....

PillowPants

well if you were to truely work with real cars, then you'd understand that NOTHING that runs on any type of fuel or gas will just "maintain itself".

JatoWeazel

im kinda getting sick of mine as well...im still going to keep it though because i threw way too much money into it but im moving on to bigger and better things (Hpi's 1/5 scale baja 5b WHEN IT FRIGGIN COMES OUT!)

ICrashThings

yea, this whole damn hobby is one big money pit...But when you are in too deep you just keep going...sometimes you dont even know why. [&:]

BugattiFreak

i know that nothing maintains itself, but the jato is ooverwork on my time, it took me an hour to replace my A-arms... i just need somthing that will take less time to repair. also, im going to have 7 classes in school (high, 11th grade) and i cant fail n e of them or else ill get held back my senior year.... and i have all my summers booked....

A.B.U

then sell it and buy a fraking Monster Buggy or HPIS new Baja, something with a huge engine, that require less repairs.

petan13

I never appreciated this hobby as much as I do now before the first time I raced on a good track. Bashing is fun... for about a week. But when you get to the track you'll never realize how much skill it takes to put one of these little vehicles around a track. And about the sport being a money pit.... this is by far the cheapest form of racing there is.. I also race sportbikes.. for the price of 1 set of tires that last 1 weekend I could buy an r/c model and hop it up. The better you are the less you break.

46u

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What hobby or past time is not a money pit?

46u

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What hobby or past time is not a money pit?
I glade my tires on my motorcycle last a month, well that is when I ride to Alaska and back. 10,032 miles in 4 weeks.

BugattiFreak

i understand how racing is fun, but i have endless imagination which only applies to bashing. for example, i want to see my car jump up a ramp, land on my neighbors house window on the second story, then bounce back onto the road.... sounds like a job for the savage.... n e one looking to sell there savage or trinity spyder, contact me plzplzplz, [email protected], (caps dont matter)

Medrivfast

Stick the OS 18 TM in the Jato. That's what i did.

econ909

stick the 18TZ back there for real

BugattiFreak

ok, i dont think you understand, i dont have cash, i just need a basher which is strong enough so it doesnt break, I CANT FIX THEM OFTEN ENOUGH!!!!!

PillowPants

2 choices...

Tyco's... or nikko's.


P.S. good luck trying to find somebody willing to swap straight across their savage for a frickin jato .

A.B.U

I'ma take a lucky guess at this and say you're selling your jato because it got it's *** whooped by that electric, so you want something stronger and bigger, instead of smaler and "faster", but not as quick.

ThunderbirdJunkie

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i'll drink to that.

I've got about $3500 into my $700 Thunderbird, and nothing i've done is visible unless you REALLY look, lol, and i've got close to 2 into my old Suzuki that i got for $900, and my $50 Isuzu Trooper (i'm a 4 wheeler by nature) had close to 4 into it when it finally left

so you guys that tihnk my $800 stadium truck is nuts, lol to you

and unless you get a beater Savvy roller, good effing luck getting one in a straight trade for your Jato.

avg_joe

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I was wondering how far this thread was gonna go before somebody brought that up....
OMG that is funny.
BTW, who did win that race?

BugattiFreak

ok, i dont want to trade in my jato because it got wooped by an electric, i never raced that guy unfortunatly, and savage aint faster then the jato.
second, im thinking that someone might have a track in there backyard and instead of a basher, they might want a ST to race, i have pull start installed already on it.
third, not all hobbies are money piuts, depends on how good you are at the hobbie, for example, you can buy a 200$ plastic model, build it to replicate the real thing, and sell it for about 500...