Traxxas Summit (RC truck)
Seen a few videos of these things on youtube and a gander at one in Hobby One on the weekend and they look like they might be a bit of fun. I know a bunch of you on here have RC gear so do any of you have one of these or know anyone who has one who can comment on their quality?
I've seen a fair few videos of people abusing them with no ill effects but then there'll be one or two videos of people doing simple stuff with them and they'll snap an axle. I'm not after a serious rock crawler or off road speed demon but these things have remote locable differentials and a 2 speed, controller selectable, gearbox so it looks like it'd be good for some back yard obstacle courses Youtube search of the vehicle in question in case you've never heard of them. I'm just wondering if anyone here has one & knows of any weaknesses or heard any horror stories or if you own an offroad truck that might be better suited to both climbing over small stuff and kaining about on a dirt track with some haste, preferably electric. |
07:44pm 16/11/09 Permalink
looks alright, what makes you want this over any other 4x4 RC though?
I mean you can get some pretty mean ones these days I used to have a pretty sick nitro fueled one but it was just too fast, snapping axles and suspension arms every time you messed up a corner I was impressed to see the thing go completely under water tho |
07:52pm 16/11/09 Permalink
I want something quiet so I don't piss the neighbours off so I'd prefer electric. What makes me prefer it? I saw it first hence I asked f anyone had any better ideas. I do like the ability to lock the dif from the remote but I guess that's just pure wank factor, the 2 speed box would come in handy though so I could kain it round a dirt track & then switch to low to get over stuff (branches & s***) without stopping to swap out gearboxes.
I used to have a kickass buggy when I was younger but the gearbox broke and you couldn't get parts for it :( That thing would get just about anywhere and with a battery upgrade would do wheel stands all the way down the road. Picture a little RC car with a 12v sealed lead acid battery sitting in the middle of it, yeah it weighed a fair bit. Really though I'm not after a lot of speed or enough torque to pull it up a vertical hill, just something to rip up my back yard with. |
09:24pm 16/11/09 Permalink
yeah fair enough, if I was looking a diff lock would be a big plus - especially from the remote
diffs are some of the most common things you will break, 2 speed gearbox is pretty standard these days I thought? all mine have had them at least a good electric can be as fast as a nitro one anyway |
09:35pm 16/11/09 Permalink
No this gearbox isn't a 2 speed like it gets to a certain speed then changes, you can change it from the controller too. It's like 4L & 4H in your hilux.
What would be the problem with just getting any old one & locking the diffs up I wonder? I know for real cars that can become a problem but would it be such an issue on an RC car used mostly on dirt? C'mon RC people, stop having a life & come post on the internet :( last edited by whoop at 21:43:40 16/Nov/09 |
09:41pm 16/11/09 Permalink
Sounds great, I've got a OFNA Titan 1/8 4x4 Nitro monster truck, which is getting pretty old now, so I could only imagine how awesome the suspension is on that thing.
My 1/10 Nitro 4x4 road car is also old as hell :P |
11:14pm 16/11/09 Permalink
Get a Drifter RC :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho_KKu_5StQ&feature=related |
12:27am 17/11/09 Permalink
I'm sick of onroad cars you can only use at certain places, been there, done that. I want to get back to offroad, I just came from an on road nitro race car that would leave riceboxes in the dust.
After reading a few other forums people are saying the HPI flux is more durable than the traxxas ones, check this s*** out Might see if I can find somewhere that sells these things, that looks infinitely more fun than slowly crawling over a bunch of sticks. If you're interested in drifting though, there's an indoor track open friday & saturday night for drifters only, not many good people there the night of this video but there's usually a whole heap of really good drifters there. It's behind wow sight & sound on compton road slacks creek last edited by whoop at 01:15:59 17/Nov/09 edit: holy s***, at 22v these things go over 130km/h, f*** me sideways with a brick. last edited by whoop at 01:28:15 17/Nov/09 |
01:14am 17/11/09 Permalink
Holy crap it's pulling a kid!
Looks very cool from the vids. |
04:30am 17/11/09 Permalink
Anyone actually have one of those RC drifters and can make any recommendations?
I see they're stupidly cheap at RCHobbyEstore Drift car for $147? ^ Why are they so cheap? [edit] I mean I have zero clue pretty much about RC cars, the specs on that which I linked are bad/cheap or something? last edited by Mephz at 09:19:39 17/Nov/09 |
09:15am 17/11/09 Permalink
The HPC /HSP ? Habybio(sp) stuff is actually not to bad after looking over a mates stadium truck kit, but each to their own. The suspension I thought could do with an overhaul, but as a starting point for someone to get rough and ready right into it. All and all not bad.
They are no hpi, traxxas, losi etc but s*** for under $200 with radio gear why the hell not last edited by HerbalLizard at 09:29:00 17/Nov/09 |
09:27am 17/11/09 Permalink
At least Traxxas are easier to get parts for locally than HPI, I had to nearly give away my savage because finding spares was a pain at the time That's weird because i was just at a store that deals in HPI stuff and he said the exact opposite, that traxxas can be hard to get parts for. I guess it depends where you go but there's a hobby store just across the road from my work that deals in team losi, HPI and others, hey have none of the fluxes in stock but he's getting a price & giving me a call back. If it comes down to a choice between the summit and the fluxx, I think I'll go for the fluxx because it looks like an unbreakable monster, it lacks the ability to crawl over stuff but who needs that when you can just hit whatever it is at 130km/h & jump right over it? YEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAWWWW. That is unless the fluxx is like $2000 or something, I'm not paying that much for an rc car no matter how unbreakable it is. |
05:53pm 17/11/09 Permalink
