- Messages
- 550
- Reaction score
- 880
- Location
- Bothell, Wa
- Arrma RC's
- Fireteam
- Granite
- Kraton 8S
- Kraton EXB
- Outcast 8s
- Talion EXB
- Typhon TLR
- Vorteks
Going to start with a little recap and get to my modern day hybrid
After my kid stole my rock crawler I decided we should get into faster cars too. After talking to the hobby shop about what I was looking for they suggested a Vorteks as a good place to start. It’s fast, nimble and a good all around truck.
It started fairly simple with an out of the box car. Like every vorteks owner I noticed the run time kinda sucked and before finding this place I ordered a couple high capacity batteries. It made things better but I still found the battery to be just over storage charge levels when getting home after running. After looking more and more at different bodies I found the 4s Outcast body and ordered one up to test fit. It was much closer to fitting than I originally imagined.
After some initial test fits I decided to buy the longer 4s body posts, wing and wing mounted wheelie bar. As it sat the wheels rubbed on the body and I didn’t feel like running it just yet till the rest of the parts arrived. Everything but the wing showed up and I decided to run it anyways with a local group. Happened to find a real 4s Outcast and had fun bashing with some new friends.
My kid was rolling a bit with his granite and one of the guys suggested we consider going to Typhon arms. A quick stop to the Rc shop on the way home and we had 2 sets of arms and some extra hardware.
Wide Vorteks vs a stock Granite
Next day we took 2 wide bois out and ended up smashing pumpkins
Made for an in testing clean up but the wet grass got ride of most the pumpkin remains.
Somewhere before the wing landed I had some weird issues. The esc went into permanent lvc mode with the flashing orange light of death was upon us. While I waited for HH to reply to my warranty request I bought a Firma 130a esc. Also had a receiver that failed. They got swapped out and then the wing showed up. I decided to mix it up even further. In comes a set of Typhon drive shafts and hexes. I picked up a set of Typhon 6s wheels and a set of hoons for street use.
The 6s Typhon wheels and tires make this thing really fun to drive. It wheelies a lot like the granite but is still a fast and fun ride. In comes a fourth car (Fireteam) and now I find we have a battery shortage. 6 3s batteries isn’t enough for 4 cars when the whole family goes out.
After playing with the 6s trucks we convinced my wife and daughter to go out the next day. The 3s trucks were out of juice with no spares so we stopped by the hobby shop on the way home and grabbed 2 4s batteries.
Girls were really digging the big trucks even turned down they are plenty fast.
Got home and charged the 4s packs and off to the school we went. Enjoy the audio my 6 year old was filming
After my kid stole my rock crawler I decided we should get into faster cars too. After talking to the hobby shop about what I was looking for they suggested a Vorteks as a good place to start. It’s fast, nimble and a good all around truck.
It started fairly simple with an out of the box car. Like every vorteks owner I noticed the run time kinda sucked and before finding this place I ordered a couple high capacity batteries. It made things better but I still found the battery to be just over storage charge levels when getting home after running. After looking more and more at different bodies I found the 4s Outcast body and ordered one up to test fit. It was much closer to fitting than I originally imagined.
After some initial test fits I decided to buy the longer 4s body posts, wing and wing mounted wheelie bar. As it sat the wheels rubbed on the body and I didn’t feel like running it just yet till the rest of the parts arrived. Everything but the wing showed up and I decided to run it anyways with a local group. Happened to find a real 4s Outcast and had fun bashing with some new friends.
My kid was rolling a bit with his granite and one of the guys suggested we consider going to Typhon arms. A quick stop to the Rc shop on the way home and we had 2 sets of arms and some extra hardware.
Wide Vorteks vs a stock Granite
Next day we took 2 wide bois out and ended up smashing pumpkins
Made for an in testing clean up but the wet grass got ride of most the pumpkin remains.
Somewhere before the wing landed I had some weird issues. The esc went into permanent lvc mode with the flashing orange light of death was upon us. While I waited for HH to reply to my warranty request I bought a Firma 130a esc. Also had a receiver that failed. They got swapped out and then the wing showed up. I decided to mix it up even further. In comes a set of Typhon drive shafts and hexes. I picked up a set of Typhon 6s wheels and a set of hoons for street use.
The 6s Typhon wheels and tires make this thing really fun to drive. It wheelies a lot like the granite but is still a fast and fun ride. In comes a fourth car (Fireteam) and now I find we have a battery shortage. 6 3s batteries isn’t enough for 4 cars when the whole family goes out.
After playing with the 6s trucks we convinced my wife and daughter to go out the next day. The 3s trucks were out of juice with no spares so we stopped by the hobby shop on the way home and grabbed 2 4s batteries.
Girls were really digging the big trucks even turned down they are plenty fast.
Got home and charged the 4s packs and off to the school we went. Enjoy the audio my 6 year old was filming
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