soSincerious
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Version 4 is what I believe to own, it has the red center brace. Straight out of the box, I dropped it from about 4 feet. It slapped HARD onto the tile. First thought was holy ____! Not enough pack for jumps, but as I plan on using it for mostly street type stuff, I think I'll benefit from the low-pack setup.
Second, I was impressed with the overall feel, layout and setup of everything as a whole. Given, I pretty much knew what to expect from the research leading up to the purchase, which by the way was almost $100 off new (it was BNIB) from eBay.
Suspension angles out of the box I knew weren't going to be perfect, and in fact they were pretty far off. Front and rear camber, and front toe. I corrected those angles after setting the ride height wayyyy down. I'm at 33mm F and 37mm rear with stock tires and a 502g battery. New battery is 853g so I should see a small drop with that installed.
The drive shafts aren't straight, but likely a common thing that doesn't really affect bearings as much as I think it would.
The pinion grub screw was FAR too tight from the factory. I stripped it out, then when using a high quality torx bit that fit snug and grabbed tight ... that got sheared off inside. It wasn't pretty trying to separate pinion from shaft. I have yet to run the motor but I don't have a feeling the bearing(s) are going to last. I ordered a replacement motor / mount / pinion assembly. I'll heat up the thread lock a bit before trying to remove the next one ...
While waiting for batteries to arrive I went through the front end and tried to eliminate some slop in the suspension arms. I'm a freak about slop, and likely unnecessarily fanatical about it. The front hinge pin brace bore is too large on one side, causing the lower arm to move around a lot more than I would like to see, especially because the other side is drilled fairly well and fits great. The upper arms don't allow for much slop removal that I can see. Nothing that will hold up anyway.
I swapped the spur out on the stock center diff (which I topped off with 10k) with a 46t. Along with a 26t pinion it's right at the edge of the stock mount. I'm looking forward to see what this does on stock tires. Ultimately I have 100mm tires in my future, so I think it will be right in the sweet spot here soon.
Happy blastin' everyone!
Second, I was impressed with the overall feel, layout and setup of everything as a whole. Given, I pretty much knew what to expect from the research leading up to the purchase, which by the way was almost $100 off new (it was BNIB) from eBay.
Suspension angles out of the box I knew weren't going to be perfect, and in fact they were pretty far off. Front and rear camber, and front toe. I corrected those angles after setting the ride height wayyyy down. I'm at 33mm F and 37mm rear with stock tires and a 502g battery. New battery is 853g so I should see a small drop with that installed.
The drive shafts aren't straight, but likely a common thing that doesn't really affect bearings as much as I think it would.
The pinion grub screw was FAR too tight from the factory. I stripped it out, then when using a high quality torx bit that fit snug and grabbed tight ... that got sheared off inside. It wasn't pretty trying to separate pinion from shaft. I have yet to run the motor but I don't have a feeling the bearing(s) are going to last. I ordered a replacement motor / mount / pinion assembly. I'll heat up the thread lock a bit before trying to remove the next one ...
While waiting for batteries to arrive I went through the front end and tried to eliminate some slop in the suspension arms. I'm a freak about slop, and likely unnecessarily fanatical about it. The front hinge pin brace bore is too large on one side, causing the lower arm to move around a lot more than I would like to see, especially because the other side is drilled fairly well and fits great. The upper arms don't allow for much slop removal that I can see. Nothing that will hold up anyway.
I swapped the spur out on the stock center diff (which I topped off with 10k) with a 46t. Along with a 26t pinion it's right at the edge of the stock mount. I'm looking forward to see what this does on stock tires. Ultimately I have 100mm tires in my future, so I think it will be right in the sweet spot here soon.
Happy blastin' everyone!
