Happy New year to you all!! Ok folks.... so.... my new years challenge!! set by myself , but , i think its a worthy one! A question that floats around the forums and facebook quite a bit from our new and young drivers : Where can i get a good RTR Touring Car (or Buggy) for £100 , answers simple , you cant! what you can get is a perfectly suitable and usable car for £100 !! Talking rubbish!! nonsense! I hear you say , well , Im going to try and prove my answer to be right and that is the challenge i have set myself! now, im well aware that there are great rtr packages out there or artr packages but your looking at upwards of £170 and thats not getting you lipos charger etc etc. but , the question is always , especially with the youngsters where can i get a decent rtr car.....for around £100? so, what im going to do for the next few weeks is run my daughters old car, (which she just stopped running last week and it was a fight to get her to try something else!! ) Its an HSP Hi Speed RTR 1/10 Touring car that cost £29 , yes .....£29 just before christmas from Ebuyer , all be it that was a special price but realisitcally the same car can be got at normal prices ranging from £69.99 to around the £100 mark. Its also worth mentioning that it is pretty much the same car as a Maverick Strada TC. It came with : 2.4ghz pistol radio with end point adjustment on the steering and mini receiver. the car its self and a shell , a trickle charger , Brushed ESC and Silver 540 brushed motor , 1 x 1800 mah battery pack and all came pre built. this is a 4wd shaft driven , gear diffed car with alloy oil filled shocks and tyres that are remarkably grippy on carpet. the other benefit is , the arms, hubs, uprights etc are made of plastic which is not brittle and does flex on impact rather than shatters or snaps. This means that the cars and suspension parts can take serious abuse before they break. there is optional alloy hubs and arms available which help make the car even stronger! all spares are available and are very cheap, the maverick parts all fit also. the only thing that had done to my daughters car for her to use was put a decent set of shocks on it , £3.99 spur gear adapter to take standard 48dp spurs and thats it. I had 3 other 1800 nimh batterys which she used while learning how to run/drive the car, it has never broken once.it did strip a screw in one steering arm and i ordered the alloy ones to help prevent this in future which never were fitted. as she got better i fitted a brushless esc , 21.5T brushless motor and got her a couple of lipos these were all very cheap as well and are very good. So, heres what i plan to do. I am retiring my Xray T4 for a few weeks and I am going to run the above car, I have put my motor and esc in the car along with my steering servo, now what i am going to try and prove is , that if set up properly, these cars are more than adequate for a beginner or even someone who is on a very limited budget to race at a half decent club level. Im looking at it from the drivers perspective , where they are at the stage where they have ran with the basic stuff, have slowly upgraded some parts , and are now at the stage where there a decent driver..... but on a super low budget , thus , they are still running there super cheap car not everyone is in the position to fork out hundreds and hundreds of pounds on gear remember!! this is to prove that the those are just toys , and a waste of money. statements are not quite correct!! The car, with a £10 set of shocks is absolutely fine for a beginner out of the box. but to be fair, works with the stock shocks. young and new drivers are the future of the sport . give them advice and help that suits what they have/need and send them in the right direction. it is inevitable that they will progress And eventually move on to better things... ill keep you posted how it goes! ;-) cheers all!! Gordy! (p.s. my brushless motor , esc , 0.003s to 60 servo, painted shell and lipo in the picture cost £88 odds NEW! so as to stick with the low budget racing theme ;-).....i should also point out, these are what i normally run in my main car and its not slow by any means, just ask Chris Mitchell ;-))
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 21:23:39 +0000
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