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Photos and videos don't do this thing justice its ridiculously large
Used to go hang out with this RC flying club, a guy shows up with a 12 foot wing span, 125cc motor plane, he flies it around does the tail walking stuff and lands it, I just look at him and ask, you ever think about throwing a saddle on it and going somewhere? His wheels were turning!
 
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Leave it stock and enjoy it. All these people modding them just break more stuff. I've got probably 20 packs through mine now if not more. It's the best out of the box R/C I've ever owned (minus the included radio gear, but I never run the stock Tx/Rx in anything).

Buy the RPM rear hub carriers that come with the larger inner bearings. Buy some spare inner bearings for the front hubs (I always run Avid). In 20 packs I've replaced one inner front hub bearing.
 
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Used to go hang out with this RC flying club, a guy shows up with a 12 foot wing span, 125cc motor plane, he flies it around does the tail walking stuff and lands it, I just look at him and ask, you ever think about throwing a saddle on it and going somewhere? His wheels were turning!

I used to fly at a abandoned strip at a small airport. One of the locals flew large scale r/c's they looked big enough to ride on.
 
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Leave it stock and enjoy it. All these people modding them just break more stuff. I've got probably 20 packs through mine now if not more. It's the best out of the box R/C I've ever owned (minus the included radio gear, but I never run the stock Tx/Rx in anything).

Buy the RPM rear hub carriers that come with the larger inner bearings. Buy some spare inner bearings for the front hubs (I always run Avid). In 20 packs I've replaced one inner front hub bearing.

This is the first r/c i planned on keeping mostly stock outside of necessary upgrades like the rear hubs, bearings and what not. But I must say the belt drives intrigued me, did you install the high speed gear?
 
Adam490

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This is the first r/c i planned on keeping mostly stock outside of necessary upgrades like the rear hubs, bearings and what not. But I must say the belt drives intrigued me, did you install the high speed gear?
No, I'm still at stock gearing. I haven't done anything to the truck other than RPM rear hubs and adding my Futaba running gear. Set the endpoints and the stock servo holds up fine. I bought a waterproof Savox and the Traxxas mount to add it but haven't needed it.
 
Adam490

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I did get rid of all the Traxxas plugs. I can't stand that proprietary s***. I put XT90's on everything (3 sets of batteries and esc).
 
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Love rc boats. The Rustler is a speed car
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I hate pr
I did get rid of all the Traxxas plugs. I can't stand that proprietary s***. I put XT90's on everything (3 sets of batteries and esc).

I hate proprietary connectors as well all my lipos are 7 years old and majority of them puffed. And SPC is no longer in business thats who I got my lipos from. I plugged a lipo from my mini-revo in with the old connector it plugged right in. Can the XT90's handle the draw? I was looking at XT150's if I had to change them for the current draw.

I bought a maxamps lipo for the little revo to see if its worth the hype. Im going to buy SMC for the xmaxx im looking at the 9000mah packs.
 
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I also have a set of these:

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They work really well too, but you need a piece of foam on top of them because there is a small gap with the stock battery clip locked in.
 

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