Advice Please.

[Tom1985]

Hi guys I'm new to the forum and looking for advice on an electric 1/10 buggy, something readyset dont want a kit. not really wanting to spend more than £400. Also want something with plenty of hop-ups and spares available. I've been looking at the kyosho Lazer zx-5 Orion brushless readyset, would this be a good choice? Cheers in advance.

[sosidge]

It depends whether you have a view to starting racing, or whether you just want to bash around.

If it's just for bashing, the Lazer is a decent choice, although you might find that a few parts don't stand up to hard abuse. If hard abuse is your thing you are better of with something more truck-like or 1/8th scale.

If you are racing, you will probably find that you'll replace a lot of the equipment in it quite soon - the motor is sensorless system which isn't well suited to racing, and you might also find yourself replacing a few parts to get better reliability when racing. The readyset Lazer is several generations of development behind the current racing Lazer's.

That probably comes across as a bit negative - it isn't intended to be - the Lazer is a good package to learn to drive with but you'll soon reach it's limits for bashing or competitive racing. For a quick start in racing, I'd actually be tempted to go for the brushed motor version at first, and save the rest of the money for a sensored brushless system, tyres and tuning parts to get the car working on your track.

Another model well worth considering as a potential racer is the Associated B4.1 RTR. That also has a sensorless brushless system in it nowadays (unfortunately), but the chassis is very close indeed to the car that is used to get into national A-finals.

Unfortunately there aren't a huge numbers of RTR's that are easy to prepare for racing these days. If you just like bashing, there are LOADS of them around.

[Tom1985]

Thanks for the reply, I was hoping to evantuely get in to racing as I'm only 10 mins from batley buggy club, I just don't feel I have the know how to build a kit from scratch, was hoping to get a rtr and learn as I go along so to speak. I have a day off work tomoro so going to take a trip to modelsport see what they have, hopefully they won't just try palm me off with the dearest option. Thanks once again.

[sosidge]

Thanks for the reply, I was hoping to evantuely get in to racing as I'm only 10 mins from batley buggy club, I just don't feel I have the know how to build a kit from scratch, was hoping to get a rtr and learn as I go along so to speak. I have a day off work tomoro so going to take a trip to modelsport see what they have, hopefully they won't just try palm me off with the dearest option. Thanks once again.

Well, there is no need to be concerned about building a kit as they are all very good quality these days with very good instructions, if you take your time with them it is hard to go wrong. And if you already know how the car goes together before you start racing it, you'll have a much better idea of how it comes apart when you need to fix it!

But, if you don't have radio gear already it is hard to beat the price of an RTR.

I'm sure Modelsport will be able to give some good advice, and there will be plenty of people trackside at Batley who can give good advice too.

[Bungleaio]

If you don't want to build and you want to race later then I would have thought a B4.1 RTR would be ideal.

[Tom1985]

Thanks for the advice guys, After spending most of Lastnight searching the net for buggy reviews I decided to go with the b4.1 brushless as it seemed to av the most hop-ups available for when I do decide to start racing. Also a bit cheaper than I was expecting to spend which is always good. :thumbsup:

[sosidge]

Thanks for the advice guys, After spending most of Lastnight searching the net for buggy reviews I decided to go with the b4.1 brushless as it seemed to av the most hop-ups available for when I do decide to start racing. Also a bit cheaper than I was expecting to spend which is always good. :thumbsup:

I think you'll be very happy with your choice!

[ben]

Great choice! You wont be dissapointed :thumbsup: