Sunday 7th

[cmgreen]

Right duys, whos going??????

i'm fancying running 2wd and 4wd and one instrested?

[b4pete]

Yep Ill be ther in 4wd

[AdamS]

Yeah, i will be there...

Hopefully with these teathing problems sorted out on the 501

[cmgreen]

Pete, me thinks you would do better with the bj4 .

[chrispattinson]

Yep, 2wd and 4wD

[b4pete]

Originally Posted by cmgreen

Pete, me thinks you would do better with the bj4 .

Its covered in mud in me garage. Im just going to throw yet more cash at the Durango, great fun ey?

[AdamS]

Pete....

You should get a 501 or 511.... there bulit like tanks

[b4pete]

After tonight, the durango will be sporting a host of 511 parts lol!!!

[gazbaz2]

Originally Posted by AdamS

Pete....

You should get a 501 or 511.... there bulit like tanks

ive had several 501x and the durango is defo stronger car

[chris68nufc]

Why are you needing to throw money at the Durango??

All i have bought is a new spur gear when it melted at Stannington.

Im not sure how you can break them??

[b4pete]

Originally Posted by chris68nufc

Why are you needing to throw money at the Durango??

All i have bought is a new spur gear when it melted at Stannington.

Im not sure how you can break them??

Let me use your car and ill show you

[racdeaf]

Originally Posted by b4pete

Let me use your car and ill show you

so it all down to driver error then

[b4pete]

Originally Posted by racdeaf

so it all down to driver error then

No, just one who makes a few more errors than others exposes the inherent weaknesses

[racdeaf]

since i bought alot spares for durango and which still in new in bag and only two thing i had to replaced was pin and lipo strap holder which the shaft pin came loose and chippin away top of lipo saddle and went up in smoke melted the lipo strap

i gotta say this is one tough durango and done me well

[b4pete]

So a pin coming loose costs you a new battery pack....great fun.

[racdeaf]

can't complain the loose pin cost me a lipo lol

it still a good car pete

[b4pete]

It never cost you a lipo, it cost me to sell you one for cost price!! Lol

[gazbaz2]

pete, to be fair, if you think there that bad, sell it or run your cat instead, ive broke a shock tower (for being a tit over a jump) 1 spur and a pin and ive run it just about every week, thats not bad going considering the hammer they get round a track

[chris68nufc]

You can sell it Pete you know??

I had a car i wasnt happy with and sold it. Some cars are for some people. Horses for courses and all that!!

[b4pete]

I dont recall saying the car is bad, just I have encountered loads of niggly issues, that I think could have been avoided by better engineering/manufacturing processes.
There are parts which are thought out very very well, however the design and material use in the CVD joints baffles me a bit for one example.
If I wasnt going to stick with it, it would be long gone by now, for me, and I know im only 'new again' the car is about 90%.
My biggest bugbear is damage sustained when you loose control due to a ball-joint popping off, some car's seem to stay on, some fall off if you even look at them, I have obtained Tamiya 511 Balls and cups which I understand are excellent.
I have already overcome my breaking shocktower problem, for me, the aircraft grade carbon fiber was too stiff and brittle, owing to the lack of bonding agent (they are most likely pre-preg) since going fiberlyte with a lay-up with a coarser weave and more adhesive left in, not had a 1 issue and I dropped some proper clangers, you can see where the corner has dug right into the carpet and there are no cracks, whereas the 2 stock ones I went through the same type of crash snapped clean in half.