benefit of a truggy

[G35driver]

have been playing tmaxx & savage, thinking about a truggy......what are the benefits, convince me please,,, thinking about the hellfire...

 

[Mr T-Maxx]

have been playing tmaxx & savage, thinking about a truggy......what are the benefits, convince me please,,, thinking about the hellfire...

Lower Center of Gravity than a monster truck
Center Differential
Front and Rear brakes
In most cases a longer/wider wheelbase



Mr T

 

[jetmechG550]

Are you planning to race? Truggies aren't the best bashers out there and the Hellfire ranks on the bottom of the list as far as truggies go.

edit: meant to type aren't not are. Corrected now

 

[olds97_lss]

Truggies are the best bashers out there

Did you mean to say "are" or "are not"?

 

[Buggyracer28]

They "are". Truggies can take as much beating as monster trucks, and they can smoke the competition. I think its great how you can get both in the same thing.

 

[jetmechG550]

Did you mean to say "are" or "are not"?

oops, that should read are not. Don't get me wrong they take a beating on track but it's not like just heading out somewhere and beating the hell out of it

 

[jon2]

I drove the hellfire only once and if you are going to bash it can take a beating.How much??? heck I only jumped it 10 feet in the air. That is it. I can say it took the jumps my old savage did.

As far as truggies...comparing themm to MT's like the revo, savages and of the sort, they are much easier to wrench on. Mostif not all come with sealed diffs:front, center and rear. They have the ability to use a starterbox.

What do you plan on using this rig for?

 

[Supralover72]

If you just bash, or even race and bash, a revo would be better because you can basically make it (for all technical purposes) a truggy/track truck but can get a set of rpm a-arms and knuckles for it. If you just race though, there is no beating a truggy, unless you can drive a buggy well.

 

[ZANDOR]

If you just bash, or even race and bash, a revo would be better because you can basically make it (for all technical purposes) a truggy/track truck but can get a set of rpm a-arms and knuckles for it. If you just race though, there is no beating a truggy, unless you can drive a buggy well.

I don't want to bash on you..But you don't even own any of the rigs you are talking about...You don;t even own a nitro RC.
So for you to give advice to some one is wrong..
Hell you can't even make up your own mind as to what to get.

 

[Supralover72]

I was just repeating the advice others have given me.

 

[olds97_lss]

Personally, I don't think the revo makes a good basher. At least not a good basher for big air. It just doesn't hold up. Even with RPM arms/knuckles. I go through rod ends like water on the shocks and pushrods. I need to figure out if I can use 1/8 scale rod ends without messing up the alignment...

I have a mammoth which has quite a few weak points, but it went toe to toe with my revo at a BMX park a few weeks back. Other than a weird two speed problem, it held up fine after running 1.5 quarts of fuel through it. With the revo, I ran about 3/4 quart through it and I'm having shock/pushrod end problems already... that's just annoying. And, I babied the revo with smaller air than I did the mammoth.

With the mammoth being on the weak side of truggies, I'd have to believe a better built one (or a mammoth with a few braces and a center diff) will take some serious punishment, on or off the track.