X-Factory to launch new
 

Short Course Truck

well I can dream but one day maybe :D

Glen, I can assure you that there are NO plans for a release of a short course truck at present.

One of the US team guys did knock one up for their recent nationals and it went very well too, but the costs and time invloved will detract us from other on-going projects that are far more important at the moment sadly.

The current sense on these is all about keeping them standard and with minimal mods and an "X" converted truck will only ever be made to drastically improve performance and handling - which kind of goes against how everyone wants to race them at present (box stock etc). Some of the ROAR rules for the USA dont allow the "conversion" at all since it is not deemed as a "kit" but more of an "upgrade".

Is there nothing X-Factory haven't thought of??

What about a X-Factory RC Bike??:woot:

I think Darren has missed a 'no' from his reply there?..

I could try and think up some stuff we haven't thought of, but that would just be ironic wouldn't it?:lol:

LOL, top of the class Cris!!! Well spotted mate and now corrected too.......

Can't have been Chris must have been his MRS that picked up on that, the bloke can hardly put a sentence together. :woot:

Plus an RC bike already has it's motor in the 'right' place!

I was a bit shocked to be honest that i hadn't heard of the SC truck :lol:

Somebody else is coming out with one soon ;);)

SCHUMACHER :lol::lol::lol: didn't see the front page :thumbsup::lol::lol:

duplicate

Yup, I was the one who built the XFactory X-60SC. Here's a couple of pics of it

Naked chassis
http://homepage.mac.com/rv6a/Images/rc/IMG_2682.jpg

(from RCUniverse Nats pics):
http://homepage.mac.com/rv6a/Images/rc/DSC_21290.jpg

I pretty much built it to see if it could be done. Thats what I like to do. Alex did really well at Nats with it. It was the fastest truck out there. ROAR had no problems at all with it. In fact, at least one of the competition tried to say it shouldn't be allowed because it wasn't a production kit and ROAR basically told them to sit down. They liked the truck.

As Darren said, it'll probably never get in to production. The money to kit it needs to go to other projects right now.

Great stuff fella :thumbsup:

What did you have to do. I am interested in trying it. :thumbsup:

Me to ..........:thumbsup:

SpeedyDad can you tell me what size spur and shaft was it cause the truck look like it has a big spur and that what i want my x-60 to have please reply

Its a standard X Factory 5001 Transmission and rear chassis-half, so I imagine it is only able to fit the same spurs, namely AE's 72, 75, 78, or 81.

The motor plate in the truck is out of carbon fiber, and thus black.

We were using a 75t spur as the truck was being set up for a 17.5 brushless for Nats. Like Paul said, what you are probably seeing is the carbon fiber motor plate.

thank u u guys or the sickest keep up the with thinking outside the box and i hope Brian Kinwald and you guys are going to the Worlds. i hope to meet you'll one day at a race in cali. EH36 aka Rc's Black Magic:thumbsup: saying Thanks

X-Factory to launch new ................. Website!!!!

Was what you were supposed to say Glenn ;)

I think he meant new 4wd ;)

Why :confused:

both wrong :p ;)

shall I start a new thread for this one as well??

Dont think so, since the website is the only new thing from us..............at present ;)

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28279

lol i told you so ;)

I wasn't to know it was public knowledge :lol:

neither did i lol then the new 4wd thread popped up

The web site is all-new. New URL even. Worked a long time, with many struggles. I think it turned out well. Hope you like the new deal.

Dont get too excited just yet, thats what happens when Press people get hold of a snippet of info from our website and read into it totally the wrong way. The announcment online is to state that the X5 is now obsolete due to the broken chassis mould but to re-assure our customers we are working on somthing new for the future and not giving up on 4wd or anything...nothing more. Our new 4wd is in the early stages of thoughts and ideas ONLY and is a LONG way off yet, even as a prototype concept.

Why is it that Darren can say in a few sentences what it takes me an hour to write???

Trust me Chazz, with my one finger typing that did take me an hour to write ;)

Question for you UK guys. Does anyone over there race the short course trucks at all? Is there any interest in these over there?

ME!!!! I love it :thumbsup:

The class is growing, the fun factor is definately making it apealing "rubbing is racing" ;)

ME TOO !!!!

So there are short course classes in the UK? How many usually sign up for it?

There is no official SCT class, at the moment it is mainly club level although we had a heat of 9 SCTs at our last regional. We have a few meetings planned over the winter specifically for SCTs so I guess we will see how popular they really are in October at the first meet.

Definitely keep me posted on this. We didn't think these things were being run in the UK.

You will have to show us some pics of your SC60 :thumbsup: