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Originally Posted by lukewheels
I've just bought an Mi1 and am running it at my local Friday indoor meet. I've fitted a 5.3 lipo, gm 13.5 motor, LRP SPX, YB tyres. Having never raced a touring car before I am extremely happy with how easy this was to get used to. I copied one of the setups from the manual and I didnt see any need for adjustment all evening. I've kept the Lrp down to profile 3 ( i think) which allows me to concentrate on steering but gives a nice turbo kick on the straight. I made one error; additive to the whole of the front tyres, a bit too grippy. Car runs super smooth and quiet, very free, diffs have little resistance. I can see a point when I get better at driving it that it might benefit from some finer tuning. Even though it's classed as a budget chassis the total build was still 700 odd, so not the cheapest option there is.
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That 700 pounds is mainly down to the equipment you have put in it though. I think the beauty of this car is it can be raced by a pure beginner with minimal equipment.
I am guessing you haven't added an hop-ups to the car, and as you said it is easy enough to drive out of the box with a standard set-up. This is a going to be a great car for beginners as it is strong, reliable and easy to drive so they can start off with slow equipment and then as they get more confident with driving upgrade the equipment they use rather than having to add massive amount of hop-ups or be replacing massive amount of spares each week. Then when they are ready to move to the next step they can think about changing chassis.
Yes there are probably cheaper options out there to start off which come a with a throw away speedo and motor but I always feel that ultimatley you end up spending more getting the chassis up to speed rather on spending the money on getting the equipment up to scratch.
Just priced up a complete beginners racing package, with mi1, bodyshell, brushless, lipo, 2.4 system and charger for just over £400.00 which sounds a lot but in the grand scale of things these days is sod all compared to what the top people even at club level are running.