Hi mate, Good to hear you are looking to get back into the sport and you are definatly coming to the right club.
So £200 pound is not much to play with I am afraid but we will do the best we can.
If you are going for new I would suggest one of these two :
http://www.ar-uk.com/product/Ansmann...24_Ghz_id43411
or
http://www.ar-uk.com/product/Ansmann..._24Ghz_id45297
So both under 200 pounds, and both come with brushless speedo, motor servo and Transmitter + receiver. So all you would need to get it going would be a battery and charger. Out of the two the Mad monkey has a newer speed controller which I believe is better than the rebadged m-tronicks that comes in the rat and mid motors are great indoors on carpet.
Only things I would suggest upgrading on the cars to start off with would be that the car comes with bushings instead of bearings (this always has bugged me as it is a brushless rtr
but i guess they need to make savings somewhere to keep the cost down). A full bearing set is about ten pounds so not a major expense and definatly worth doing straight away.
A lot of people change the shocks as they have a tendency to blow the tops off after a hard landing off a ramp. Ansmann do their own cheap alloy shocks or you can upgrade the shockbodies and tops to be the same as what come on the pro kit for around a bout 30 quid. There are some decent aftermarket shocks that will fit this car on the bay of e that some people run as well which equally do a good job. The shocks are not majorly critical and you can probably get away with running the kit ones for a while till you save up for some better ones.
Other thing I would say is look at replacing the diff balls when you can, the ones that come in the car are ok but have a tendency to wear out quickly. Upgraded ceramic balls are readily availiable at the club for these cars
So you would still need to get a battery and charger. If you go the Lipo route, which is the best way to go, then you can get away with only having one battery whcih you top up between races. all of them are pretty good these days, even the cheap ones are more than capable. Make sure you get one that is Hard cased as we run a hard cased only rule at the club.
Here is an example:
http://www.ar-uk.com/product/Ansmann...0mAhHC_id43685
Charger wise there are a massive lot of charges out there at competitive prices. Here is a good example:
http://www.ar-uk.com/product/Ansmann...2V240V_id45279
Does all types of batteries including old style nimh and has all the features you really need such as balancing and inputs for 12v battery or mains supply. I use the newer version of this and it is absolutley fine.
My best advice would be to talk David Dodd at Autocare and cycles in cotgrave, He is a club member and also runs a model/autorepair shop. He can order things in for you and assuming the supplier has stock he will have it in two to three days.
Daves shop:
http://www.autocareandcycles.co.uk/
And if Mr Ken Dodd is reading this, get some bloody stuff uploaded to the web shop!
