Baja Prime ?

[ClydeBuilt]

Anyone got one of the BSD Baja Prime dune buggies?

Spotted one in the local model shop and its a wringer for my full sized Baja 5T. Let me stress that its just for messing around an indoor track of an evening and not for for 'proper' races.

Not that theres much of a difference in my driving style in either.

For under £100 rtr its looks smashing, also seen another shoppe down Englandshire with plenty of spares, so no worries on that front.

Its comes with a standard hi-torque 540 type motor, but fitting a budget brushless combo would give better run times on Lipos, but not so much out & out speed, as I think that might melt the gear train?

Anyone got any info on it?

[Darklord]

I've just bought one of these to get back into racing.
I know I'll hear whinging saying it's no good, but who knows?

I've raced a second hand B4 many years back and I was disappointed after hearing so much raving. It did nothing but snap like carrots, and no matter what I spent on it or did to it, I just struggled to get it through a race meeting. I did better with a tired old Tamiya Madcap

So.. I went to 4wd. Thinking it'll be easier. An X10 Predator was bought secondhand. It handled well, and was a lovely piece of engineering... but it was really nose heavy and tight for space.

So I think sod it...Why not just buy one and find out?

As you said, it looks quite like a Baja 5b (So it'll look good on the shelf next to it ) And it looks like it has quite sturdy shock mounting points. Not those fragile 'horn type' shock mounts. I've done a bit of homework before I bought it, and found that no upgrade parts are available for it yet, but I found on the BSD website, that there's also an brushless RTR version.
I'm going to put my own brushless set-up in it. Something soft to start with so I can learn the easy way.
Have you raced yours yet?