most frequent damaged RC10B4 parts

[DusterX17]

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I'm sorry if this question has already been asked a bazillion times (or even once before)
i'm a newb, and i'm not familiar with all the fancy Jargon.

it seems to me that everyone, or atleast a large majority of the people here live int he UK! awsome, i was born in Whales (Newport, Gwent to be more exact)

but now live in California

(oops i'm going off topic)

anyway, so i just recently bought a RC10B4 buggy from ebay, fully equipped with a Novak ss5800 brushless system.

(for those of you who saw that i said something similar AGES ago, the reason was that the person i bought it from neglected to send it (they forgot or something) so i've still been waiting, i just yesterday got word that they will be shipping *phew* so i plan to get it this tuesday! woo hoo)

(smiley?)
anyway. about the B4...


so being a beginner and all, i wanted to know what parts of the car are usually the weakest points? and what would be best to replace/upgrade/ clean on a used car? and i've seen all sorts of upgrades but i don't know what they actually do..

what is the benefit of having aluminum? titanium? or graphite? what do they all do?

i don't plan to spend much, and i don't plan to race.....yet.. more for recreation and just having fun....and not breaking it.. <_<

any suggestions are appreciated, even if they are costly, maybe i can start to save up for them now :]

sorry for the wordy post.. i guess i'm just a wordy person..

-DusterX17

ps: if you could put things into layman's terms that would be great... pretend i don't know anything about the car and you will probably be correct most of the time :] (but I'm not stupid or anything)

[Chris Harte]

The most common things broke at a track are usually the wishbones, the bulkheads and the front hinge pin braces. A very hard landing or mislaid jump might result in a broken front shock tower or rear shock tower.
If you do what I did and hit a tree when you launch it off six foot of steps, dogbones will bend but you can bend these back.

I run the truck version of the b4.

[josh_smaxx]

As upgrades go, the ali front hinge pin brace is quite good, ali servo mounts, Ti turnbuckles would be useful as these are STRONG (and that stands to reason as i havent bent one yet ) for bashing and all that then ali shock caps are nice as i broke a few pf the plastic ones in small crashes (breaking a wishbone, not realising straight away and then ripping the shock off) and thats about it, ali front hub carriers might be sueful aswell for strength.