Who has raced the monkey

[danny the elfman]

Hey, just want to ask who has raced the mad monkey and whats it like, is competitive against the more expensive cars like the b4? (im buying the kit not rtr) And what wheel fitting is it because i have loads of pin drive wheels?

[daz]

Ive run mine at rhr on a wednesday night in a few practice sessions and its just as quick as everything else. Ive changed the shocks to losi ones, fitted ceramic diff balls (this is a must). Ball raced it, titanium turnbuckles. And fitted Associated hubs so i can run B4 wheels. So its now not a cheap car, but you could probably get away with just doing a few upgrades to make it competitive.

[danny the elfman]

thanks, could you give me a link to the ceramic balls, And what wheel fitment was it?

[daz]

You will need 3/32" balls i got mine off ebay, look up budfish on here and he does them as well. As for the wheel fitment i only did this cos i have loads of Associated wheels and the parts needed to do the conversion. This is not really necessary as the Madmonkey wheels are just fine and can be bought cheaply.

[billyboy9002]

the wheel fitment is 12mm hex, budfish ceramic balls are very good as i use them in mine, or you could try rc bearings they do the bearings and ceramics balls for a good price

hope this helps

[danny the elfman]

how many diff balls does it use, rcbearings sells them one at a time at 99p, so i need to know how many to get