STRC Blitz Option Parts

[spyro]

Hi guys

Other than the obvious steering rack, which of the other STRC parts are worth having?

Cheers

Chris

[(off)roadrunner]

[Frecklychimp]

The ones for the Losi XXX-SCT

[Hpi_guy]

http://www.modelsport.co.uk/hpi-mk.1...roducts/363583

[Hpi_guy]

i heard that the battery strap is a good option as the standard one bends, front hubs and a rear chassis brace

[Frecklychimp]

How do you bend a plastic battery strap with a tub chassis?

[Hpi_guy]

mines curved now and speaking to smithy he said that his bent too

[(off)roadrunner]

Originally Posted by Frecklychimp

How do you bend a plastic battery strap with a tub chassis?

let will drive your car

[Hpi_guy]

ha. ha. ha. very funny dave

[Frecklychimp]

Alloy Bling parts won't make you go faster and it shouldn't break unless you hit things... so don't hit things!

If the car needs them because it breaks without hitting things then its a poor design an quality of manufacturing...

Bling alloy parts will only stress other weak components in the chassis/suspension leading to repairing other parts + price of bling

Or just get a decent car in the first place

Think i proved on Sunday how strong the Losi is, repeatedly dropping it onto hard objects/floor from 30ft in the air and it would still finish a race

Before it's said... the reason it was beaten by 2 Blitz's was the quality of Smithy and Brooky's well seasoned driving talent compared to mine.

A battery strap is designed to hold a battery in, velcro straps will do the same job, quicker to use, lighter and cheaper

[spyro]

Originally Posted by Frecklychimp

Alloy Bling parts won't make you go faster and it shouldn't break unless you hit things... so don't hit things!

If the car needs them because it breaks without hitting things then its a poor design an quality of manufacturing...

Bling alloy parts will only stress other weak components in the chassis/suspension leading to repairing other parts + price of bling

Or just get a decent car in the first place

Think i proved on Sunday how strong the Losi is, repeatedly dropping it onto hard objects/floor from 30ft in the air and it would still finish a race

Before it's said... the reason it was beaten by 2 Blitz's was the quality of Smithy and Brooky's well seasoned driving talent compared to mine.

A battery strap is designed to hold a battery in, velcro straps will do the same job, quicker to use, lighter and cheaper

Know all that. I never understood the need to fitting alloy wishbones and shock towers. Alloy bits just move the break point to other bits of the car, usually the more expensive parts such as the chassis.

It's also not about the strength of the Blitz, can't fault it, I never managed to actually break a wishbone or tower or anything like that.

The Blitz has an amount of slop in the suspension and steering and it was more of a question as to which of the upgrades actually make a difference to this aspect of the truck.

Alloy battery straps are just for bling, and more to the point how the hell do you bend a plastic one!?

[(off)roadrunner]

if you really want to get rid of the steering slop chris, get the strc rack or the hpi one, (work out about the same money wise after p&p/tax) then just change all the ball studs/cups, and a new bearing kit,


or


buy an SC10

[Frecklychimp]

Set of thin shims/washers will sort out the slop, although no SCT is without it for long

All the 2wd's are plastic, bendy where they shouldn't be and have loose bits borderline on how the hell does it go in a straight line/round corners/respond to setup changes... but they are cheap, strong and bloomin awesome to race

Save your cash for a Durango 2WD, add the price of bling to the secondhand value of your Blitz and you'll pretty much be there and have a shiny new contender rather than a worn out basher with orange metal bits

[Frecklychimp]

Originally Posted by (off)roadrunner

buy an SC10

pffffffft, why swap cat poo for dog poo?

TLR 22T plus RCDC 22-SCT chassis conversion... that'll be a proper truck!

[Robbiejuk]

Originally Posted by Frecklychimp

pffffffft, why swap cat poo for dog poo?

TLR 22T plus RCDC 22-SCT chassis conversion... that'll be a proper truck!

That would make the 22t useful then.

[Frecklychimp]

Yeah, probably only way to get some competitive racing with it, but it's still cool just useless at present

Think i know whats going through the ring of fire at oOple 2012!

[shark]

Originally Posted by Hpi_guy

mines curved now and speaking to smithy he said that his bent too

Its not that it bends , it just pulls down at the point where the 2 nuts tighten down to hold the lipo in , no biggy !!

[tynhead]

I found some of my lipos too tall to fit under the strap and had to bend it like Billy-o to get the thumbscrews on. So I fixed with longer screws and wingnuts for faster pitstops :-D (ignore the broken steering block)

[JezT]

Don't ignore the broken steering block!!..... I broke my plastic steering block at A1 in sub-zero temperatures when the plastic was really brittle - I replaced it with STRC hubs to alleviate this very problem for the future.

BTW - I love bling though

[tynhead]

Originally Posted by JezT

Don't ignore the broken steering block!!..... I broke my plastic steering block at A1 in sub-zero temperatures when the plastic was really brittle - I replaced it with STRC hubs to alleviate this very problem for the future.

BTW - I love bling though

That broke at A1 as well, 2 laps into one of my heats. Had to drag the crippled truck around for another 5 painfully slow laps before I could throw on an rtr knuckle for the next race. Thankfully the rtr has inlines so had to swap just one.

All sweet now as I have got RPM jobbies on all four corners, just in time for Coventry!

Got some bling for Cov too, if you can call a 3D dinosaur sticker on the bonnet bling

Martyn