Well got the savage!

JAMAL

JAMAL

JAMAL

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Hi, after the last savage thread and all those great pics i couldn't resist. I found this baby locally from a guy who had treated the beast well, to be honest its like new (well until i took it for a bash!!!).

I paid £250 but it has Proline mambo series 40 wheels and bow tie tyres which cost around £60, savage 4.6 Exhaust, high flow air filter, alloy skid plate, team orion hump pack, fuel tank guard and other little bits + the HPI wheels/tyres.

Well have to sort a RC meet sometime!

Anyway here are the pics, thanks to William for hosting them :)

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Nice looking Savage you got there Jamal, congrats :)

What engine has it got, the stock S-25? Looks very clean and well looked after, the wheels and tyres look awesome. Will have to get some 40 series for mine soon.
 
Anyone else viewing only half of the second image?

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I was thinking of buying a lunchbox reissue and sticking a petrol engine in it. :D
 
mrk1@1 said:
Meh my Clod Buster is >>> than your savage, least it looks like a real truck :p :D

Very nice tbh. Any chance of hosting a vid of you runing it.
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OMG Clod Buster.. childhood flashback <zones out>
 
Wheels look a bit dodgy... don't really seem to match. Otherwise it looks impressive.

Where do you go to use it?
I'm finding i have nowhere to run my mt.
 
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I got my first ever RC car a couple of months ago and also got a Savage, but the 3.5 RTR version. So far I'm loving it, its taken some real bad crashes/tumbles and just carried on, although I have managed to break the plastic tube surrounding the radio antenna, need to get a new one of them, oh and the shell is now toast. :D

There is an old slate quarry quite near me where I go to bash it, which is ideal as there is random bumps and hills and stuff to get the beast airborne, you'll love it! :D

The only trouble I have is cleaning it, it desperately needs stripping down and every component cleaned, but as I've never done anything like that before and I'm not the most talented with a screwdriver I'm frightened I would be able to put it back together! Also that one you have there is MINT! It looks soo nice!
 
Very nice mate, ive been messing about with electric 1/10 scale rc offroad cars for a while now. I think ill get a Savage for christmas.

Mark
 
squiffy said:
Any large scale petrol RC car > Electric and Nitro :)
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Not sure about that, i kind of went off Nitro because of the mess and the noise, i assume petrol isn't much better in those respects?

Although having said that, i'm not too hapy about the way my motor is cooking itself in my rs4 mt truck...
 
Petrol is louder, but it's a lower pitch sound, not so ear splitting as a nitro revved up. Petrol is totally clean though, chassis is spotless after a run. Only thing is getting a seal on exhaust/pipe, otherwise you get oil residue. Petrol has more torque than nitro, although electric has torque/speed advantage...except for the run time. I can get 45 minutes- 1 hour out of one tank

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ALWAYS buy a good radio with a failsafe, ideally a receiver with throttle/reception failsafe presets.. I cannot stress this enough.
 
Partially, I was using a cheap Hitec radio set but added a £15 failsafe, set it up ok and worked on the bench, then after a month or so just went straight forward into a bush, £140 of damage (all servos damaged, front left lower A arm, pipe, exhaust header) Actually could have been a lot worse (bent chassis)

Went for a Futaba 3PK PCM.
You don't want one of these large RC cars to lose control, can easily break the legs of a grown man (that has happened) or if it hits head/neck will kill you.
 
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