If you want a basher, go buy the MT410 and put all the M2C upgrades into it... truck won't perform well on a track, but it will do wheelies for days, jump like a champ and rolling back flips.
I was looking for a replacement for my Talion, which is a fast nibble and fairly robust RC straight out of the box. I thought this might be a good option, as it is agile, it jumps beautifully, it is very fast, extremely stable, it just might not be as tough as I thought it could be.
Some of the footage I've seen made me think it was a solid bit of kit. I do know how to break a car, I've had a lot of practice, so I wasn't under any illusions in what to expect. I'm not new to jumping RC cars, and it is one of those things, I could have made that jump 100 times and it would have been fine, it was just the exact angle and speed it hit the ground that sent the right amount of force through the chassis to do this.
I wasn't complaining, I admit it was my fault, just surprised I could snap a driveshaft like that. If you were to look at the footage, the jump wasn't all that big, I've launched a lot of RCs over 100ft(this jump might have been 30ft if that) and haven't had this happen, even on a bad landing, I've bent many driveshafts, never snapped one clean in half.
This truck as it was designed is a track car, that is what I bought it for first, but I loved it so much I bought a second kit for fun and bashing. I've jumped it heaps at home off the same ramps with no issues at all. This time was just a little further and it was a really tail heavy landing, if I can get a set of aluminium chassis braces, I think it would be okay.
I turned to Tekno because I was sick of spending a fortune on beefier aftermarket parts only to make the cars handle badly, I wanted a light weight basher that I could still enjoy driving, not just a brick on wheels.
About the MT410, I don't usually like swb cars and the MT410 would end up being built the same way as what I already have in so many of my rigs, which is overweight and then with the need to be overpowered. To me that YouTube clip is just really aiming to destroy a car, I don't drive or expect to be able to drive an rc like that and it not break. Yeah it might be fun for a bit, but even the toughest rc won't stand up to that abuse over and over.
I think if I run the
ET48 2.0 on 4s and keep the weight down it will be fine, I was running 6s and made an over correction bringing the nose up, which slammed the rear until the ground.
