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05-15-2009, 08:58 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Boise
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|  HPI/ Hot bodies Crawler?
First off, did a search, came up empty, so if this has already been covered, forgive me for my ignorance... But I ran across this Italian hobby site and noticed HPI has a full on crawler in the works..... Check this out, about halfway down the page, right below the tank. Called the C10. Looks pretty nice I guess..... lots of stuff in the chassis, wonder if it has a front-rear dig like the Losi? |
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05-15-2009, 09:31 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Great Britain
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Looks interesting but it's hard to tell anything from the pic they got of it.  |
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05-15-2009, 09:36 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Alamogordo
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Here are two more photos... Are those WK axles?   |
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05-15-2009, 09:52 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Port Angeles
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Sure does look like wk axles... And that looks like a wk servo mount..dig maybe? |
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05-15-2009, 06:09 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: MENTOR
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That blue sure is perty. LOL HMMMM Hotbodies  |
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05-15-2009, 06:23 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: BV
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If I wanted a WK crawler I would have kept the one I built a year and a half ago. I'll pass.
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05-15-2009, 07:09 PM
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| Release your anger..   Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: North American Union
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IIRC, I think Hot Bodies bought HPI, so that explains the WK base. I hope Hot Bodies sells the axles seperately and that the tranny is smaller than the Venom Creeper.. |
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05-15-2009, 07:19 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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Just more options!  |
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05-15-2009, 07:21 PM
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| Pixel Pusher Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Kansas City
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For the life of me I don't get these Japanese companies....  Tamiya does the CR-NO1, Kyosho does the RockFarce, I just don't get their marketing strategy. | |
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05-15-2009, 07:23 PM
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| Pixel Pusher Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Kansas City
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Wait... I just envisioned it... General Manager to Product Development: "OK guys, we're sitting on a metric ton of this Wheely King stuff, you guys need to figure out a way to unload some of it". |
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05-15-2009, 09:02 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Japan
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HPI was created and is based in the USA by a Japanese guy, so does that make it a Japanese company?.. actually the CR-01 isn't doing too bad, well here in Japan at least. Its cheaper and there is way more support in option parts then there is for Axial... Can't say much for the RF and WK though... | |
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05-15-2009, 09:20 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson/Las Vegas, NV
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looks like WK axles on a Reign Wide mouth knockoff chassis... | |
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05-15-2009, 09:27 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Cyprus
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It looks like they have *gulp* done some research before making this thing! The steering servo is mounted on the far side for a longer steering link (better geometry), axle mounted 2/3A battery pack, the wheels seem to have some backspacing (definitely more than my Axials, don't know about the stock WK or CK wheels though) Too bad they had to go use the stock clearance-robbing clamping system though for the lower mounts, and changing from that to a less bulky mount will render the servo/batt mounts unusable. Still, even the CK has those trimmed well down, so it's not as bad as the WK. Rear axle lockouts, well triangulated 4-link (can't tell antisquat or how much room there is for adjustment). I like it for a mainstream production rig, although I've only ever used WK axles for my 2.2 and don't know why everyone is hating on them yet. |
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05-15-2009, 09:30 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Cyprus
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You are right on that, looks like a widemouth only with less top link adjustability and more leaned back shocks. My noobness made me fail to catch that  | |
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05-15-2009, 09:43 PM
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05-15-2009, 09:45 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: San Clemente, CA.
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I'll pass on this one, tranny looks unusual but thats it. WK axles are inferior to axials, so whats the interest.
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05-15-2009, 09:48 PM
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| 20K Club   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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First impressions:
All in all though, looks like it is better than par for a production crawler. Most things look pretty easy to fix. I would choose AX-10 axles over WK axles any day of the week though. I would give them a solid 7 out of 10 on the minimum info that I can pick up from those tiny pics. |
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05-16-2009, 08:35 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: BV
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What's with the receiver pack? Do they really expect people to run their crawlers on 6 volts?
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05-16-2009, 03:35 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Slovakia
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those rovers are the best part ;)
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05-22-2009, 03:17 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: San Clemente, CA.
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