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01-28-2010, 08:15 PM | #1 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South FL
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| Hot Racing wheels,F&R hubs,& shock weights*better pix* The Hot Racing parts finally came in from HobbyEtc.com so I decided to snap some pictures as I swapped the parts and get the weights measured. Ill give a review later but so far the parts look great and have a nice weight to them of course. The wheels are nice and solid and are cut for the stock wheel hex(which i cant seem to pop out). The Phillips screws are ugly In my opinion,But the color is a nice contrast against the black (red & blue also available) I hope to find some tiny silver colored Allen screws as the factory screws are the wrong thread and a bit thinner. any way here are the pictures and weights. 23.3 grams ~ 1 Hot Racing aluminum bead lock wheel tire mounted with full foam and no wheel hex 10.4 grams ~ 1 Losi McRC factory wheel & tire mounted with hex 3.8 grams ~ 1 Losi McRC factory wheel with hex - no tire & foam (with bead lock & screws) 16.8 grams ~ 1 Hot Racing aluminum bead lock wheel with bead lock and screws mounted (no hex) 2.6 grams ~ 1 Hot Racing Aluminum shock fully assembled with screws and soft spring 1.8 grams ~ 1 losi McRC factory shock with ball studs 4.0 grams ~ 1 Hot Racing aluminum rear lockout assembled with factory bearings 3.5 grams ~ 1 Losi hub & outer axle with bearings 1.7 grams ~ 1 Hot Racing front hub/ C 0.8 grams ~ 1 Losi front hub/ C *update* sorry for the pix but even with macro,super macro or any setting images are blurry even when on a mini tripod Last edited by spoo76; 01-30-2010 at 02:05 PM. |
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01-28-2010, 08:51 PM | #2 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Elk Grove
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What happened to the pix? I just picked up my micro today. Runs a little high and stiff in stock form. Gonna look at some mods soon.
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01-28-2010, 08:55 PM | #3 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South FL
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| I'm taking pix and doing weighs as i post them Pix will be crappy it seems the cheapo camera i got for Christmas takes extremely blurry pix lol |
01-28-2010, 09:01 PM | #4 |
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pics go go! lol cant wait to see themm lol
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01-28-2010, 09:36 PM | #5 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South FL
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| the pix are pretty blurry because of this new lame camera they are pretty big to help make up for it, waiting for photobucket to finish uploading |
01-28-2010, 10:10 PM | #6 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Elk Grove
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Yeah, kinda blurry, but we get the point. Makes me want to order some new parts!
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01-28-2010, 10:12 PM | #7 |
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01-28-2010, 10:15 PM | #8 |
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01-28-2010, 11:20 PM | #9 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: here
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Does your camera have any kind of Macro setting? it usually has a flower icon for it. On mine it was harder to find.
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01-28-2010, 11:23 PM | #10 |
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01-29-2010, 09:26 AM | #11 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Long Island
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| Yeah macro really helps, if you look at a LOT of my pictures, they are macro or super macro(.4" away from the object) Look great though, how much are the bead locks? They look really nice and how do the parts help compared to stock(the lockout, shocks etc..)?
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01-29-2010, 01:05 PM | #12 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South FL
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| well aluminum weighs more and will help lower your center of gravity so all the parts have that The lock outs are thinner use less parts and stronger and if you want you can keep the stock spare parts to make rear steer on another micro |
01-29-2010, 09:17 PM | #13 | |
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01-29-2010, 09:27 PM | #14 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South FL
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| the rear lockouts come as a pair and just replace the rear hubs You get the 2 hubs and replacement inner axle the front steering knuckle also comes as a pair and is a direct factory replacement as far as part # MCC2108 Im not sure where you got that from because i dont see it on the website Last edited by spoo76; 01-29-2010 at 09:33 PM. |
01-29-2010, 09:40 PM | #15 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South FL
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| Ok i see where the confusion is, I just have the front hub, dont know why i called it the steering knuckle. It wasnt listed on the hot racing site, it only seems to come up for me when i search Liquid RC. I guess thats what i will order next |
01-30-2010, 07:34 AM | #16 | |
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01-30-2010, 09:08 AM | #17 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South FL
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yes the rear lockout does have less weight gain than just replacing the hub. I would guess because the rear lock out is one part and an axle shaft rather than the 2 with shaft. for something this small and light i doubt the extra strength is an issue but it would help shift weight forward wouldnt it? for those doing comp every little bit helps but for me I like the fact the lockouts make it look more like a rear axle | |
01-30-2010, 02:08 PM | #18 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South FL
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| Updated the pictures. Some are still pretty blurry even with super macro. it seems if you even breath the image gets blured this was on a mini tripod and even the movement from pressing the shutter button would make things go out of whack :mad::mad: |
01-30-2010, 02:20 PM | #19 |
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pics look a lot better! I have seen u and a couple others mention that the HR springs are too stiff, will the stock springs fit inside the HR shock bodies??
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01-30-2010, 02:29 PM | #20 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South FL
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The factory losi springs are a tiny bit thicker/wider so they wont fit but you can easily cut off one or two turns of the spring and stretch them out to fit, or find springs from a cheap clickable pen | |
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