Decisions Decisions: Options and opinions

[gabemerrill]

Hey Guys,
Been lurking for a long time, learned some and have done a bunch of stuff with a nylint . But its about trash now and I need that 15 minutes of wheeling after work. Its such a great release.

I'm stuck deciding on a few things before I spend 500$ ... its 4:1 gears on the dana 300... but I'll do that too.

- tlt or txt axles.
I break things when crawling so I was leaning toward txts; they look like rockwells. I'm not interested in breaking shafts evertime I wheel it, but it seems like the tlts also hold up pretty well. I guess the real decision is size. Do I want to run something closer to 1:18 or 1:10.

Does anyone have the actual widths of the axles compared to narrow track or widetrack axles? whats the real scale?

- Chassis: Scale frame or Tube buggy
This is the hard decision, I really want 2. A wicked low buggy and a scale one like my 1:1.

I figure I'll get one almost rtr and play with it while I build my own. So the Decision is do I go with something as close to the jeep I run now to make it like what I'll be doing in real life, or do I go ahead build what the jeep would be like with 4-linked rocks, Or prototype buggy designs... decisions decisions.

Here is the 1:1 i abuse

[Brandon M]

Just to add with the tlts that are 1/18 scale here stretch them to a 12.5 inch wheel base

[gabemerrill]

I'm thinking that I will try to keep it as scale as possible (width to lenght) for a scale chassis or a tube buggy, unless I decide that I just want to build one thats for comps... Which is the other thing I'm trying to decide on. Comps would be fun, but I'm in SE Va now and there aren't any local. I have a friend with a clod crawler and another whos talking shafty buggy but hasn't spent any $$ yet.

[1leg]

cool shoots I would like to be doing that!

[mrpink]

building a crawler to look like a 1:1 is cool- but sometimes it limits what you can do with a RC... I would say, build the crawler for comps- even if you are not gonna enter into them; why limit what you can do. I go wheeling all the time with friends and taking my RC along is a great thing to do if someone rolls a bead or something stupid on the trail. Build something good- you willhave more fun with it.

with a 500$ budget- TLT is your best bet.

matt
cincy