Team Associated B74

[Frank211]

Check this out , for the racers
https://www.liverc.com/news/new_prod...B74_4wd_buggy/

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[Robbob]

Just saw it over on RCTech, my head is spinning with this one. Love that AE stepped out of the box of the B64

[CM9000]

Looks like the shocks are more laid down than before? I can see this chassis is in favor of the middle ground, high bite and loose. I wonder if any changes will be made/ hop ups available to make a stiffer setup. I don't see a top deck between the center and rear diff.

[soze]

I love the engineering of racing buggies and stuff, but damn that area of the hobby is so damn expensive!

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by CM9000

Looks like the shocks are more laid down than before? I can see this chassis is in favor of the middle ground, high bite and loose. I wonder if any changes will be made/ hop ups available to make a stiffer setup. I don't see a top deck between the center and rear diff.

You want chassis flex for carpet and turf.

When I designed the B64.4F conversion kit I looked a lot at what Xray, Yok and HB had in there cars. No top decks and chassis flex for steering. My kits are killers on carpet and turf compared to stock B64's. Looks like AE was watchign them too.

[CM9000]

Originally Posted by soze

I love the engineering of racing buggies and stuff, but damn that area of the hobby is so damn expensive!

Tell me about it lol. E truggy is about the most expensive to run. mostly because of tires lol. I remember spending almost 1200 just to run 1 truck at psycho nitro blast. Tires and electronics together cost me more than a new kit. Modified 2wd classes are the cheapest to run especially at club level.

Originally Posted by Robbob

You want chassis flex for carpet and turf.

When I designed the B64.4F conversion kit I looked a lot at what Xray, Yok and HB had in there cars. No top decks and chassis flex for steering. My kits are killers on carpet and turf compared to stock B64's. Looks like AE was watchign them too.

hmm.. I thought you would want a little less flex. I remember in my touring car days id leave the top deck screws a little on the loose side but I never took the top deck completely off.

I see they've added a bar down the center of the chassis.

I have never ran offroad turf or carpet.

Partially why I was asking you about compounds the other day lol.

[soze]

Originally Posted by CM9000

Tell me about it lol. E truggy is about the most expensive to run. mostly because of tires lol. I remember spending almost 1200 just to run 1 truck at psycho nitro blast. Tires and electronics together cost me more than a new kit. Modified 2wd classes are the cheapest to run especially at club level.

Not only that, but the fact that you have to pay something to even run the car somewhere sucks.

With crawlers you can just head out anywhere with terrain.

Anyway I bought a few buggies, thought I'd get into it, but quickly changed my mind.

Unfortunately, I've got some brand new kits I need to unload now.

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by CM9000

Tell me about it lol. E truggy is about the most expensive to run. mostly because of tires lol. I remember spending almost 1200 just to run 1 truck at psycho nitro blast. Tires and electronics together cost me more than a new kit. Modified 2wd classes are the cheapest to run especially at club level.



hmm.. I thought you would want a little less flex. I remember in my touring car days id leave the top deck screws a little on the loose side but I never took the top deck completely off.

I see they've added a bar down the center of the chassis.

I have never ran offroad turf or carpet.

Partially why I was asking you about compounds the other day lol.

Foam tire touring car - stiff as hell. I remember when Buds racing built his TC3 with a 3mm chassis. Stiff as a board and had tons of traction.

Rubber tire touring car - flex oh flex .... big learning curve change for me when I started racing them again.

Ya the spines down the center help keep the middle chassis crunch flex out while allowing for it to torsionally twist. Plus its tuneable with how many screws you use.

[CM9000]

The spine tuning is neat!