Hot racing products

[sixhundred71]

I'm looking to buy the hot racing aluminum dress up kit for the wraith at RPP.(Links,diff cover,steering arms)Has anyone bought these? just wondering about the quality.
I also have rc4wd upper link mounts coming in the mail, are these good.
Just need some input.

 

[TW31]

I've heard mixed results on the Hot Racing products. Some say they are great some say they bend easily and it depends on what you're putting it on. I have a friend who has a Tekin 13.5 brushless set up on his Wraith and he bent his Axial aluminum links in the rear. Of course he has it geared for crazy speed (crazy for the Wraith anyway).

 

[xLPlushy]

I have the CNC lower ladder bars on mine now and they're rock solid and look awesome but they have a flaw in the design of the ball ends, there's a brass retainer ring that holds the metal ball into the bar and that retainer ring vibrates out giving you some play. I have the dress up kit on order and should have it tonite, I'll post pics and a first impression later.


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[Quartermaster]

Good products for the most part. Their knuckles and chubs are good. I have had them on my AX10 crawler for three years with no problems."thumbsup"

 

[jdawg53]

The only issues I've seen are they don't always fit properly, but for the most part they are fine.
J

 

[craddock35]

x2 on the dont fit properly. I wont get anything else hr and only select things rc4wd. The knuckles and chubs I got from hr were hard to turn once put together cause they wouldn't line up without putting them in a bind. They got redrilled and had to find new bushings and that fixed them but then I had more money in them than I would have paid for the good VP stuff I run now. The main issue I have had out of rc4wd stuff is from the axles till they get to around V4 or so they break very easy. I tried a set of the wraith xvd's waiting for the Axial cvd's to come out and broke them faster than I expected. They lasted all of maybe 2 minutes.

 

[DiEzel]

What if i said when my battery is full it has 12.6 volts and this happened before it got below 12.0... Would you believe me ? :ror: Bout the only thing useful from them was the sway bar arms and even now thats obsolete. :mrgreen: Spend a little bit extra cash and you won't have to spend it again down the road.

 

[WarTrader]

Hot racing is very hit and miss. I know a few people running their tranny gears with no problems. Their links are generally a waste of money. The rest I've seen people have them and love them but I think at least 3 outta 5 have had a lot of fitment issues with other things.

I know their stuff is cheap. Think though how much you saved when a few runs later your replacing it or sinking money in it to try and keep it together? Many times your better off saving up a little longer. From my experiences most people are only one time customers.

The only other thing I'll say is VP, Mayhem Engineering, Dinky R/C and a lot of others support our hobby via event sponsorship's and give away's. When was the last time you saw HR or integy sponsor anything or support our community in any way. If your gonna support a company through purchases, it might as well be with somebody that has good product service, quality products, and generally gives back to our community.

 

[meatmonkey]

So, basically what I'm hearing is that Hot Racing parts make STRC parts look good...

So the only aluminum parts going on my Wraith will be made by Axial or Vanquish.

 

[RNUOVR]

I was going to use Hot Racing parts in my axles (I have a buddy that is using their c hubs & knuckles with success and he is hard on stuff), but an RCC vendor hooked me up with a really good deal on a bunch of vanquish parts (well everything that vanquish make for the wraith axles) so I went that route instead. I'm spending enough on this build that I might as well do it right the 1st time.
I am still running the hot racing internal spring shocks and they are pretty good once they have been tweaked a little.
I would have to say Vanquish or Axial then STRC for aluminum parts and that's it....I know that Golden Horizons also makes parts, but I put them in the same category as Hot Racing & Integy (pretty sure all their parts come from the same manufacturer with the only difference being the logo's on them).

 

[stick-boy-rick]

i have hot racing knuckles and Chubs, absolutly no problems

 

[xLPlushy]

Hot racing links dress up set is a no go. I just got them tonight. They look awesome but that's about all. I had to wrestle with the uppers to get them to fit properly, they're the same metal heim with that lousy brass retainer that vibrates out. Do yourself a favor and go vanquish, I'm sorry I didn't. However there is an advantage to the dress up set, the crappy heim ends are replaceable, go to the lhs or rc4wd and get some bent rod ends to replace the ones that come on the HR set.


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[Natedog]

hot racing is very hit and miss. I know a few people running their tranny gears with no problems. Their links are generally a waste of money. The rest i've seen people have them and love them but i think at least 3 outta 5 have had a lot of fitment issues with other things.

I know their stuff is cheap. Think though how much you saved when a few runs later your replacing it or sinking money in it to try and keep it together? Many times your better off saving up a little longer. From my experiences most people are only one time customers.

The only other thing i'll say is vp, mayhem engineering, dinky r/c and a lot of others support our hobby via event sponsorship's and give away's. When was the last time you saw hr or integy sponsor anything or support our community in any way. If your gonna support a company through purchases, it might as well be with somebody that has good product service, quality products, and generally gives back to our community.

precisely.

 

[ax10tn]

I had strc knuckles and chubs on my wraith and ax10 on the ax10 they have held up even with 4ws and about 3yrs, but on the wraith I drove it one time and noticed they wasn't gonna work so I or ordered the stuff I should've ordered in the first place and saved money VP

 

[wmartinlsmith]

So, basically what I'm hearing is that Hot Racing parts make STRC parts look good...

So the only aluminum parts going on my Wraith will be made by Axial or Vanquish.

no, what your hearing is EVERYONE's opinion.. and opinions are like butts.. everyone has one.. and some of them stink.. you cant rely on them when it comes to companys and products that are hit or miss.. or peoples reaction to buying inexpensive equipment than expecting it to take 3cell lipo 25-30mph speeds when it is designed for low speed mid power spplication,

i have the HR setp from bizzare on ebay. everthing is working fine on my except for the known brass push rings/ball holders in mine that have wiggled loose, i expected this and have permanant loc-tite holding it together now. the only other thing i am changing on mine is the all thread rods in the shaft. i plan on making them a few mm longer.




in conclusion try it for yourself, dont expect it to hold up to getting the snot ripped out of it.. for cheap as chips pricing.

 

[sixhundred71]

Thanks for the input. I never tried ordering from the vendors here. Wonder if they cover shipping? I usually go to RPP because they ship to my location overseas. I'll try supporting on my next order. Might have to get links cause I already ordered the HR dress up kit and by this thread info I'm expecting to break them.

 

[Jay-Em]

Ordered all through bizzare hobbies. Use their stainlesssteel lockers, c-hubs, knuckles, sway-bars and metal gears. No problems whatsoever, running a 6.5t LRP stock-spec.(fast!!) I made my own links, so I cannot say anything useful about those.
A shipment got lost during x-mas, and bizarre hobbies sent me replacements immediately, no questions asked, just a cut&paste of the original shipment mail. "thumbsup".

All in all, I have nothing to complain about.

 

[zjguy721]

Only thing HR I have in mine are the one piece lockers. Good rep, and they seem to fit fine.

 

[crawlhog]

have several products of theres and to date no proplems. the oldest part is 1 year old

 

[tfs55]

broke the pins on the CVD's, first time that I mounted them, this is on a stock RTR Wraith using a Nimh 5000mah batt!!!!!! what a waste of money.