thanks for the replies! i didn't even see that was rwd instead of awd. i'm from crawlers so i'm used to building rigs out of aftermarket parts without ever buying stock parts in the first place so i figured that one would be a good bet. they have one that comes as awd for 170.. seems like all the sakura are made in china anyways so why would it cost me more in the end to get one built out of hop ups? i don't like buying something twice and i want a full option rig. thanks for the feedback
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thanks again for the replies. what upgrades are absolutely necessary? i want a carbon fiber chassis for cool factor no matter what but what else is should i pick up?
and im ok with short runtimes if it means a lighweight car. i can swap the battery more often and not have to carry a brick around.. i get an hour out of those batteries in my custom wraith crawler (not at all a wraith anymore lol)
would i be better off with a mst or are they more bling than anything? im trying to keep this under 350 so since i already have and love castle stuff i can throw in a 3800kv and sct esc i have instead of buying one new. is that servo good or will it be too much for the car? i figured 0.032 60* is a great speed and with 97 oz of torque that would be enough for drifting?
when it comes to made in china and made in china i figured the tolerances would be meh either way so excuse me wanting to buy the clone but what do you mean it will cost me more in the long run? when it comes to crawlers if you buy american parts you get top quality but it seems all the "good" drift cars are chinese?
anyways i will pick up an origional chassis not clone i guess and upgrade the necessary places as i find them. i may use a smaller 2pole motor if the 3800 4pole is oo much for the truck. i got to drive a drifter the other day and it had a 4600kv castle 4pole and it was pretty fun. that was on a carpet track.
also if i were to want to pick up a cheap drifter for a 4 yr old which would be the best? im assuming another of whatever i got so when i upgrade he can have the old parts as spares?
again thank you everyone im very new to rc drifting (: