Monster Truck Madness – More TLR Tuned Race Spec Impressions
Hello of us, you’ve made it to Thursday and one other Monster Truck Madness!
The Trigger King monster truck membership that I race with lately held their second outside race of the season, and I used to be in a position to get much more set off time in with my TLR tuned Losi LMT. Not solely that, however a number of of the vehicles had been in competitors throughout numerous courses by the use of totally different drivers.
The normal consensus amongst homeowners, all of us having two full occasion days on the vehicles now, is that out of the rigs in our fleet, it’s among the many finest dealing with or a minimum of is pretty much as good as any of our different closely modified vehicles.
I concur with this general sentiment. “Rotten Candy Apple” is my favourite race rig in my fleet (though I shall be re-doing the physique quickly with a JConcepts 97 Ford– I botched my preliminary paint job!). I’m operating a Spektrum S6250 servo and Graupner 5.5 sensored brushless setup, so I’ve loads of each go-forward and turning energy. The truck feels mild and agile like one in all my Axial primarily based vehicles, however barely extra planted each in turning and when below acceleration.
It’s very balanced within the air. Due to the carbon fiber chassis and electronics placement, just about the entire weight of the truck is within the axles. It flies very straight and easy, and may be very reactive to throttle enter for adjustment.
I might STRONGLY suggest that you simply run a sensored brushless system in one in all these. I really feel like this chassis could be extremely reactive to the cogging and normal less-sensitiveness of an unsensored motor in a detrimental manner. I’d assume that almost all of us paying the worth of admission for the TLR tuned getup are in all probability planning to make use of it in a racing utility, so simply make sure that if that’s the case you spring for a pleasant sensored motor/esc combo. I’ll write extra about this coming quickly.
We really had somebody run there TLR tuned LMT with a brushed motor in our restricted to 17t brushed motor Sport Mod class (the primary LMT of any type we’ve ever had compete in it) and carried out splendidly, even making a closing spherical look. I’d count on that we are going to now see extra of them make their manner into the category, because the earlier hang-up with equipping an LMT for this was the thought that the truck was in all probability too heavy for a brushed motor to push it in comparison with Clods and Axial primarily based vehicles. The TLR tuned LMT had no such situation!
The TLR tuned LMT seems like a excessive finish race car and I actually competing with mine and it seems lots of my racing buddies really feel the identical manner. We will see the way it goes all through the Summer!
Until subsequent week, maintain it on all 4’s.