most frequent damaged RC10B4 parts
 

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I'm sorry if this question has already been asked a bazillion times (or even once before)
i'm a newb, and i'm not familiar with all the fancy Jargon.

it seems to me that everyone, or atleast a large majority of the people here live int he UK! awsome, i was born in Whales (Newport, Gwent to be more exact)

but now live in California

(oops i'm going off topic)

anyway, so i just recently bought a RC10B4 buggy from ebay, fully equipped with a Novak ss5800 brushless system.

(for those of you who saw that i said something similar AGES ago, the reason was that the person i bought it from neglected to send it (they forgot or something) so i've still been waiting, i just yesterday got word that they will be shipping *phew* so i plan to get it this tuesday! woo hoo)

:):):):):) (smiley?)
anyway. about the B4...


so being a beginner and all, i wanted to know what parts of the car are usually the weakest points? and what would be best to replace/upgrade/ clean on a used car? and i've seen all sorts of upgrades but i don't know what they actually do..

what is the benefit of having aluminum? titanium? or graphite? what do they all do?

i don't plan to spend much, and i don't plan to race.....yet.. more for recreation and just having fun....and not breaking it.. <_<

any suggestions are appreciated, even if they are costly, maybe i can start to save up for them now :]

sorry for the wordy post.. i guess i'm just a wordy person..

-DusterX17

ps: if you could put things into layman's terms that would be great... pretend i don't know anything about the car and you will probably be correct most of the time :] (but I'm not stupid or anything:wtf:)

The most common things broke at a track are usually the wishbones, the bulkheads and the front hinge pin braces. A very hard landing or mislaid jump might result in a broken front shock tower or rear shock tower.
If you do what I did and hit a tree when you launch it off six foot of steps, dogbones will bend but you can bend these back.

I run the truck version of the b4.

As upgrades go, the ali front hinge pin brace is quite good, ali servo mounts, Ti turnbuckles would be useful as these are STRONG (and that stands to reason as i havent bent one yet :p) for bashing and all that then ali shock caps are nice as i broke a few pf the plastic ones in small crashes (breaking a wishbone, not realising straight away and then ripping the shock off) and thats about it, ali front hub carriers might be sueful aswell for strength.