I really like it. It seems to go very well on grass out of the box (well I got it 2nd hand lol). It gave me my highest regional finish 1st weekend I ran it at Coventry grass. On Covertry astro it felt like hard work to drive, although when I did get a good run in it went well. Hard to compare the B44 on that track as I'd only run it there twice.
At kiddy it seems to rocket round or at least feel really fast. don't really have times to compare the 2 properly, but my dad said it looks balisticly fast round there.
our club track is all grass with a lot of random bumps. the big bores with ghea pistons on 25wt oil really eat those up. I did a lot of testing/trial & error with the B44 to try and sort this, but it never rode the bumps like the cat does. Can only put this down to the weight distribution, ie, motor at the back in the cat
also the cat jumps in a different league. very easy to adjust in the air. I often found the B44 nose dived a lot in the air and I was always putting more lead between the lipo to try and solve this.
The cat seems to be totally bullet proof lol. Pushing hard to kiddy results in some largish crashes, but it carries on going! Only got the 'stegger' brace and alloy tops on the diffs. My only gripe is the idler gears doesn't seem to last long, but the last lot (bought from MK) I installed at Cov regional. done 2 club nights on grass and 1 club night on carpet w/ jumps and still looking good so fingers crossed! The B44 was a strong car, but I must have got through 20 or so wishbones in my year of ownership. Never really broke much else. Sometimes the shock caps went bye bye in a wishbone crash. The B44 had very annoying meshing method, which they've resolved now with a new motor mount.
Our winter club nights are run on a polished floor. I had some good results with the B44 using a NTC3 spool in the front as this gave a very stable car to drive and unrivalled get up and go out of the corners. it lacked a bit of turn in at times though (expected really) lol. Can't wait to get started with the cat indoors.
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