Are XMODS worth it?

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I love Xmods but you can buy every Rat Shack upgrade and your still not going to have a race car. On the other hand modding them is a hobby unto it’s self, the RC equivalent of tuning or street-roding, adictive and expensive too.

I couldn't have put it better, 'cept I don't really love Xmods. I want to like them, but they are not super fast even with the stage 2 motors, and bearings. My iwaver monster was faster out of the box than the Xmods with all the RS hop ups. That aint right.

I'm actually at that point now, where I was thinking of upgrading the Xmod further, with FETs, faster motor, lighter body, but then it just started to seem like a better idea to get an iwaver. So that's the direction I'm leaning in now.

Yeah..i i am gettiing hopfully a iWaver 01 in a trade and going to have fun with that. Personally, the xmod is only good for stright line speed and drifiting. I plan on just modding the iWaver...

[LBRC]

Man, don't ask me how it happened, but the bottom pin of the steering knuckle on one side just broke off!

hopefully your local Radio Shack keeps a box full of salvaged parts for just that sort of problem.

CD - I suppose one of the things that helps me “love” my Xmods is that I have several successfully modified cars. I do keep one or two around in a more or less RS stock form, AWD, bearings, stage 2 etc. but most have either the Front Deck Turbo or 2x3 FETs, lithium-ion batteries (for improved handling) and/or modified motors, and all of them have had the steering fixed and AWD. To me a 2WD Xmod is a cripple, and should be either fixed or put out of its misery, but then that’s probably because I have more than a few Mini-Z’s/Iwavers hanging around to fill the 2WD nitch.

For the most part the decision on what to drive depends on where and with whom. So if it’s tooling around in a smooth parking lot or cul-de-sacs then an Xmod, 20 x 30 foot indoor/outdoor carpet track a Mini-Z or Iwaver, tennis court Iwaver or Xmod, LHS track Mini-Z. Been working on ultra outlaw Z’s and trying them on a not so local indoor large scale track but there are limits to the amount of control you and have with any 1/28 scale car at speed especially with 2WD.

Example: Note, I posted this in a similar thread at MRCC (spit)

The 4th was great after the fireworks we held a little parking lot street race (one hundred feet around the cone and back) and although wining is important so is style, in other words you can have the fastest car and still be a looser. With a stock car it’s pretty easy but the faster they get the harder this simple little race becomes. There where a couple of Mini-Z’s both Kyosho and Iwavers but because of the rougher pavement they didn’t do so well. A good M18 could easily win the race but would loose too many style points do to size (simple judging Yea's win Boo's loose). My Skyline is great at this but not the car to beat has too much trouble at the turn, the Stitch RSX is the all time winner and although retired I resurrected it and the three cell mustang for the for the forth (wanted to win and did ).

By the way channels 7 and 9 where reserved for the racing, violators would get to spend the night in the dumpster, that is if someone could remembered to let them out, sadly no problems with 7 and 9, LoL but since there where no other channel restrictions the parking lot was a bit of a mad house and occasionally a car would shoot across the course.

It's all about fun.
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sorry..little off topic..

What sized li-ions did you fit into the iWavers? I belive all three types of cells, from the AAA lenght, the AA lenght and the 18 something cells too...

[LBRC]

I use 14430 lithium-ions (14mm x 43mm) same diameter but shorter than a AA.


BTW - I also took a Lithium powered IW-04 to the above race it’s pretty fast with the Atomic Z2 but didn’t have enough top end to beat the modified cars, needed more lights too. Still scored with the wheelies.

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I use 14430 lithium-ions (14mm x 430mm) same diameter but shorter than a AA.


BTW - I also took a Lithium powered IW-04 to the above race it’s pretty fast with the Atomic Z2 but didn’t have enough top end to beat the modified cars, needed more lights too. Still scored with the wheelies.

The aa wont fit or just need more modifications?

[LBRC]

A 14500 (closest Li-ion to AA) is 7 mm, almost one centimeter longer, so you need to cut the battery compartment sides refer to the photo, I prefer the 14430’s. As a matter of fact for reasons I have posted elsewhere I now almost always use 14430’s for all my lithium Xmods or Iwaver projects even though they are rated at approx. 100 mAh less (650 instead of 750 or 800 mAh) suffice it to say that for me the actual driving time and current delivery end up being the same.