Traxxas Titan

[electric]

So I just happen to come across 3 guys at a local lake in McKinney, TX yesterday and they were from Traxxas testing the Titan. They had one that was GPS'd at 52 and they were running them like crazy. They were testing with 6S and the Nicads and running in full speed in turns and it never once flipped while I was there.

Well unless this guy is making up a story,the answer to 5omph is now here after months of discussion and debate. This boat has generated more chatter than any boat I have seen even before it has been released!! For all the time and money I have spent building and getting my Triton to this speed, I find it impressive they are doing it at the price point. To me, the last question is how well the Hull will hold up.

[Jeff Wohlt]

Anyone remember the 32" Challenger that Fine sold...thing was like a tank as far as strength. So do what we all do...line it with FG or CF cloth...not the first.

I am not affraid of ABS after running a EV into a dock at 40+ and watched it bounce off. Plenty of strength as Rum said.

[oscarel]

I wish I had a camera with me, the guys say they're up there all the time so I'll keep my eyes out for them.

[keithbradley]

Were they making prop changes at all? I'm curious if they change props when going to 6s lipo. They don't mention it in promos, but the math doesn't quite seem to work out for that boat to go that fast on a 42mm prop.
It does look like its running pretty dry in the vids though so who knows...

[oscarel]

I didn't see them change between lipo and nicads. They ran till it started slowing down, changed batteries and put it back out. They did have a heck of a lot of batteries with them, I'd guess around 50 each lip and nicad.

[Brushless55]

I didn't see them change between lipo and nicads. They ran till it started slowing down, changed batteries and put it back out. They did have a heck of a lot of batteries with them, I'd guess around 50 each lip and nicad.

50mph on the stock Nicad
or did ya mean 50 batteries
by the way, nimh

[oscarel]

No, I didn't say they ran 50+mph on nicad. I didn't see the GPS'd run that showed 52. But I did see it running on 6S lipo and it looked pretty darn fast.

[Brushless55]

I hope this isn't a Traxxas plug

[oscarel]

Nope, no Traxxas plug here. I was really surprised to see them running where they were. I've lived in McKinney for 5 years and that was the first time I've seen anyone running boats other than sailboats there. I was looking around on the forums this morning and came across this thread and I posted what I saw.

[BakedMopar]

So the local guy finally cancelled his order for this one. The oher guy cancelled his order for the UL-1 also. I know one of them are looking at the pro-boat cat.

[JMSCARD]

I am gonna lay my guess on the line....

I ran my rustler vxl out of the box with stock gearing on a 3s 4000 mah flightmax 20c lipo and got 57 mph.... with the box stock gearing... I then put on the larger pinion which they included and hit the 66 mph.... they said 65mph on the box...

I also have a erevo brushless edition.... said 50mph plus on 6s.... and if it doesn't do 50mph then my delta force 33 (neu 1521) doesn't do 25mph....

all I am saying is traxxas usually doesn't exaggerate....

My bet..... if anyone would like to lay down a voucher.... is with minimal adjustments and prep work.... this sucker is gonna hit just over 50mph stock on 6s..... thats my story and I am sticking too it

[Brushless55]

I am gonna lay my guess on the line....

I ran my rustler vxl out of the box with stock gearing on a 3s 4000 mah flightmax 20c lipo and got 57 mph.... with the stock box gearing... I then put on the larger pinion which they included and hit the 66 mph.... they said 65mph on the box...

I also have a erevo brushless edition.... said 50mph plus on 6s.... and if it doesn't do 50mph then my delta force 33 (neu 1521) doesn't do 25mph....

all I am saying is traxxas usually doesn't exaggerate....

My bet..... if anyone would like to lay down a voucher.... is with minimal adjustments and prep work.... this sucker is gonna hit just over 50mph stock on 6s..... thats my story and I am sticking too it

[keithbradley]

My rustler vxl box said 70mph, and my e recvo brushless said 65+ mph on the box

[JMSCARD]

My rustler vxl box said 70mph, and my e recvo brushless said 65+ mph on the box

oops yes my rustler does say 70mph... My jato 3.3 says 65mph..... Anyway it's darn close to 70mph with the gearing provided.... My erevo said 50mph out o the box with provided gearing..... The 65mph for the erevo is with optional not included gearing change (I'm sure they don't provide the gearing because it's more expensive bein they are hardened pinions) my erevo stated both on the box 50mph oh of box and 65 with gearing change...

My guess on the Titans speed claim still stands... It's gonna hit 50 :)

[ENCORE MAN]

Who really cares about 50 mph. We all know most of the fellows making these comments about the boat are going to stuff 240 HV escs and monster motors in these ABS hulls and make them do 60 mph. This is what we do and we really enjoy doing it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!