Stock Spartan Hit 50.7 MPH today...

[JPriami]

[wilsta67]

I see you changed to ec5 connectors. I think I read somewhere that Traxxas won't warranty your esc if you change the connectors on it.

rofl yep was going to say the same thing lol

[Panama Jack]

I noticed when you were showing the over heated batteries that one of the solder of the ec5 was loose, did this become unsoldered due to the heat just in that short time?

Yes your correct, not only did the solder come off the ec5 plug, but it also came off from the actual traxxas battery. The heat was so intense that after the video the Black cable on the battery ended up on the floor. so both my solder and the factory traxxas solder gave up.

[Alexgar]

If you ripped bunch people off would you show your face

[bbosncali]

LOL, I needed a laugh. I have owned my boat for over a month but actually had good working parts for about 1.5 weeks.

What are you talking about??? You burnt your 1st esc up before it ever even seem water and now within a month either another esc or motor this time not to mention your temp sensor on your reciever wigged out so traxxas sent you another one. Granted they seem to take care of there customers but who wants to buy something that works a month at a time and then wait to fix it and do it all over again.... get it fixed sell it and but an mg or genesis or a custom v something that has been proven

[Panama Jack]

rofl yep was going to say the same thing lol

Well I am in Panama and I really dont plan on sending it back. I will not use it again and even to sell it on ebay the shipping cost add up.

I already got my turnigy 180amp ESC and a tacon 1700kv and a neu-castle 1717 5mm shaft. Am going to try first with the tacon to se how it goes. and then am going to take my EC5 plugs of the ESC, and finaly tape how I take a sledgh hammer to the venelion ESC.

[bbosncali]

If you ripped bunch people off would you show your face

Maybe with this boat I can understand the frustration but traxxas has put out some nice vehicles which I've owned and own. I won't go to mcdonalds and order a taco just because they sell it but I also dint think that it was gonna be this....bad

[Alexgar]

I've owned n stampede n rustler n vee and villain and looking back after buying Losi and AE trucks and pb boats they were all a let down plastic toys with under powered motor I won't buy again did I forget to mention 4vxl escs I burnt up

[Alexgar]

I have about the same amount of $ in my df29 not Inc the tx and I feel like I came out ahead

[Alexgar]

Look at this for what it is HK style 30$ motor 50$ esc 20$ hdwre 50$ rx/tx 200$ plastic hull 30$ battS shame on you traxxas you could buy a pursuit with t180 4074 zippy packs for that

[wilsta67]

Well I am in Panama and I really dont plan on sending it back. I will not use it again and even to sell it on ebay the shipping cost add up.

I already got my turnigy 180amp ESC and a tacon 1700kv and a neu-castle 1717 5mm shaft. Am going to try first with the tacon to se how it goes. and then am going to take my EC5 plugs of the ESC, and finaly tape how I take a sledgh hammer to the venelion ESC.

well mate if it makes you feel better i never sent my burnt esc back either i will never buy another traxxas product ever again. apart from parts to keep this piece of junk going and thats only flex cables and strut bushes at this stage .

[dayne]

yea traxxas droped the ball so hard it popped on this one every time i run mine with my 3s after 5 maybe 7 mins the heat protect cuts on and the motor is soo hot i nearlly burned my self a couple time but i let it cool throught it back out there and then the batts die so yea but it has stopped working.....yet

[Jacked1]

I never thought twice about getting a Spartan based of how great the villain was! I had to send my old XL1 esc in 3 times on the stock setup from it going poof until the warranty was up! Then I used a drill trigger and a servo and it never failed. Then the motors started to go bad! So I used cheap drill motors and got half again as much speed with components from 2 $20 18v drills which is less than traxxas charged for a new (crappy) esc at the time. And this was also faster than the Villain EX that came out a couple years after I did the mod. So after that I was done with traxxas. Especially in the boat department.

I would feel better getting a cheap boat from HK and modding it. The only boat I bought from HK was the surge crusher and went 40mph out of the box of 4s and got around 50 runs on it until I modded it. It comes as a crap box but was way more dependable than my villain ever was. I have less money in it than the cost of a Spartan and will run over 50 all day long with no problems.