This is my first Xray, and my immpressions of it were fabulous fromthe time i took the box out of its bubble rap. The quality of the box the kit comes in is fantastic. The fact that some of the kit was already built, and the quality of the entire kit was outstanding. During the build, there were a few things that took me a moment to figure out, but i feel this is simply from my lack of building european kits, and the sheer fact of the simplicity of the kit. I have always had american kits and for the most part they were all built basically the same. This kit was so simple it makes you wonder how you never thought of that before...
I have run my car once on a test day ( work hates me ) and the cars handling was obvious from the first couple of slow laps i took to shake the car down. The kit setup was a tad off for my track ( med/low grip ashpult track ) but it was definatlly drivable out of the box. I only got to run a few battery packs and have yet to dial the car in. I did not get any lap times on the car, but it definatly feels much faster then the car i had before ( a Losi ) which i struggled with for over a year. The car on the bench stand at full throttle has no vibrations what so ever, which is new to me. And the fact that 1 after market part ( for the cost of most other companies one ways ) you get a spool and a one-way ( 2 types actually ). During my test, the car responded VERY well to changes. A small change was a small change, and a big change was a big change, but not so much as to throw the car totally off. The changes i made did exactly what they were supposed to do with no other effects. I did notice, things that helped on power steering, but took away from off power steering, did so in a manner where the gain on power was greater than the loss off power. Which allows for the car to be perfectly balanced. The last car i owned took away exactly what it gained, so you faught to balance the car.
I did have one problem with the droop on the car. Not so much a problem with how it works, or a flaw of some sort, more so a confusion issue with how to exactly set it. The droop guages have a number on them, and the setup sheets use a different one, atleast i believe this to be the case. 2mm on the guage is roughly 3mm of droop at 5mm ride height. So on thesetup sheet 3mm would be in the box. I set the car up fom the kit setup for rubber tires, using the guage numbers ( what i was occustomed to doing ). So i had hardly any droop in the front or the rear, which caused a high speed off poer push into a sharp 180. It felt like too stiff a front spring, but that was from the lack of droop and no weight transfer.
Final thoughts, the car is fantastic and i would HIGHLY recommend one to anyone. Even the beginner can work on the car and adjust it. With the included setup book anyone can tune the car ( personally i would like it to be a tad more indepth in a few areas, for instance with the shock locations, moving the shock in on the arm has a different affect than moving it in on the tower, a little more indepth or more of an explanation on this would be nice, especially for beginners). All in all , im an exctremly loyal person, and for me to jump ship takes a huge impression. Xray is one of the few companies to actually have that effect for me.
Congratulations Xray, and keep up the excellent work.
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) but the T2 prooved to be reliable, responcive the setup changes and easy to work on.
In the last 8 weeks I haven't broken a part on my T1R and then snap... What's with that???