XRAY - Model racing cars

M18T Pro

I would like to see a wing and wingmount. A wing is REALY nessesery to ceep the car fly good when racing with jumps.

I realy like the M18T Pro and it is a realy fast car when racing. But I gone one big disedvantage compare to my rivals on the track (thats often run LRP schark).
The front suspension arms breaks realy TO easy. At least the upper ones.

Stronger suspension arms. Or arms that has plastic that flex more and dont break.

Also a front bumper such as the t-bone racing. realy helps the suspension arms last longer.

I'd like to see new improved versions of the M18 and M18T to come out every year or every other year. Kind of like what you do with the touring cars and 1/8th buggies. I would also like to see an M18B and an M18R.

Five things I like about the M18T Pro:
1. Carbon fiber chassis
2. Carbon drive shaft
3. Steel shafts
4. Ball diffs are the best in the business.
5. Don't really need to buy any extra parts to be competitive.


Five dislikes or improvements:
1. I do not like the longer chassis, I prefer the original length.
2. Let's see some threaded shocks.
3. Suspension arms are weak, either redesign them or offer spring steel versions.
4. We need new foam tires like the LPR ones that Team Associated has come out with for the RC18T (rim is larger diameter so there is less of a foam sidewall). Maybe change your wheel mounting system to the RC18T/Mini-T etc. standard?
5. Front bumper needs to be stronger.

5 most wanted for M18T Pro
More durable front carriers
Wing mount and wing
1/10 foam wheels without 1/10 adapter
adjustable reidheight
Flexable front bumper

Not a must but is wanted
Another body than the stock

The best of the car is the driveline that never failes and the quality and fit of the parts.

M18PRO-improvements:

-smaller chassis
-better motor cooling system -with a fan
-better access to adjust the diff´s
-more different spur gears 36T,38T, 40,42,44 like Atomic
-oil filled damper

what I really like:

-durability
-quality of the parts and tunig parts from XRAY
-flex system
-high level-out of the box
-very good availability here in Austria and Europe

thank you Team XRAY

greetings from Vienna

Harald

I love my M18t pro, its one of my fav cars.

The five things that let it down most for me, that i would like to see adding are:
-Wing mount and wing
-Buggy body mounts
-better wheel selection, as the 1/10th adaptors make the car very unstable.
-A wider wheel base opion, as the LPR sharks have a big advantage racing
- Bigger front bumper

What i really miss is:

capsuled pinion & maingear

Its really annoying for an offroad car like the M18T or MT to keep the maingear clean from dust and small rocks. At least a better protection is helpfull.

M18MT RTR
Likes
Durability
Acceleration even with stock electronics
Skittish handling - an absolute riot on loose surfaces
Small and lightweight - both car and controller fit in a laptop bag
Minimilist design - easy to work on compared to other micros with miniscule parts
Dislikes
Plastic pivot balls - the slightest bit of dust and the outer carrier balls wear out. To be fit for purpose, outer balls (Type B) should be nickel-plated metal, with the M18T Pro having nickel plated metal balls all-round
Front battery hold-down for 6-cell side-by-side packs - Hard crashes generates tremendous leverage on the hold-down, wrenching the screws through the chassis
Micro battery connector - even with stock electronics it can arc and seize up, consider Deans
Plastic shocks - at the very least these should be o-ring sealed, and on the M18T Pro they should be aluminium threaded as standard. Bore and shaft size could do with increasing too
Skittish handling - too unpredictable over loose surfaces for racing. The car needs a little more weight, and given the chassis flexibility, adding thickness to this is an ideal place to add that weight. Also, heating and leaking in the shocks leads to inconsistent performance

Overall, it is a well designed truck. With the shock absorbers, I get the impression that the accountants made that decision since a fine engineer like Hudy should not have let that be. The M18MT was a breath of fresh-air compared to a previous Losi M-LST2 since that seemed to have been built to a advertiser's specification, leading to a complicated truck with components that had simply been scaled-down from 1:8th scale with no consideration to how small and fiddly some parts may become.