would a older hyperdrive sse pro chassie still beable to keep up with what is being raced in todays standards and if so what upgrades would it take to make the sse pro competive? i was thinking about running it in either a 17.5 or 13.5 class

would a older hyperdrive sse pro chassie still beable to keep up with what is being raced in todays standards and if so what upgrades would it take to make the sse pro competive? i was thinking about running it in either a 17.5 or 13.5 class

If your going to run at a National level, NOWAY!
I would wait till after the Snowbird Race.

There are going to be newer car kits comming out.
And an average kit car cost around $350.00:thumbsup:

If your starting out at a club race, I say lean to drive with it...

RCRacer

At what level do you want/expect to compete?

If you don't have a lot of racing experience, and/or if you are just planning to run at a Local level - the old SSE would probably be fine as long as you have support parts to fix it if it breaks.

The setup basics are similar in almost all the cars - but the 'little things' in the newer cars make them much more preferred in the hands of experts.

Before you start to hear people tell you you cant compete....Let me say a few Years ago I attended my 1st carpet Nationals In Swansea Mass.....There was every kind of high end car there....What I remember most is a guy from Team Associated just about handed everyone there tail with a 10L4...(Sean Cochran I believe)...You may want to upgrade to adjustable castor blocks and center shock mount but you can get your sse
to compete in the higher level........Have fun

rc racer i would suggest starting with what you have and working on setups, i believe a few years ago a guy named Frank Palimeda showed up at the snowbirds with a HD sse and won 6 cell mod!

If the car is the sse version with the wide battery slots, yes it will be very competitive.. I know a top level racer right now who is running a addrennalin car, and tearing it up. He has won a few BRL races, and the 13.5 class at the oval masters. . Ill bet he is one of the only people in the nation running the car. Lots of people think new cars have great new technology.. the truth is they are all flat grafite, with the same front end, and 3 rear shocks, the same axle and hubs, and similar pods.. The key is the setup..

If your going to run cap tires with it, some guys say it was the best cap tire car ever built..The key is they had an older narrow battery slot verion, and a wide.. The wide slots is the one that will work good..

Before you start to hear people tell you you cant compete....Let me say a few Years ago I attended my 1st carpet Nationals In Swansea Mass.....There was every kind of high end car there....What I remember most is a guy from Team Associated just about handed everyone there tail with a 10L4...(Sean Cochran I believe)...You may want to upgrade to adjustable castor blocks and center shock mount but you can get your sse
to compete in the higher level........Have fun

Brian Ziegler (Ziggy) did the same thing last year at Snowbirds with his 10L4.

I ran a HD from 1998 and It was the top 3 car every week and many times I TQed with it, I stopped using it because I could not get parts for it 3 years age. the class was Bush spec 4 cell stock.

SETUP IS EVERYTHING..........

I now run the HyperDrive pro 3 slider (great car) in 4 cell Stock

Chuck


Never ever pass on the right! :eek:

RC Racer: My personal felling about "older" cars is that in many cases they are just as good as the current cars being produced. I spent much of 2005 running an L3 that at the time was about 8 years old. The biggest problem that I had with it is being able to get todays batteries to fit in the car properly. The cell diameter has increased to the point that significant cell slot modifications were required to get the cells in the car correctly. Additionally the older cars typically were tweak screw cars and todays three shock cars I believe are better. Modifications to the older cars to adopt three shocks is relatively easy. One disadvantage that I think todays cars have compared to the oval cars of the 90's is the carbon fiber. The graphite in the 90's was alot better then todays. The Composite Craft graphite that was used on the angle X and the Hyperdrive "black magic" graphite were all bettter then the stuff out there today. Overall I think the older cars can be competitive given some slight mods to catch up to the times.

thanks for your posts all
I plan on running the hyperdrive sse pro at a club level at my local track i dont get much of a chance to race out of town or at big races any more i just want to have a good time racing i dont even care if i win or not i just want to have a good showing when i do race.
I have another pan car i do quite well with its a apex its a strong runner i figured to run the hyperdrive in the 17.5 class i dont think there is many differences in pan car chassies as a rule its all in the set up and how a person drives their car the hyperdrive sse pro is a 3 shock system same as my apex so i will give it a good try thanks again for your replys your info was useful