Losi 8ight Nitro RTR Buggy unboxing - Best 1/8 eight nitro RTR buggy?

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[@yenny527]

Kyosho MP9 tki4 v2 is a buggy to consider too with adjustable metal turnbuckles instead of fixed plastic ones, aluminum threaded shocks with colored springs instead of plastic shocks that don’t look as good. And only a $30 difference between the two currently

[@jerryvolpini7987]

Nice ride, if a bit dated. I voted for the Kyosho Inferno MP9 TKI4, much better spec and with a race pedigree, a solid performer on the track 👍 Thanks for the review.

[@ReadySetRC]

The community as spoken😊 Great option! Always wanted to 8ight nitro but ended up getting the 8ight-T. Looking forward to this run. You got some great locals to blast this around.

[@FYRC15]

I really enjoy and have been racing Losi since the 90s. I always get the kits. My current nitro truck is the 8ight T. LOSI Dog!

[@joshcoker88]

I got one of these a few years ago when they were cheap. Bought the electric conversion kit when I got tired of the nitro. I think there pretty good buggies even on a track.

[@RcOffroad9513]

Dude please get any 1/8 scale Serpent, you will not regret it! The new truggy is my next Serpent.i have the pro E-buggy, and the 811 Etruggy highly upgraded and modified and the evo nitro buggy. The new truggy is a beast, a few friends have them and they love them and RC Car Addict has a bruggy body mod video if you wanna use the bruggy style, which has been highly successful for my friend's. I also upgraded my 811 te truggy. Thanks for the losi video but should have got the serpent 🐍 lol

[@godsun358]

Serpent or kyosho mp9

[@RcOffroad9513]

@godsun358 Serpent! 🐍 for sure, kyosho has ok cars, but durability, and drivablity, is in these Serpents!

[@godsun358]

@@RcOffroad9513 yes I agree and I own two serpent buggy the one that came with the novarossi engine and their newest one with the serpent engine. 🐍 rocks

[@vivos71]

I think the original 8ight came out in 2007, there was no previous generation 1/8 scale buggy platform other than the SportWerks vehicles, but those weren’t really for racing. Losi drivers at the time like Adam Drake were using Jammin X1-CR’s or other brand 1/8 vehicles. The RTR you have is based on the 8ight 3.0, and everything starting with the ‘X’ kits have been fully metric.

[@RazorRC]

Thanks for the info! Yeah, looks like a 3.0 with some mild differences like shock tower holes, cab forward body, and 15mm plastic shocks. I appreciate the history lesson!

[@vivos71]

@@RazorRC this one kind of makes sense to review next as up until its release, every buggy was designed similar to the two you previously reviewed

[@RazorRC]

@@vivos71 yeah, to be honest I didn’t really want to buy it because of the SAE screws, but having one now and looking it over, it’s a pretty darn nice buggy!

[@vivos71]

@@RazorRC the SAE screws are always my least favourite part about maintenance on my 8ight, but second set of tools aside it is pretty easy to work on.

[@FarmerFpv]

It actually runs really well on the track. I have taken mine to the Amain track and it was really planted and in turns and really balance in the air. Lap times were close to my X/E 2.0 after some changes and adjustable links and book tires. The engine is a little under-gunned but it kinda helped be consistent turning laps where I had some crashes with my XE/2.0 running a Protek Samurai 3 port .21 cause it's too fast for my skill l level.

[@RazorRC]

nice! I need to head up there one of these days

[@daveshank1921]

Driveshafts are thin so they are light. Rotational mass is very important when you start racing.

[@lipoz-n-nitroz4012]

Nice! The engines in both the truggy and buggy versions are actually pretty decent for RTR engines. The carb is of a "long low speed needle" design so the engine tunes differently than say, your Traxxas.

[@RazorRC]

Thanks for the info!

[@Moggmodels23]

Brilliant video mate 👍👌

[@mitsuman5555]

I voted for the Kyosho actually, but I’ll still watch this 😄👍🏻

[@godsun358]

I want one but the screws and plastic 15mm shocks ate a no-no in my head. I had the 8e but it was stolen from my car

[@edwardsedgley1714]

I heard this engine has 2.1hp. Quite impressive concidered the size

[@ribbledean4111]

What’s the proper way to break in the losi 8 just got my 1st nitro? Looking for good advice

[@paulclancy2404]

I have the rtr truggy on my bench now ready to break in the motor, I'm also built the kit 4.0 I saved and decided to build I'm not sure if I'm probably going make one electric . The only I don't like about rtr only is the diffs only have 2 gears and one cross bar instead of 4 , why I'm going use the kit instead of the rtr to be electric . For the nitro power it's fine . Agree about the sae screws . I didn't realize made in Taiwan, they definitely have better quality control , I wonder if it's what you stated or just to keep quality behind the losi brand. Traxxas is made there also .

[@gillian9178]

Hobao are also made in Taiwan, their quality also looks better than Chinese made things.

[@ForkMyDongle]

Easy access diffs is the same as jumbo shrimp

[@vivos71]

With how quickly you posted this i wonder if you have the other 4 sitting in a box ready to go

[@RazorRC]

Haha, sadly no… 🙁. But amain stuff can get to me in 1 day if I’m lucky. I ordered it Thu at noon and it showed up Friday!

[@3drc681]

I got one when it was rereleased a couple years back. It now sits as a skeleton because some parts are discontinued already

[@RazorRC]

thanks for the info, I checked, you're right, some of the parts are discontinued!

[@3drc681]

@@RazorRC when it was released my mount went loose and killed the clutch bell and it was disconnected a year before it was released. They were building them with old stock. The manual wasn’t even correct on the parts. The clutch bell was a couple more teeth then what was listed. I ended up getting around that by using the smaller spur gear from the electric but you have to get the drive cups that go with it or it will not work. So that helps a little but kills the top speed significantly. Also they are only 2 spiders gear diffs so I went through a few of them before I just started using TLR diffs at $75 each. I wasn’t to thrilled about horizon hobby on this one. I called to see if they had any clutch bells laying around because 25 mph just isn’t fast these days lol. They offered to send the wrong size one and couldn’t give me an explanation of why they are selling things they never even had parts for. They did admit that’s what they are doing. Hopefully in the last couple years they made it better but I doubt that with horizon. I eventually just put an electric conversion kit on it with an arrma 6s system.

[@RoachRC]

The solid plastic camber arms is a big *oof* for me ngl.

[@shlomogoldstein3373]

Man I wish this would have been an 8ight T

[@PaddyPatrone]

The newer Losis are all metric

[@godsun358]

Yeah the screws check but the shocks and links are most important to bashers with an RTR it's a must they fix this.

[@Cooldibs]

Do you think we’ll ever see a resurgence in nitro rc vehicles? Or will it slowly keep dying off?

[@RazorRC]

I think it will be kinda retro, like how some people started buying records again, but I don’t think it will become mainstream again.

[@juanpablosaenz7719]

Nitro 1/8 is still big in the racing scene. Electric is just better for bashing by a lot shot imo

[@jerryvolpini7987]

The market is ruled by bashers and a Nitro vehicle doesn't really fit the bill. However, if anything, I'd say nitro is on the rise especially at tracks, where many have a Nitro class 👍

[@bassanonymous4923]

This is what I picked on the chart and first to comment😁😁

[@RazorRC]

You win! 🙂

[@Douger318]

will this run in short grass im looking for a nitro car

[@RazorRC]

You’ll want a monster truck then. Buggies are too short for grass.

[@ronin550]

I just ordered this one... It'll do for farting around.

[@ZingZingNZ]

Plastic shocks!!