New Losi 22!

[JK Racing]

Fresh paint:



Going to try and hit the local track here soon. I need some more practice before my next series race.

[8rad]

I started building mine last night and so far I am pretty impressed. The ball studs with the allen key hole in the end is brilliant. Really makes threading them in a breeze. The little plastic shims in the front knuckles are annoying. Is this a tuneabilty thing? Things sure have changed since I bought my last NIB kit. I give TLR a big thumbs up for the extra rims and the 8x11 decal sheet.

I agree with you jamin everything seems tight. It will need a few packs for everything to loosen up. Cant wait to hit the track!

[fordtransman]

My son and I made it out to the LHS (Pegasus-Montclair, CA) to watch the local fellows spin the dirt.. My son ( 11 ) and his cousin ended up on the track for the first 3 rounds of competition.

My son is now bragging to me that he got to handle the '22 before I did.

He is the one in the back corner in Blue..his cousin is the one to his right in green.

They are off to a great start.. marshalling!

[JK Racing]

We are gonna have to meet up at Peg and do some 22 running. I will bring my son also, but he didnt want to drive the 22 the other day, he only wanted to beat on his B4.

[Chewbacca]

maybe a low profile servo will give enough room to fit a standard stick pack in mid motor config

I do like them as well. The problem(s) I am having is that I really like the mid motor option but did not think about the battery untill I watched the review. I just invested in new lipos and don't really want to buy saddle packs now. So without the mid option I don't see much need to replace my B4 which is just how I like it now other than having something cool and new to build.

[fredswain]

A thought had occurred to me. Losi states that no other car is going to out turn the 22. How much of that has to do with the fact that the wider 4WD type of front tires it uses has more front traction that standard narrower 2WD front tires? I have been wanting to run these types of tires on the front of my 2WD cars for that added cornering power for a while and seeing TLR do it makes me think there is something very logical in doing this.

[Charlie don't surf]

Sh, but other than Pontiac commercials, wider is not always better. Otherwise all trucks would waste bugged, and ROAR would not have outlawed the skinny front tires for trucks in 1992.

[jamin]

Here's mine all finished and ready to race:

And here's a few action shots from the meeting I raced at on Sunday. Must say, very impressed with this car. I spent the whole day dialing OUT steering, and boy can this thing jump, so agile yet stable
I tweaked a few settings and in the 3rd round the car was awesome to drive, easily the best 2wd I've driven, and proud its a Losi!

[fredswain]

Whatever you do, don't install one of those god awful overrated cab forward bodies!

[Brandon G]

I finally hit the track with my 22 on Saturday. I HAD an RC10 B4FT with GTB ESC, Orion 3600 25c Lipo and Duo2 10.5 motor. My 22 has a Tekin RS ESC, Losi 3800 60c Lipo and the same Duo2 10.5 configured for rear motor.

After I got the Tekin programmed properly the car was pretty good. I am having to get used to the new power available to me with this electronics setup. Insane speed compared to the GTB! The buggy needs some minor tweaking to get it to turn a little better on this indoor clay track. The kit setup is pretty well balanced, but tends to understeer a little. I guess to make it easier to drive for those new to 2wd Buggy. It flies much better than the B4 and is much more stable in high speed cornering. Traction rolling was always a worry with my B4, but not with the 22. Overall, a very good platform!

[jamin]

Whatever you do, don't install one of those god awful overrated cab forward bodies!

Not a chance, they are awful, where's the 'puke' smilie!?

[fredswain]

From this day forth they shall be known by their true performance designation, "Placebo Cabs".

[chriswolfson]

A thought had occurred to me. Losi states that no other car is going to out turn the 22. How much of that has to do with the fact that the wider 4WD type of front tires it uses has more front traction that standard narrower 2WD front tires? I have been wanting to run these types of tires on the front of my 2WD cars for that added cornering power for a while and seeing TLR do it makes me think there is something very logical in doing this.

The front tires are actually the same fronts that TLR had been running on the XXX CR platform and the same tires that all the other companies had been running as well. Most of the photos of the car have the LOSA7207 Taper Pin front tire on the car, which does have a wider look - but the 4wd front taper is even wider.

[chriswolfson]

I started building mine last night and so far I am pretty impressed. The ball studs with the allen key hole in the end is brilliant. Really makes threading them in a breeze. The little plastic shims in the front knuckles are annoying. Is this a tuneabilty thing? Things sure have changed since I bought my last NIB kit. I give TLR a big thumbs up for the extra rims and the 8x11 decal sheet.

I agree with you jamin everything seems tight. It will need a few packs for everything to loosen up. Cant wait to hit the track!

The plastic spacers let you raise and lower the front spindle height. It's a tuning option. Drop the spindle all the way down and you are increasing your downtravel even further. Raise it up and it's similar to adding limiters inside the shocks.

The car does go together a bit stiff. Don't file anything or de-burr or anything like that. Just run it a few packs and it will loosen up just right.

[chriswolfson]

maybe a low profile servo will give enough room to fit a standard stick pack in mid motor config

I do like them as well. The problem(s) I am having is that I really like the mid motor option but did not think about the battery untill I watched the review. I just invested in new lipos and don't really want to buy saddle packs now. So without the mid option I don't see much need to replace my B4 which is just how I like it now other than having something cool and new to build.

It still isn't quite big enough in there to run the standard pack, even with the shorty servo in the mid-motor config. You have to run the saddle pack or the 96mm shorty pack. The shorty pack is very good in the car.