Manta ray hop ups.

[hooper]

im currently rebuilding a manta ray and im wondering what peoples thought are on what shocks and servo saver to fit. seen plenty of the high torque servo savers from tamiya but they all look different to the one fitted on my manta ray. is there a direct replacement or is there one available from another manufacture?

cheers

hoops

[WillyChang]

Stock CVAs work perfectly fine if you build & fill them right.

I stuck a Hi-Torque servosaver in my MR when I changed to a torquey metalgear. Fits nice.

Tamiya's 50473 or 51000 with the triple metal springs are good (can hopup with alloy for bling)

also some other equivalents available nowadays. Kimborough is good too although different design.

[ddaenen1]

im currently rebuilding a manta ray and im wondering what peoples thought are on what shocks and servo saver to fit. seen plenty of the high torque servo savers from tamiya but they all look different to the one fitted on my manta ray. is there a direct replacement or is there one available from another manufacture?

cheers

hoops

It might be the case that the one that is installed currently is not an original Tamiya one as for Tamiya high-torque servo savers there isbasically & model that comes in 2 colours. If you would want to replace the original yellow CVA's the original hi-caps would be the adequate hopup. However, they are pricy so you might check out GPM shocks. I had them on my Manta. Look for the 90mm versions and you will be fine. Furthermore, i recommend you change the current steering with a GPM or 3racing version. The latest GPM version is a big improvement over the original setup.

[hooper]

It might be the case that the one that is installed currently is not an original Tamiya one as for Tamiya high-torque servo savers there isbasically & model that comes in 2 colours. If you would want to replace the original yellow CVA's the original hi-caps would be the adequate hopup. However, they are pricy so you might check out GPM shocks. I had them on my Manta. Look for the 90mm versions and you will be fine. Furthermore, i recommend you change the current steering with a GPM or 3racing version. The latest GPM version is a big improvement over the original setup.

cheers for the replies guys.

it has a standard servo saver fitted but the white ring/spring is worn/weakend and keeps popping out. funnily enough while i was sorting out some suff today i found a new one but id already ordered one of the high torque kits with the metal rings. the steering is already uprated with a ball raced kit form RW racing as its on a RW chassis. as for the shocks i was browsing on the fusion hobbies website and came across the 90mm GPMrear shocks for the df-03 so ive ordered 2 sets.

[WillyChang]

you can also just tie a small ziptie around the C-spring.

Ziptie will pop on impact before servo gears strip, usually