Good price for Grasshoppers on amazon, $72

[tilstad1]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BMVIGM/ref=sr_ph?ie=UTF8&qid=1435533492&sr=1&keywords=grasshopper

Was looking around for best price.for another grasshopper, tower lists it at 99,98 which becomes 88.98 after a $10 coupon. So this at $72 includes shipping was a good price. I dont need the towers "free" nmhi battery ether, as i have lots, and was making my own 3 cell pack for this grasshopper anyhow.

Interesting that the black edition grasshopper at tower is $5 less then the regular with "free" battery. Seems it costs $5 to me...

This one will be for my 3 year old, so it needs to be slowed down significantly. My 5 year old's stock GH, is far too fast for her, and him somewhat too.

Anyways, just thought id let you guys know, as they are usually quite a bit pricier most other places, including ebay.

[Snappy1]

They are currently half that price at Banzai plus shipping

[tilstad1]

I could not find a Grasshopper on Banzai,, just a Hornet. But their webpage is horrible to navigate through, so I might just not been able to locate it. How much is shipping on Banzai though?

EDIT: Just checked, they DO in fact have a grasshopper there, which comes to $74 with shipping, which is $2 more.

[volvotech]

It may be worth the extra $2 for slightly faster shipping. Getting tamiya products from Japan on Amazon can be excruciatingly slow. And at least one of those sellers doesn't package items very well, I ordered a body once that arrived nice and flattened. Just my 2 cents.

[Scorpn]

This one will be for my 3 year old, so it needs to be slowed down significantly. My 5 year old's stock GH, is far too fast for her, and him somewhat too.

Get a 35 turn or 55 turn crawler motor, much slower, loads of run time and no speed to damage the car, I think I paid about $10USD for one which I put in a sandmaster, worked brilliantly but now of course it is too slow

[Yonez]

I got a 100T motor for my 2 year old's CC-01 Land Cruiser.

Could have saved the money as he prefers to grab onto it and push it around on the floor.

[Nobbi1977]

I put an 80t in a hornet for my 4 year old and it was about spot on. 50t in a DT-01 works well as well

[tilstad1]

Any links for a good high turn motor? The quicj search i did netted significantly more expensive ones than 10.

[markbt73]

Here you go...

http://store.rc4wd.com/540-Crawler-Brushed-Motor-55T_p_823.html

If you want to slow it down even more, look for a Lunchbox motor mount and 10t pinion gear.

[Nobbi1977]

Less than £20

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=231178175677&globalID=EBAY-GB

[Scorpn]

Here you go...

http://store.rc4wd.com/540-Crawler-Brushed-Motor-55T_p_823.html

That's the one i used !

[tilstad1]

Got the grasshopper today, shipping was pretty fast. About a week?

However, it did not come with the esc, and thats a bummer as i did not have a spare, plus they arent cheap on ebay.

I checked up front if the description mentioned a missing esc, but it wasnt mentioned.

The box was unsealed, seems like a Japanese version, which had upgrades included; bearings and a 540 motor. According to the box text atleast. The 540 i definitely didnt need, and the bearings wasn't in the box.

But the missing esc was the biggest blow. Should have ordered from Tower anyways.

[Yonez]

Japanese kits do not come with an ESC. This is important to note when comparing prices from Banzai et al.

Somebody was selling cheap ESCs in the forum. Have a look.