View Full Version : Upgrade Trex 450XL???
UH60_Blackhawk
08-03-2006, 02:45 PM
I was thinking about the Trex 450xl for my next heli. I was wondering if i can upgrade the main rotor head to an alloy one?
Seeker
08-03-2006, 08:50 PM
Just go with the SE version... it's full of metal. :)
ClayK
08-03-2006, 09:07 PM
You can. I'd keep it as the stock head though for awhile. No real big need to start swapping out parts until you start wearing them out.
AdrianM
08-18-2006, 02:22 AM
UH60 - Horizon hobby has a new verison Trex coming out in September..the 450 SA. Its an ARF with alloy frames, rotor head block, swash and an updated plastic head and tail rotor system. Its lighter than the XL and SE.
The owner of my LHS is a heli guru and he said the plastic head and tail are fine and in crashes cheap parts will break where on the SE its so strong crash energy can wipe out bigger more expensive parts.
After I am solid at flying I will start getting the upgrade parts.
Tintin
08-18-2006, 03:54 AM
On an SE you will bend shafts and break blades basicly + strip gears.
On an XL you will in addition break grips, links, possibly head, tailcase etc.
I'd like to know which other parts he thinks will go. To my experience the CF and alu holds well in a crash. plastic don't.
I see only one reason not to buy an SE over the XL and that is lack of cash.
I'd rather have an XL with good components (Gy401, good servos, pcm rx, TP/FP/Align batteries) than an SE with Cheap gyro and RC-Expert servos and battery..
Bayou Talker
08-19-2006, 08:39 AM
I talked to a lot of the top pilots that were flying the TRex prior to buying mine and they recommended the SE so that is what I got. They all told me that it is rare to break much, if any, of the metal in a crash. Some of the worst crashes that I have seen aren't much more that blades, shafts, boom and servo gear sets and I have seen some of them go in pretty hard.
For the current price of the SE kits including motor and ESC, it is not a lot more to go with it instead of the XL, You certainly can't buy much of the metal for the difference in price of the two machines. By the time you buy an XL and then all of the upgrade parts at retail, replacement part prices, you will have paid close to the price of 2 SE kits and you still will have only one motor and ESC.