IT LIVES!!!!! pics and the story and vids up ASAP

Congrats, and now i'll talk to you on aim, lol

It Lives!!
 

So i was at ben's house today, and besides the bash from hell returning to haunt me, we decided to work on my supervader, and we finally got it running! It was a pain and a half, but thanks to the heated garage, we finally managed to get it running last minute before I had to go home. we had to extend the motor mount slots, mod the slipper to house a mod1 spur gear, shave down the plastic housing of the transmission, and then carve off some of the fins of my 8L and finally it all fit! by that point i got the call that my dad was on his way, so we just rushed, put the lipo on, and then took the entire sharkfin from the hyper 7 and placed it ontop of the lipo, plugged in ben's dsm rx and let it dangle, then ziptied the whole thing together, and ran it on a nearly dead 5S lipo. it was amazingly fast!

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^the extended motor plate^

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^plastic 47T spur gear pressed and CA'ed onto the slipper plate^

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^how tight of a fit, after shaving down the tranny house^

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^Done all the work to the vader itself^

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^My Fiegao 8L after I ate a chunk out of it^

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^the motor finally fits!^

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^zipties + sharkfin = 30 seconds to wire for testing!^

FYI there isnt much you can hear in the vids... my phone decided to not stop playing music while shooting videos, and it kinda made them sound really REALLY bad...

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^the tires balloon so much they start to peel off the rims!^

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^there wasnt any servo in so it was just pin the wheels, put it down and do donuts on the epoxy floor!^

Niceeeeeeeeee I like the bumpers still.

You call that ballooning? That's nothing!

I still want to run the cc2200 on that thing just for shits and giggles

...and a blown tranny right?

we all know that the 8l on 5s will kill it... i just wanna see if i can shake it apart at 60mph :)

Showoff... :lol:

whos the one who just got free lipos? and Im the showoff

im sure it is make sure u take pics of that diff gear when it blows i want to see what goes first the diff ball cups or the teeth,lol 3s is too much power for an evader diff i cant imagine how much overkill 5s is. if u want to get any speed out of it change to foams bcause once that thing gets to about 40 those tires will be like pizza cutters especially if they are worn out. nice build though very creative. would try to fit a different tranny though like an all metal vxl rustler tranny perhaps

I have been lookin around a bit for a vxl tranny, but in the meantime, I have 2 vader trannys, so I got some time on my hands... by the way, now that I had some time(yay winter break!) I was able to wire up my vader in a way that does not include ziptie-ing my sharkfin and lipo to the chassis! All i need to do is get one more male pwm plug and i can make another reed switch for this truck. note that the fan is just taped in place because I didnt feel like de-soldering it just yet...

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Looks much better. Make a mount for the esc near the rear of the truck so you can shorten the motor wires. Also consider getting a rx box.

What the hell is that thing in the battery tray. I keep thinking its a weight or a peice of wood.:rofl:

it is....