Errrr.... The original poster asked about doing this sort of thing in a TA02; not a maxx truck.:) Obviously it's a garbagey idea to run a piddly little SS5800 in an almost 10 lb. monster truck (besides the weight, the drivetrain and Tires are a NASTY load for such a little motor).:028:

Ah, my bad- seem to have forgotten the intended vehicle for this idea to be tried in. Yep, a nice little TA02 weighs... dunno, not much though so it should scream like you said.

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Well I've bolted in the HV MAXX ESC into the old TA02.
Will try it with 7 Cells and work my way upwards.

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I don't think the idler will last so I have ordered a metal one for the Tamiya Topforce off Ebay. So far it weighs around 1888 Grams w/batteries but no body or Rx. Since i'm only running 7 Cells I'm only getting 8.4 x 3100 = 26040 +/- 1000 rpm. So it isn't as quick as any Mamba/Novak 540 setup. I would think the Torque will eat the transmission for lunch. I only have drift wheels on at the moment.

How do you think it will go?

Cheers

Should work fine, so long as the drive train doesnt crap out on you. I would love to see it on 12-14 cells, but lack of space could be a problem, and the gearbox would probably melt into a molten blob of plastic- should be fun though.

so did you just solder all battery wires onto one plug? thinking of doing this

I havent done it, but it is a very easy mod- the Hvmaxx instructions tell you how to do this by removing one of the plugs & leads, then soldering a 'jumper' (short length of wire) in its place, so that you can connect your batteries via a single conector = much neater & fewer wires.

ah ok, cool

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