Looks good Zero! I want one. How tall are those tires?

Realll nice. I hope you can get a video up for us.

These are 5B tires so only 170mm; slightly bigger than Big Joes.

The 5T tires are like 190mm.

Things to keep in mind is that you, maybe same on Flux but don't know, you have to remove the TVP in order to exchange pinions or motors and its a hassle dealing with the slipper clutch.

Have you run it with the 5b tires yet?


I cut the X-plate windshield piece and made it my roof

http://myrcmt.com/review/images/gall..._mytcs_004.JPG

I have... although one of the rears came without the beadlock faceplate so gotta contact ProLine about that snafu.

Nonetheless, ran well. Running 47/19 on 2200kV and 5S 30C 5800 MaH batts. Everything does run very cool from my so far limited testing.

It does have a lot of body roll even with the anti-roll bars installed which makes it far different than my RC8Te. My have to experiment with some thicker shock oil or maybe going up to the heaviest springs.

Thats a great use of the x-plate.

Still working on the body for it... completely screwed up the one baja 5b body, so gotta get another. Thankfully they are cheap (at least compared to the 5T!!) to cutup.

Then the lights.

do you need to go up to a 47 spur or will a 17 or 16 pinion fit the stock 44t spur? i'm sure theres limited adjustment but want to save the cost of the spur if i can. thanks

I used the 47 because I converted from an XSS/XL nitro Savage. Whatever pinions fit on the Flux with the standard Flux 44 spur will work. The mounting for the flux motor, gearbox, etc. is exactly the same as on the Flux.

well i never tried anything smaller than the stock 20t pinion, but i want to get this kit and i know they recommend gearing down, so not sure if i need to order a spur or not. i guess i need to buy the pinion and try it if no one here has already.
thanks for the reply and the great write up, i'm sure it will help alot when i buy my kit.

Well stock Flux has like a 1.18 rollout and equates to ~45 to ~55mph depending on 5S or 6S.

If you don't switch tires, then you can just run normal gearing. If you are switching to Baja 5B (~6.68") or the bigger 5T tires (7.5") then you'll need to gear down. Looks like a 44/18 is gives about the same rollout as the standard flux for the 5B tires. You'd need to drop to about a 44/16 for the 5T tires. This is all just a starting point.

thanks! don't think i was going to go 5t tires, but with the weight of the vehicle i think i'll start at a 16t pinion and go from there. thanks for your help

I'm running 17-44 and it has a bit of room still so a 16 may even be possible.



Started work on my proline 5b rat body, and test fit a venom motor cycle rider those are in the works

Quickie video taken with my kodak c1013 digital camera

Watch on vimeo for best quality http://vimeo.com/11115163

on you tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpD_thI6OPo
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poser shots
Driver figure just tossed in, but will be adjusted and seated with a steering wheel

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that makes me wish i hadnt sold my savage so much


keep up the good work, i cant wait to see it with the body on

Next I need to make a seat and put in the driver

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Very nice looking. Looks like what I'm ending up doing with the body.

How did you do the lexan top? I've tried several unsatisfactory methods with heat gun.

Same here the heat gun was a joke. I ended up just hanging the lexan over the table edge and running a zippo lighter under the bend line. All you need to do is have the part to wide, then trim as it tended to ''shrink'' at the bend sides.

Well, had it back out running 47/19 on 5S. Was doing great, except that once again I think I fried the slipper. I had the nut cranked down tight with some blue locktite. May need to do it with red locktite; although kinda hesitant. Anyone else?

Crap, thought it was a Revo 5T thread lol.

Well since I do own a Flux; you can get belleville springs from Kershaw or tighten the nut again. Did you replace the pad? I took the upper gearbox part off(where the spur + slipper is) and held the spur with gloves, then cranked the nut really tight with pliers holding the 7mm wrench and finally added HPI blue threadlock.

could try a new nut as well, the nylon insert doesn't last long after it's been on and off a few times.

Well, I've been tinkering around (and learning how to do 3D drawings... quite maddening if I do say so) with custom TVPs for my Savage Flux 5B to use a center diff. Truggy is also a tight squeeze length wise when putting the batteries inline between the TVPs. The other issue is the in using either the truggy setup (or even the custom mount from RCM) is lack of gear reduction due to running 43/13 or 29/9 (bullet proof diffs) front/rear diffs as compared to truggy's 43/10 diffs.

Anyways, pb4ugo in his thread came up with a very nice solution. I'm not a huge fan of the Revo slipper, and may eventually run a Slipperential so revamped it slightly from ground up. So here is the open center diff "gearbox". Like pb4ugo, the gear reduction comes down to the standard flux so you can run standard Savage/Flux diffs.

Basically the plan is to run a 46t center diff gear, a 12t pinion off of that and then a 25t (biggest mod 1 pinion I can find) pinion as the drive gear. A 17t pinion on the motor comes out very close to the Flux FDR (15.70386 vs 15.56956).

This puts it at about a 17/18 pinion with a 1600kV motor on 5B wheel/tires and running 6S. Or a 15/16 pinion with a 1800kV motor.

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THeres quite a bit of motor mount talk in the middle of the thread... so heres my two cent: http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/show...t=20862&page=2

With the mount version two I made the motor is placed under the spur gear (LCG anyone?) and has plenty of room for gearing with a 4465 motor... its simple and easy to make.

With a narrower set of front tires, that thing would be on point! Maybe you can cut and narrow both the front wheels and tires about an inch...that would look much better!

Well had my Savage 5B out over the weekend (unfortunately no video... really need to get a camera) and it was a blast until I lost a lugnut and didn't have spares.

I was running on 5S, 35C batteries, but found that it really needs more power. May need to try 6S 40C+ batteries and see if that fits the bill.

just wanna make sure,can you use the savage nitro transmission on this chassis?

is the motor mount included with the kit?

The only things included with the kit are:

The extended TVPs
An extended front dogbone
Chassis braces

It's meant to transform a base Flux into a 1/5 scale size vehicle.

Yes the nitro gearbox will work as its the same gearbox in the Flux, just the Flux is limited to one speed. You can either lock the nitro gearbox yourself, or do what I did and just buy a few of the parts (compare the Savage X and Savage Flux manuals) for like 20 bucks or something and convert it to a 1 speed transmission.

Here are a couple of photos of my finished conversion (at least for now).

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Looks great man. Very nice with the proper wheels.

Looks nice,what's the weight on it? My 5b is at 22lbs and that looks like it would be significantly lighter--Josh

Its right about 16.5lbs full loaded (5S 5800 battery).

im using my 2 speed on my electric sav right now that i converted..i just dont if my motor mount will work?its a kershaw design mount.

No idea... the nitro TVPs and the Flux TVPs do not have the same design. You might want to try Kershaw Design's nitro extended 1/5th scale TVPs.

can u pls post a pic of your motor mount??or youre using the flux motor mount too?one reason im thinkin about doin this its because it looks similar to the 5b and i dont want to convert any of my 5b's to electric.

I'm using the flux mount.

What does one of these things weigh all converted and ready to run?

not bad

Man, it looks so much better with the right size tires on it (narrower in the front)!

http://scifun.files.wordpress.com/20...ies-of-win.jpg

Indeed.

Nice job. It has a great scale look now.

Yeah, I'm surprised with the way it turned out and looks pretty good! Now for just a bigger motor! :)

what body is that, and how did you do the hubs? Are they 23mm on 24mm wheels?

I may seriously reconsider my savage remake I'm working on to do this as a baja. Me likey mucho.