Here is the ae battery cup I cut to fit in here to keep the lipos from sliding into the spur nut, this is temporary till I get my new lipo. The one lipo there that has the shrink folded some, its just the shrink and not the lipo lol.
Last one is from yesterdays run :yipi:
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Hey man, i just noticed the position your rear shocks are at... Mine are in the front of the rear arms, not the rear like yours - but - depending on the upper a-arm in the rear - i may be able to mount mine like yours and get the shock body off the side of the chassis!

Thanks man hehehe

...Savage 03 in your opinion oes the machine really need to be THAT long? I see you are still running the wheelie bar so i am guessing you are still getting the front up...

Well thats how long FLM makes the tvps but I prefer a long rig, gives a little more space to for longer lipos and not so many wheelies, yes I do still get some lot of power from this motor :yes:

I had problem with my SAvage gear. I called HPI and they told me to tightin the spur gear all the way down. Never had a problem again

First off, NICE build. Looks really nice, unfortunately now I want one :lol:

Second, if you turn the motor by hand (without pinion on it) how difficult is it to turn? Does it feel like it has notches? My MedUsa motors are noisy at low RPMs because of the strength of the magnets, I'm wondering if that noise you're hearing is just the motor, I know my Muggy was making some disturbing noises putting around the house but once I opened up the throttle a bit it went quiet.

You know I was talking to a member on my forum about this and he has a medusa in his emax and told me his is rather nosiy like mine is as well. To answer yes once it opens up it sounds like a nice bl motor lol, also yes it notches and pretty tight to I might add monster torque on this thing. I ordered a Robinson pinion and the HPI metal spur anyway but thinking it will do the same but it runs and doesnt seem to be harming anything.
One thing that will harm something (gears) is the monster max brake power, I have it set at 5% and it will still flip the truck forward, anyone have any suggestions to calm them more?

Adjust brake endpoint from radio maybe?

Ok to confuse the situation more I finally heard back from Novak just now and they say I need a 32 pitch gear :neutral:

For what? :lol:
I don't know what kind of gear standards Novak is using but you will not find any use for a 32 pitch pinion in your Savage. :no:

Here was his reply when I told him everyone else is using mod1, wont be buying more novak pinions talk about lousy service and wouldnt say anything on why the pinion looks so mangled since it hasnt even been ran like it should.

"Well, most of the plastic spur gears on any of the Monster Trucks that I’ve seen are all 32 pitch."

wtf??? give him a link to this site and then tell him to repeat those words!!

Maybe they have new support staff that aren't all that schooled up, or have their heads up a touring cars arse - the blokes there i always thought were pretty switched on so that's a strange reply imo...

Well, stick with the robinson or rcm pinions. I bought some novak 32p pinion and they are huge, very wide, to the point that they will not fit most of the motors I have. They either completely miss the spur (stick out too far) or touch the front of the motor...

Honestly their material was questionable too. Stick with the rcm or rrp hardened pinions. I run my savvy with those pinions and a plastic spur and it does fine... I will most likely put the flux tranny on when it comes out, just to simplify the setup.

+1

That metal spur gear will actually make more noise. It won't strip and as long as both it and your pinion are properly hardened it shouldn't wear out but it'll be louder than a delrin spur gear. I'm thinking that noise is mostly just the motor.

It is a 4 pole motor, and will make a notchy noise when the motor decelerates (sp?)... I run a metal spur and pinion on my lst, and with just the right mesh it is actually almost as quite as the plastic spur on the erevo... If the mesh is off it makes noise, quite a bit too....