Should Run Well! Good Luck!

I've gotten about 10 minutes on the truck. It stopped raining and I ran it 5 minutes in a friends gravel driveway. I ran it on some wet concrete and in the house on the carpet.

Up to this point I have never seen a nitro truck run nor have I driven one. I have neither saw a stock Emaxx run on lesser batteries nor driven it that way either. My only real experience with a r/c vehicle is a Associated RC18T. I have one. It was stock for a while, now its brushless on 3 cells, mamba 5400. From this perspective Im a little "spoiled".....ok maybe a lot. So what did I expect from this truck? Really only what Ive read.

So, I expected wheelies and perhaps in 2nd gear(base off the maxxamps site). This does not seem to be the case, but I think that is mostly because of tire slip. But even on the carpet in the house It wasnt like I could wheelie at will. From a dead stop or reverse to forward yes. 1/4 throttle and punch it, not really. But again I think the tires are spinning quite a bit. I don't forsee 2nd gear wheelies with any tires on any surface once its rolling, I could be wrong though.(yes, the tires are glued)

Had I not had a brushless mini I would prolly be a lot more excited. It will pull wheelies or backflip nearly at will, regardless of surface or tires or speed. Its just stupid power and is so small and light. This definatly is going to lead to a brushless monster experience in the future.....Don't get it wrong I do like the truck and am happy with it. Just not quite up to the hype as far as the batteries go, but I have a lot more driving to do before the verdict is in.:dft012:

are you using stock e-maxx tires, i bet with some soft tires and something with a pattern like the bowties it should wheelie in 2nd. and is the peformace good?

Is the truck new or used?
I dropped my gearing down a little.
I also ran a better spring on slipper as well.

Yes, they are the stock tires. I don't have anything to base the performance on... like I said in my previous post. Having said that I think its pretty decent. Who knows it may be great to others or not so great. Its not a brushless 1/18th scale thats for sure.

yea, like leroy said drop the gearing it will wheelie, i remember with my old maxx runing 7 gp 3300's i droped the gearing to 16 or 18 i dont remember BUT it was shure a hell of alot of wheelies.:)

yea, is the truck new or used?

Mike, the E-Maxx comes stock with 18/66 gearing...

then im sorry it must have been 16T then.

So the easiest way to change the gearing is to change the spur or pinions?

It depends on what you have, what is available, how much you want to change the gear ratio, etc.

and slipper.....the slipper can help a bit also.

Dropping a tooth on pinion is not hard. You would loose maybe a mph or 2.
The torque you gain is alot better though. Seems like the motors run cooler
as well though. Cooler motors make them last longer.
IF the brushes are bad in the motors the power will suck.

that goes with about every brushed motor out there.

Hmm thats odd, but i remember running in my basement, i gave mike my revo responces (he was using stock maxx tires) and he started to wheelie like hell!

Tires make a big difference, those stock maxx tires are junk imo.

yeah, they weigh soo mutch(stock)..tryed the reponses...WOW!