E-maxx project
 

Just finished...
photos and lessons learned attached

Single speed tranny
 

Can anyone tell me where I can buy a single speed tranny for the E-maxx? Everywhere I look is out of stock...

Awesome maxx!

truely nice! the integy shocks might be replaced some day.

www.gorillamaxx.com, that would explain the delay.. :)

Thanks Serum. I learned a lot from your guys' posts before embarked on this project. Everything I did prior to was stadium trucks and minis. A lot of work went into installing the telemetry stuff...more wiring than I like to see, but makes driving more fun.

You are right about the integy shocks....steering knuckles too. I originally bought integy ti pivot balls and alum steering knuckles....they should fit together like a glove right? Wrong, I had to grind the heck out of the pivot ball recesses on the knuckles before the pivot balls would fit. I checked, double, triple, and quad druple checked to see if I ordered compatible parts-I did...they just don't fit together. I guess integy engineers must have corrupted version of auto-cad:) I'll never buy anything from them again...

Maybe down the road I'll go for the racerx supermaxx shocks...what do you think about those?

Very nice Maxx! Your "lessons learned" .pdf will come in handy when I underake my BL project. Thank you for sharing.

nice ride! How do you like those arms are they smooth is there any binding and is there a lot of play in the arms or are they pretty solid

The racer-X supermaxx shocks are hot. They are way tougher than the integy's. I have got the same feeling towards Integy as you have.

FLM arms and chassis
 

I really like the FLM setup. The arms are rock solid w/no binding. FLM includes hinge pins, but I used Lundsford Ti. The only thing is the my truck is heavy...I've loaded it up pretty good. Consequently, I am having a hard time finding good shocks.

I plan to put in a single speed tranny...or slipperential (if it will fit) to help with the weight.

How heavy is your truck about. Wieght wont really matter to me because mine is a basher. Here is my maxx it will look alomost like yours when it is done because i am getting flm arms instead of the ti ones i have right now. But dont worry it wont be the same it will have a lot of stuff different but it will be similar.
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...0/P1220003.jpg
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Yeah....your ride looks nice. I like the flextec arms...I hear they are the best. Mine's a basher too. I guess it weighs about 18lbs with two 7-cell batteries...give or take a pound. A couple things I would do differently knowing what I know now:

(a) RacerX Shocks
(b) 1/8 diffs or the UE diffs
(c) maybe a different brushless motor package

i love my bigbores and they where only 70 bucks they are smooth. i am running hb diffs in mine and quark 125b and soon to come a MMM motor

Exactly what diffs are you running?

Hot Bodies Buggy diffs

Unlimited Engineering
 

Has anyone purchased anything thru www.unlimitedengineering.com ?

The reason I ask is because I attempted to place an online order, but UE's security certificate is expired...which prompted me to send them email to make sure they are still indeed selling product through their website. They never answered any of my emails....

Needless to say, I am a little apprehensive to buy anything from any vendor that doesn't have an up to date 128 bit SSL security certificate....

If Mike sells the same product (steering servo saver)...I'll gladly buy from him.

Shoot him an email. He can get you the UE stuff as a service.

Its in the store...Just look and you'll find it.

It is there...but out of stock.

E-mail Mike. Theres a big possibility that he has more, there just not on the site. He does that for his e-mail orders, etc.

Can someone make a list (With Tower Hobbies links) for what I'll need to convert the stock driveline to Revo driveline? That is, if the REVO shafts would work with 7.5 Buggy diffs??!

They will, but you will have to do some mods. All you need is 4 Revo axle stubs and cut the threads off. Instant output shafts.

i am doing this mod too i will let you know how it turns out by the end of this week

Just got the stuff to do this mod myself. I will probably get to it next week some time. I'll try and post some how 2 pictures when I do it.

cool

Sorry for the long delay. Being that I am fourteen years old, money is real tight around here. Take into consideration I'm going to need a 1:1 soon!

I'll try to fill you in on any orders I place for the Maxx. Although, I did throw on some 23mm hubs. Now to get rid of the stock tires and wheels to throw on some 40's!

Think these will hold up to the Monster Maxx or any BL abuse?

http://www.traxxas.com/scripts/trxne...php?newsid=109

I still find it hard to come up with a mount for the 1/8 Buggy diffs to work with either the stock REVO shafts or the new CVD shafts. How would I get this to work!?

As far as I know, the Traxxas 3.3 axles work with Mike's 1/8 diffs he sells.

[quote]Think these will hold up to the Monster Maxx or any BL abuse?[quote] time and user experience will tell.

I thought mike included the shafts for the stock 3.3 shafts to work. I could be
wrong on this stuff.