Neu E-Revo 1/16th Pics and Videos
 

Hey guys, meant to post this a few days ago but forgot my password. Lol, anyways I'm copying and pasting what I put up on the Traxxas forums:


Ok guys so I've had this thing for about 2 weeks and I'm loving it. Mechanically I havent broken anything so far... except the ESC. So while I'm waiting for my new ESC and motor I decided to start on the shoes:

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I went with the OFNA BBT Buggy Rear Dishes. They have a nice deep offset that gives it an overall wider stance. Next I went Proline Dirt Hawg Buggy Rears on all 4s. Perfect fit. I wanted a tire that would grip asphalt, do good in dirt, and have good wear. I wish OFNA made some nice molded foams for 1/10 buggy rears. The foams these come with feel cheap. Oh well. I mounted them but not glued yet. I can feel and see they are not even close to balanced. Here are some shots of them mounted:

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You can see the wider stance due to the offset. The tires might be a few mm narrower than the stocks but the offset make the truck about half an inch wider at the wheels. Oh yeah they look NICE!

Ok I got my scale in the mail today... too bad it only weighs accurate to .1 ounce or within +- 5grams. Accurate enough. The stocks weighed out to about 62 grams ea totaling 248 grams. The DirtHawg/OFNA combo came out to about 74 grams ea totaling about 296g. Give or take a few grams it's roughly 1.6oz heavier for the new combo. Not much at all.

As you can see the tires are about 1/4 inch taller than stock giving it more clearance. Thats good for me as I'm a basher. For the racers this might pose a problem as the COG is raised. But then you have a wider stance so they just might offset each other.

Now the problem. The wheels are 12mm and fit perfectly, BUT, the hexes look to be a little too deep. Not good. There's only a few mm of axle to screw the lock nut on, unlike the stocks. I will try and put a few spacers on the axle side of the hex so the wheel hex does not touch steering block. Problem to that is it will make the threaded part of the axle even shorter for the nut to screw on. Maybe a mm or 2 spacers will do the trick. Hopefully there will be enough thread for the nut to securely fasten to. We'll find out tomorrow.

Also tomorrow night after work I should have my Quark 65a Roadster ESC that I'll be putting in as well as my Neu 1112 1y 3900kv motor. It'll be a long night of tinkering but I will keep everybody informed with the project.

OK quick update. I got the wheels to fit. I used my dremel and took off about 2mm off of the inside part of the wheel. The whole hex still fits in, I just shortened the inside walls. This does not affect the depth at all, just took some plastic that goes around the hex. I wont have to use washers anymore.

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Since I had the dremel at work already I decided to start on the shock tower. With the dremel I took off about 2mm of plastic so the 52mm motor would fit.

I grabbed the specs off of the allerc website and they are a direct distributor for Hyperion. Their spec sheet said 21.3mm height for the 1600 vx 3s. Those specs are pulled directly from the hyperion site. I Googled the lipos and found other places that carried it and a bunch of them showed 25mm. Ouch! I called Allerc and spoke with Mike over there. he was kind enough to grab a caliper and measure the pack for me. Bad news, not 21.3mm. Good news they're not 25mm either. He measured about 23.7mm. Basically it's taller by 3.5mm or so. The battery compartment is plastic so I'm not worried about it. If it doesnt fit I was told I can return it. I'm definitely not going 2s nor do I want to drop to a CX as the Nue 1112 can pull up to 100a on spikes.

Ok got some goodies in the mail today:

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1st thing, batteries. Got a pair of Hyperion G3 VX 1600mah 3s 35c lipos. Now I got these because I thought it would be a perfect fit as Hyperion states them as 21.3mm height. Wrong. They are actually 23.5mm. A lot of other sites have them for 25mm. Truth is they're 23.5mm for those looking into these. I've heard nothing but good about the G3's so I decided to give them a try.


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Yes they did manage to fit. They are in there pretty snug though. Remember people, the trays are plastic so they will give a few mm of play. The battery does not have to be exactly 20.3mm or whatever it is. Closing the lid is another thing. I can close the lid and it latches on tight. As you can see in the pics the wires are a problem so it looks like I'm hacking the battery tray to make some room for the wires to come out. No biggie.


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As you can see the Neu 1112 is 4mm longer. Not a problem. All you need is to file 2mm off the shock tower and you're good. You will also need to shorten the shaft as the Neu shaft is pretty long. Again no problem. The screws on the Neu are 2.5mm so I had to make a quick run to my LHS for those. But so far so good. Everything looks promising. I'll work on what I can tonight and put more pics up when I'm done.

I didnt order through Castle. I went to Neu's main site and I looked at their distributors. Found one in FL with this in stock! Ordered Monday and got here today.


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Had to do a little more dremel work on the shock tower. I might have sanded too much as I seen the screw starting to show through the plastic. Even funnier is I only needed to dremel the top part of the shock tower since the bottom of the motor doesnt touch the chassis. Oh well. One thing I did notice is that the magnets are super strong. I can hardly turn the shaft! Hopefully the drag brake settings will fix that. I should have things working by this time tomorrow.

Videos!
 

Ok here's the video showing the internals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn97C9qVrt4

and here's the video in action!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysDDkG_712o

I was trying to get the rest of the thread up before anybody else posted. Lol, oh well

Nice! That screws along nicely

Sorry about that

Holy crap! That thing flies! How are your temps? What amt of throttle were you at when you did the standing backflip?

I'm seriously afraid to go past half throttle. That's when I did the backflip. If I throttled any harder it probably would have done a double standing backflip... or break an axle. I just found my temp gun so I'm gonna find a place to run it and see how the temps are. I might wait until later tonight when it gets below 90 degrees

Looks like a very nice set up !
Can you post a link to the Co. whom had the NEU please.

You're in luck. www.espritmodel.com has them and they're in FL :yes:

if flys, very nice, im suprised its holding up to that motor

Nice choice in batts man... I've had nothing but good things to say about them here!

Well got to run it in cooler 80f weather.

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I ran it for another 5-6 minutes after the the video and got 115-120 temps on the motor and ESC. Not bad

Thanks for posting the site for the NEU, You need a wheely bar my friend ?

I made one from Thick lexan and plane wheels,flexable and tough.

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That's exactly what I need! I'm gonna need to know how you made that when I get back from camping.

No prob, just PM me and I'll send you a itemized list for parts and a some insight.
Have fun and look out for Yogi Bear ?

How did you mount the lexan? Did you just bend the end and screw it into the bumper?

Yes, roughly a 45degree bend and sandwiched it between the bumper and bracket. I used a 4-40 screw that was a tick longer than the stock screw also.

Nice choice on batts as well! I wonder how fast I could charge those on my Hyperion 720 at 5C rates...lol

OK guys, well, here's just an update on my Neu MERV:

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Project about 1/3 done. Still waiting on a bunch of aluminum parts and the MM PRO. I just ordered a Neu 1115 to replace the Neu 1112 I currently have in there. Overkill, YES, but it's fun and I like speed and I'm addicted to this hobby. I do still have the Tenbol 540 mount and the Castle 5700kv motor. Those have been collecting dust since Castle has had my MM in repairs for over a month. By that time the MM Pro will be out. I'm working on a CF extended chassis but I'm running into some problems as the front has a kickup and the rear has a slight kickdown. BTW yes, I know aluminum bends. I'll deal with it. This one is going to be strictly onroad bashing and speed runs with my next MERV project being a bulletproof all out basher.

So where can I get some of those wheels/tires for my slash

Wheels are RPM Revolver WIDE crawler wheels. Foams were custom made by Gone_Banana on RCTech. He's a good guy and I'm sure if you contact him he can make you foams for which ever wheel you want.

Got the rest of the shiny stuff on:

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Up in the air with the motor still. That's actually on hold until I figure out how to design this CF chassis so I have some clearance between the shock mount and the motor.

Wow, that looks nice. I like how you swapped out all the bolts too. Is that a kit, or did you raid the local hardware store?

great looking project dude. keep it up. its gonna be a fast lil b*. i have done a lot of working with carbon and there is a way to get the kickup and and bends that you need. get a propane plumbers torch from your local hardware store and once you have cut your basic chassis shape use the torch to heat the carbon. be sure not to get the hot "point" of the flame to close or it will bubble the carbon. practice with some scrap pieces before you do the actual chassis you will use. anyway heat for about 5 minutes from a few inches away. then proceed to bend the chassis to the angle you need. i would always use small clamps and after i bent the carbon i would clamp the carbon to the stock aluminum chassis so it will cool in the desired position. you will lose about a degree of angle but this works. i have done this with several 1/8 conversion and i race and bash hard and have never had one break. you will be fine with that. i would use a 2mm to 3mm carbon. also, after you have shaped your chassis you can cllamp to the stock one and use a sanding spindle on a dremel tool to go around the edges of the chassis and shape your carbon to the exact size of your aluminum chassis. good luck with the project and keep us updated.

Thanks for the info... I might give that a try. I just dont want to warp it since CF isnt the cheapest material around.

Got just about the rest of the aluminum on:

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Dude thats freakin sweet!!! How much does it weight.Are those foamtires available for a mini Slash

Thanks dude, I'll post the weight tonight when I get home. Foams are custom by Gone_Banana over at RC Tech. Feel free to message him. He makes some quality foams for whatever wheel you want.

i like your idea for body mounts LiqrSicc, im going to have to try that out on mine

It weighs in at 3lbs 4oz. ready to run. The aluminum didnt add much

Works great! The scratches on the aluminum posts dont look good but I probably wont ever have to buy new posts again

Well, it's been a minute since I updated with some pics so here's what it looks like now:

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The heart and brain of the monster came in today as well:

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So this will be going in sometime this week. Geared at 45t/47t (thanks to Kazuaki's mount) on 6s I should be hitting 100mph with no problem if I can get past the wind factor.

we will need a vid :D

Yup just waiting for my speed gun. I'm still trying to figure out how to fit the MMP in but I should have everything going by this weekend.

cool man , and when u fit the MMP i want to c that too coz thats the ESC i`am getting soon :mdr:

Where did you get those aluminium parts? I saw that STRC but where did you get those pushbars?