Brushless MT2
 

I converted a 9.5 a while ago and had some success running it until I burned up the 9918 esc. I figured I had an MT2 that was in good shape but needed a new engine so I might as well throw some electric stuff in it.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93/combatcm/MT44.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93/combatcm/MT33.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93/combatcm/MT22.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93/combatcm/MT11.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93/combatcm/5.jpg

I have a 8 cell brick pack of IB3800 from CBP and will be my standard pack to use it with. It is a little overgeared 15/52. I would suggest a 13T for this kind of truck for racing or bashing. The slipper is locked down because if I set it correctly it loosens itself. The truck really spins all 4 on pavement and just looks like it floats over grass. I've never got any wheelies out of it, or oven bouncing wheelies, must be the heavy motor in front. Low speed control on grass is hard, it will always try to spin out when turning because of the higher gearing and higher power.

I tried to keep the chassis pretty well organized for the sake of less work taking stuff off and putting stuff on if I need to. The ubec sits right under the esc. The battery comes in and out really easily and locks right with a little electric tape (for now) in its aluminum holder. I made a front motor brace out of some aluminum sheet. You can see it right behind the pinion. It puts equal pressure on the motor plate and keeps the motor from moving.

It's fun to drive, I can't wait to wring it out on the track.

I'll will be running it in the open BL class at the RC monster bash. I look forward to seeing all the different custom BL cars that are going to race.

BL MT2's are a blast, I can only imagine the possibilities if I had kept mine and put aluminum diff cases in it.

Did you get rid of it because of the grinding ring gears?

As far as I see it, the HD gears and the alloy gear cases are required for normal use.

Yeah, I blew out the front once and the rear twice. So I thought "Ah! This sucks!" and sold it. :D

that looks crazy but it would look way more neater if you put the bl controller and the ubec one on top ofeach other and triple zipp-tie that to the holder thing where the entenna is so the wires are close to the motor and reciver. then on the other side of the batteries you can add another 7 or 8 cell battery pack(in brick). that would be fast and the ultimate bl mt-racer!!!

can you tell me what motor you used is it the feigao 540c 9l sensorless bl or the feigao 380c sensorless bl? what controller did you use, is it any of these:
warrior 9920
or 12020 warrior?

because instead of me buying my e-maxx in the future then i can wait till my NITRO mt engin dies out and maby go bl..seams easyer!

YOU INSPIERED ME!

http://media.putfile.com/Brushless-MT277

Heres a video, no sound

I'll try to get better footage somewhere more open

looks to be pretty quick definately needs a bigger area to get up to speed

Some shots of the body.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93...m/sidebody.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93.../anglebody.jpg

hehe, it looks like a minimonster, i like it.

combatcm you could have saved lots of room if you at least mounted the ubec and the controller( like a sandwich) sylvester did that and saved plenty of room

I skimmed through sylvesters thread looking for some pics of the ubec, but i did't see it. You mean tape the ubec and the esc together and then mount them on the chassis?

Right now it's fine, I have no more room problems, everything went in the way I wanted. With the esc mounted high I can make sure the motor wires don't get caught up in the gears.

Maybe in the future I'll get some new cups for the other side of the chassis. 16 cells=60+

Combat, the ubec was hid under the nylon, so you have a nylon block, esc on top and ubec on bottom, like mike.l stated, sorta like a sandwich. If you dont know what i mean i can take a pic?

I got it now, you mean the ubec is facing down under the esc where the esc is now?

Yes, heres a pic for reference.. **sorry for the blurry pic*

yup you got it its mutch simpler and takes mutch less room.
feed the wires throught the hole ?/\/\ as shown up above and sandwith the esc and ubec like a sandwitch

You and your Sandwich's :P

I ran it for the first time at the track and raced it too. I raced it in the truggy class and it feels dialed. The turning radius is really tight for technical tracks and I had no problem making 10 minutes with the current motor (S can 4000kv is still on the way). At the end of the races the battery was 95, the motor was 145 and the esc was around 140.

The slipper always unwound, I had to tighten it before every race. Aside from that nothing else went wrong.

I TQ'd out of about 20 people and came in second in the A. They didn't give me a mini plaque for the race, cause i'm a big power to weight ratio cheater. But I don't mind, I'll keep racing. I had great time with it.

Yay! :)

mT2
 

I converted my MT2, but I didn't go BL yet. I need to get some pics! I have mine setup using an 8 cell hump pack. It feels very well ballanced. Even with a brushed 15x2 speed gem pro it flat out RIPS!:017: Although I recently smoked my esc!:035: It was a Tazer 15t. 8 cells was just too much for it:035:
Have you thought of going with a hump pack setup?

The 8 cell is custom made and it works great where it's placed. I have velcro on the top now for easy removals. I was thinking of doing the brushed thing, though with a 550 motor and 8 cells. A 550 on 8 cells would be enough for fun and I'm sure it wouldn't beat the controller too long. Any sort of mod motor would burn up quick.

I got the motor a few days ago and put it in yesterday. I ran it on a half charged pack and it definately pulls way harder than the 540c.

I put in a fully charged 8 cell packs and I was rolling around gunning it. It would spin the dirt hawgs on the pavement up till around 15mph. You could hear the tires lose traction. Then it caught me off guard when I was almost at a complete stop and gunned it, it did a 20 foot wheelie before I even knew what happened.

At a complete stop and then full throttle it will cog a until the cogging gains a little speed and then drive off, I usually limit the thottle if this happens. So I was doing 2 or 3mph rolling starts, just fast enough to eliminate the cogging problem and it still pulls a wheelie and then shifted on one tire and lost balance and cartwheeled for a good 20 feet. Wheelies are unpredictable though, sometimes it will go up fully, partially, or won't even try to.

Next on the list is some good road tires and maybe the 10T pinion. The ESC did get a little got.

are you strickly running on road. If you are then i sugest something with a medium compound.m2-m3 and some road tires. I would choose some crime fighters for road.

I bought a 10T pinion and a 9T. The 9T is the smallest possible and I am running it now. Unfortunately this makes my 2nd ESC to burn up. I don't know what happened, I just plugged the battery in and it started to smoke.

I still feel like these ESCs are still in their experimental stage because I hear so much about the lehners and hackers burning up. Maybe when castle releases their esc we won't have problems.