Mod XO-1 Night Drifter
 

I've finished my xo-1, I hope you like what I've done with it, it's a load of fun.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gnUg0c596E[/YOUTUBE]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gnUg0c596E

That is very cool, love how you left part of the body clear and the lighting is awesome.

Thanks mate, it's taken prime real estate in the shed, this one's easy to work on and the drivetrain is stronger than my ride on mower, love it.

Its like a UFO on the ground! UGO! haha.
You could probably pull people over with that thing. Very cool.

Very cool. That is one bright ride.

can you link me to those lights, they are nice and bright, battery or rx ?

they are the waterproof 1meter LED strips from hobbyking, come in red, blue, yellow, green and clear. They can be cut in different lengths and are easy to solder up into a nice display. On the xo-1 I run 2x 3s 2500mAh 3c tx packs parallel and they same pack's still shine bright after about 2.5-3 hours driving. The led's also make changing pack's and working on the car a breeze, leave the light's on and stand the body up against something behind the car and you can see everything you need. I have a couple of yacht's that have around 4 meter's of these led's on them and one runs the zippy 3c tx pack and get's around 1.5 hours from a 2500mAh pack. The other yacht runs a 4s 5000mAh nana tech lipo and this also get's around 2hours sailing and the battery comes back with around 3.6-3.7volt each time, nice and safe. Here's a little video of the led's on the yacht's.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKVg8rZBeAY[/YOUTUBE]
and here's the HK link
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...dProduct=14286
good luck, I hope you have as much fun as I :yipi::lol:

Very cool ride!! The lights are great!! Very bright!!

I want one of these bodies now
http://motoring.ninemsn.com.au/cars/...iller-revealed

Very, very, cool

Nice! What yellow paint did you use? I'm wanting to do something similar on my quadcopter. I need a transparent paint that can still be easily seen in daylight, but lit up at night. :intello:

Any paint will become transparent with heaps of LED's inside, I sprayed all the color's and then oversprayed with silver and then black but I left the yellow, red and smoke(tint) only the one coat, you see it during both night and day. I hope to see the quad when your done, good luck.

That's awesome. You've taken it to a whole new level Millzee.

Thanks! What you did to your XO-1 is what I'm doing to my quad (in a sense).


Looks great!

thank's guy's, it's nice to wake up and read positive feed back. Now let's see how awesome some of those dude's that can paint will do some night bodie's.

I thought I might share the build with you guy's, I won't go into too much detail, it's all pretty basic.
The car was picked up as a new roller and I had the choice to put either a castle 1717 1580kv or the Neu 1527 1500kv motor and after running the 1717 hard in an XXL and a few different boat's, I figured I'd go with the 1527 so I could one day open her up and run 8s knowing the motor will love it rather than kill it. To be able to run 8s I went up to the Mamba XL2 speedo, the data logging is awesome but it'd be nicer if it held the top speed, you can't have everything. The electronic's don't break a sweat runnings a 6s 5000mah 45-90c nano-tech lipo for up to around 30-40 minutes of off/on drifting and thrashing about, longer if I'm just walking the street's playing about. Here's a few pic's of the body.
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...Nightsidef.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...1Nightrear.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...Nightfront.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...XO-1Night6.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...XO-1Night7.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...-1/XO-1Nd1.jpg

The day I received the roller I stripped out the traxxas plastic's and re-fitted with a aluminium servo mount, hitec 7955 servo, neu 1527 and a mamba monster speedo with external castle BEC. This set up ran well enough to end my 4 hour driving session with a cold tire 75mph "super" crash that was my PB for cartwheels by both number and speed resulting only with a broken rear lower a-arm, front splitter and plenty of scratches on the stock body. This was a nice lesson to learn early on......, I can't drive. I am happy to run 6s and gear it with a 25t pinion and 50t spur, 75% punch control, throttle curve and plenty of brake, this is a good fun set up that can still get you in heaps of trouble if your heavy on the trigger, I'm finding that if you drive like a dick, it'll cost you just as it would with a real sport's car, only on a scale ratio.
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...-1crash008.jpg

After the crash the carbon chassis and a couple of goodies arrived so it was build time anyway. I've found myself hopping up everything I buy, sometime before I've driven the model, this time I'm only going to up-grade things as needed. On the list so far is the A-arms, way to brittle (for my poor driving).

The first thing I needed was a safe home for the battery. I used a cabon fiber battery tray and made a side plate out of 2mm c/f sheet. The side plate act's as both a battery support and protection from the drive shaft and shaft support bearings. The tray is raised by c/f blocks so I can get the velcro straps under and around the battery and sticky back 5mm rubber foam added between the c/f and battery. The velcro strap's needed to be longer so I joined 2 by applying ca glue on the velcro's "hook" side, locking the velcro closed and then stitching with 80lb braid to reinforce it.
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...-1lipotray.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/.../XO-1btray.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...airbattery.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...lipostrap3.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...1lipostrap.jpg

My first crash also taught me that my motor needed to be more secure in the event of a prang so I measured the gap between the 1527's aluminium (boat) rear support mount and the c/f side plate on the battery tray and made a spacer to suit and bolted it up, no more side movement!...
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...torsupport.jpg

The aluminium cooling can on the motor is a water cooling can made for the motor, I cut and drilled to allow the air to be caught in the spaces and hopefully help cool the motor(I don't need any of this for 6s, it's just incase I decided to unleash 8s at some stage in the future). I applied thermal paste in the small gap where the water would normally be for heat transfer, gotta be better than nothing and it'll be a while before this motor see's any heat.
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...Drifter029.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...-1hardware.jpg

I played around with the shock mount's a little to gain some ride height but I think I'll need to re-adjust the front end as it's riding a little high. The white springs lasted about 3 minutes until I had them srewed so far down I figured I may as well put the red(green mark) springs back, a lot firmer.
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...XO-1shocks.jpg

I did my best to keep the weight dispersed evenly in both length and width, the battery forward of the motor along with the 2x 2500mah 3s LED batteries up front counteracts the weight of the motor side. The COG is just forward of center so the front wheel's stay on the ground a little better.
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...XO-1Night3.jpg

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...XO-1Night2.jpg

I was also able to keep the weight low with this set up, the 1717 add's weight at a higher point.
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/...XO-1Night4.jpg

I have received a few set's of wheel's, ofna rim's in bright yellow for night and chrome for day with taped PL road rage tire's and extra mod firm rear foam's and firm front foams, I'm not sure how they'll go but if they last a few night's they'll be good for ripping around the street's, I'll keep you posted.

PL Road rages are not completely atrocious in the wet, but are almost certainly the worst PoS on-road tyres ever made, when used in dry conditions.

Don't bother tuning your suspension for them, even if you take the time to optimise them they are still unpredictable, just rape the hell out of them and replace them with something else ASAP. I didn't even do that they were so bad, I wasted my time optimising my car to them then gave up on them, I still have them with over half tread left on them as they do look good and I keep thinking I'll swap them on for shelf duty and take them off for running but can never be bothered when it comes down to it, so I should chuck them away really.

I appreciate the advise, I'm a little unsure on them as I've ran a set on a overpowered merv and found them a tad slippery at times. I don't think it'll matter too much with this fun car, I'm not trying to hit the speed of light, just kick around having "FUN" for a few hour's once the kid's are asleep. I might have to do as you suggest and see how long it takes doing donut's till they go bang!!..that'll be fun for a few minutes.

That sure is a lot of pretty carbon fibre.. It almost make me wanna vomit thinking that one good crash and it's hi-strength splinters.

when the day comes, I hope to have a camera on the action, I'm sick of missing the good one's.

This car will be for sale as a package that has a pit box full of spare for the driveline, diffs and a couple of set's of new un glued tires and rims. The package would suit someone chasing real speed, the money's been spent, the works been done but never really tested, the night drifter video was one of only a few runs of this car and electronic's, it's only been through easy testing a couple of times, anyone interested should look for it on the sales threads soon. I have just packed all the spares in a tool box and written everything down, it's one and a half pages long so it'll take a little time to figure out a price and it'll be a pack only sale.