New BL 8th scale up and running tomorow
 

Well its been a while since I posted, been swamped with classes and 40+hr work weeks. Anyway had a day off work and school today with nothing to do, so decided to put some work into the MBX. I built the batteries and bought/hacked the motor mount, mounted everything. All thats left for tomorow is finish alittle soldering, charge the receiver pack (no UBEC yet) and she'll be ready for her first bash.

I can't take credit for all the work, the top plate was Leroy's work, I just havn't had time to finish her up.

Naked buggy showing top plate without batteries mounted:
http://image64.webshots.com/64/7/11/...3RAbBlU_ph.jpg

Close up of hacked emaxx heatsink motor mount with feigao 7xl and 9920 next to it:
http://image46.webshots.com/46/1/97/...3MXmMyD_ph.jpg

2 of these bad 5s1p emoli lion giving 18.5v and 6000mah.
http://image42.webshots.com/43/3/93/...3IvUDKR_ph.jpg


I'll have some final pics and maybe bashing videos tomorow, can't wait, but time to hit up the bar and enjoy my first night off work/school in 3 weeks!!!

looks like fun!

Ugh... The pics aren't loading. Can't wait to see it though!

No pics for me either. Is that the buggy you got off me?

All i see are red x's for the pic links...

I think you might need a yahoo account to see the pics. I'll host them somewhere else in a few mins.

Anyway I just came in from its first run and dam this thing has power. Ate a spur in about 2 mins, time to call around locally and see if anyone has any plastic ofna spurs.

Coolhand, yup its the same buggy

Ebay item # 120002922505, fyi...

ok, let me know if you guys can't see the pics now

Newuser
A strobe slipper will do nothing on this buggy, I'm running a center differential.

Looking nice. I see you kept the top plate on it. It makes the chassis stronger. Give places to mount stuff to up off the chassis for more room.
Should be a blast to drive. I tried 7xl on 16 cells. it was nice but not me.

Oooops, sorry. still no pics....

The pics are working for me now.

Still no..:o(

None for me as well.

They work for me to...

Well I got 2 extra spurs, ran the buggy for another 10 mins and stripped a servo horn, so shes done till tomorow.

On another note, what is a high temp for a 9920 and for a 7xl. After 10 solid minutes of running outside street and grass bashing in about 80 degree weather the esc was at about 165 and the motor was at about 150. I havn't cut any cooling holes or anything yet in the body and it didn't thermal once.

It is little on the hot side. It is not far from thermalling. Could you drop a tooth or two on pinion?

Yeah I probably will, I'll have to order one, cause I only have a 14t right now, but it has way more speed than I'll ever need on any track I race on. Next saturday will probably be its race debut up against the nitro guys. Hoping this setup will be able to make a 15min main, gonna be getting lots of practice in this coming week and hopefully have it nice and solid by then.

I'll make some vents for the stuff to breath tomorow and see how much that helps. Worst case scenario I rebuild the packs into a 4s2p config before next sat. cause I really don't need the power of 5s it sure is fun though.

On a side note she is almost perfectly balanced, extremely controllable on jumps, with enough power to wheeilie with high traction like on the street.

Oh, at around what temps will a 9920 usually thermal? just for reference.

I think it supposed to thermal around 180.

Ouch, thats alittle too close for comfort might have to add a fan tomorow as well.

You could try to drop back to a 4s system and see if that helps. You will loose some weight and voltage. But should drop temps a little.

Yeah, 4s is already enough. Just FYI, it isn't uncommon that lower-end (quality) BL motors heat up a lot and cause excess heat in the controller in 1/8 buggies.

I dont see any pictures.

Nice!!!! Great job!

If I open the pics up separately in another browser, then they load.

Looks good :). Just one question, how will the Emolis be held so that the 2-cell group doesn't break off from the 3-cell group?

Well I havn't had time to work on it today and probably won't (tired after a 12hr day of work). But tomorow looks good.

Metal man the emoli's are currently strapped down to the chassis with zip ties. I'm trying to figure out a way to make a tray of some kind. But the battery bar holding the cells together is plenty strong, its not like the batteries are moving at all. They just have to be able to stand landing jumps and hard stops and accelerations, this will be a 90% track car.