Brushless Buggies, Truggies and
 

Here is my current collection of converted brushless (from nitro) RC buggies and trucks. I have completely put away my nitro for now. There are two 1/8 scale buggies, a 1/8 truggy, 1/10 monster truck and 1/12 truggy. I converted the Revo about a year and a half ago, the Kanai buggy about a year ago and the others less than a year. I have driven the nitro versions (before I converted them) and performance wise the brushless power is stunning, plus the maintenance is greatly reduced.

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Starting from the left: Jammin CRT.5 (Feigao 9L, Mamba Max), Revo 3.3 (Feigao 9XL, disc brake), Kyosho ST-RR (Neu 1515, Mamba Max, disc brake), Kyosho Kanai (Neu 1512, Mamba Max, disc brake), Cen Matrix (Feigao 8XL, motor brake).

Very nice collection. Do you have a favorite?

Mike_D, wow that's a tough one. Right now I am jazzed over my ST-RR because it is my most recent conversion, but you know what I really like my Jammin CRT.5. I think it takes far more skill to drive fast and is the most challenging and most fun as well.

That's cool, i'm a big fan of anything Kyosho so obviously i like your collection. Those CRT .5's do look fast and very challenging to drive.

could you please post up some colose shots of the 2 buggies, id like to see how youve done them! thanks

wow, thats quite a collection!

im gonna take the e-revo:mdr::yipi:

tc3_racer_001, here you go. The Kyosho Kanai was really dirty from last week at the track (haven't had a chance to clean it, been working on the ST-RR). I just finished turning the brake servo on the Kanai 90 degrees. The UBEC is unplugged as well, I found one of the wires was broken and needed repairs.

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Kyosho Kanai - Neu 1512 - Custom motor mount/batt tray - mechanical brakes.

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Cen Matrix - Feigao 8XL - RC-Monster motor mount - custom batt tray - motor braking

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nice job:mdr:do the silver aluminium heat sink on the mm work good..why not a fan???and the weight of the the buggy rtr??

i like the custom motor clamp on the matrix....your can trust the feigao whit that:yes:

e-mike, the stock Mamba Max heatsink just fell off one day, so rather than glue the stocker back on I installed a PC northbridge heatsink I had that looked like it would keep the ESC cooler (more surface area). There is a fan attached on the far end of the heatsink (on the rear side), it works very well and the Mamba runs very cool.

e-mike, my buggies are on the heavy side because I over build for durability. The motor mount, servo brackets, battery tray are heavy duty. I drive my buggies long and hard and I don't want things falling apart. My Kyosho Kanai weights 8lbs 9oz with a 4s lipo, the CEN buggy is a little lighter at 8lbs 3oz with a 4s lipo mainly because it doesn't have any of the mechanical brake parts (rotor, pads, servo, etc.).

You have one very nice collection. Must be hard to choose which one to play with

^ I was thinking the same thing. Nice rides shark.

Yep. Gotta agree, very nice collection!

Hey thanks guys. I used to take my nitro and brushless buggies but switching back and forth was screwing up my driving. So I recently stop taking my nitro vehicles, and just run my brushless stuff. No more, fuel spills/clean-up, glo plugs, clutch maintenance, starter box, rx batteries, etc. I drive the CRT.5 to warm-up, then move to the buggy for serious driving, then back and forth between the CRT.5 and truggy to fill out the day.