I have allready raced the B44. After racing running some laps I got a head on with a brushless 8th scale and broke a shock shaft. Buddy lent me a shock from an associated pan car pod lol. It was close enoughto play... still waiting with trigger on paypal when a main gets them back in stock... thought I'd mention it because you'll see the gold shock on front. Iwanted to test the RC8 out first time, and buddy with the HPI in first pic, has 6 or 8 batteries, so I wanted to have extra stuff to play with.
B44 has a Sidewinder 5700 combo, Intellect 4200 matched packs, Airtronics 958 (overkill but I had it), personal transponder and a cheap am radio go figure. I even painted the undertray black silver then black as did the wing. Stock tires and setup really, and I tossed a 17 tooth pinion on. I'd like to go up but it is still really fast. I shortened wires to the motor and such. I didn't do the servo or esc wires as I will be putting a different servo in and using this one in my nitro 1/8.
RC8 has a Mamba Max; 4 extra 440 uF caps soldered in parallel (still can't find a resistor in this shop, I know there has to be some), Neu 1512 2.5D with a custom filter (got the idea ff the rctech thread), RC Monster mount and servo tray, RC10 battery cup, I dyed and glued a plastic tray alongside the mud guards to close the holes before bolting the battery cup to the chassis. I slotted the plastic for the velcro which was glued into place with my fav fix all shoe goo. it's secure. I used my 2 7.4v 5000 mah Yuntong hard cased lipos. they are 20c and work well. until I get a 4S balance plug I made a Y adapter to run them in parallel. I have 2 lipo chargers with balancers so I charge the batteries seperately. FM rx and an Airtronics 959 servo. I had put the Kyosho plastic spur on at first but it didn't fit right and I had to file the holes slightly out all 4 corners to get the screws in and during spooling it in hand I saw some dif leakage. I took the dif out and shimmed the center dis so put the metal one back on. I think I'll leave it that way now.
I took out my camera, turned it on and it turned off again in about 20 seconds.... so I used the cel phone and just took a few pics. Testing was at a BMX track and I tested the beasts out on some worthy jumps.
Other than my motor moving a tad in the 8th scale, no damage or problems otherwise. I ran for 10 mins and stopped to check the esc and motor twice and not even warm. This BMX track was huge with multiple choices of jump types. I hadn't tried the real psycho ones with the 8th before the motor moved so I took the B44 off them. Next time we go there I'll get pics of the track too. The last pic I took with controller one hand and phone other. I am impresed with the torque LOL. Dug a good trench with a straight ahead punch. I need to buy new batteries again for that camera. it's time. I buy 2 set every year and that usually lasts... it's the night shots with flash that kills them, but that's usually when I am finished. I'll get some better pics with the camera tomorrow but wanted to toss thse out anyway.
http://www3.telus.net/Pipeous/Pics/26Feb08/