hey folks,
I have been busy the last days and the rebuild is almost finished. the steering now has bearings, as the sintered bearings were quite worn out. I 've got the bearings from broken servos, I' ve made it dustproof with some pieces of foam, we will see how long that works.
the lipo sits safe in that position, worked like that well in the past.
The weight like that is 3,6 kg. with the fans, the ubec I can't get it lighter. I had a look at the worn out crime-fighter truggy wheels, they have about 280 grams each, heavy...
. and the fans are required, like that i can have trouble-free hard bashing with motor-temperatures around 50-60 deg./122-140f. the losi-heatsink is very hard to get, but like that it works great. due to the mudguards, the heat stays inside.
the cheapo-esc has a good throttle-response, no cogging, got modded w. bigger power-caps, but a crappy break of course. the xcelorin esc is not available currently here in germany:
The mudguards have proven useful, the one on the right hand side is not finished yet. Acutally I have no battery tray, but like that it worked very well in the past. I want to keep it as simple as possible.
what do you think about the weight? sooner or later I get my self new truggy-wheels which are a bit lighter, but still I will be over the 4 kg.
florian