[brian015]

My replacement spindle lasted one week - I broke it this morning when I rolled the truck over. I realize I'm putting more strain on it with my wheel extenders, but I still can't see how it breaks so easily. I looked at them and can't see a good way to strengthen them so I ordered some RDLogics aluminum spindles. I figure, if they break, at least I'll be able to fix them somehow.

I'm also learning more about setting up the suspension on this truck. I never really had to worry about suspension set-up before - for 1/8th bashing, it wasn't a big issue for me - pretty much anything worked. For this truck, I see that the softer/lower I make the front, the better it handles at high speeds - by keeping the front wheels on the ground, it appears. I was doing some high speed runs on the soccer field again today (I stayed away from the goal-posts!) and can really see the handling improvement. When I started out with this truck, pulling the throttle all the way meant that it would be heading in a different direction than I wanted. Now, with a little throttle control, I can get it all the way pulled and going where I want.

I'm also testing out a new esc (Ice HV 160) with data-logging, so when I get this fixed and a longer run logged, I'll post data. I'm really interested in seeing what kind of current I'm pulling. On my first (shortened) test run, I only hit 90A (I'm still running 8s) - but I had the sampling rate low (2/sec). I'll use 10/sec and see if I see any higher numbers.


Edit: my mistake - it was the other spindle that broke. Maybe it was just their time. Anyway, I'm still going to give the aluminum ones a try.