Finnster
If you can get 6 mm shafts to work it would be good. The 5 mm shafts were better than stock but I did manage to bend one. I was able to bend it back straight. Then it did bend again in a bad landing from very high up. That's when I changed it with another 5 mm shaft I had made. I think the rods I used are just too soft.
Overdriven
Thanks for the suggestions, I looked up those planes and they are very cool. I bookmarked the website.
jpoprock
I used Losi HD cups. As for the 40 series Mashers being too heavy, my son has the same tires on his ERBE which is running the stock Traxxas diffs. I know it's not the same truck, and not the same motor and he doesn't run on 6S. But still he uses those same tires and the puny little Traxxas diffs hold up. I think the weight of the truck is the major problem, there's no way to make it significantly lighter. And the wheel/tire combo might be a bit heavy but really they are not THAT heavy. The motor might be too torquey but this heavy truck needs torque to make interesting to play with. And if another one tells me that the slipper is too tight, I'm gonna become very very angrrrrry
Can't wait to see those project LSTs you guys have in the works.
I READJUSTED MY PRICE ON MY LST XXL following the suggestion of someone and his nameless friends
For those who PMed me asking for the price, I dropped that price by $50.