[Shonen]

You got some wild stuff man. Since you live in Hawaii and have water all around you need to throw some Jumbo Kong tires on that last one and turn it into a hovercraft! LOL

haha! thanks man. I have a friend looking into throwing together an RC boat (he has the hull but nothing else), but personally I like staying away from salt water. things rust fast enough as it is in Hilo, 90% humidity is not friendly with metals. ):

Hehe, that EDF powered revo is cool! I like the black 1/8 revo too. Nice cars :)

thank you! I thought that the mono black paint scheme would be boring...as I'm not a skilled painter, the best I could do was to put some flake over the black and stick some 8mm white/5mm blue LEDs on the front and some wide angle 5mm yellow/red LEDs on the back. (:

There's actually an in-depth writeup on the EDF-Revo with build photos on Greyscale Racing here. Unfortunately, the EDF-Revo is no more. ): Most of the guts were sold to my friend to build an E-Revo from scratch. However, the chassis and some of the components were kept for the 3.3 'conversion' I'm currently working on, so it wasn't a complete waste Plus, it was a great exercise in engineering...which I enjoyed immensely, perhaps more than actually driving it around. Not to say it wasn't interesting, it's quite something to experience when you're used to conventional land vehicles...keeping the throttle at a certain point and having the truck continue to accelerate takes some getting used to.

sweet rigs mang.

thanks!

Were you running the 1717 on 8S in the data log? Love to know what it ends up spinning at max RPM, max amps, and how the ripple is with the Turnigy's.

I was indeed, although it was with the ST-1 tires which are smaller and much narrower than MT style tires. The log I took is here. I took another one today that I didn't download yet with the Zombie-Max tires on, but the weather has been uncooperative and the grass was wet. |: I've only run the XL with the 1717, the old Mamba Monster system is actually being sold (tonight!) to my same friend that bought EDF-Revo's guts to make his ERBE spec as well.

In case the image isn't accessible for some of you interested, the headlines are as follows:
- Max Current: 92.2A (2556W)
- Max Ripple: 2.15v
- Max RPM: 43256rpm
- Max Temp: 134°F
and roughly 800mAh in 3 minutes.

The Revo looks cool, you got a lot of wires to deal with running those paired connectors though.
I have to say I like the Castle 6.5mm's better but they are stiff to plug and unplug, hoping they'll wear in a bit.
Need to shoot some daytime vids bro

Haha yeah. I needed versatility since I want to be able to run it on both 8s and 4s... I would put 6.5mm bullets on everything but I own more things from Hobbyking than I'd like to admit so I'll keep the batteries with 4mm Not to mention my fan and body LED harnesses add to the clutter. Relocating the receiver box really helped though, plus I don't need a hex wrench to download my logs.

Note: it's kind of weird but a couple of the Castle bullets are loose. I just assumed they were smooshed in shipping, cause most of them (especially on the Monster ESC) are very tight.

I will shoot some daytime video next time the weather is cooperative and I have a cameraman. (:

Got any video's of that rc18 when it had the CM26?
And good job with the for sale description, I can't imagine you missed ANYTHING

P.s. commented on both your vids on youtube, and just out of coinsidence my "hyper 7 8S lipo Mamba XL" was the next video in the auto playlist

There actually is a video up of the CM26 equipped buggy but it's got some slightly NSFW humor (commentary by friends) but it has a hilarious ending.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE3jgotot-g
It's got on 1:10 wheel adapters and HPI A-compound drift tires on HPI TE-37 +3mm rims. The car is too light (and diffs too open) to drift properly. At the very least, the rocklike rubber compound prevents traction rolling. :p It is still for sale though...I don't use it anymore.

Also, thank you for the video comments! To answer your questions...

1. the LEDs are mainly for show, they do light up the ground but realistically they are just there to show me what direction it's pointing at night. Believe it or not, you need two headlights and taillights to drive properly. I tried with just a beacon (single LED in the front) and I was crashing into everything. The spacing of the LED's really helps tell you where it's pointing.

2. The whole reason why I used the 3.3 chassis was for the braking, lol. It's actually my fourth EDF-powered land vehicle...first was an Xmod gen 1 (55mm), second was my original RC18B (same 55mm), third was a TT-01 (3.5"). The Xmod had such a high CoG that it would tip over before it hit top speed, and the RC18 went too slow to cause problems. Because the TT-01 was the first that could reach fairly rediculous ground speeds, I decided that brakes were necessary from now on. ...believe it or not, I've taken the 4.5" EDF and T600 motor and put it back in the TT-01 and it now has a braking system too. Project still in progress.

I have more videos on my local community's channel, my personal Youtube is under 'aotsukisho' so that's me commenting on the vids. All RC vids are tagged [RC] on digitalcomplex so just do a search and all the RC related stuff we do should show up.