Finally put the Trackstar ESC and the Turnigy XK6582 900KV motor in the XO-1. Luckily, the 56mm motor fits without any special motor mount, just had to drill two additional holes into the stock mount. The ESC mounting plate also fits the holes already in the chassis
Added three 1000uF 35V Low-ESR caps and removed the cooling fan (wanted to add bigger fans later). Used the 46t XO-1 spur gear and a 36t Revo spur gear with an adapter as a pinion gear. With the 4.29 inch XO-1 tires that translates to 112kph/h unloaded with 3.7V per cell.
Well, it didn't turn out too good. When I switched on the Traxxas TQi, it wanted me to do an update. Did that. Then, suddenly during the updating process, the TQi decided it was a good idea to send a full throttle signal to the ESC. Quite scary. Luckily, I always put something under the car so that the tires were in the air. Disconnected the battery cable then and re-did the update without ESC connected using an external battery pack to power the receiver.
Powered it up again, and tried to run it. It coggs like crazy, it's almost impossible to get it moving. Motor, ESC and cables stay cool though. Not sure why that is, hopefully it's not because I damaged the ESC by pulling the battery lead when it was running unloaded full throttle (?) Or maybe it's just not "compatible" with that Turnigy motor? I guess I have to try it with another motor ...
