bringing my hyper7 back from the dead.

back in ~2002, i bought a used hyper7pro, used for an amazing price.. well it was an amazing price, cause it took overr 3 months for me to get it, but he had included a brand new RB motor, that I was able to ebay, to more than make up what i paid for the buggy in the first place.. but the buggy was beat. bad bearings, cvd's, diffs, chassis, ect..
back when maxxtraxx was alive, I converted the buggy to brushless, first with dual lehner 5300's, and then later with a b50 8s, which I was planning on running dual, but never got a second controller for it.. last pics I had were from 2003:






well, someone posted, a video on youtube as "the fastest brushless hyper 7", so i decided to rebuild my buggy, and make him work for the title haha.

no pictures right now, i'll get some as soon as i get a camera... i got a video though, and i'll hopefully get more vid tommorow.

went through, got a new screw kit, new bearings, and new cvds. it needed new diffs as well, but read somewhere online that lsp ring and pinion gears fit on the ofna diffs, but I didn't feel like taking apart 6 diffs to swap gears, so i just threw the lsp diffs in the hyper :). I'm using lsp center diff mount, and mike's lsp motor mount, as well, but the holes don't line up, so I just screwed them down with one screw each.. I was kind of worried, but the top brace holds them perfectly square, and havn't had any problems .. yet.
and whatever springs were on the buggy were WAY too weak.. chassis almost bottomed out w/ just the motor installed.. so I'm using the hardest set of springs i could find, for my lsp.. as a result, they're perfect strength, but too long, so the ride height is jacked up, but should be great for jumping.

oh, motor, batt, ect..
same setup from my LSP:
neu 1515 2.5d/f
quark 125b
true rc 5s1p 5Ah (I ran 5s2p in my lsp though)

doing a little math, and using brian's calculator, I got this info from my test run:
21min runtime. average of 14.29amps, "burst": 85.71amps.. batteries are only rated for 50 constant, and 75 burst, but I had ran 5s1p in my lsp before with out any problems, so I figured it wouldn't be a problem in this buggy.
gearing was 20/46. the only thing I could even tell had warmth was the battery. but it didn't get more than slightly warm. I should mention, I have a fan and heatsink on the quark, and a fan over the motor though. I'll keep you guys updated with how it goes, but for now, sleep.

here's the test run video: (nsfw audio)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NeM3_AE2OIo