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HummerMan · **5700 best for me? -** 02.01.2007, 01:07 PM

As some of you guys may know I've been looking at a BL system for some time now and I think I am ready to make a purchase. Unless you guys reccomend otherwise. The truck is my old Traxxas Rustler, going to drop the Mamba Max 5700 motor/esc combo into her and start off with just some 6-8 cell packs, then later move up to Lipos. I picked up a SuperBrain 989 charger this past Christmas so I am covered in that department. Does anyone happen to know of a good gearing setup for this? Basically I just want this to go fast, really really fast lol. But it HAS to be reliable.... Thanks guys...

Procharged5.0 · 02.01.2007, 01:43 PM

I think it's a great combo! Can't beat the pricing either.

You can also consider upgrading the motor at some point to a Lehner or NEU (more wind choices, better construction, etc.)

glassdoctor · 02.01.2007, 01:48 PM

Can't think of a reason to say no.... sounds good to me.

HummerMan · 02.01.2007, 03:17 PM

I am a total newb when it comes to electronics, its like a foreign language to me compared to nitro... Will I run into any problems?

neweuser · 02.01.2007, 03:32 PM

You should be fine. You may want to ask Metal man for tranny solutions, gearing and all that. I believe he has a rusty and could be very helpful.

11:19 PM

I have a Rustler with the 5700. I normally run 7 cells geared 87/15. It's a blast. The one thing I ended up doing was moving my receiver to the front of the truck away from the motor ESC because I had some glitching on slow starts. This totally solved the problem. Other than that all I can say is you will probably want to invest in a wheelie bar and an aluminum idler. Down the road the FLM tranny case is a nice option to make the tranny a bit more hardy.

HummerMan · 02.02.2007, 01:35 AM

Do you have any vids of that? And who makes that chassis, any problems with it? How do you like it?

neweuser · 02.02.2007, 10:05 AM

Welcome! The chassis is the FLM chassis. I was more curious of the shocks he was using. Looks very nice man, very clean and well done!

HummerMan · 02.02.2007, 10:35 AM

How durable is that chassis? Is it worth picking up?

neweuser · 02.02.2007, 10:39 AM

I personally do not own one, but if I had a rusty, I would definately get one.

11:17 AM

Thanks, Yeah, It's an FLM chassis. I haven't gotten much run time in since the install due to lovely NY winters but it is very well made and seems like it should hold up quite well.

I don't have any vids of the truck, as soon as the weather breaks I hope to get some. As far as the motor/esc combo. I can't recommend them enough (I just ordered a second for another rusty I'm doing) as said the only issue was some minor glitching on slow starts and that went away as soon as I moved the receiver.

The shocks are duratrax evaders with hard green duratrax springs. They work pretty well although they do leak a little. I have a new set of ST shocks coming from RCBros that look to be real nice. They should be in today so we'll see.

HummerMan · 02.02.2007, 12:51 PM

Is my charger capible of charging those MaxAmp 3s lipos? Also do I need to change anything in my setup when going from a 6 cell to say a lipo?

neweuser · 02.02.2007, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by HummerMan

Is my charger capible of charging those MaxAmp 3s lipos? Also do I need to change anything in my setup when going from a 6 cell to say a lipo?

What charger do you have?

HummerMan · 02.02.2007, 03:21 PM

Superbrain 989...

neweuser · 02.02.2007, 03:42 PM

The 989 can do up to 8s i believe, so you are set. Some esc's have a cut off you can set for lipo, otherwise, if not, you need a li saver car version lvc, which Mike carries. Oh, and you would want a balancer of course.