What the *Bleep* happened?!! LOL

[sikeston34m]

I put some thought into a new setup made from things I had laying around.

It was time to pair the Mamba Monster with some Monster Tires. Mate the Medusa 36-60-1500kv with the E maxx on 10000mah 4S Lipo.

To insure decent motor temps, a HV Maxx heat sink was used. Works really well too, I might add.

For gearing, I used a 52 tooth Mod 1 spur and a 18 tooth Mod 1 pinion, I made from an original style E maxx tranny input shaft.

This thing will almost do a standing flip!

Traction out the wazoo! These tires are almost 7 1/2 inches tall.

About 10 minutes into the run, I notice this clicking sound. The tranny has the 2 speed kit installed. When I switched the tranny to low gear, I knew I had just about stripped out high gear.

These 2 speed kits aren't all their cracked up to be.

It would still go, so I figured what the heck. Keep running it and see what kind of runtime I get with all this battery packed on.

About 25 minutes into the run, I seen some of the most insane flips.

Then It did one more flip, and this is what I walked up on. I thought it was sitting awfully funny!






Ummmm, I think it's time for some upgrades!

[jayjay283]

lol sir, looks like you need some UE knucklehead shock towers and GA bulks

[brushlessboy16]

wow!!!!! those tires a huge!


Who needs shocks anyways :)

Originally Posted by brushlessboy16

wow!!!!! those tires a huge!

Look like tires and wheels off of the CEN GST7.7 (or Genesis) and the are huge, but then again so is the CEN truck

[suicideneil]

Nice to see the quality of the stock parts is still high

Nice carnage- I must say though, plastic tranny gears + proper BL power is never going to work for too long, traxxas just refuse to use much metal in their vehicles for some reason

[crazyjr]

You pulled off a double tower, impressive. Lucky you, every time i'd do that, it'd be the bulks

[What's_nitro?]

Haha, that's what you get for "sticking" the landing! The truck must have had some good altitude on that last one.

[BL_RV0]

I don't know what the hell you did, but whatever it was I would have paid to see it!

Ahhhh a little shock oil and your back in business.

[killajb]

I have a revo with similar sized tires and a NEU 1515 2.5d that also has this "clicking tranny" issue. I've replaced all the gears with Robinson Racing metal gears but have to take it apart again to see what is going on in there..

[himalaya]

same to my E-MAXX, but mine was the rear shock tower broken and then the shocks.

A very good reason to start a long journey of hop-up.

[JERRY2KONE]

Those wheels and tires look good on the Maxx. Nice work with the shock towers. It is like I keep saying. Plastic toys were made for boys. If you want to drive your truck like a man, then you have to get rid of all that plastic. These trucks look great and the design is a nice piece of engineering, but as long as one uses plastic it will never last for long. If this is any indication of how hard you like to drive, then you need to build your trucks to be "bulletproof". Why waste your time running back and forth with broken plastic parts. RCM hybrid bulk/diffs with hardened HPI lightning gears, and metal tranny gears or a center diff setup is what you have to do. So "Git er done" and have some real fun. By the way those batteries look impressive in there. How were tehy working for you?

[sikeston34m]

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

Those wheels and tires look good on the Maxx. Nice work with the shock towers. It is like I keep saying. Plastic toys were made for boys. If you want to drive your truck like a man, then you have to get rid of all that plastic. These trucks look great and the design is a nice piece of engineering, but as long as one uses plastic it will never last for long. If this is any indication of how hard you like to drive, then you need to build your trucks to be "bulletproof". Why waste your time running back and forth with broken plastic parts. RCM hybrid bulk/diffs with hardened HPI lightning gears, and metal tranny gears or a center diff setup is what you have to do. So "Git er done" and have some real fun. By the way those batteries look impressive in there. How were tehy working for you?

We all love to drive hard don't we? LOL

I'm am VERY impressed with the power of the Medusa Motors. I did not expect it to throw this truck around the way it did. Not that I'm blaming it on the motor.

I've really been looking at the Gorillamax G4 chassis.

One problem I have with setups is the very limited space for Batteries. Why can't we cram in an hour of wild runtime?

These batteries are pretty awesome, but they are big. Each one is 2S2P of 5000mah 10C cells. I know the C rating is small, but I believe them to be under-rated somewhat. Even at 10C, this gives 100 amps continous, 150 amps Burst.

It is an hour runtime setup. I ran for about 20-25 minutes before the come-a-part happened. Each pack was at 7.99 volts when it was over. I did run it pretty hard too. Obviously. LOL

[What's_nitro?]

I was thinking, your shocks probably bottomed out before the chassis did because of the huge tires. All that stress had to go somewhere!

But yeah, alloy towers would solve that problem; then alloy bulks, then alloy diff cases, then alloy arms, etcetera, etcetera.....

[sikeston34m]

Originally Posted by What's_nitro?

I was thinking, your shocks probably bottomed out before the chassis did because of the huge tires. All that stress had to go somewhere!

But yeah, alloy towers would solve that problem; then alloy bulks, then alloy diff cases, then alloy arms, etcetera, etcetera.....

Yes, they did bottom out HARD!

I wonder if there is a way to dramatically increase suspension travel?

Factory setups are configured along with tire size to "belly out" before the shocks bottom out.

I've broken stock shock towers before. They really are not that strong.

I remember one jump where it came down wheels up, didn't hit that hard really, but still broke the rear shock tower.