Finally got to thrash on my Flux XL

[josh9mille]

truck has TCS XL plates, XL axles, XL wheels and tires and the Savage XL body.

After hearing some XL flux owners complaining about it, i was a little hesitant on keeping mine XL length. But now that i have driven it pretty hard Im not sure why some people complain about the XL Flux not being as fun or easy to control in the air as the standard flux. I find it handles lots better, doesnt tip over as much, and with the XL tires it is just as easy to correct in the air as its shorter counterpart. It actually flies pretty well through the air so a correction is not needed as much, but if needed it corrects very easily. I was jumping it off some pretty tall ledges (12-15ft?) at a sand/gravel pit, even managed a few backflips, all landing rubber down. I think the reason Freeze didnt like his XL length savage is because he was using standard size savage tires so it was harder to correct. So far I am very happy with the XL length and cant wait to get it out again to air it out a some more.

Originally Posted by josh9mille

truck has TCS XL plates, XL axles, XL wheels and tires and the Savage XL body.

After hearing some XL flux owners complaining about it, i was a little hesitant on keeping mine XL length. But now that i have driven it pretty hard Im not sure why some people complain about the XL Flux not being as fun or easy to control in the air as the standard flux. I find it handles lots better, doesnt tip over as much, and with the XL tires it is just as easy to correct in the air as its shorter counterpart. It actually flies pretty well through the air so a correction is not needed as much, but if needed it corrects very easily. I was jumping it off some pretty tall ledges (12-15ft?) at a sand/gravel pit, even managed a few backflips, all landing rubber down. I think the reason Freeze didnt like his XL length savage is because he was using standard size savage tires so it was harder to correct. So far I am very happy with the XL length and cant wait to get it out again to air it out a some more.

Great to hear you're liking the XL. I converted mine to an XL right after I got it because it was two flippy/jittery at speeds. I pretty much just took all the parts off my Nitro XL and I think the performance is much better in XL version than stock. It's nice being able to actually get to WOT without the truck exploding into a cartwheel. I think the key really is the XL terra pin tires though, helps the suspension take up more of the hit too due to it's huge sidewall. The only thing is though my XL wheels died on me due to the torque (the hex ate through the plastic wheel) so you might want to look into that, I'm not sure how to fix that problem though aside from getting new wheels.

Here's to more Savage XL bashing!

[thzero]

I like the XL length/width too. But when I converted by 5T conversion back to Flux, I went with standard length Flux just because of the # of bodies (to some degree) available. I'm running XL width and the ProLine Trenchers which I like better than the XL tires; they aren't a flimsy.

[josh9mille]

took it out to the same place yesterday and did some more bashing. Still holds up good to big drop-offs, but now i gotta reglue the tires......there is nothing i hate more than gluing tires!

[thzero]

Originally Posted by josh9mille

took it out to the same place yesterday and did some more bashing. Still holds up good to big drop-offs, but now i gotta reglue the tires......there is nothing i hate more than gluing tires!

Maximizer beadlocks. Since you are running the 3.2" tires, while yes they are heavier than non-beadlocks, they at least don't require gluing. Haven't had an issue with the set of them, combined with ProLine Badlands, that I had been running for quite some time on my RC8Te. Frankly I wish they made a set of the 3.8" tires.

[_dV]

My experience has been that you really do need a heavier tire and\or extra wheel speed to get some aerial action happening with an XL length chassis. I don't have that much of the latter but running the heavier than stock HPI GT-S tires gives a decent amount of rotation rate in the air. It's still nowhere near what a stock Flux can achieve but I can usually get out a single backflip on a decent sized jump with a little time to spare. With the stock tires I was really struggling.

If your geared really low you will also struggle as your probably using a fair whack of throttle getting up the jump at decent speed to get the air you need. This doesn't leave enough throttle to increase wheel speed and change wheel angular momentum to make the truck rotate.

My build is very stable to drive. I've been considering sacrificing a bit of that by making another chassis that is in between stock and XL to gain some aerial agility. Would be interesting to see how much difference that would make.