Neu E-Revo 1/16th Pics and Videos

[LiqrSicc]

Hey guys, meant to post this a few days ago but forgot my password. Lol, anyways I'm copying and pasting what I put up on the Traxxas forums:


Ok guys so I've had this thing for about 2 weeks and I'm loving it. Mechanically I havent broken anything so far... except the ESC. So while I'm waiting for my new ESC and motor I decided to start on the shoes:






I went with the OFNA BBT Buggy Rear Dishes. They have a nice deep offset that gives it an overall wider stance. Next I went Proline Dirt Hawg Buggy Rears on all 4s. Perfect fit. I wanted a tire that would grip asphalt, do good in dirt, and have good wear. I wish OFNA made some nice molded foams for 1/10 buggy rears. The foams these come with feel cheap. Oh well. I mounted them but not glued yet. I can feel and see they are not even close to balanced. Here are some shots of them mounted:










You can see the wider stance due to the offset. The tires might be a few mm narrower than the stocks but the offset make the truck about half an inch wider at the wheels. Oh yeah they look NICE!

Ok I got my scale in the mail today... too bad it only weighs accurate to .1 ounce or within +- 5grams. Accurate enough. The stocks weighed out to about 62 grams ea totaling 248 grams. The DirtHawg/OFNA combo came out to about 74 grams ea totaling about 296g. Give or take a few grams it's roughly 1.6oz heavier for the new combo. Not much at all.

As you can see the tires are about 1/4 inch taller than stock giving it more clearance. Thats good for me as I'm a basher. For the racers this might pose a problem as the COG is raised. But then you have a wider stance so they just might offset each other.

Now the problem. The wheels are 12mm and fit perfectly, BUT, the hexes look to be a little too deep. Not good. There's only a few mm of axle to screw the lock nut on, unlike the stocks. I will try and put a few spacers on the axle side of the hex so the wheel hex does not touch steering block. Problem to that is it will make the threaded part of the axle even shorter for the nut to screw on. Maybe a mm or 2 spacers will do the trick. Hopefully there will be enough thread for the nut to securely fasten to. We'll find out tomorrow.

Also tomorrow night after work I should have my Quark 65a Roadster ESC that I'll be putting in as well as my Neu 1112 1y 3900kv motor. It'll be a long night of tinkering but I will keep everybody informed with the project.

[LiqrSicc]

OK quick update. I got the wheels to fit. I used my dremel and took off about 2mm off of the inside part of the wheel. The whole hex still fits in, I just shortened the inside walls. This does not affect the depth at all, just took some plastic that goes around the hex. I wont have to use washers anymore.




Since I had the dremel at work already I decided to start on the shock tower. With the dremel I took off about 2mm of plastic so the 52mm motor would fit.

[LiqrSicc]

I grabbed the specs off of the allerc website and they are a direct distributor for Hyperion. Their spec sheet said 21.3mm height for the 1600 vx 3s. Those specs are pulled directly from the hyperion site. I Googled the lipos and found other places that carried it and a bunch of them showed 25mm. Ouch! I called Allerc and spoke with Mike over there. he was kind enough to grab a caliper and measure the pack for me. Bad news, not 21.3mm. Good news they're not 25mm either. He measured about 23.7mm. Basically it's taller by 3.5mm or so. The battery compartment is plastic so I'm not worried about it. If it doesnt fit I was told I can return it. I'm definitely not going 2s nor do I want to drop to a CX as the Nue 1112 can pull up to 100a on spikes.

Ok got some goodies in the mail today:



1st thing, batteries. Got a pair of Hyperion G3 VX 1600mah 3s 35c lipos. Now I got these because I thought it would be a perfect fit as Hyperion states them as 21.3mm height. Wrong. They are actually 23.5mm. A lot of other sites have them for 25mm. Truth is they're 23.5mm for those looking into these. I've heard nothing but good about the G3's so I decided to give them a try.









Yes they did manage to fit. They are in there pretty snug though. Remember people, the trays are plastic so they will give a few mm of play. The battery does not have to be exactly 20.3mm or whatever it is. Closing the lid is another thing. I can close the lid and it latches on tight. As you can see in the pics the wires are a problem so it looks like I'm hacking the battery tray to make some room for the wires to come out. No biggie.





As you can see the Neu 1112 is 4mm longer. Not a problem. All you need is to file 2mm off the shock tower and you're good. You will also need to shorten the shaft as the Neu shaft is pretty long. Again no problem. The screws on the Neu are 2.5mm so I had to make a quick run to my LHS for those. But so far so good. Everything looks promising. I'll work on what I can tonight and put more pics up when I'm done.

[LiqrSicc]

I didnt order through Castle. I went to Neu's main site and I looked at their distributors. Found one in FL with this in stock! Ordered Monday and got here today.





Had to do a little more dremel work on the shock tower. I might have sanded too much as I seen the screw starting to show through the plastic. Even funnier is I only needed to dremel the top part of the shock tower since the bottom of the motor doesnt touch the chassis. Oh well. One thing I did notice is that the magnets are super strong. I can hardly turn the shaft! Hopefully the drag brake settings will fix that. I should have things working by this time tomorrow.

[LiqrSicc]

Ok here's the video showing the internals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn97C9qVrt4

and here's the video in action!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysDDkG_712o

[LiqrSicc]

Originally Posted by magman

Looks good....should do very well w/your intended set up

I was trying to get the rest of the thread up before anybody else posted. Lol, oh well

[magman]

Nice! That screws along nicely

[magman]

Originally Posted by LiqrSicc

I was trying to get the rest of the thread up before anybody else posted. Lol, oh well

Sorry about that

[BL_RV0]

Holy crap! That thing flies! How are your temps? What amt of throttle were you at when you did the standing backflip?

[LiqrSicc]

Originally Posted by BL_RV0

Holy crap! That thing flies! How are your temps? What amt of throttle were you at when you did the standing backflip?

I'm seriously afraid to go past half throttle. That's when I did the backflip. If I throttled any harder it probably would have done a double standing backflip... or break an axle. I just found my temp gun so I'm gonna find a place to run it and see how the temps are. I might wait until later tonight when it gets below 90 degrees

[Bondonutz]

Looks like a very nice set up !
Can you post a link to the Co. whom had the NEU please.

[LiqrSicc]

Originally Posted by Bondonutz

Looks like a very nice set up !
Can you post a link to the Co. whom had the NEU please.

You're in luck. www.espritmodel.com has them and they're in FL

[Semi Pro]

if flys, very nice, im suprised its holding up to that motor

[zeropointbug]

Nice choice in batts man... I've had nothing but good things to say about them here!

[LiqrSicc]

Well got to run it in cooler 80f weather.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJUi-VHeYVo

I ran it for another 5-6 minutes after the the video and got 115-120 temps on the motor and ESC. Not bad