And yet another... FLM Savage Build

[jhautz]

OK, almost done. I finally got some time to work on this last weekend. A couple details to still finish up like solder the Deans plug on the ESC and a little wiring cleanup and it'll be ready to roll. Unfortunately its 3 degrees F here, snowing, 50+mph wind gusts and the wind chill is like -20 degrees F. So the maiden voyage is gonna have to wait a while.

This is a savage I converted last spring using all the stock stuff with a makeshift motor mount and batteries strapped to the side of the TVPs and other than that it was a totally stock Savage. This is the thread on it in the old temporary forums and when I started on Saturday it looked identical except it was dirtier. http://www.rc-monster.com/tempforum/...read.php?t=258

The setup is a proven setup as I was able to run it all summer on this same esc, motor and gearing and it ran great. No need to change it. Its a BK 12020, 1940/7, 5s a123 or 5s lipo depending on what I'm doing with it. Big air jumps and such get the a123 packs and speed runs get the lipos. This setup was good for just about exactly 50 mph (GPS 50.3) on 20/47 gearing running the 2 speed and mechanical brakes.

The weight of the stock truck with the carbon fiber battery trays and basic motor mount I had weighed 11.23lbs without any batteries. Batteries add anywhere from 1.25 to 2 lbs depending on what pack gets used. The new converted FLM Savage weighs in at 11.14lbs. It actually lost weight! I was very surprised by that. I was expecting weight gain not loss.

Additions to the truck for this rebuild were the FLM Tranny Forward kit (obvoiusly), the FLM towers and FLM LST shock kit and then of course the addition of the LST shocks. What you see in the pictures are actually the Muggy rear shocks. They are MUCH lighter than the LST2 all aluminum ones but are slightly shorter so there is a little bit of reduced up travel on the wheels, but the chassis can still bottom out so I doubt it'll be a problem.

All in all a great kit FLM nice job!! Some minor little things that need to be ironed out but overall this kit is really sweet.


OK... all anyone cares about are the pics anyway so here they are.

The starting build up of the chassis:



Fitting a TrueRC 5s 8000mah pack in it. Man thats a brick of a lipo.



Almost finished build:






With a stock length body: