My E-revo Thread - Budget But not Really Budget Build

[Metallover]

Well, I got an 8ight roller for $125 and traded it for an E-revo roller. I got a 30c 5000mah 4s zippy flightmax battery for $75. I got a used Medusa 36-60-2000 with a RCM heatsink/clamp for $70. I had a mamba max from my crt .5 that i got used for about $85. If you wanna be picky my new servo and battery tray cost about 20 bucks combined.

Grand total comes to about $375. Oh yeah.





The Medusa has some soldering in it best seen in this pic. It doesn't seem to affect performance too much, so I'm not going to take any action now. I don't know who did it or why...



The revo roller came with cvds (a little bent), a tekno wing deal, dyed parts, red anodized rod things, a custom painted truck body with yellow flames (the body's a little too short), and 23mm crimefighters. I might downgrade on the axles so I can use my 17mm e-maxx wheels for bashing in loose stuff... Don't think I'll snap to many on 4s.



I got the battery and taped the cells together then re-shrunk it. It doesn't fit in the compartments. Instead of cutting up the nice chassis, I found a different solution using a Tekno v3 battery tray I stole from my crt .5.





Here it is as it sits now




I haven't ran it real hard yet, but in light bashing the esc never topped 140 and the motor less then that w/o the heatsink. Haven't ran it with the new arrangement yet. Zipties held the battery on. A stripped crappy servo ended my run doing a cartwheel. I am going to replace it with my hxt 12kg servo (from my crt again) that has metal gears, but I still want to loosen up the servo saver. How do I do that?



The other problem is the diffs. The rear one went so I took a couple hours and switched them around, but the front one is still stripped. I want to get a LST diff and put it in the rear. If I get a lst diff off of ebay, what will I need to do to run it?

In unrelated news, I made a torch today and I plan to do it again when it's dark out. It worked really damn good!