What to do for a savage motor mount?

[pipeous]

Thanks, I'll be watching the thread. got my savage ss last night. next payday I am ordering the flm kit... should be able to order the monster max too to drop in... too many toys and too many lipos to buy is slowing production (just finished an 18B brushless buggy and working on a mlst)

[lincpimp]

Ok, made an esc mount, cleaned up the wiring, and took it for another test run. Plenty of power, and it will wheely all the way thru 2nd gear. The great planes esc is very controllable, and even starts up very well. If full throttle is pulled from a standstill the motor starts, slowly for a second and then full throttle. It does not do this when the truck is moving, throttle control is immediate when the truck is rolling. Motor got a bit hot for my tastes, but I do have a spare rcm heasink clamp, so I will give that a try. batteries and esc did not get much more than warm.

Sorry, no pics as the camera battery crapped out today, but I will try tomorrow.

[lincpimp]

So I gave it another run tonight. Stopped about 10mins in to replace the crap stock steering servo saver with a 1/8 scale type of servo saver. I used the HPI kit, as the lhs had it and it was fairly cheap. Big difference, and I am still using the stock steering servo. I have a hitec 5997 to put in, but I wanted to see the difference that the better servo saver design would make.

Had my buddy radar it, 41-43 mph at best. We also built some jumps and beat the truck a bit. Nothing broke, and I would say that I got at least 30 mins of mixed bashing. This is with the polyrc 3600 12c cells, 8 in series. I have a pair of flightpower 3700 25c 4s packs to get from the lhs. That should allow me to gear up to a 16t pinion from the 14t.

Temps were good, batteries and esc were warm, the motor was hot, but not as hot as the last run. I found that the slipper was set too loose, and was letting the motor spin up almost unloaded. I tightened it up, too much actually. I was doing backflips if not careful! I adjusted the slipper a bit and got it where it needed to be.

I do need to install the twin disk brakes, and have the hex at the lhs. I have a single disk at the moment, and it just does not have the power to stop this truck the way I want. I also put a wheely bar on it, a must IMO!

Still need to get some pics, but I may wait until I get the wiring finalized. I am still looking for a cheap bec that can handle 10s lipo. Hobby City have a turnigy bec that looks good, and is 20 bucks. I need some other stuff from them, so I may order a couple to test out.