BL-conversion of a FG Monster 1:6

Great video's. That is a true monster you have built. i'm with the rest of the guys about the pictures. lets see them. lots of them! Welcome to rc-monster!

[VintageMA]

Welcome to the forum.

I've seen vids of what people claim to be rocking 1/5 and 1/6 conversions and they are underpowered piles of dog-pooh compared with yours! That thing is rockin' fast!! Great job!

Would you mind posting some pics under the hood so we can see the setup and layout?

Thanks for sharing

[othello]

Impressive. Great to see an 1:6 converted to brushless with this power level. Would be interesting to see eagletree Graphs of this built. Don't hesitate to post some pictures ;-)

[sikeston34m]

Yes please! More Info! LOL

I would absolutely LOVE to build a truck like this.

I can only imagine a Chassis that has LOTS of room. Room for things like Batteries. LOL Or at least, Battery compartments that weren't so limited.

I'm hoping these have some bullet proof diffs in them.

We talk about 10S - 12S setups, but with the E maxx or E Revo, I can't imagine where to put the kinda batteries needed to produce the power.

[_paralyzed_]

Welcome, and thanks for sharing. There are a couple 1/5 scale builds here (we generally call fg's 1/5, but we knew what you meant by writing 1/6) but there would be more if we saw your build pics. (monkey see, monkey do) So yes, please post them !

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by othello

Impressive. Great to see an 1:6 converted to brushless with this power level. Would be interesting to see eagletree Graphs of this built. Don't hesitate to post some pictures ;-)

x2 please

Thanks to all for your very warm welcome!

It's a pleasure to share pics with you and I'm going to write some details along with the pics.
I'm also interested in data logging and will try to find out what's suitable for this car. Am I right that eagletree is limited to 150 amps? That might be not enough.
The calculated speed should be 60+ mph with the original gear-ratio (16/48) but I took a shorter ratio (14/48) to get more torque as it is still fast enough.
The highest temperatures i got were 140°F at the ESC and 120°F at the engine.

First 4 pics show the belt drive-unit for the 4WD.

[BL_RV0]

That is very, very, very cool. do you have any pics of the setup under that belt guard thingy?

The next ones show the engine and the motor flange. The small engine is a Lehner 1930 out of my E-Maxx to give you an impression of the engine size. The weight is 2,2 pounds.
The front part of the flange is custom made; the rear part is taken out of a FG EVO 04. With this unit I can use the engine in the Monster as well as in my EVO 04 and it takes less than 30 min. to change the unit.

[BL_RV0]

Beautiful! That motor is huge. I can't even imagine what a 3080 looks like.

These are the compartments for the Lipos. I cut them out of 3mm cfk-plates. They allow for four different settings in terms of weight and weight allocation.
1. 1P in front, 2. 1P lower and more rear, 3. 2P in front, 4. 2P front and rear.