Sweetride's X1 CRT conversion

[superek4]

Originally Posted by sweetride4me

I'll try that emaxx101... thanks

superek4 what batt do you have??

I was going to do some trimming or use velcro to rais the batt just a bit since the side wall is about 1/8 - 1/4" tall...

Mine is 4s 5000 lipo zippy

[sweetride4me]

Here is a pic of the ESC mount trimmed down and shined up a bit, also the waterproof emaxx receiver box installed (MMM combo and my 4s lipo on order due here mid this week)




Thanks for the idea Rnemhrd

[riverat1540]

everything looks good except the battery tray, there is nothing to keep te battery from shifting into the spur, here is my setup but as u found using the 62 spur doent let u get many batt tray placement options, i bought a new era batt tray and modified it for my 5s 5000mah zippy pack, bolted it in for places to the frame for rock solid mount and its nice as the tray has walls up the side to keep the battery in place from side shifting as velcro has give hope this helps

[Rnemhrd]

No problem sweetride.I guess you did polish that mount.I run one of these in my x1. gives a little extra room for the battery.52t Hyper st spider diff. http://cgi.ebay.com/OFNA-Ho-Bao-Hype...3A1%7C294%3A50

[riverat1540]

looks much better nice job

[sweetride4me]

Thanks guys..

If I wanted to run a kyosho 46t spur which one would I buy and would it make a huge difference on my final drive???

Thanks in advance

[riverat1540]

if u do that change te ring and pinion gears to the LSP gears
that will compensate for the gearing change

[sweetride4me]

Which spur would I want??

[sweetride4me]

Originally Posted by Rnemhrd

No problem sweetride.I guess you did polish that mount.I run one of these in my x1. gives a little extra room for the battery.52t Hyper st spider diff.

What pinion size are you running Rnemhrd??? Just got the diff installed and want to get the right pinion

[sweetride4me]

Here's my latest update

I'll try and get the vids asap, but with the weather here it might be hard to get good ones for a bit.

So here is the batt I'm running ... it's the zippy H 5000mah 4s 20-30c


Here is the castle combo as it comes from the factory



Here is everything mounted up, obviously I took this pic AFTER the test run. It has the tekno dual shank pinion on right now beacause my loctite didn't hold and the RCM pinion went flying :D


And here is the clearence for my batt, with the tray mounted more forward and outward with the 62T spur gear on atm. I just changed it to the 52T ofna hyper st pro truggy center diff which leaves a lot more room for the batt..


I'll get vids up asap, but I have already converted my 2 RC buds at work to brushless after seeing this thing go today so my next build will be converting my buds revo...

[BL_RV0]

Looks good dude.

[Rnemhrd]

Try 13t or 14t. 15t is fast but the batterys got warmer than I liked.4s Neuenergy 4900s hit 120 at the end of cutoff. speed runs and hard breaking due lack of runoff space.I would stay away from the losi gears due to the small set screw.I have issues with it coming loose. Been lucky enough to find it 5 time.I have yet to have one of mikes gears come loose. Cheesecake recomended this part and it is nice. king headz steering top plate http://www.kingheads.com/product_inf...e538471f277a43 he said in another thread the carbon one breaks easily.I got it before I broke the carbon one.

[sweetride4me]

Thanks for the info... I was looking at that for my next upgrade... are you using blue loctite on the setcrew for the pinion???

Thanks again
-Chris

[George16]

Blue loctite for me.

Chris, where are the videos?

[sweetride4me]

I'm getting my buddy to bring in his video camera (if he ever remembers) but for now I'm going to use my digital camera's movie feature to get some quick videos up for a start, I'll ge taking them at lunch today and trying to post tonight, this will be my first movie upload to photobucket....