brushless 1/5 4wd conversion about to begin! couple questions.

[Bondonutz]

Ben following both builds from the start and I'm impressed with what I've seen and read. The end result of the fruit of your labors are spectacular and I'm envious of you both, great jobs. The video was great, nice shots and awesome editing A++.

[florianz]

wow, fantastic!! great video! and I love that build (and those wheels!)

[Ryu James]

thanks all. the vid is great thanks to kulangflow and the truck has been fun. here is my new body since my first got destroyed. the new body makes it look much larger. i took it to the park yesterday and shredded! it was a blast. hauling across the grass on two wheels half the time. i did an end-over-end flip about 30 ft coming off of a grass hill jump. kept on trucking. one problem though. i checked temps when done and motor was 170* and esc was 110*. esc is fine obviously but that motor temp was totally unexpected and in the danger zone. everything is fine but i like to keep things at 150* or less. i thought i was safe since i had been checking temps every five minutes the first few days of running and never saw it get hot once. i was really running it hard but what do you guys think caused it? geared to high? geared to low? i have a 17t and 18t pinion i could try. should i try those and go higher? based on esc temps isnt it most likely geared too low? and actually i dont know how hot the esc was. by the time i got to it to check it was only like 80* but had the fan on it and the motor had cooled 30* in the time period to get to the esc so i am just guessing the esc was about 110*. it could have been cooler.

broken body:




new body:

[Semi Pro]

what body is that?




truck looks like a blast, turned out great