My e-revo brushless edition build

[SpeedAssault]

EXCELLENT EXCELLENT Build thread.
By far the best detail with pics, discussion and how to
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Like you I have LST diffs and 6s.
my stock shafts have begun to break

What axle shafts have you gone to, which is the best ?

[mistercrash]

Originally Posted by SpeedAssault

Like you I have LST diffs and 6s.
my stock shafts have begun to break

What axle shafts have you gone to, which is the best ?

All the shafts are good (except Integy) as long as you have a good slipper that is well adjusted to protect them. I tried the stock sliders and the Summit shafts. The sliders snap and twist more easily. The Summit shafts don't snap or twist as easily but every part wears out quicker than the sliders and become full of slop. The sliders die quickly, the Summits die a slow and painfull death It's all in the slipper from my experience, if you don't have one on your ride, rig one up or stock up on spare shafts.
Once you have a good slipper to protect your drive train, it will be better. But there is no getting around the fact that we run with very powerful power plants. We have ways to prevent the shafts from snapping at every burst of the trigger, but whatever shafts you use, even with a good slipper, they will wear out faster. Especially when using 1/10th scale parts for a 1/5th scale application.

[mistercrash]

My son's name is Gabriel. So Gabriel's ERBE will be named ''GERBE''

So I started work on GERBE a week ago and basically broke down the build into 5 phases.

Phase 1: Rear end assembled and mounted on chassis.
Phase 2: Front end assembled and mounted on chassis
Phase 3: Tranny, Motor, Slipper mounted on chassis.
Phase 4: Electronics (ESC, servo, receiver, receiver box) mounted on chassis.
Phase 5: Finalizing odds and ends and painting a body.

I got done with phase 3 today. This will be a full blown basher at the lowest speed possible. Spool in the middle, no CD there. High ride height, no sway bars. Turnigy 2S2P LiFe batteries, 68 spur, 17 pinion. The settings of the ESC will be very mild. The speed calculator says a little over 23 mph. I think it is still too fast for a five year old so I will set the transmitter's throttle down to maybe 60%. I'm looking for 15/16 mph. Maybe even less. If a ten pound truck traveling at 15 mph hour hits my boy in the legs, it will hurt but I don't think it will break bones. It could be very dangerous for him if the truck was coming at 40 mph.
For the body, I still don't know what I'll get him. I thought of the Proline Baja Bug but the rear end is weak. Maybe a Proline Slipstream. Or I thought that for a little boy, a real truck body would be cool and he would like it, like the Proline Ford F650 body.

Here's pics of the progress. Nothing new really, it's just a GERBE