My e-revo brushless edition build

Originally Posted by mistercrash

For the middle shafts, sadly the LST middle shafts are a bit too short.


But this could be dealt with by having a slightly longer shaft coming out of the tranny. If there was a way to make a CVD shaft fit on a middle shaft hub, it would solve the problem since that CVD looks to have the right length.


This is for the rear middle shaft, for the front, I still don't know, something custom would have to be made I suppose.

This is it, just something I did this afternoon 'cause I was bored.

For the center drive shafts I use the KD center dog bone kit ( I know how much you like his Revo chassis), with Moster Mikes 8 mm drive cups on my lst diffs. I had to mod the rear center dog bones a tad, and the front drive shaft fits perfect... they have worked flawlessly for almost 2 months....

[mothman]

MC, the CVD shaft looks so beefy. how thick are they?

[mistercrash]

The LST CVD shafts are 5 mm thick, they are indeed beefy. As for the Kershaw dog bones, if they work well, that would solve the middle shaft issue. So there you have it, a complete 8th scale drive train is doable on the E-Revo. If the V3 Hybrid diffs from Mike would still be available, the whole process would be ''bolt on'' with no modifications needed. Except for the sleeve needed for the bearing in the RD Racing carriers or enlarging the hole for the outer bearing in a stock carrier. I still haven't tried to install the LST CVDs in the front of the E-Revo. It would probably work but might limit the steering throw for people who did the Slayden steering mod.

[mistercrash]

I didn't have major heat issues with the MMM in my ERBE but under very hard bashing, going at it non stop for 25/30 until the LVC kicks in, the motor would reach temps close to 180. So for extra protection, I put this fan on. Got it from ebay, it wasn't meant to fit the CC 1515 but I made it fit by sawing off 1/3 of the heat sink, then spreading the part left to make it fit snug on the motor. Held with two zip ties.

[mistercrash]

After a hard bashing today, I checked the temp of the motor to see if that fan helped. It was 145 down from 178. That is quite an improvement.

[mistercrash]

I got my hands on some GorillaMaxx G3R chassis rails from Monster Mike. I wanted to get as many G3R parts as I could but these are the only things I could find. The reason being that I have been thinking of making my own G3R chassis. From studying the instructions, I figured there was two components that would be difficult to fabricate, the chassis rails and the front skid which has a couple bends in it. The rest looks to be made from flat stock, aluminum spacers and stand offs of the right length. So I would just need to figure out the dimensions of every components and make them. I think I can cut down on the number of parts to fabricate by cutting up a 3.3 nitro Revo chassis to use the front portion and part of the rear portion. I still don't know if the E-Revo tranny fits on the G3R chassis rails but I could figure it out. Since the tranny is more to the center of the chassis, I might be able to switch it around and have the motor in front. I am still scouring the internet to try to find other parts, especially that front skid but new parts are rare. A complete roller would be awesome but this seems to be even harder to find in good condition at a fair price. I'll update if I go ahead with this project.