BL MBX-5 Near completion. Pics

[pb4ugo]

Everything looks nice. Question though: Why didn't you swap the side the battery is on for better balance?

[SilentMonster]

Originally Posted by pb4ugo

Everything looks nice. Question though: Why didn't you swap the side the battery is on for better balance?

I didn't have the room. For the motor to line up with the spur I would have had to move the diff rearward for the spur to clear the servo, then there wouldn't be enough room for the battery. I had a chance to run it today and the weight difference doesn't appear(thankfully)to even be an issue. The thing fly's over jumps just beautiful. It does push off throttle, but I'm sure that can be fixed with some setup tweaking. Sorry to say I don't think the motor is going to cut it on our track. It doesn't have the top speed it needs unless I can find a bigger spur. I don't think that would be a good idea though because it already takes off kinda rough from dead stop. Of course it's got gobs of torque and it to top speed in an instant. I'm going to try to get a GPS unit and see what the actual speed is.

Thanks every one for the compliments. The aluminum is bead blasted. I may have all the aluminum anodized in the future.