BL MBX-5 Near completion. Pics

[gixxer]

looks like a nice clean setup.

[lxmuff]

Nice setup. I can appreciate the gearing dilemma. I have a MBX5 Prosec with a Plettenberg Maximum and Quark 125B (w fan and extra heatsink). I use a 12-13:46 gearing and I t runs pretty fast/faster than I can drive it.

I’m almost done with my new 8ight with a 1512 1.5D Neu and I’ll be using the MM. What settings do you use on your MM?

Where do you live in MI? We will be running in Holly starting at the end of April with enough converted 1/8 buggies to have our own heats and extended mains. There are all other electrics and electric MTs too that run there. We ran over the winter in Ann Arbor.
http://www.rcpics.net/img/83379

The excitement there got others to convert buggies over the past few weeks and are itching to get started outdoors.

[SilentMonster]

Originally Posted by lxmuff

What settings do you use on your MM? Where do you live in MI?

I'm on the road right now but I'll check for sure when I get home. I can get it to roll real slow with just a touch of throttle but if I try to roll into the throttle gradually it will cog real bad and won't go so I have to hit the throttle hard after getting it to roll slowly. It will still cog but only in that one spot. I really don't like the cogging but I will play around with the settings some more to see if I can get it better. I do know I am running 100 percent punch control, lowest timing, 12V cutoff and linear throttle curve. I'm not sure what is going on with the cutoff though. I only got 6AH out of the battery and it shut down under hard acceleration. It must be pulling the volts down under 6V per cell. It takes right back off though with in a second or so.
I live in Hillsdale. My nephew raced the ROAR national up in Westland at CEFX the same weekend of your last race. We headed that way to check it out on Sat. night but due to some other problems we didn't make it. I saw a couple of months ago you had 7 or 8 that were running up there. We race at Stateline raceway in Fremont, IN. We may have to come up sometime to a race. It would be nice to hang with like minded converted:005: people. I am the only one that had a brushless MT at our track last year and now I'm gonna have the buggy. There are mixed feelings from the Nitro guys that I race against:007: .
Ya the beadblasted Al was my BIL's idea.

[SilentMonster]

Originally Posted by lxmuff

.I’m almost done with my new 8ight with a 1512 1.5D Neu and I’ll be using the MM.

You really are using that motor? What volts are you running? There is nothing wrong with running that motor on 4 or 5 cells. It can handle it. It will be faster than all get out. It just seems the general consensus around here is to use a much lower kv motor ie. around 2000kv. Now I've gotta come to a race just to check it:027: out. I was planning on using the 1515/1Y or the 1512 2.5D.