Altered's Stampede Project

[snellemin]

Great Paint mang. One of the nicest Stampede's I've seen so far.

Thanx bro, I forgot to post the daytime pics that I said I would post. Better late than never





As of right now I am running a MM/4600 combo on 2S with 18/86. It seems to be running really well, but I am going to be getting some smaller pinions and see what happens. If anyone has got some suggestions feel free to post them up.

[Arct1k]

Swap out the shocks... The plastic caps and bodies below out if you hit a speed bump...

Thats beast will be heavy with all the aluminum - look for some small bore front buggy shocks - OFNA LX-1...

For the motor I'd be looking at something a little bigger - maybe a Short Course motor...

Yeah I have been doing some research on shocks for this thing, been looking into some blue star ones off ebay. I have had them before and they seem to be pretty good. Even with all the aluminum, it is still lighter than a stocker, my old pede is owned by a friend of mine and it is completly stock and it feels like an anvil compared to mine...lol. What motor would you suggest? I like the speed on this one cause it is controllable. Not going to make speed runs or anything, just a bunch of bashing.

I'd suggest swapping out your spur at least to a 90 for lower gearing options. It gets kinda tough gearing super low, but the bigger spur will help some. I think you should be fine with a 15 or 16/90 setup. I'm sure the esc will handle it no sweat, motor may get hot, but probably not too bad. I don't think I could bring myself to bash that body, it looks great. Despite all the poor opinions on castle's motors, mine's (6900 in rustler) held up just fine after being subjected to nasty things repeatedly. Both esc and motor has seen 200+ degrees on a few occasions. You've got options with that setup for more low end or high end if you want it via gearing or more cells or both. I would opt for a mamba pro if I could do it all over again, if you like to creep around a bit and climb over stuff, sensored is the way to go for smooth transitions. My stampede currently houses a cheapy sensored AE esc and an old novak 13.5. Temps are always cool and the power is enough for what I want to use it for. Well, I would rather have my 10.5 X-11, but that didn't hold up to well with the rough ridin. I think the mamba motors are durable enough to take stampede abuse.

I have a 90 tooth spur at the moment, bought a whole bunch of different spurs and pinions to fool around with. With the 18/86 combo my motor was only getting up to 130 and the esc was barely warm. Batteries didn't even have a slight difference in temp though...which is a good thing...lol. I just have this truck to bash around with but nothing too extreme. We have a big grass field behind our complex, that is where we mostly play with our trucks. I am pretty happy with how the truck is running, it is fast but not crazy uncontrollable fast. I just bought a 3s pack from HobbyKing and it seems a bit too much for this truck, always seems to be puttin it on its lid so I will have to mess around with the gearing more. I just picked up a rustler since it was cheap so that will be another project that I will be working on, might try and go with the velineon combo for this one.....well have to see what comes into play. Thanks for the info though, always good to hear what everyone suggests.