Project: Savage Flux 5T

[williamg]

I'm running 17-44 and it has a bit of room still so a 16 may even be possible.



Started work on my proline 5b rat body, and test fit a venom motor cycle rider those are in the works

Quickie video taken with my kodak c1013 digital camera

Watch on vimeo for best quality http://vimeo.com/11115163

on you tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpD_thI6OPo
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poser shots
Driver figure just tossed in, but will be adjusted and seated with a steering wheel







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[Semi Pro]

Originally Posted by williamg

I'm running 17-44 and it has a bit of room still so a 16 may even be possible.



Started work on my proline 5b rat body, and test fit a venom motor cycle rider those are in the works

Quickie video taken with my kodak c1013 digital camera

Watch on vimeo for best quality http://vimeo.com/11115163

on you tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpD_thI6OPo
.
poser shots
Driver figure just tossed in, but will be adjusted and seated with a steering wheel







.

that makes me wish i hadnt sold my savage so much


keep up the good work, i cant wait to see it with the body on

[williamg]

Originally Posted by Semi Pro

that makes me wish i hadnt sold my savage so much
keep up the good work, i cant wait to see it with the body on

Next I need to make a seat and put in the driver

[thzero]

Very nice looking. Looks like what I'm ending up doing with the body.

How did you do the lexan top? I've tried several unsatisfactory methods with heat gun.

[williamg]

Originally Posted by thzero

Very nice looking. Looks like what I'm ending up doing with the body.

How did you do the lexan top? I've tried several unsatisfactory methods with heat gun.

Same here the heat gun was a joke. I ended up just hanging the lexan over the table edge and running a zippo lighter under the bend line. All you need to do is have the part to wide, then trim as it tended to ''shrink'' at the bend sides.

[thzero]

Well, had it back out running 47/19 on 5S. Was doing great, except that once again I think I fried the slipper. I had the nut cranked down tight with some blue locktite. May need to do it with red locktite; although kinda hesitant. Anyone else?

[V0RT3X]

Crap, thought it was a Revo 5T thread lol.

Well since I do own a Flux; you can get belleville springs from Kershaw or tighten the nut again. Did you replace the pad? I took the upper gearbox part off(where the spur + slipper is) and held the spur with gloves, then cranked the nut really tight with pliers holding the 7mm wrench and finally added HPI blue threadlock.

[williamg]

could try a new nut as well, the nylon insert doesn't last long after it's been on and off a few times.

[thzero]

Well, I've been tinkering around (and learning how to do 3D drawings... quite maddening if I do say so) with custom TVPs for my Savage Flux 5B to use a center diff. Truggy is also a tight squeeze length wise when putting the batteries inline between the TVPs. The other issue is the in using either the truggy setup (or even the custom mount from RCM) is lack of gear reduction due to running 43/13 or 29/9 (bullet proof diffs) front/rear diffs as compared to truggy's 43/10 diffs.

Anyways, pb4ugo in his thread came up with a very nice solution. I'm not a huge fan of the Revo slipper, and may eventually run a Slipperential so revamped it slightly from ground up. So here is the open center diff "gearbox". Like pb4ugo, the gear reduction comes down to the standard flux so you can run standard Savage/Flux diffs.

Basically the plan is to run a 46t center diff gear, a 12t pinion off of that and then a 25t (biggest mod 1 pinion I can find) pinion as the drive gear. A 17t pinion on the motor comes out very close to the Flux FDR (15.70386 vs 15.56956).

This puts it at about a 17/18 pinion with a 1600kV motor on 5B wheel/tires and running 6S. Or a 15/16 pinion with a 1800kV motor.

[Nixpus]

THeres quite a bit of motor mount talk in the middle of the thread... so heres my two cent: http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/show...t=20862&page=2

With the mount version two I made the motor is placed under the spur gear (LCG anyone?) and has plenty of room for gearing with a 4465 motor... its simple and easy to make.

[Chadworkz]

With a narrower set of front tires, that thing would be on point! Maybe you can cut and narrow both the front wheels and tires about an inch...that would look much better!

[thzero]

Well had my Savage 5B out over the weekend (unfortunately no video... really need to get a camera) and it was a blast until I lost a lugnut and didn't have spares.

I was running on 5S, 35C batteries, but found that it really needs more power. May need to try 6S 40C+ batteries and see if that fits the bill.

just wanna make sure,can you use the savage nitro transmission on this chassis?

is the motor mount included with the kit?

[thzero]

The only things included with the kit are:

The extended TVPs
An extended front dogbone
Chassis braces

It's meant to transform a base Flux into a 1/5 scale size vehicle.

Yes the nitro gearbox will work as its the same gearbox in the Flux, just the Flux is limited to one speed. You can either lock the nitro gearbox yourself, or do what I did and just buy a few of the parts (compare the Savage X and Savage Flux manuals) for like 20 bucks or something and convert it to a 1 speed transmission.

Originally Posted by BADBOY2

is the motor mount included with the kit?