Need info / Help on RCM RC8T conversion

[Cain]

Hey guys. I got to race my RCM RC8T yesterday, and it was a blast. Mike really got the how layout right with this. Just now need the plastic spur to get rid of the noise and I am set!

Anyway, there is one thing I need info on, not sure if its an issue yet but since it occurred twice in the same day, needed to see if anyone else had this happen.

When racing, I managed to break my front chassis brace plastic eyelet end that goes into the front top plate twice. The first time I figured it was a fluke, but the second time was using the piece I had no issues with from my RC8 ( gone to plastic chassis braces, worked great), and that snapped. Albeit it was a pretty good hit. But, I hadn't heard of this before happening.

So my concern is that maybe I am getting too much flex in the chassis up front?

Thoughts?

I am running the following:

Castle Creations 2200Kv Motor
PolyRC 6000mah 4S Battery pack

thanks before hand.

[riceman]

Hmm - may not be the chassis. It may be a design issue with the brace. I broke the exact same piece on my RC8 Tekno conversion. I didn't think anything of it at the time and replaced the whole front end with King Headz aluminum. No issues since going aluminum.

[Cain]

yeah, not sure yet what it is. the quality of mikes stuff though looks great, so I am not sure if it is something that is an issue in general with the RC8T as maybe with the longer chassis design, the plastic end can't handle the forces being put on it? I am thinking of doing the aluminum, but, wondering how it will affect handling by removing the chassis flex.

Did you push out the stock eyelet and replace it with the one in the kit so it goes in between instead of on the side?

[Cain]

there was no instructions included in the kit, and come to think of it, I didn't see an extra eyelet in the rcm conversion? can you post a pic of this?

unfortunately I don't. I just sold it to a member so I can't take one either.
The last pic in my build you can see the brace line straightens up. On the stock plastic brace you need to push out the pivot ball(kind of hard)and with the nuts and bolts in the kit there should of been a black one that fits in. Its small. I'll try to find a better picture.
http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/show...t=17210&page=2


Found one! it should look like this.

[Cain]

thanks for the info. I'll give it a look. does this part help alot to keep the chassis brace from snapping?

[Cain]

I took a look, and couldn't find that exact part in my kit stuff, but looking through my other part boxes I found a few similar pivot balls, appear to work great as far as fit goes into the plastic end, so they probably are a similar part. I will try them mounted tomorrow, but honestly I don't really see how much of a difference this is gonna make as looking at what was there in pics, the brace didn't look pushed over at all as the part that would protrude looked like a thin shim at most. Mine brace came mounted up in the middle of the top brace brace area, and not off to either side so that is where I put it when I did the conversion.