input on 8th scale

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Fine design are not good conversions in general. His equipment is not matched very well. He uses motors that will run very hot, and batterys that have mariginal capacity for heavy power requirements. The muggy is a big heavy truck. You will have to have some pretty big motor/esc combo and run it on high voltage. I will be trying an aftershock/lst conversion soon. Check the search feature here, I think someone else converted a muggy recently. You can use the stock spur with hardened pinions from the rc monster store. Contact mike as he can custom make you a motor mount if you like.

I'm sure the muggy would make an awesome handling conversion. I have an 8ight-T that works great and the Muggy, as far as the layout, is very similar. I would highly recomend that you stay away from fine design. I have personal experience with sending a bad motor back that took out the speed control, which was'nt replaced the first time and then being sent a marine speed control in it's place(which is useless for cars) after waiting for almost three weeks as well as a suspect battery pack. I ended up selling motor, speed control, and mounts for a fraction of what I paid for them just to not have to deal with Chris anymore. Also, you are stuck using fd "bell pinions" if you use his motor mounts and imo they are junk as well. I'm not sure if Mike(RC Monster) sells a stock motor mount that will fit the muggy but if not he may be able to fab one up for you at a resonable cost. It is much better to locate the motor in the right, rear(stock batt. box location) so that yopu have all the room on the left side for mounting batteries and speed control. Good luck with whatever you decide.

The stock spur gear will work fine as long as you use a hardened pinion and don't mind a little "racket".

i dont mind a little noise but i dont want to buy aton of gears that dont really hold up would a 8ight t be a better bet even if i dont plan on racing much mostly for the build and the bashing most importantly reliability. i wouldnt buy a fine design but thought it would be good for some one that was lazzy i gues not