Ofna DM-One Brushless Conversion (DM-1)

[jhautz]

Well its done. I ran it on Sunday for a test run and got a short video.

When I get a chance in the next couple days I'll post up some proper pictures of the finished car and final conversion details, but for now here is a short video of its maiden run I complied and uploaded last night. I finished up the run by sliding sideways into the curb and cracking the side body post. This was a function of severe brake fade. They were hardly working by that point. The stock brakes are not going to cut it. I ordered a set of phenolic disks for the Jammin buggy. Should be drop in replacments and will hopefully reduce the fade. I'm going to double them up. The stock setup has only one disk.

The body on the car in the video is borrowed from another guy that has a DM-1. My body wasnt painted yet and without a body it had no traction what so ever and was almost impossible to keep going straight. Its amazing how much the body matters for on road. Other than the brakes it ran great no issues with the rest of the systems. I didnt really have much room to open it up where I was testing it. I was hardly getting past 1/2 throttle. I seemed to handle pretty well, but I'm really looking forward to Friday night and our regular parking lot oval race and getting it out to give it a good test run, check heats after exended hard run times. Just hoping for good weather on Friday. I'll try and get some better vid then too.