Lightning 2 Pro carbon rallygame conversion

[nativepaul]

I spent last night washing, taping and glueing a set of Proline Roadrages to a set of black hyper7 rims.

They look great so I'm kinda hoping that my off road tyres will wear out fast so I can get black wheels for off road too.




My new longer bolts arrived this morning, I countersunk the battery tray, drilled the chassis and bolted it in with the stand-offs, now its bolted it it feels very sturdy and it fits the battery so well I can lift one side of the buggy up just by lifting the battery, with no straps yet.


My RCMonster motor mount, heatsink clamp and pinions arrived and after some unplanned modifications I got it running tonight, it was after dark so I just gave it a quick test less than a minute, I didn't let it get far enough away from me and the street light to try for top speed but I was impressed by the acceleration (as good or better than my wildest scale hornet setup (and that had totally RIDICULOUS power), and stunned by the handling it seemed perfect, neutral going into a corner with some lift off oversteer should you need to tighten up, I was drifting round my first few corners nicely which surprised me as I haven't driven an RC car for well over 10 years and when I was driving regularly I couldn't drift nearly as neatly or reliably with my Hornet or scale Hornet pan car the L2P is a very good chassis right out of the box.

For anyone following me on this this the original mark one RCMonster Lightning stadium mount does not fit the lightning 2 pro due to:-

The mount is too wide and without some trimming it will hit the turn up on the chassis (I knew about this)

The portion of the mount below the diff hole is 3mm to tall, I had to drill out some locknuts and use them as spacers under the front diff mount to get the diff sitting level.

The holes in the top don't Line up, I bodged it by drilling another hole in the diff brace and put 2 screws into the motor mount and just one through the new hole into the front diff mount, It won't stop me giving it a good thrashing tomorrow, but will make up a wider brace that will take all 4 screws before I hit any jumps.

And a very minor one, it comes with countersunk screws and the L2Pro brace isn't countersunk.



This picture shows the nuts I used as spacers under the front diff mount.



This one shows the cut out I made to clear the chassis turn up and also the misalignment of the holes in the top of the mount.




Top view of the diff brace showing my bodge and how far off the mount holes are.



This is individual to my buggy and tray, but I chose to cut some of the curve off on the left hand side of the motor mount to get my battery tray as close to the centreline as I could without hitting my 44t kyosho plastic spur.