My 5lb 1/8 E-Buggy (Kyosho DBX8e)

[scarletboa]

Originally Posted by nativepaul

That's seriously impressive, I tried to do a similar thing but from the other side here, taking a standard 1/8th buggy and doing all I could to lighten it but while I shaved a couple of pounds off, it only came down to 6lb 7.4oz,

after seeing yours with its 3mm turnbuckles and anorexic arms I'm thinking I started from the wrong place, although it has given me ideas on how I can improve mine, thinner turnbuckles on the steering and rear upper links would be easy enough. What servo are you using? I have a 66g/2.3oz Ace 1015 standard size servo in there at the moment, I have a Hitec 5245MG digital mini servo at 32g/1.2oz that I could put in but I am unsure as to whether a mini servo is up to the job. After that it's either start whittling on my arms or switch to a 1/10th set up, I have a 1509/1.5d 4500kv and 2s 5000mAh packs I could use but I think with 2s its going to pull huge amps to get good speed and I wouldn't be able to downgrade to my from a MMM to the MM.

you could switch to plastic body shocks to lighten it some more. you would be surprised how much less some plastic body shocks can weigh compared to alloy. also, switching the battery's wires to 12awg and shortening them as much as possible while still keeping a little slack will help.