The low budget DIY XL conversion

[scarletboa]

i had issues with the rotor slipping on the shaft. this can be easily solved with green loctite. i ran mine geared for about 45-50mph and the hottest i got my 1600kv xl motor was 145F in 95F ambient temps.

[Nixpus]

Some progres:

Motor mount ala Lincpimp:


Its 2mm HD steel... I couldn't bend anything thicker. In order to avoid damaging the thread I made in the steel sheet I'll add some M4 screws on top of it. Actually I could just have made some straight holes and added the screws after...

Yes it can wobble a little... a little :) I'll have to add some sort of support in the rear. However it can only wobble vertically. Not horizontally... so it should be pretty easy to fix.

Drilled a hole in the bend line to get the motor as low as possible:


I can mesh 13-19 tooth pinions as it is:


Chassis with battery trays:


Tested it a little around the parking lot with the KB on 3 cells. looked good :)

[Nixpus]

The alu battery trays... yes drilling those big holes did save me a few grams (and I agree it was a waist of time):


The cut out was needed to make room for the center transmission. On my previous E-Sav I had put washers in between the bat trays and the chassis to make room... but I wanted to skip that on this one.

The whole thing from another angle:


This has cost me a few hours of work... the materials can be found pretty cheap either at your local metal shop/smith or at a DIY retailer.

I know its nothing special... but I think its important to show that it doesn't have to cost alot to do a conversion. I'll update if/when I break anything ;)