Castle moving sale

[thzero]

Depends on where you are from I suppose. In the States, FG/MCD dont have a very big presence so parts, etc. aren't all that available. Let alone Hormann or Lauterbacher. Savage, even Baja, parts and upgrades, etc. are all over the place.

There is also supposed to be a new "Redcat" 4WD 5th scale buggy that is going to come electric. Granted its a Chinese rebadged that will probably be sold under several different brands, but it looked decent.

Originally Posted by toplakd

If you dislike baja, and like 4wd, you can alway buy yourself an FG or other 4w gasoline monster truck such as Hörmann, Lauterbacher, MCD .... and convert it to brushless.

[toplakd]

Yeah, I'm only familiar with cars available in Europe.
HPI Baja is available all over the world only minus for some is lack of 4wd.

Dejan

[coolhandcountry]

Depends on what you do with it.
High speed 4wd won't have much if any help.
Hill climbing and such 4wd would be more important.

[Riko]

I am more of a asphalt guy - speed run freak - tracks.

only an ocasional jump - climping - bashing type

[JERRY2KONE]

Once this RCM kit is available there will be tons of Baja 5b's out there for us to see, but how many Savage Flux trucks will be converted in this way, zero. So I hope you do fab up this project so we can see how it works out for you. Considering the savings in weight I would say it will be quite a fast toy to play with. Why not loose the tranny and use a center diff in place of that to save a few mm in room for the batteries?

[thzero]

Actually you really don't gain that much room switching to a CD. Now granted I'm using the TCS conversion front dogbone, so thats mostly why, otherwise you will need a custom dogbone. What you end up with is more room for a bigger motor such as the 1520 or 1717.

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

Once this RCM kit is available there will be tons of Baja 5b's out there for us to see, but how many Savage Flux trucks will be converted in this way, zero. So I hope you do fab up this project so we can see how it works out for you. Considering the savings in weight I would say it will be quite a fast toy to play with. Why not loose the tranny and use a center diff in place of that to save a few mm in room for the batteries?

[JERRY2KONE]

Originally Posted by thzero

Actually you really don't gain that much room switching to a CD. Now granted I'm using the TCS conversion front dogbone, so thats mostly why, otherwise you will need a custom dogbone. What you end up with is more room for a bigger motor such as the 1520 or 1717.

From the looks of those drawings even a few milimeters would be a good thing. Using a two speed tranny is just not needed with some of our brushless power today.

[toplakd]

Flux has single speed and if you switch to CD you will have also have to change the motor as transmission has 2.2 ration and CD has 1. You can compensate something with bigger
spur and pinion.

Standard Flux transmission with 44/20 equals CD with aprox. 49/10, but with pinion that
small you are very limited with motor diameters.


There is already finished project, not only drawings. With 3 differend battery positions. Inside TVP's or in batterybox with two mounting options.

On first picture is kit wit 3mm tvp's, on second with 5mm.










Dejan

[thzero]

Dejan, there are several finished conversions running around here. :) But Jerry if you check out Dejan's conversion, another way to free up some battery space, although really there is plenty already, is get rid of the plastic servo/radio housing and use a shorter plate.

One of the ways to counter act the switch to a CD is by using 4.3 ratio front/rear diffs such as what I've been experimenting with in my thread. Or you can run 50/52/54 spurs which others on just center diff conversions have done and reported good success with. Or create your own gearbox around a center diff that consists of two additional gears that help reduce the ratio to something closer to a Flux's gearbox. Later, if you don't have good metal working skills/tools like me is a bit of a stretch. :)

[toplakd]

Hi.

If you use shorter plate on my conversion, you get allmost 180mm long battery compartment.

I know there are several finished :)

It is easier to show on drawing how much space is available and what are the options.

Dejan

[Thomas Porfert]

Originally Posted by magman

are your 1512 2650 motors on sale as well? I would like 2 and just don't have the funds right now unless they are on sale

No, the standard combo packaged 1/8th motors (1512/1Y 2650kv and 1515/1Y 2200kv) are not on sale.

The 1512/1.5Y 1800kv, 1518/1Y 1800kv and 1717/1Y 1580kv motors are on the sale.

Thomas Porfert
Castle Tech Support