More 1/8 scale truggy fun vid

[gtxracer]

Originally Posted by nastety92

Thanks for all of the info. This is exactly what I'm looking for.

Have you ever tried running this motor on 3s to see what happens?

So at this point in your build. If you were to do anything differently, what would it be and why?

Thanks again,
Nick

I haven't tried it on 3s, I imagine it would be pretty slow and it's not really designed for that low of voltage. If you wanted to run it on 3s-5s you'd want more of a 2250 or higher. Ideally you'd want around 2600kv which I think only Castle and Neu make truggy motors with that high of a kv rating.

If I had to do it again I'd probably sell the MMM combo that came with the truggy and go straight to a Tekin. I know a lot of people love Castle but I've had nothing but bad luck with their new products. I'm hard on things and have even killed a RX8 with heavy racing but it took over 40 packs for me to do that on my last truggy. Since this is a basher I don't have many regrets with the truck. If I were racing I would have went with a Mugen or Xray.

Originally Posted by freddy

hi, what kind of motor temps are you getting?
im running a pretty simulare setup 48\15 1600kv 6s but due to weather i havent had the opperturnity to test it yet

Motor temps are right where they should be. I haven't hit it with my temp gauge yet but I can tell by feeling the motor. Gearing helps a lot and I'm about to cut a vent hole in the body to get more air inside. Your setup will probably have more torque and slightly more speed than my setup on 5s depending on your batts.

the top speed will be almost the same i guess, maybe a bit more torque ore runtime.


ether way its a nice setup you have.

[gtxracer]

Thanks Freddy! Post some pics and a vid if you can when you get your setup running.

[gtxracer]

Jumping the dunes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6aFImjTDjs

Resulted in:

seems your not the only one breaking those hubs, 2 min in my first run with the car i smacked the rear wheel into the wall.. guess i was more worried about filming skills to my dad that joined me for the day than in fact controlling the car

atleast im happy with the power i was barly touching the stick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXv-23N8E1k

[gtxracer]

You broke the rear hubs? I broke the front plus the spindle and bent the hinge pin. I'm going to buy the aluminum hubs if I break one again.

yep only on the left side tho, it was my first real run on it so i wish it would lasted a bit longer

prob gonna order the stock one locally and the alus from tower as a backup



edit, sorry for the fingers

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That was a pretty hard hit though. I'll be honest, I've broken a few Mugen arms doing the same thing on the front end.

And its alot heavier than stock nitro version + heavy chinese wheels so the damage isent that bad, just need the alu hubs.