HPI: Savage Flux on the way? 8th scale electric savage

[revo guy]

[Savage-Flux]

Originally Posted by fastbaja5b

Considering you're such a know it all, maybe you should run for president, your talents are clearly wasted on us mere mortals.

when did i say i knew it all?

[Gdot]

feels like love here.


hey wait a minute.. I'm running for president, not you


and yes, I think tons of newbies buy fluxes and are sold donkey for support equipment. seen it a bunch of times locally and on the net. great truck, but battery hungry. my experience anyway.

[riverat1540]

Wow, rtr Brushless= folks that know it all as if they built and designed it themselves

[fastbaja5b]

Originally Posted by Gdot

feels like love here.


hey wait a minute.. I'm running for president, not you


and yes, I think tons of newbies buy fluxes and are sold donkey for support equipment. seen it a bunch of times locally and on the net. great truck, but battery hungry. my experience anyway.

I think that might be why I am having less issues with my Flux than a lot of other users, I'd run large scale brushless previously (Converted E-Savage, converted Revo, converted Jammin X1CR) so I knew what to look for and didn't expect it to be bullet proof from day one.

It is not a truck for noobs!

[Gdot]

Originally Posted by fastbaja5b

It is not a truck for noobs!

they should have that note on the box. I have a bunch of previous rc experience also, and this thing is a handful on a good day.. and hope the newbies know how to change trans gears and pinions (we all have to some time...)

[Savage-Flux]

you must be hard as heck on your truck if you break a pinion and and tranny gears.

[suicideneil]

Not at all, the FLUX tranny gears are known to wear down very quickly, even with moderate use- stripping pinions and spurs is par for the course too. I believe HPI have introduced hardend tranny gears now to address the problem, but the diffs can still wear out quickly, so people have been swapping them with the nitro equivelants which are more robust.

But ofcourse, only a noob wouldnt be aware of these things, right?...

[BL_RV0]

[Savage-Flux]

i never said that a noob edrives a savge i said that not all savage owners are noobs. and yes i am aware of the problem, and i have had nothing go wrong with my flux, except when i forgot i turned down the brakes, and i crashed into a curb on the side of my truck, breaking the battery case. but thats about it. XD

[fastbaja5b]

Haven't had issues with the diff gears in mine, but yes the top 18/23 gear in the transmision is soft, as are the stock pinion gears. The Spur is fine however. I replaced the stock pinion with a Robinson Racing Hardened Steel Mod 1 and it's quieter and doesn't seem to show any signs of wear after 40+ runs. The top transmission gear now has a hardened steel "hop up" but I still have 4 standards to get through (I bought 10 at a time ok?)

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by suicideneil

but the diffs can still wear out quickly, so people have been swapping them with the nitro equivelants which are more robust.

But ofcourse, only a noob wouldnt be aware of these things, right?...

The flux diff's are the upgraded 4-bevel gear set already - so they already come with better diffs than the nitro versions. Part #86032 is the gear set, but you can upgrade the case to aluminum #86827.

Got about 25 runs on mine and are waiting on a screw kit to show up to do some heavy maintenance. I've bought spares as well and the diffs are def upgraded - HPI reduced the brg boss the brg goes onto on the ring gear to allow running the bigger 8x16x5 brgs vs the 10x16x5 brgs that failed all too often on my 4.6SS. I replaced those everytime I got near them.

I have the hardened 18/23 upgrade and it'll go in so I can put the ordinary one back in my 4.6SS and run it again. These were in short supply when it became obvious that these were going to be a wear item.

Want to turn my batt boxes around so the lids open away from the chassis so I can use the Neuenergy 3S car size pacs lipos. The lids don't open far enough to get these thick lipos inserted, 2S lipos have no probs. I've been real pleased with mine so far, been loads of fun.

Originally Posted by Duster_360

The lids don't open far enough to get these thick lipos inserted, 2S lipos have no probs.

Can you cut off the 2 'tabs' on the top lid of the battery boxes to get them in there maybe? You could just use velcro straps to keep them securely closed =)
I have some 9000mah SPC 2S packs that are a decently tight fit on the sides, and they JUST scrape past the 2 'tabs' on the lid of the battery box with a tiny bit of muscle =)


The only problems i have found with my flux is the bloody rod ends on the turnbuckles - mine had flexed and stretched on only the first day of use on only small bad landings, which left me with quite a short day... have since replaced em with lunsford alternatives which are holding up well.

That, and it's too short... i can barely keep the front wheels on the ground on only 4S with a MMM/Neu 1515 1.5d/F... Will be going for the extended flm chassis on this eventually - it's uncontrollable... I get rolling backflips with big joes on... It's fun for a short while, but gets old pretty quick. (yes - i have toned down the esc settings)

other than that, i've had no probs =)

[Nard Cox]

Just switch the boxes and then put on some velcro, that was the first thing I've done on my FLux

I've had about 15 runs or so on my Flux and have broken 1 front arm (not really broken but it's not 100% anymore), my TVP is starting to bent above the motor and yesterday I lost my steering, the Z282 left the car :(.

All and all, I LOVE this monster. I run it on 2 * 2S Turnigy 5000mAh 20C. I know it's not enough power (100A) but I check the voltages on the packs and measure the heat and they keep cool; so far so good.