Been busy!!!

[E-Revonut]

I'm sure no one really cares why I haven't been on to much lately, if anyone even noticed. Anyways I've been very busy with life and a lot of RC stuff.

For starters I have been racing weekly, when it doesn't rain, at CRC raceway in Rome, NY. This place is amazing! The track was nice to start with and the people and facilities are great. A couple weeks ago they reworked the track,in preperation for the RC ProSeries. The new layout is sick. My RC-M RC8T has handled the track great, I getting to be a better racer, much smoother throttle finger. Last time out I placed 4th out of about 10-12 guys, I think thats pretty good considering I have only been on A track 4 times now and this was my first time on a new track. Here's the truck after the last race.


Projects
I decided to copy some other members idea of using an old cordless drill case to make a carrying case for my charger and power supply. It took a lot of time to dremel out all the crap in the case but the end result is a case that holds my power supply, hyperion duo, and all my charge leads and balance taps.


Next on the agenda was a complete overhaul of my E-Revo. I will be racing in the RC ProSeries this weekend and there is no class that allows my truggy so I will race the E-Revo. This truck has endured a year of bashing the crap out of it!!! It needed a little TLC. I tore it down to the point that all that was left on the chassis was the servos and tranny. I cleaned everything, rebuilt all the shocks, rebuilt the diffs, replaced all the axles, put some Maximizer 17mm hexs on it, and a new body. My painting skills are lacking but really these florescent spray cans are really thin and run almost instantly.


I also did a little overhaul on my CRT.5 in the last couple weeks. It also has a new body and paint, redone the rear shocks, and it is now sporting a 36-50-3300 motor as the mounting holes stripped on my 4800 and Phildogg had this one for sale. I also put some new tires and rims on it, some Traxxas VXL bandit rims and some Proline dirt hawg buggy rear tires. Nice all around tire, does ok on a tacky track and decent on any other surface.


Last fall I decided to sell my RC18T, well I honestly miss it. This was the truck that got me hooked on electric and brushless and pulled me away from the smoke puffers. So I ordered up a new one from Towerhobbies. Man these little trucks are a blast! I like to just play around in my apt with it, even though it's really to fast for my tiny apt. For the time being it will stay brushed, I did put a 2.4 rx in it and a set of factory team alum shocks on all corners. When the time comes my Mamba 25/5400kv setup from my first 18 will go in this, but for inside my apt, stock is plenty.


Now I have the big and little brothers from Associated!

[BL_RV0]

Wow, you really improved your fleet there. Nice work! Congrats on the racing achievements. Your trucks are lookin' really slick now!

[E-Revonut]

Originally Posted by BL_RV0

Wow, you really improved your fleet there. Nice work! Congrats on the racing achievements. Your trucks are lookin' really slick now!

Thanks. It was time for updating! Revo was still running the stock body and the CRT.5 had a body with the nitro holes in it and needed tires desperately. The RC8T was a blast to build and that totally changed my fleet! Revo was gonna be a racer until I built the truggy up. The Truggy is undoubtedly the way to race in a 1/8th truck class, outhandles any MT and the BL power will pull away from all the nitros without a pit stop for fuel to boot!

[jnev]

Great set of cars you have there! What power supply are you using with the 610i DUO? I think its time for the E-Revo to get a little brother too...

[E-Revonut]

I'm using an OFNA 18A PS, it will allow me to charge to 5s packs at 4.5+A and thats all I need it to do. I have pushed as far as 4.9A on 2 seperate 5s packs at once. As for a 1/16th E-revo, not anytime soon! I'm very happy with my rc18t, even that is to fast for indoors, and from what I have seen for specs the 1/16 e-revo is about the same size as a CRT.5 but I'm sure the .5 will take way more abuse.