*Official* Caldera 10E Video, Picture And Discussion Thread
01-25-2015, 09:53 AM
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I've been running the caldera 10e since spring now and I just say it has it's upside and downside but the chassis and the stock motor are legit. The diffs I shimmed, needed after market c hubs. The plastic ones are a bad joke. How sad. I'm not even going to mention servos except the latest analog water proof 12 dollar metal gear servo has been serving me well enough. I still need to tighten up the sloppy factory steering setup. Stock motor controller is junk. The hobby king 80a I bought for 50 bucks and water proofed with liquid electrical tape doesn't even break a sweat pushing the stock motor with a 21 tooth pinion! Running the 6 dollar motor heat sink and motor never gets too hot to touch.
01-26-2015, 07:31 AM
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I have a 15T in mine now and I cant imagine how you fit a 21t. I almost have my motor adjusted all the way out to achieve proper gear mesh. Im betting I could fit a 17T, but anything over that would probably require drilling a new hole in the bracket. So far Ive put a CC Sidewinder 3 5700kv combo in my Caldera XB with a 15T pinion and 2s lipo. I also refilled the shocks with 40wt oil. Next upgrade will be aluminum knuckles and c hubs to keep the damn screws from backing out. Would love to test top speed further, unfortunately with its current power, it runs out of the crappy remote range pretty quick. Thinking about getting a new tx/rx setup soon. I was able to get 45mph out of it with the new motor/esc on 13T pinion, and it definitely seems faster on the 15t, with no real noticeable low end tq loss.
02-02-2015, 01:52 PM
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As promised, here's a GPS speed for the new Tacon 3660-540L-7T with a 15 tooth pinion on it. It hit 36 mph and was virtually uncontrollable. I only got to run it on my street and it's cold here so the truck has very little traction but the motor clearly has more twist than the stocker. The stock tires expand a lot at these speeds. The very next day we got over a foot of snow so that's probably the end of outside RC'ing until spring.
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02-23-2015, 02:55 AM
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After a WOT hit to a corner of a pallet by the brother in law lol. She has been reincarnated as grave digger! I put lights in it again to. Can't wait for the sand paws to get here!
03-07-2015, 01:32 PM
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Just found out that 20c 5000 mah lipos aren't enough punch with 4 paddles, I geared down to the fifteen tooth and turned punch control the way up and turned throttle limit to 20 percent on my hobby king 80 amp. Lvc it's set to 2.6. It runs now but nothing like when I had it turned up lol. Oh well need some 3s batteries and a new motor to go with my 120 amp hobby wing sc-8 esc that's on the way right now. Any one know if any good deals on a big 3s that will fit
03-07-2015, 08:38 PM
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Thought Id post this POV video of my Caldera XB here. Info on mods is in the description.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91r2...ature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91r2...ature=youtu.be
03-11-2015, 06:38 PM
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03-12-2015, 08:30 AM
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Nice body daverr, thanks for the feedback westoakmech. I needed more discharge and since I don't have any better batteries here I decided to run two 5000 mah 20c lipo's, way better performance and 35 minutes of hard runtime through snow and hill climbing, pretty steep hill hard to walk up lol. I fell yesterday and broke my tx lol but another story. Now the truck will actually wheely over backwards! Running parallel now but 4s would be insane! Can already skip water on 2s. Will get some video whenever someone is around to take some. 
03-14-2015, 08:18 PM
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Im running a 16 tooth spur 3 cell lipo with proline trenchers. Still working on body need to repaint it.made it last night. I have no problem with heat runs around 120.