Originally Posted by
petersen
looking good.
thx
Well for today... my new axles came early... and HPI changed them a bit... My guess is when they decided to use them for the Wheely King too they made the change as the part numbers for the RS4 MT1 axles are the same for the WK, and the part I have is the newer one that says Wheely king.
Seems the lengthened the thread for the nut by around 1-2mm's (I didn't feel like breaking out the calipers) so now the the thread sticks out a little past the rim >.>
Other then that they are the same.
Now working on the body mounts. Made one for the rear, and it was off by 8.5mm's height was perfect though. Not bad for a 1st try.
I'm planning on testing the thing soon once I found some double sided tape, and a rx to throw in it, and I cross my fingers that the motor don't explode. The motor is some motor I have no idea the KV, and was a piece of crap that was mislabeled as a 540 can which I replaced the stator with one from a 1200kv motor that cogged like crazy to where it was unusable. The motor from what I recall has the diameter of a 380 can, and they put giant fins on it to make it look like a 540, and it has a different screw pattern then a 540..
Edit:
Well took it out to test it, and... it ran great actually. If anything I can gear it to go faster cause after a 5 min quick test (it started raining) mostly at full throttle the motor was only running at 72 degrees F (it is 68 F out), but to be fair the speed it runs at at full throttle is pretty decent I'd estimate it was going around 35ish MPH. I also have to adjust my steering as I had it very off center, but that isn't a big issues as it was just I guessed the center, and was off when I turned the steering to center the wheels it was driving straight.
I'm more impressed my half assed assembled motor didn't fly apart as I dropped it the other day and the cap fell off.