hunter306

Alright, So I got my box-o-goodness tonite, 4 motors, 2 New, Never run, the other 2 are in Mint condition, coms have seen maybe 1 full pack.

I installed a 19t Epic "Outlaw" in the F-150... Easily saw 2.5 times the speed... It's crazy to control such a narrow wheelbase vehicle with such a quick little motor.

I retarded the timing just a touch to 15 degrees, down from 25 that it was set at. That slowed the motor down a touch. I may drop it all the way down to 0 just to get some extra life out of the brushes.

Lunchboxer

Does it tracton roll at all?

hunter306

If you mean just roll when I take my finger off the throttle, not much... It has some major "drag" brake going on... Which I realize isn't called drag brake on a brushed motor. But I'm a newb at brushed.

You have to be good with the throttle.

Tamiya Racer

A hunter could u post a picture of your f-150 with the body off, I want to see what the shaft for the 4 wheel drive looks like? Thanks man.

Lunchboxer

No, I mean, when you steer at full speed, does it flip over?

hunter306

Ohhh, sorry LB, yes, it will definately flip... I cartwheeled it into the grass the first 2minutes I after I installed the new motor.

The narrow wheel base isn't too conducive to turning at super high-speed. I think with less pre-load it might corner a bit better, but I don't want it bottoming out on the curbs around the nieghborhood.

hunter306

For TamiyaRacer:

Click the link, I got it as big as I could... If that isn't high-enough res... I don't know what is.

lol

[link=http://www.deependstudios.com/f150/topdownhi.jpg]Top Down Chassis View ~700kb[/link]

Lunchboxer

So what did you end up doing to make the big battery fit?!

hunter306

Ahah, this is one of my Old-School 3000mah nimh packs. It's the same size as a standard Nicd pack, so I use it as my tamiya powerplant.

It's dying a slow death though, just doesn't charge very good anymore.... Dissapointing... Means I'll have to buy more batteries.

Lunchboxer

So you are not going to try to use the new batteries with it?!

I haven't messed with mine yet, so.. but will eventually do something, I am sure!

hunter306

You know, it's not a big difference between the two packs... if I shaved the battery restraint about half a centimeter (5mm) it would strap right in. I'm just hesitant to shave it because I'm not sure if it would come out good.

I may just find another way to restrain the battery, run without the little plastic door there.

Lunchboxer

Yeah.. let me know if you come up with something!! If I come up with some cool solution, I will let you know too..

This is what this forum is all about!

hunter306

Definately. I'm gonna look into using my favorite little velcro straps... They're cheap and all I have to do is add to little slots where I can snake it through the bottom of the chassis... I'll see if I feel brave enough to deface the chassis!

squeeguk

Hey Hunter

Car looks darn fine. Truck looks pretty decent too, nice one. Just a quick tip if I may, get yourself the solid drive shaft and get an aluminium motor mount, after the bearings that is.

The first time you hit something hard from the front, the standard drive shaft buckles. Also the first time you take a serious jump with it, the motor mount will snap on one of the legs. I've had 3 fail on me in the past 2 months. May have been because they were old and fatigue set in, but this is a known weakness on these chassis.

hunter306

Thanks for the compliment, I pick up my new 1:1 car this afternoon!

As for the F150, I can believe that the driveshaft will buckle. It is essentially just a piece of wire (about the thickness of a good coat hanger) with little loops bent in the end.
Do you know where I can get an Aftermarked solid shaft, or do I have to fashion by own? Same for the motor mount, any recommendations?

Just curious! Good advice.

Lunchboxer

Let me know if you find out! I'd guess the same mods can be apply to the Hummer as well...

Got any pic of the finished truck body on top of the XXX-4 yet?!

Tamiya Racer

Thanks for the picture hunter. I will be gettin 1 of these, because from the picture, I can see that the shaft is thicker than the hummers shaft, the hummer has a thin 1. Oh I will post my pictures of my models, soon. Im gettin a new notebook, and digital camera in like a week or so.

Tamiya Racer

LOL Hunter I just read your post lol, about the shaft being thin as a coat hanger, just like the hummer, lol. I guess I could not see that well on that picture thats how slow and messed up this comp. im on is. Well I will be looking into an aftermarket shaft before I buy it. My hummer has that thin shaft, I don't like it, i like the hummer but not the shaft.

hunter306

I can post you a pic of the F150 body on my XXX-T, Or I can post you a picture of my Stock XXX-T body on my F150 Chassis...

As for my XXX-4 buggy, I sold it. I ran it a few times but just didn't have a good area to take advantage of the racing design.

I'm happy with my trucks for bashing as I can see racing and tracks are a rarity around here.

Lunchboxer

Sure, F-150 body on the XXX-T would be cool... thanks!!

hunter306

I'll snap a pic of that tonite, LB. I tried just a quick fit of the XXX-T body on the F150 chassis, but the XXX-T body is too narrow... It bulges out on both sides (hitting the battery holder).

Should be interesting to see what it looks like.

Lunchboxer

Thanks!! That should be interesting!!

I might put the Touareg body on the Dark Impact just to see what it looks like..

The ultimate sleeper?!?!

NewKid

My Feedback: (1)

i had several of these cars all of which are gone aside from my drifter...but why not try and get the manta ray sus. for it it'll handle alot better and the ta02 can be geared down enough to run small 2.2's

squeeguk

I have taken a few shots of my sons Blazing Star which has bearings, upgraded drive shaft as below and a new motor mount which I manufactured out of PVC.

In the picture of the motor mounts, you can see from left to right, the pvc one I made, then the new red one I recently purhcased and then the last one to break in black. I tried out the pvc one yesterday and thrashed the car to within an inch of it's life, jumping big jumps and landing hard, trying to break it, which did not happen. I am very happy with this new mount, the original one would have broken on the first jump.

Lunchboxer

Why PVC? I assume if you have machining capability, you could have done it in aluminum? (for more rigidity and heat transfer)

Just curious.. looks good, though!!