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It is thank you. By doing the math with the current gearing it should be capable of well over 100 mph, however, we alway ran out of road before we could get it up to speed, and if I mash the throttle it goes out of control because its so powerful. Best we got last year was around 75 mph and then...

My son made two more videos. One of a speed run with his stock Talion and one with a brushed Bandit.

I will tell him that. The best way to learn something is to do it which means making mistakes.

My son and I are getting back into this and he wants to start a YouTube channel making some videos of RC cars, so we decided to start with the Nitro 6S electrified Rustler pictured in the thread above. We are going to do some speed runs with this car and purchased a Sky RC GNS GPS to measure the...

On the last run I lost drive power and could hear gears grinding. After inspection we discovered that the spider gears lost their teeth. A quick spider gear replacement with new gears and 500k diff fluid and of course we cleaned out the differential fluid and all the metal pieces and it is ready...

We added a separate Kyosho drift gyro to help with the high speed runs and we have a nice ProModeler servo because the cheap Eco Power servo wouldn't play nice with the new gyro. I have several ProModeler servos from their Brushed DS series to their DS845LHV brushless servo. Their brushless...

Last weekend we got the ESC backward thing resolved and took the car out with two 3s fully charged packs (6s for those that are learning). Sooo TBH the car was just too fast and too powerful for the way it is configured right now. It is scary fast. In our local college parking lot I couldn't get...

Added a Traxxas 5624 receiver box with integrated antenna holder and fixed the missing wheelie bar wheel. I also got the Polo Creations lights installed with some custom fabrication to make them fit.

Update 3/19/22: So I realized something real quickly while my son was bashing his Slash with the stock brushless Spectrum 3150 KV motor and 130A ESC combo I gave him to put in that car. It seemed very slow and every time he went to hit the brake, it would go into reverse instead with authority...

Update 3/13/22: The car is 98% finished and we took it for a first run today on a modest 4S battery at the local college parking lot. Its only equipped with Pro-Line street tires that are not belted and it was a chilly 30 degrees out so we didn't want to end up crashing it on its first run. To...

It has the Hot racing metal transmission and Tekno metal axles, so it is about as bulletproof as I can make it. That transmission and Tekno axles have been used in my original Rustler and it held up well under 3S and many crashes and jumps without issue. As far as the instability due to the...

Some more progress pictures. This thing has evolved slowly over the past week but progress has been steady. Its a bit more work than I thought it would be as almost everything on this thing is custom or a miss mash of parts from others cars. Its almost ready for a first test run though so thats...

We made some progress this morning before we have to head out for his basketball game. My son made a custom aluminum bracket to connect the rear shock tower to the upper brace. We will do the same for the front shock tower, effectively tying them together. He is learning how to drill and tap and...

I thought I put this up yesterday but I guess I didnt. My son thought it would be nice to attached some 6S stickers to the body of the Nitro Rustler electric conversion.

Thank you. A stable loving nuclear family is so important. The next generation of kids are the ones who will be running our county so we have to keep our country strong by making our children strong. I personally came from a broken family, I basically had nothing, and I lived in the projects. I...

Oh, they wont go to waste. They will be used and incorporated into the Nitro/6s electric conversion Rustler. BTW, for those that may use this thread some day; the shocks and springs are not for a 2WD Rustler, but are actually from my 4x4 Rustler. The front springs on the 4x4 are shorter and...

Got the Magnum 272R transmission installed and the original 2WD Rustler that started this all ready for another bash session. I also purchased some Polo Creations lights but they are not compatible with the Magnum transmission mounts so I scrapped that idea.

I planned to use those for custom standoffs for an upper aluminum late. I have several ideas on how to house the battery tray and secure the battery and also provide a foundation for the ESC and receiver box to mount to. I purchased several different size aluminum standoffs and those rods so I...

Lol, my son is motivated because he just thinks this is all awesome and we share those thoughts. I have two cats and they also make lousy helpers. They knock things over and generally get in the way of the work. I have to be careful not to put any plastic into the little trash receptacle where...

A few nice things came in the mail today from Amain Hobbies, Drag Race Concepts, and another vendor I will not mention. My son got right to work installing that 35 tooth Robinson pinion gear and it fit with a little room to spare. I worked on getting some 100k silicone differential lube into...