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The commitment is made!

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She's doin' some shop time.

Ordered and on the way since yesterday:

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Hardcore Racing .21 conversion kit
Picco .26 Outlaw
THS tuned pipe
Unlimited Engineering 7.5 diff kit w/oil assortment
RRP double disk slipper
RRP steel FOC gear
RRP alum forward primary
RRP brake kit
Acer 28-pc ceramic bearing kit

I haven't bought a clutch and clutch bell yet. The UE diff kit is torquier. The Maxx R&P ratio is 2.85:1 while the 7.5 R&P ratio is 3.31:1. I suppose I don't have to go lesser teeth on the clutch bell but should I go higher? (Which one of you has the engineering degree??)

I'll need center drive axles as the stock ones won't work. I have MIP outers already. These were the last things I hadn't fully researched when it was time to buy. Any suggestions?

I think I'll hang a big hairy scrotum off the rear skid plate as well.
 
lol, well now that you brought up your driving skill...when i dropped the hyper 8 in, my savage was really hard for me to control cuz it had madd understeer

Hey, i'm gonna be dumping about 350 bucks in my ntc3...wanna race sometime?
 
Originally posted by wdavidhicks
hey, none of this means my driving has improved any!
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I keep getting better and better equipment as well, hoping it will make me a better driver.

I think Ill have to take a loan out just to get 2nd place.:mex:
 
are u rich? man i have had my maxx for about 3 1/2 years and havent spent as much money as u have in one flippin day. well, maybe i have. i am getting ready to put a supermaxx suspension kit on mine. then i am going to go and get the UE 7.5 diffs.

bryan
 
You can be sure I'll get pics...

No, I'm not rich, just comfortable. Not having a wife to scrutinize expenditures helps a lot. But then my bathroom isn't that clean and I have to do my own laundry.

oh yeah.. that $400.00 tax relief check from the treasury department was a bonus!
 
o, c i thought that u were married. i was going to say taht man i dont think that ur wife would let u go out and spend that much money on a little truck.

bryan
 
This lively banter is ever so enlightening but once again I feel you gentlemen are missing the point of the post.

Ok, you got me. I was bragging, too. But I still need advice.

Originally posted by yours truly
I haven't bought a clutch and clutch bell yet. The UE diff kit is torquier. The Maxx R&P ratio is 2.85:1 while the 7.5 R&P ratio is 3.31:1. I suppose I don't have to go lesser teeth on the clutch bell but should I go higher? (Which one of you has the engineering degree??)

I'll need center drive axles as the stock ones won't work. I have MIP outers already. These were the last things I hadn't fully researched when it was time to buy. Any suggestions?
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Yes, Kwong I'm sure it will be fine if I run without center axles. I'll make sure to lube the tranny well so my new gyroscope runs like a top. Oh wait! I need a clutch bell! How many teeth should I run if I want to balance the truck on its nose at say, half throttle?
 
Lol, my bad. Well here's my honest two cents. Dunno if the gears you're getting are gearing the truck higher or lower but from the mods that you're getting, i'd stick with gearing close to, or at the same stock gearing.

With my hyper 8 in my savage, I top out WAY too fast. So since the t-maxx 2.5 tops out at around 50mph, that sounds about right. That would be about as fast as i'd wanna go with a monster truck. So if you wanna goto a short track, then get a smaller clutch bell and then for larger tracks use the stock gearing
 
I look at it this way... :confused: ...just kidding.

The new diffs are are a 16.14% increase over stock in ring & pinion ratio. This alone is going to give me quicker starts and a lower top speed if I changed nothing else. If I had a top speed of 42mph it's only going to be 36.16mph with the new diffs.

(Invert and convert to decimal ring & pinion ratios: stock 2.85:1 = .350877, UE 3.31:1 = .302114, 42mph / .350877 x .302114 = 36.16mph)

The stock 20T/72T clutch/spur is a 3.6:1 gear ratio. Going to a 22T bell lowers that ratio to 3.27:1. That's a decrease of only 9.1% in the clutch/spur ratio.

If an increase in ring & pinion ratio can be completely offset by a decrease in clutch/spur ratio, then a 24T clutch bell should provide no change in overall gear train ratio at all in the new setup by my calculations.

But I want quicker. So I want a 22T bell.

I had to work all this out for me anyway, so I didn't waste my time even if no one ever reads this.

Jeez, if I put an 18T bell on it I could probably climb trees with it...
 

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