Did the FOC yesterday..

[Sasquatch]

Finally. After much consideration.

I bought the parts. RRP stuff. Yanked the reverse + misc. parts out of there. Sealet up the 2 holes in the tranny left by the conversion.

Man does the truck fly now.

My question is why. ??

Same gearing in 1st and 2nd gear. The RRP parts is a direct fit ??

Now the truck blasts away. Acceleration is indredible. Actually I just did the conversion because I never use the reverse and have a little high idle which also makes the reverse not always activate.. The idle is a long story, but it keeps the truck going tank after tank.

Could it be that there is now much less weight in the transmission. I removed the EZ start also. I guess it also had a possitive effect on the total weight on the truck, but that much. ???

I'm very impressed.

BTW: I used the mini guide posted inhere some time back with pictures. It helped alot. The description that came with the RRP is not that good. Pictures and me = (thumbs up)

Just wanted to tell ya all. :-D

Regards

 

[mcvickj]

Welcome to the FOC club. I converted over about 4 months ago and I was extreamly happy that I did. As you can see the benifits for yourself.

I believe it has something to do with the rotational mass of the transmission cluch and how you are now getting "direct power" to the wheels. This is how a friend described it to me. Someone else might have a better explanation of it.

 

[msly]

Originally posted by mcvickj
Welcome to the FOC club. I converted over about 4 months ago and I was extremely happy that I did. As you can see the benefits for yourself.

I believe it has something to do with the rotational mass of the transmission clutch and how you are now getting "direct power" to the wheels. This is how a friend described it to me. Someone else might have a better explanation of it.

Yea I am seriously thinking of implementing the FOC option. First off sometime the dang reverse does not engage and when you pop the throttle it sounds like the engine is going to explode. 2nd I really don't use the reverse much, I would certainly like to lighten up my truck a bit. 3rd I would like to use my Jr am radio that came with my losi xxx-nt sport. Its certainly a better radio then my stock maxx.
sLY

 

[wdavidhicks]

It's amazing all the gears that can come out of that box. That steel forward/reverse clutch on the fork assembly seems to be the biggest savings in unneeded rotational mass.

That might have been my post you were looking at. I'm just now breaking in a new engine on a .21 conversion and that forward-only conversion was one of the mods. I'm sure the bigger engine is a lot of the performance difference but it looks like it's gonna haul. I just yesterday hit second gear for the first time.

I like the fact that the conversion eliminates those chattering and stuttering starts that are inherent of the T-Maxx. You gas it. It goes.

BTW, your English and sentence structure doesn't sound like someone from Denmark... Did you live in the states?

 

[ImBroken]

There's no more internal clutches to engage... As soon as your clutch shoes hook up, she takes off... Great mod, reverse is overrated....lol

 

[msly]

So where did you guys get your FOC's? Who has the best price? And what is the price roughly?

Thanks

sLY

 

[ImBroken]

I have one for ya Mike....

 

[msly]

Originally posted by ImBroken
I have one for ya Mike....

Cool ... we can talk later.

If you could finish that damm kitchen maybe we could play with our trucks before it snows LOL J/K