Sixtysixdeuce
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Soooo.....I initially ordered the second 801Xt for parts, but my nature got the best of me, and I went ahead and built it. That was last month, just after I finished the nitro 801. Then it sat on the shelf with an unpainted body and only what came in the kit until just last week.
What spurred this was the failure of the ESC in my Prolite, and a decision to order a $50 Kyosho Vortex sensorless 2,000 KV take-out and run a Dynamite 150 ESC I already had, rather than order the $100 Hobbywing Xerun sensored ESC. Well, I managed to cook that dynamite ESC in under 5 minutes, so I ended up spending even more on the Prolite, having to order a Hobbywing SC8WP ESC to power that big Kyosho can. Anyway, this still left me with a sensored 2150 KV 1/8 motor.......
A couple days later, I finally got paid on the Corsa NX-76 I sold, so I went ahead and ordered up a Xerun 150a ESC. It came in yesterday, so I finished up working and then went nuts on the mill, getting my conversion done.
Yes, it would have been far easier to just order the conversion kit from RCproductdesigns.com, but 1) it ain't cheap at $105 shipped, and 2) I've never been a fan of the idea of hanging a big ol' motor off a thin piece of aluminum with only 2 screws. I'm sure it'd be fine, but I wanted something stouter. So I rummaged through the metal stock pile, found a nice ~2"x3"x4" hunk of 7075-T6 aluminum.
After about 3 hours, I had my mount. It uses the nitro mount points, so unlike the RCproductdesigns conversion, my e-conversion keeps the motor on the same side. It supports the can on three sides, and the motor is attached with four countersunk 3mm screws:
Yeah....that thing is going nowhere!
ESC is simply servo taped to the chassis, I soldered the bullet connectors directly to the motor.
The more interesting part was going to be the battery. To lay it flat, I'd have had to abandon the original steering servo mount, which I didn't want to do. Answer? Stand it on it's side. The holder is milled from a hunk of polyethylene I had on hand, and secured to the chassis with two 3mm screws, using nuts on the inside. I think it'll hold.
All that's left now is tires (should be here tomorrow, buggy wheels just on it to roll it around) and to snag a pinion at the track on Sunday. I plan to run this critter on 3S and 4S, but I may revisit the battery tray and make it accomodate 6S if I don't feel it's fast enough.
Body came out decent for a quick paint job, I think. Can't tell in the pic, but it is a metallic black.
This is my first 1/8 electric. We'll see how it does!
What spurred this was the failure of the ESC in my Prolite, and a decision to order a $50 Kyosho Vortex sensorless 2,000 KV take-out and run a Dynamite 150 ESC I already had, rather than order the $100 Hobbywing Xerun sensored ESC. Well, I managed to cook that dynamite ESC in under 5 minutes, so I ended up spending even more on the Prolite, having to order a Hobbywing SC8WP ESC to power that big Kyosho can. Anyway, this still left me with a sensored 2150 KV 1/8 motor.......
A couple days later, I finally got paid on the Corsa NX-76 I sold, so I went ahead and ordered up a Xerun 150a ESC. It came in yesterday, so I finished up working and then went nuts on the mill, getting my conversion done.
Yes, it would have been far easier to just order the conversion kit from RCproductdesigns.com, but 1) it ain't cheap at $105 shipped, and 2) I've never been a fan of the idea of hanging a big ol' motor off a thin piece of aluminum with only 2 screws. I'm sure it'd be fine, but I wanted something stouter. So I rummaged through the metal stock pile, found a nice ~2"x3"x4" hunk of 7075-T6 aluminum.
After about 3 hours, I had my mount. It uses the nitro mount points, so unlike the RCproductdesigns conversion, my e-conversion keeps the motor on the same side. It supports the can on three sides, and the motor is attached with four countersunk 3mm screws:
Yeah....that thing is going nowhere!
ESC is simply servo taped to the chassis, I soldered the bullet connectors directly to the motor.
The more interesting part was going to be the battery. To lay it flat, I'd have had to abandon the original steering servo mount, which I didn't want to do. Answer? Stand it on it's side. The holder is milled from a hunk of polyethylene I had on hand, and secured to the chassis with two 3mm screws, using nuts on the inside. I think it'll hold.
All that's left now is tires (should be here tomorrow, buggy wheels just on it to roll it around) and to snag a pinion at the track on Sunday. I plan to run this critter on 3S and 4S, but I may revisit the battery tray and make it accomodate 6S if I don't feel it's fast enough.
Body came out decent for a quick paint job, I think. Can't tell in the pic, but it is a metallic black.
This is my first 1/8 electric. We'll see how it does!
