Originally Posted by JR V

Finished her up yesterday. It is not as easy to do a build with a 3.5 year old boy at home but I got her done regardless. Waiting on delivery of a few sets of AKA wheels/tires and a new futaba rx and she will be ready for a test run. Still need to order a black servo arm (blue was all I had in my pit box) and a transponder. Would have liked a black rx8 case and still might get one but that is me being a little ocd. Was trying to avoid the 1/8th scale bug, but I got bit.

Originally Posted by Vantard

Do your rear springs bind on the shock bodies like mine? I just finished last night

Originally Posted by dengor

Here attached another photo showing where it's hitting the diff case...

Originally Posted by dengor

After going over the car after a track session, I found that the steering pivot bushings C0801H were hitting the gear diff casing. See attached photo. My EPA was set at around 80-85%. Now, I've had to set the EPA to around 60% in order to avoid the bushing hitting the case. Does this sound normal?? Surely such a low epa % is too low?

Either I built it incorrectly (which I can't see that I have), or it's a design floor?

Originally Posted by Dont Hack Me

Did you see the new Mugen...errr AE RC8B3 on neobuggy.

Originally Posted by Vantard

Do your rear springs bind on the shock bodies like mine? I just finished last night

Originally Posted by mxer373

Nope that's been the way it is been since we started running the ackerman backwards on the old 7 and with the updated ackerman its hits the case also .... with over 2 years on my old 7 and no issues i wouldn't worry about it because I haven't.....

Originally Posted by dengor

Relief to know its normal. So do you guys just set the epa until before it touches the case? Or let it dig in? My endpoints are around 60% just before hitting the case...which seems low.

Originally Posted by Vantard

Do your rear springs bind on the shock bodies like mine? I just finished last night

Originally Posted by Al_T

I have been running the 16T with my SMC 1900KV motor. After running hard for 10 min I am getting to about 150 + or - a few degrees. But the ambient temps have not been very hot yet. Pretty dang fast but I want to try the 17t pinion to see what it does. It is a bit slower on the big straits compared with the nitro buggies, It seems pretty comparable to the other e-buggies. It does really well against the nitro buggies in the more technical portions of the track.

One thing I can state for sure is this is a very durable buggy. It has been a few years since I last drove, and I am very hard on it. The only thing I have broken other than a severely abused body and wing has been a front shock end when It came in contact with a object that did not move.

Originally Posted by Waflet

Hideeho
p.s. You could also use a small 4s like this:
http://www.amain.com/rc-cars/protek-...101-15/p423774
& the phantom would clear that with no issue. The problem then becomes the motor sits to high. The motor in the ebug sits higher than anything in the nitro buggy (other than the cooling head). It will rub the body, but won't be any where near as big of an issue as a standard size 4s is.

Oh yeah, no I'm not guessing at any of this. There are numerous guys at my local track that run mugen (it's the car of the week until the new AE comes out) & the phantom & have tried the body on my car (I REALLY like it, but do not want to deal with the fitment issues).

Originally Posted by R1Joel

It won't fit properly. I run mine still but the left side sticks up slightly from the battery.

Originally Posted by diamonddawg21

What ESC are you running? I am running the SMC 1900kv and with a 15T my motor is on the hot side. I have the Tekin RX8 gen 2 and might need to play around with the ESC settings.