Hi guys,
Well it took 2 months 1 digggity chassis kit 1 full set of monotuning wide track arms plenty of alloy 1 mamba 8000 6 nosram v-tec cells 1 KO servo and 1 factory team kit and now project rc18road is complete The car is set up for road only this car is never seeing the dirt first run will be today will get back to you on how it goes. Please leave your comments
I'm thinking that this is the only way to go... The Baja is freakin crap!!!!! I mean I just can't get over how hot it gets... Damn rip off crap!!!!!
The car looks so good but it just goes like crap!!!! It has really turned me off the car... If I didn't buy the bling for it I'd have sold it already.... Too much coin spent on it but... Mind you if I got offered the right money I'd probably take it...
Is there any good brushed motors out there that are decent?
i got me a novatech 4517 speedy and himaxx 5400kv motor and a hs81 hitec servo for my mini t around 3 hours ago...lol its gona be ere either friday or monday.... i just cannot wait!!!
for the motor i think the reedy mini max modified is good....havnt tested it tho..
i got the same prob and went through like 13 motors in 2 days .. like 4 packs and 13 motors GONE....so i just went brushless...got sick of replacing em lol
I am running the Mamba 6800 setup. Run time is awesome, and it runs cool sticking with stock gearing. Its quick too. I would say with a 1100 pack run times are 20-25 minutes.
Never ran a brushed motor that ran half as good, and I have tried them all. The stock motor was pretty much the best, so you can get an idea there. This is my second 18T I went brushless with.
That's the one I was thinking of. The 6800. I read that the 8000 or what ever it is is fairly out of control but the 6800 is just right for great speed and controlability. 20-25mins with the standard packs... Holy crap!!!!!!! That's awesome!!!!
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Again many thanks for your help and input!!! Very much appreciated!!!!
Pending how much I like this brushless I might even get one for my HPI MT...
dammmmm 25 mins on that.... i wonder how much ill get with 5400....like 30-35 min..and i get like 20-25 mins on my stock mini t electrics with a 2 cell 800mah lipo...ill get like 40 min with my lipo
The difference between the 8000kv and the 6800 in run time is heaps, I have an 8000 and my mate has a 6800 and we both run the same packs, but I get like 8-10 mins run and he gets like 15-20 or more, both on race setting and both on IB1200 7.2 packs, the only difference is that his is crazy fast and mine is mad crazy fast .
guys....my brushless is crazy...(details in sig)....
1/4 throttle-wheelie on polished floor and while the nose is in the air the wheels r still wheelspinning!!!....and thats with 45mm wide foam dragslicks!
I just finished building my FT RC18T. I've got to say, in my many years in the sport, this has been the most difficult and frustrating thing to build - well at least build right. Suffice to say that now it's done, I couldn't be happier with it.
Firstly the front shocks. Did anyone else have my problem where by the springs seemed too short? Only with the pre-load collar screwed all the way down does the spring touch both ends, rendering adjustment useless. It's as though the rear springs would be a perfect fit. Not good.
Seconldly, I had to grind down the two front titanium turnbuckes (suspension arms, not the steering ones). Otherwise my camber was about 3 degrees positive on the shortest adjustment. In finding this out, I screwed the turnbuckle too far into one ball cup and so I now have one side that binds until I buy another set. Not happy. I shouldn't have to be grinding turnbuckles!
What else - well that's about it. Thanks to forums like this I have avoided any other problems I think. Eg I have shimmed the diff etc.
Please let me know if this happened to anyone else, or if I've just missed something....!
Also a question, are the wheels ok in acetone? I heard that acetone is too strong for them for tire removal. If so, is boiling them ok or is there a better way?
PS the above setup is way fast - ok it's not an 8000Kv system, but I'm racing off-road. Using the smallest (12 tooth) supplied pinion is more than adequate for the dirt, and I'm loving it!
dam dude....sorry to hear that...usually AE stuff is good..
did u get the quark esc locallly? if so wer at and how much?.....i been looking in all of sydney for 1 and cant find any...not even the tekin...only 1 place had the tekin and it was a 500 buck setup which i was fine with a 180 buck setup....
wer abouts do u race in sydney?.....if i get my xs3 radio next week i may consider racing....
wer bouts in sydney r u?.....do u bash ur little truck at all?
The car is set up for road only this car is never seeing the dirt 
first run will be today will get back to you on how it goes. Please leave your comments 
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