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Old 05-01-2012, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by mazmo
Just weighed my EX.

1430 grams race ready (rubber tyres).
Well above our max race weight 1380 grams

I have all alloy options installed and yeah racing twin fan.
Using regular weight LTC-R protoform body.

Anyone else 'over weight'?
I'm at around 1380 with regular body, no heatsink and 40mm roche fan. Gens ace 5000 40c pack (295g), Speedpassion MMM 17.5 (163g), hobbywing 120a, low profile servo (45g), micro receiver (5g), transponder (5g)

Installed aluminium tie rods (-5g)
No other aluminium options. The aluminium pulley adds around 5g (might be 10 cant remember) so I would expect each aluminium hub to add about the same. So with all alluminium options potentially 25g heavier....
Food for thought.

I love the new battery retainers... Very handy.

My geardiff leaked when I initially built it... Within a day there was oil leaking from the outdrive. I pulled it all apart and lubed the o rings with some thick sticky HPI grease (Its green, it came with a HPI pro4) and that has stopped the leak.

Other then that, I had to take material away from the RHS servo mount to clear the belt.
The slop inboard on the front arms is annoying but easy fix.

Overall, pretty happy with the car. Small mods to be made over time (ie shimming the steering rack) but its nice and the new layout is much easier to work with. In particular I like the easy to remove spur adaptor.

Track time will tell though

Phill
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