Sorry That 1/18th scale was a typo on my part. I am a 1/8 scale racer. EP buggy and truggy and nitro buggy. My diffs are 5-7-3 in all of them. And yes 10,000 Diff fluid is thick. I GUARANTEE his truck drives like it has a locker in the back.

I have personaly drivin a SC10 with 1000 diff fluid in it had it drove like complete crap.

But hey if he wants to be slow thats fine by me. Just more lap traffic for me...:sneaky:

And also know about being in hot areas. I was stationed in Yuma AZ for 4 years. Way hotter than you ever see in Huston

I have 30,000 in my slash and it's great, have TQed and won with it, always competitive. I ended up with 80 in the SC10 before I got a ball diff.

Now I have one diff with 3000 and one with 5000 ready to try again.

so you are saying with 1000 it was too locked? what did it do, not turn and spin out?

well you got run em for spec

i have a question about the stock esc. i just got an airtronics receiver and transmitter. the paperwork says the receiver can only take 4.8-6.0 volts from the esc. is this what the stock esc puts out? i read around the paperwork that came with the esc and it didnt list it

Tires
 

I need help on deciding which tires to use on the track I will be running modified class with 10.5 motor and 5000 mah lipo. My options are JC concepts goose bumps or proline bow tie. Right now the track condition is unknown I want something that will work on most track conditions.

Thanks in advance.

bowties

i just got a set of the new caliber tires....ill report back after the races wed night.

:D

come on out and play :spidey:

I know the AE guys here in CO are running 35 Wt Shock oil in there diffs. If you think about how the diff works and what will happen if the fluid is too think in there. It wont easily let one tire spin slower or faster than the other during a turn. In full sized trucks with lockers this actually makes tires bind and cherp on the road. With that thick of fluid in there thats ecentually what your doing in there. thicker fluid will cause the truck to push unless your drifting every corner.

If I were to drive to identical trucks. One with a stock blk greese diff and one with 10,000 wt diff oil on it. I bet the pink slip on my SC10 I would turn faster laps with the stock setup.

My question wasn't about 10,000 though. I let the 1/8th scale but bite with the 3000 and 5000. my truck was stock with Slash tires the last time I messed with the diff oils and it didn't matter what I did it was undrivable. now that i have it somewhat competitive and that it is the only varible I wanted to go back to it and try.

I just can't get with the black greese, they made it a sealed diff so you could put oil in it.

ckd on page 76 an both ways couldn't find anything, I seen that the arms needed drilled out, I guess where i'm confused is the losi hubs have 2 holes and the asc. only has one and the losi hub won't fit in the space unless u do a lot of grinding... is grinding off the losi hub to fit required ? thanks

i run a carpet track and i know guys who run 40k in theres and it barelocks up, 10k seems liek a ball diff almost when driving it.

I am one of the original few to start running Losi hubs.
There is no grinding of any kind and the only modification you need to do
is drill out the hinge pin hole, everything else is a direct fit.
If you need pics or p/n's LMK.

Erik

yes just drill out the arms and capture them.

AE says BEC voltage is 5.0V, so you should be fine. I haven't had a problem with the stock electronics yet. Ask me after I build some 7 cells though, LOL.

Whipnet, I can't see running 10K diff fluid in the rear either, esp. at Mike's. My car was pretty dialed with the black grease last time. Lap times in the 30 to 31 second range, and that was with stock gear on 6 cells and a loose brush shunt. Okay, that part was unintentional, they're soldered now. Hard for me to make on a Wednesday, have to be a weekend. We all have weekend stuff, that's why I haven't raced in 3 weeks LOL. I want to see how yours turns with 10K diff fluid. Everything I've heard from AE is that the team drivers keep going to the black grease with the gear diff. Put a MIP ball dif in mine a couple weeks ago, anxious to try it.

10k WOW!!!!! I had black grease went to 5k then 3k and 1k and finally
back to black grease.