I was thinking of going that route. Was looking at some pics of the truck on the AE website to get an idea how I could fit the battery in there. Another RCtech member suggested to switch the battery and ESC/RX location. With that type of set-up it will be way too heavy on the motor side with the battery there.

Will have to wait and see when I'm done building the truck when I get it.

Thank you again for your input. :D

I did this on my new yellow springs and it worked! No more rubbing on the shock body!

All you have to do is flip the layout. put the rec,esc under the belt drive and battery in the open area.

don't know of any tracks that will let you run 3s on a race day. I know roar and rcpro both have the 2s limit and most club racing does too.

anybody:deathstar

Will look into that layout definetly. Thanks.

Don't have any plans of racing (my racing skills suck :lol:). The truck will be a build project of mine with my daughter. The closest dirt it will see will be my backyard and our near by park. :cool:

I have been running 58/17 with a D3 550 6.5. Needs a little more for long staights but its money for the infield. Temps are good. Just beep a eye on them.

Made myself a new chassis brace to eliminate the bow affect that plagues the belt dive. I used 2 aluminum stand offs bolted to the chassis so the brace is still free to allow cross twisting of the chassis and not affect the handling. It just stops the dreaded lawn dart bowing affect.

sounds good ..thats exactley what im going to run ,,,,got one from a guy on here pretty cheap ...how is the torque on that motor? thanks for the reply

Nice .....:cool:

So I found out tonight that I have to check my slipper nut after every race. I run on a high bite clay track & was running a variation of cavs setup, 27.5 with yellow springs in the rear. We have a quad where most of us triple-single & in my 1st qualifier I noticed I couldn't clear them like I had been doing in practice. Then I checked my slipper & sure enough the nut had backed off to being flush. I normally run it tightened down 2 threads with a clutch basket. Moral of the story is check your car after every race instead of leaving it in your pit & jaw jacking with the buddies! I qualified 6th :( but finished 2nd :nod:.

Those are the red springs on Losi 8ight buggy shocks. They are a tad softer than the blue kit springs, which I need for my super bumpy local track.

I haven't temped it yet and won't be able to until next Sunday when I get to race again.

As he said, that makes the truck WAY too heavy in that side.

Having the two heaviest components on the same side=bad. The truck ends with a side weight of 150g/800g (assuming a 550 can and a 450g battery are used). You need to add ridiculous amounts of ballast to balance it out.

The 6.5 for me is a happy medium. Not overkill but just enough. Most the guys here use the 4.5 boosted so the just kill the tires. While I can just keep ripping and lay the power down even when the 8th scales polish the corners off.

Finally Finished- untested
 

Finally finished it- flotek body - clutch basket, sway bars. I really enjoyed the build-the most difficult part was containing my excitement and not rushing it. I finished it only to find that my track Atlanta Rc supercross closed up-