Originally Posted by c0sie (Post 15850198)

Are any of you guys/girls over in the US racing the 14B/T on carpet?

Interested in hearing how your center diff gears are holding up on grippy carpet with jumps....

If AE actually bothered to come back to this project and designed a slipper based spur gear so that we had the option to swap out (as per the B74, etc) then this chassis would be top notch awesome...

Come on AE, you have such a fantastically designed platform here, but it needs a slipper.

Originally Posted by kireri (Post 15853438)

So when I installed the heatsink I went through the car and made sure it was all up to handle some driving. There were a few stripped screw receptacles/housings in some plastic parts and a couple in the chassis as well. The plastic just came right out w the screw.

Originally Posted by kireri (Post 15853628)

Hey Nitro Ace! Your fleet is looking good! It sounds like a bit of handful on 3S but in a good way! Thanks for posting the link. I had uploaded pics and a link but rctech doesn't let me. I have some pics that may be useful to some. How many posts do I need??
kirk

Originally Posted by Nitro Ace (Post 15855754)

I don't remember how many posts they want. I would guess about ten or twelve. I believe this requirement is to discourage persons who want to leave some quick advertising but don't care about using the forum for it's intended purpose.

I remember I might still have one of those heat sinks (you showed above) somewhere in a box. Years ago, I had a bunch of Esky brand RC helicopters (old and crude by today's standard). They came with cheap brushed motors that got really hot, so they mounted those exact same heat sinks from the factory. We had a lot of fun with those helis back around 2007 to about 2010. I modified a couple of them with small brushless motors and speed controls.

Originally Posted by Nitro Ace (Post 15829881)

Yo Drew, Sorry your heat sink didn't fit. Maybe the fan will work okay the way you positioned it. I hear you, the receiver has to be really micro on these cars. I wanted to use my spektrum transmitter, but the spektrum receiver is too BIG. I bought another Associated XP120 radio system for the 434, so now I have three sets of those. They're not the best but mine are doing the job just fine, no problems, my spectrum transmitters have throttle trim but none have throttle dual rate. I like the throttle dual rate dial on the XP120 transmitter. Having that feature is great when moving from outdoors to indoors.

With the small fans (30 x 30 x 10 mm), I noticed some of them are rated for 2S lipo (at least 8 volts), and others are rated for 3S (at least 12 volts). Sometimes a company will rate their products very conservatively to avoid liability, even when there's rarely a problem. So I guess we won't know until we burn one up. My volt meter measured 6 volts at the pins on the receiver with a 3S lipo connected. I ordered a hobbywing-traxxas-HPI fan (30 x30 x 10 mm), last night on Ebay. Nothing about voltage was mentioned, no specs given. It was a mere $6.97 total. I wanted 2 of them but it was the last one in stock. If it works good I'll get more of those, lots of vendors selling those same fans.

YES those tires on the cool GT3 wheels are new Reflex 14 stock tires. They still need to be glued to the wheels. The helicopter is an E-FLITE Blade 300x. It's in great shape...ready to fly, but has not been fired up since about 2016. It has about 75 flights on it after I crashed it badly and rebuilt it in 2015. I've never flown it inverted, but I can do it a little bit on my RC simulator.

Originally Posted by guido92 (Post 15858486)

do you haver a part number for those wheels?

Originally Posted by kireri (Post 15856549)

Hey, if you can find it, it's worth installing as I saw a significant drop in temperature w even just one installed. The motor def performs better at cooler temps. I had it out the other day w a fine glaze of ice and dusting of snow refroze to that. Perfect amount of traction with stock wheels and tires drifting and sliding around, and of course the motor stayed quite cool in the 32*F outdoor temps.

Merry Christmas all!