Originally Posted by
slakr
What were all the parts you used?
And what motor/battery combo you running?
Not sure I understand how you accomplished this without the wheel hexes, EB48 spindles, spindle carriers, bearings... possibly drive shafts and camber/sterring links
Heres a link to sct410 hub extenders that turn an sct410 into a buggy
http://www.teknorc.com/shop/tkr5570-...gy-width-2pcs/
at the bottom of the page tekno provides a list of parts to complete the conversion - wing, bumper, body mounts, and hardware. All together its less than $100 to do the conversion.
To lighten the buggy further i used the optional tekno aluminum hardware kit, ceramic bearings and tekno lightweight diff outdrives and drive shaft. Oh and all of the tekno lightweight suspension and roll bar balls - this took alot of weight off.
Motor is the new pro4 hd 1850 and the battery is a protek 3100mah 4s
Originally Posted by
Cain
wonder how much of a benefit you see with he current EB48 over an extended SCT410 to 1/8 buggy specs, assuming same parts like chassis, etc. Heck, if its not that much of a different, I could be interested in that then can fully share parts.
For a tight indoor track the benefit of a converted st410 over a EB48 is substantial. The stiffer black chassis helps the suspension work better and lowers the center of gravity. Also, for some reason the shorter suspension geometry of the sct410 arms is easier to drive. Barry Baker and most of the San Diego TEKNO guys race this indoors now. I think the draw back MIGHT be durability. I dont know yet how the thinner sct410 drivetrain will hold up to the 4s abuse and I think the extended hubs may put weird loads on the hub bearings so Ill keep an eye on them. The on track durability seems to NOT be affected though. The tekno pro drivers do NOT break more on track with the converted SCT410 converted which kind of surprised me.
I also want to test this side by side with my stock 7.6 lb eb48 on our local huge outdoor track. My guess is that the larger seemingly more durable eb48 will be better on our large blown out outdoor track, but I'm still curious. If the light buggy is better outdoors too I might sell me eb48. Then my short course and buggy will share parts like you mentioned. But I am
extremely happy so far with my EB48 performance outdoors and the tekno drivers still run the eb48 outdoors so I doubt that will happen.