Originally Posted by
Cain
You may want to check when your motor comes in, but I don't recall if the pinion sits that low into the mount.
Cool project. As a tip, you may want to see about how your diffs are shimmed, with more power, you may want to shim them a bit tighter than what someone racing would do.
Also, may want the steel spur gear.
I checked it by just lining up the pinion to the spur and it does need to go into the mount. I've never used a steel spur in any of my other big power projects, the plastic ones have always worked fine for me. Thanks.
Originally Posted by
Overdriven
Not sure if you know this or not about the XO1 esc, but from the factory it is locked and you won't get full speed out of it. You need a Traxxas radio and the Traxxas app loaded on a device as part of the unlocking process. If you want to use another radio, after your done unlocking it with the Traxxasapp radio Castle Link Live must be disabled. All the ones I've seen in chop shops have not been unlocked at all.
The XO1 esc is just the latest (last) version of the MMM with a nicely mounted Cap Pack on it. Unless you have the necessary Traxxas radio and app already (or know someone) it seems like a hassle just to get the cap pack mount. It's well documented the MMM handles the 1717 just fine without it, including my In my LST XXL. Not discouraging running the XO1 esc, just making sure you don't find out the hard way.
Yes, I'm aware of that. I have the Traxxas TQi radio with the bluetooth wireless module and the Traxxas app on my iPhone, so I'm good to go there. I got the ESC for around $100 on sale from DollarHobbyz and it was cheaper than the regular one without caps.