I made a little chart for deciding on my motor, depending on tire sizes, see below. Anything over 1700kv will result in a minimum of over 50 mph no-load gearing with >150 mm diameter tires because of the minimum 14T pinion and max 44T spur. You won't be able to gear a 2200kv on 6S for under 60 mph unless you get small tires.

Thanks for the chart and info..Helps a lot. I could give a hoot about speed but understand the gearing. I'll stick to 4S and f need more get a lower kV motor.

Yeah, the speed itself is not important, but the no-load wheel-speed reflects gearing load nicely.

+ https://youtu.be/oQNwBCmgAzQ" title="View this video at YouTube in a new window or tab" target="_blank">YouTube Video

+ https://youtu.be/Bm6sAH-iFi8" title="View this video at YouTube in a new window or tab" target="_blank">YouTube Video

YOUTUBE tags aren't working... oh well

Ah yes. The film with your phone while driving vids
Good to see it's up and running. You liking the ET chassis better?

Other than the lone man Vertical filing that is awesome and thanks for the share. Looks great sppeed wise and wheelies on command by the looks of it. Nice work.

Mind if I ask where this is? See the golf course but looks familiar territory wise.

Excellent! Looks great!

Have you jumped it yet?

No jumps yet

Yea, driving and recording. Not an easy task.

It's at a park in San Diego.

And yes, I like the ET chassis. I would do another inch or two longer if I could

Sweet!

The body looks great too.

Mine arrived today. Going to crack the box open and see what's inside for me.

@ cmbscx10: Somehow I can't attach the spreadsheet to PM, so I'll post it here. Website does not allow for .xlsx attachements, so rename extension from .txt to .xlsx and have fun . Parameters on the left-hand-side is input, right-hand-side are the results (except for ERPM, which still needs pole pairs to be specified, never bothered to add that).

For anyone interested, feel free to use, modify and distribute; if there's any questions, let me know.

Making Progress.

I got home early last night and pretty much finished up the whole thing aside from maybe a couple hours of loctiting and setting up suspension. I think it's pretty interesting how some little things are completely different to my Mugen or other race kits I've own/driven before. All in a good way.

I did, however, have a couple issues with my kit with no fault to Tekno I'm sure. The manual doesn't really mention sanding plastic parts for the shocks. I was able to get 3 out of 4 smooth as silk. For the life of me, I couldn't get the first shock I built to free up as nicely. Also, I hate threading rod ends. I usually start by hand and after 10 of them on this kit in one night, my hands hurt like a *****. I'm very impressed with the quality of the kit. Like I said, I think the way you remove the plastic shock parts from the sheets may help with smoothing out the individual shock. Machining is all very tight so I might just need to tear down the first shock and make sure there's no plastic bump somewhere creating friction.

This will put an end to your rod end problems: https://www.amainhobbies.com/tekno-r...FYF-fgod0rIO5w...if you're referring to those on the turnbuckles, grease the threads, thread a little bit of the rod end with your hand, hold the turnbuckle with a turnbuckle wrench, finish threading the rod end with a wrench--it will save your hands.

I also found upgrading to Delrin shock cartridges well worth it--machined parts make it a lot smoother--but I guess not really necessary for an MT.

I was going to purchase one of these and put the truggy chassis on it but I won a brand new ET48.3 in a facebook sticker sale today! I need to decide if I should order the shorter towers and shock bodies so that I can fit the body post mounts on or try to rig up some kind of body mounts that will work with the Truggy towers? I
l already have an unpainted f650 body and src belted tires but I'll probably get some badlands since the SRCs don't work that great in the grass.

Edit: looks like the shock bodies have the same part number as the ET

Correct me if i'm wrong, but a potential "Conversion Kit" for ET48 --> MT410 would consist of:

1) MT410 shock towers
2) MT410 body posts/mounts
3) Body
4) Tires
5) Thicker oils

So if I own an ET48 already, I just need to get the mt towers and body posts (given that I dont want a shorter chassis) and im good to go?

FYI: FOR PEOPLE WHO DONT WANT THE SHORTER CHASSIS***