Good stuff. I am looking forward to seeing what specific "spec" class items you guys come up with and if it will be included in the box or as an "upgrade" package.

Matt
I'm in the process of ordering electronics for the car. I'm having hard time quantifying the amount 14 gauge wire I will need. Could you please post a picture to show the distance between the ESC area to the motor and the battery. Thanks

I see what you did there.

haha. i'd like to think Matt starting typing and was like..wait a second!

Other than the attempt at getting a peek of the new chassis, 14ga wire is good enough for a wheeler? Genuinely curious if people run that.

You won't need a lot of wire is all I can say.

About wire gauge, I pretty much stick to 12 gauge for everything. I can see using 14 on maybe a 2wd buggy where you're usually not running as fast of a motor and you want to save weight since the wires can be longer.

maybe you can answer this. how many screws does it take to take out a front and / or rear diff?

I kinda figured 14ga was no bueno. Confirmed: EB410 officially endorses 12ga for its chassis.

For a spec class, 13.5 honestly I think 14 could be fine. I know a guy who uses that no issues. Easy to solder.

Now past that though yeah 12 gauge is safer.

Yes!!! That makes me more hopeful that it's not the same layout that many are doing. Bet the 410 will have a very similar layout to its bigger brother.

Already know what equipment I'll be using. All that's left to add in my cart is a pinion gear and of course the kit. All electronics will be new.

to be fair on other vehicles you do have the option to put your ESC and motor in different locations, so you could potentially not need much wire (on my dex410v5 I ran the ESC behind the motor in a back position and the shorty is on the other side, not much wire needed there at all, same with the D413 as far as pics I have seen). So I am curious if this means a radical change from what others or doing, or, they just went with locations that others also offer but optimized around that.

Should be good times for sure though to see Tekno's spin on a 1/10 4wd buggy.

in addition to having several different motor/battery layout options, one of the really cool features that I liked with my ER-14 was the ability to use their slide lock to tune the center diff without having to re-adjust the mesh with the pinion... hopefully Tekno has adopted the best features of all brands into the ultimate wheeler

another feature that was similar but I liked was that on the DEX410v5, there motor cam has these "ticks" (little white lines) on it along with the motor mount, each tick would represent a position where you get optimal mesh. So you just line up the ticks on the mount and the ticks on the cam and have proper mesh. I really liked that feature.

Proper weight distribution is ideal. Not just shove the esc in the back while leaving the front empty, while there's a 50-60g servo on the other side. Been waiting for brands to do something about it, but the ones that have a different layout are belt driven.

The ER-14 is a shaft drive, it supports shorty or saddle, motor can be mounted front or rear and servo/ESC can be be mounted right or left as shown on page 25:
http://site.petitrc.com/setup/intech...R14_Manual.pdf


I think the only limiting factor with shaft drives are the ability to run a transverse shorty layout, the only one I've seen do this is the BZ-444 and it would do better with sub-shorties because some brands of shorties were too tall and would rub on the center shaft