Chevy C10 X-Trail Rebuild

[xirtic]

This truck started life as my 2008 Comp Rig.....then last year I built it up as a Nissan Titan with a R2D trans and Goat Brushless System...some electronics boxes, and large comp shocks. Well, I thought that I should build it a little better...and a little lighter, as well as give it better balance. This was also a chance to try a little outrunner on a small ESC...I had read about doing this, but it seems to have lost popularity. The point of this build was originally to build a scaler for next to no $$$ using my shafty comp rig as a doner. That is still the case. The only extra that I bought for this change was the motor ($27). I had everything else just laying around. The original build cost me about $50 outside of the doner truck.....so in total this build has cost under $80 in extras.

Parts List:
- X-trail Chassis
- Axial Axles
- Castle Creations Mamba-25
- HobbyCity 5a 6v BEC
- FSD Brushless Outrunner 2835-8 1038KV ( http://www.milehighrc.com/brushless2835-8.html )
- Axial Transmission - 12 tooth pinion
- Delrin Skid
- BlueBird 200oz Metal Gear Servo
- 4 Link Front Plate/Servo Mount
- 4 Link Rear Plate
- Delrin (Xirtic Products) Lower Links
- Solid Aluminum Upper Links (Rocksmith Engineering)
- Titanium Upper and Lower Steering Links (Rocksmith Engineering)
- RC4wd Punisher Drive Shafts
- Aluminum Front Axle C's
- Aluminum Front Axle Hubs
- Aluminum Rear Straight Axle Adapter (RCP)
- Hardened Steel Axle Gears Front & Rear
- Cromoly Steel Lockers Front and Rear
- RC4WD Bruiser Shocks
- Axial Chrome Beadlocks
- Kreep Krawler Red Foams in Front
- Panther Memory Foams in Rear
- Losi Crawlers Front and Rear
- STRC 12mm Aluminum Clamp-on Hex
- Proline Chevy C10 Body
- HPI Body Mounts
- Spektrum AR6000 RX
- 1/4" Delrin Custom Chassis Braces

My first impressions after swapping out all the parts was that "DAMN...this little ESC is doing one heck of a job!!" The cogging is minimal, and I may be able to eliminate it with a little tweaking of the ESC. The Mamba-25 is getting a bit warm...just a bit....not even close to HOT. The motor is running so cool that I do not think that it knows that it is running. I may increase the pinion to 14T or 16T to gain some speed as on 3 cells it moves pretty well, but a tad more speed would be helpful. The torque is as I expected from an outrunner...there is just a TON of torque. I did upgrade the firmware on the Mamba-25 to the most current version (I think 1.24) and leveraged the 213% Crawler Brake setting. This thing does not roll at all when off throttle. I truly look forward to hitting some trails/rocks with this thing in the next few days. I do need to do a little post trimming and wire clean-up...but I like where it is at. Here are the PICS.

[rcdrew]

love the way it looks!!!!

[schiesz]

Did you need to use an adapter plate with that outrunner to mount it?