Upgrades for the Losi?

[HOLLYWOOD7]

As it stand this crawler is real good but let get some performance upgrades. How about a BTA or plate fore the battery on the axel .I would like to here other idea,s from crawler,s :-P

[Rocksmith Eng.]

Originally Posted by HOLLYWOOD7

As it stand this crawler is real good but let get some performance upgrades. How about a BTA or plate fore the battery on the axel .I would like to here other idea,s from crawler,s :-P

I believe RCbro and myself are workin on what your talking about.

So far he has come out with a servo plate

I have come out with Ti kingpins, turcite steer bushings
And I am working on a couple other lil goodies as I am sure RCbro is as well.

Stay tuned today as I workin in the shop all day to see what I can come up with. So bta it is

[HOLLYWOOD7]

Ti worms/ That would lower the rotating mass fore faster acceleration

[RcBro]

If you look at your Losi the BTA is much more complicated then that of the Axial. The rear link offered on the axial has room! With the mounting of the links and the shocks, there is no true straight portion to work with.. Thats not to say we won't figure something out, but we also wont release junk parts which means we got to have time for testing. I know there are alot of companies trying to be the first with some upgrades. I myself wont rush quality.

[HOLLYWOOD7]

CKRC already has got the cv,s taken care of that thing looks bomber!!

[lakedan5150]

How about an OTA steering setup, if you cant go thru then how about over?

[killswitch]

Id like to see a machined tranny center section/ motor clamp to keep everything from flexing under power.

[DBR]

Originally Posted by killswitch

Id like to see a machined tranny center section/ motor clamp to keep everything from flexing under power.

I can't get the damn motor out of the plastic housing, there better be enough play if the machined piece were metal. I can't tell you have many bruised knuckles I have trying to swap out motors

[Werty Made]

Bent links?

[rockslyder]

under gearing for the rear worm so the front over pulls

[bustedcrawler]

Originally Posted by HOLLYWOOD7

As it stand this crawler is real good but let get some performance upgrades. How about a BTA or plate fore the battery on the axel .I would like to here other idea,s from crawler,s :-P

Why wait for a battery plate? I already made one in less time than it took to type this, with $0 extra dough for it. Get creative, lots of uses with what you got laying around...

Originally Posted by HOLLYWOOD7

Ti worms/ That would lower the rotating mass fore faster acceleration

No, I would vote for something else. Ti while sweet is a bad choice for worms.

I'll have to dig up the materials on the last gearset I worked on, but when I inspected them they had still had a ton of life left after 40 years of use. 15HP motor, and 20,000 lbs on the winch drum. IIRC, and I will have to double check, the spool was a soft 10XX series carbon steel and the worm was a high strength bronze... I THINK. I have the prints on the desk at worm calling it out. Much like a Losi axle, those winch boxes were PACKED with a moly based lube.

[killswitch]

Originally Posted by DBR

I can't get the damn motor out of the plastic housing, there better be enough play if the machined piece were metal. I can't tell you have many bruised knuckles I have trying to swap out motors

Use a small dab of associated black grease in the motor cam's slot. Thats what I used to have to do to my losi xx-4 race buggys. You may want to check to make sure there's no molding flash on the tranny center section that would cause the motor mount to be overly tight.

[DBR]

Originally Posted by killswitch

Use a small dab of associated black grease in the motor cam's slot. Thats what I used to have to do to my losi xx-4 race buggys. You may want to check to make sure there's no molding flash on the tranny center section that would cause the motor mount to be overly tight.

I'll have to try that... the motor seems to turn fine in the mount, it just is a PTA to get out. Course I might just have to learn a new way since I have these fat monkey fingers to contend with...

[teinsports]

was wondering, how are the centre driveshafts holding up for you guys? Are they made of alu or plastics? I hope they are not as fragile as the AX10's.

[HOLLYWOOD7]

Don,t worry the driveshafts are not a problem!!

[P1choco]

Originally Posted by HOLLYWOOD7

As it stand this crawler is real good but let get some performance upgrades. How about a BTA or plate fore the battery on the axel .I would like to here other idea,s from crawler,s :-P

Wait till next week or so. DNA will be coming out with some cool stuff I'm sure.

[HOLLYWOOD7]

VROOM VROOM the race is on :-P