Hot Racing - Night Crawler Parts

[84yoda]

First, does anyone know where I can find the 2 metal trans gears? No one has them in stock anywhere.

Second, has anyone use the aluminum output housing (trans), aluminum motor plate, and aluminum counter gear mount? Is it necessary or just stay with plastic?

My trans mount is stripped so before I get another plastic one, wonder if I should just get the aluminum stuff? I also put my mmp and roc 412 3100kv on 3s in, so I want something that will hold up to this power (trans mount was stripped before brushless was installed).

Thanks.

[KBrog]

The motor mount and the main gear for sure. If you can still find anything for a Losi. Seems like only thing now days is a SCX10

[84yoda]

I can still get the aluminum trans, motor plate and counter gear mount but cant find the 2 metal gears which is most important thing too. Im goin to contact hot racing tomorrow and see what they say.

[MaFoDes]

Gonna watch this tread. Have been searching for the metal gears myself and couldn't find them.

[84yoda]

Good to know when I contact hot racing tomorrow that there is still interest in those gears.

[84yoda]

Well bad news, talked to someone at hot racing and last time they ordered those gears was 281 days ago and he said they wont order anymore unless there's 300 people who want them. So wont ever see those gears again. Shitty.

[crashtestheli]

what are you running for motor, trans, pinion, battery?

[84yoda]

Originally Posted by crashtestheli

what are you running for motor, trans, pinion, battery?

Roc412 3100kv right now, night crawler trans, 20t pinion, 3s 1350mah 30c. I've ran it once so far just to see how I liked it, took it pretty easy too. Im keeping it brushless so just planning ahead.

[84yoda]

I hate breaking stuff, so I overdue it so breaking rarely happens.

[crashtestheli]

Try 2 cell
Or 2000 kv motor
Or 14 tooth pinion.

Right now you are 33% too much for stock plastic gears

[MaFoDes]

Originally Posted by 84yoda

Well bad news, talked to someone at hot racing and last time they ordered those gears was 281 days ago and he said they wont order anymore unless there's 300 people who want them. So wont ever see those gears again. Shitty.

That sucks... Then i rather stay on the safe side with the 21,5T setup.
Thank for the info.

[84yoda]

Originally Posted by crashtestheli

Try 2 cell
Or 2000 kv motor
Or 14 tooth pinion.

Right now you are 33% too much for stock plastic gears

Honestly, if I change anything, I would only go up in kv or pinion. Guess I better keep plastic spares on me a lot.

Where is this 33% to much for stock plastic gears comin from?

[crashtestheli]

I kept upgrading the lnc until the plastic gears stripped.
3 cell, 2000kv and 23 tooth pinion was the break point for me.
I used a long run of rock work stairs as the testing ground.

Your results will vary as I was easy on the throttle.

Check the math threads

[Olle P]

Originally Posted by 84yoda

... they wont order anymore unless there's 300 people who want them. ...

Start a poll to see if there are 300 or more buyers!

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by 84yoda

Well bad news, talked to someone at hot racing and last time they ordered those gears was 281 days ago and he said they wont order anymore unless there's 300 people who want them. So wont ever see those gears again. Shitty.

How much for 300 sets?

[Hardline]

Originally Posted by crashtestheli

Try 2 cell
Or 2000 kv motor
Or 14 tooth pinion.

Right now you are 33% too much for stock plastic gears

You ought to just call that your opinion. We're all entitled to our opinions. I use a monster AxleBuster 20T on 4S and plastic gears. It's the fastest Losi I've seen. Yes I have to change out the plastic gears but I get about a dozen, maybe more comp days on a set and they're cheap. I have a pile of spares against the day they become unavailable. If I ever run out, I have a set of metal gears on the shelf.

[crashtestheli]

Originally Posted by Hardline

You ought to just call that your opinion. We're all entitled to our opinions. I use a monster AxleBreaker 20T on 4S and plastic gears. It's the fastest Losi I've seen. Yes I have to change out the plastic gears but I get about a dozen, maybe more comp days on a set and they're cheap. I have a pile of spares against the day they become unavailable. If I ever run out, I have a set of metal gears on the shelf.

can you please post your motor kv and pinion. and gearing if not stock. I like adding them to the math threads to help others.

I have only seen my losi - thus it would be the fastest Losi that I have seen

[Diamond D]

Originally Posted by Robbob

How much for 300 sets?

I know I would be in for a few sets of these.

[Hardline]

Originally Posted by crashtestheli

can you please post your motor kv and pinion. and gearing if not stock. I like adding them to the math threads to help others.

I have only seen my losi - thus it would be the fastest Losi that I have seen

I don't know how to translate brushed to kv. So all I can tell you is it's a massive 25 turn motor on 4S (not 20T like I said before). Pinion is up around 18 I believe and the gearing is the HD front and OE rear.

I've only had the plastic tranny gear fail once on me in several years of comps and that was my fault for not paying attention as it was wearing down. Now days my maintenance is a twice-yearly tear down to finger each bearing, inspect the motor innards and replace the plastic gears. A lot of the gears still look okay, so I keep them as secondary spares.

[JENS]

Originally Posted by Hardline

I don't know how to translate brushed to kv. So all I can tell you is it's a massive 25 turn motor on 4S (not 20T like I said before). Pinion is up around 18 I believe and the gearing is the HD front and OE rear.

Got this info from Eddie about AxleBuster kv :

25t is 1965 or so... 35t is around 1500, 30t is about 1760