Transformation of E Maxx to 1/5 scale Rally Drift and Jump 4WD

[P47TBolt]

While I was waiting for my Fiegao 7XL motor and new steel Idler gear I spent some time on cleaning up the thrashed body. there was a lot of fix tape and black guey residue on the front, cracks, rubbed off paint , barrier paint scrubbed on and a few stickers I wanted removed not to mention the mucky black exhaust on the inside
So with some Goo off orange gel, simple green, rag and a razor knife I cleaned up most of the body. the front has a few holes and a lot of glue holding the other half on so I will remmend it , paint it and hide some of the holes with a Scale look grill mesh
So it's pretty clean now , guess I should have taken a before pic, oh well.

Body front after clean up

Motor and Idler just arrived today
Wow this motor is huge and heavy

Really need tires
anyone have ideas & link for 4" to 5" tires that would fit the old Emaxx 3.2 (3 1/8" rims) or any 1/8 buggy wheels :?:

Thanks

Try a set of 2.8 Losi speed T tires on the stock traxxas e/t maxx wheels.
maxx wheels are 3.3. A guy came in the local Hobbytown and put a set of
stock maxx wheels with the speed T street tires on his slayer.
looked like it had a set of 28 dub wheels on it with low profile tires.
tires can be stretched on but takes a little work.

 

[jeepcreep]

Does it stand on its own now?

 

[toy4crawlin]

Hey guys, sorry it's been a long time
but IT RUNS !

I found a cool set of tires on ebay (Sportwerks hot laps Auto cross) In my Effort to support my Local Hobby Shop I drove there to order them, I asked them to order them early December. The shop forgot the order did not get them till late January :roll: Again I found cool wheels on ebay and asked the shop to find me some . The hobby shop only carried bright yellow and white 1/8 scale wheels and could not find the black spoked. The Owner gave a Rude comment that I cant be pleased. :x Instead of him telling me that I should go to his other Shop 20 minutes away which has a HUGE variety of wheels and I should look there. Well I went and Found Exactly the wheels I have been wanting at his Other shop, what a jerk:roll: With that poor service I would have saved a lot of gas and time and a few bucks cheaper buying them on Ebay instead.

I dont have the money right now for big 6S Lipo batteries to run the huge Brushless 2100k motor so I dropped in the fastest brushed motor I had 10x1 and 7 cells nimh. The car only goes about 25mph. but was cool to see the big thing go.
It had heavy body roll without the sway bar so I added it back in and made a huge improvement.

It was very cool to drive and cant wait to drop in a Thunder power Extreme 22.1 volt Lipo 5000 . I have seen on youtube a Revo go 61mph with on board GPS. So getting this beast to 50 shouldn't be a problem with a upgraded drivetrain.


The shock towers will be made and Drilled so that when going Offroad and jumping All I have to change is the 4 nuts for the upper shock placement.
Still needs some shock and spring tweaking .

HELP Please . Need help on PAINT I want to remove some of the Yellow around the grill area and continue the Red from the Flames to the lower valence.
Can a Paint pro or somebody tell me the safe way to remove the paint :?:

I'll shoot some video and post it
I thought I had Street pics, guess not
Thanks

 

[Duuuuuuuude]

I was wondering what happened to this...thought maybe you gave up.


Or it ran you over. :ror:


Good to see it up and running though!

 

[toy4crawlin]

I'm back

I dropped in my Mamba max and 12 cells !
I'd say it maybe goes 22 mph with locked 4wd


so Shopping for a ESC
Mamba monster = only 6s lipo , possible 50 mph with Two 3s lipo 5000
MGM = 10 S lipo max , speeds over 70 mph maybe 80+


Car Weight
7.5 lbs
with Motor no battery 9 lbs
Loaded with 12 Nimh cells 12 lbs


Work To Do:
Motor needs to be lowered onto chassis
Bigger Shocks
Neu motor, not sure which one, maybe 1515
Needs Front Differential or a Xray Trans diff

ESC options:
MMonster
or
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other high power ESC's 100-250 amp

 

[Duuuuuuuude]

Something you might want to consider, and an issue I had with my Revo to Slayer conversion, is transmission gearing.

Since the tire radius dropped considerably, I had tons of torque but not alot of top speed. I could either swap out the primary gears, or go with a whole new transmission.

Gears were $10, the whole trans was $35. I went with a trans.

Speed is now back to a respectable level, with enough torque to still allow it to launch on its bumper. "thumbsup"

 

[toy4crawlin]

Something you might want to consider, and an issue I had with my Revo to Slayer conversion, is transmission gearing.

Since the tire radius dropped considerably, I had tons of torque but not alot of top speed. I could either swap out the primary gears, or go with a whole new transmission.

Gears were $10, the whole trans was $35. I went with a trans.

Speed is now back to a respectable level, with enough torque to still allow it to launch on its bumper. "thumbsup"

Yea I need to re gear, it Peels all 4 on acceleration.
but with 5mm motor shaft I have limited gear options.

I am aiming for a Xray center diff tranny--> direct drive.

It's all about money and time and I lost my $70k job this will take a long time.

Plans are
6S to 10S lipo
Nue 1512 Brushless or similar
Tekin XC8 or MMM or MGM ESC
CF chassis
Xray or OFNA Drivetrain

 

[toy4crawlin]

Super Torque ! Wheel spin launches

I did some gear changing
21 pinion 58 Spur
3s 2250 30C lipo 28mph !

I'm, thinking of going 48 Spur :lol:
All 4 wheels spin and even at 10 mph it launches
All this on old rough Asphalt


Cant wait for 6S or 8S Lipo :shock:

 

[toy4crawlin]

Been busy on ebay selling off my RC stuff and anything I could find to fund this CAR

Ok some new parts arrived

Losi aftershock 1/8 Diff centers
Losi HD Diff housings

Losi 2.0 truggy 16mm shocks

FG wheels in the mail from United Kingdom
machine up some adapters

Ordering two Neuenergy 5s1p 3200 25c lipo's = 5s 160 amps 6400 mah $150.
Speeds expected in the 55+mph ! :shock:

Ordering Mamba Monster and CC 2200 motor


Emaxx diff bulks/suspension cage can be modified to fit the Losi 1/8 aftershock diff centers. Since the Emaxx t-maxx revo diffs are very weak.

Been getting on my info on RC-monster.com

pics not fitting, have to edit

 

[jeepcreep]

great to see you working on this project again."thumbsup"
have you tried fine design rc or kershaw designs for your pinions, from what ive seen they have a pretty good selection for 5mm."thumbsup"
be sure to get some vid when you have the time.

 

[theslowguy]

Where did you get those lipos from? Its always good to know where you can get a giant brick of tire ripping power for cheap.

 

[toy4crawlin]

UPDATES !

New shocks ! All new drivetrain !

Machined some delrin and aluminum blocks for the diffs to lock them up
machined some adaptor rings to use losi centers with emaxx bulk heads

cut/ modified traxxas stub axles to use as diff outputs for the losi diff to connect to revo shafts, last pic

LOSI 8ight, Diffs and LOSI 8 E Center 49/14
total ratio to start with 11:1

Original emaxx tranny ratio was 15:1 and with 3s lipo and cheapo Feigao8xl 2183kv motor the wheels peeled out . it was a blast to drive

 

[toy4crawlin]

NEw used FG 1/5 wheels
been a machining nightmare making bolt adaptors to get these on, so no luck yet.

made a new tranny/motor mount out of delrin, just need to square up/ drill and bolt it up

new Castle monster combo 2200motor
programmed my old faithful Airtronics radio (with the BRAKE BUTTON ! )

Working with my mamba max the brake was awesome, a castle tech help me program it but for some reason when I got my Monster I could not get it working on brake button so I called castle again and only got a ignorant guy telling me there system is not design for brake and the button is a " back button"
after trying to tell him numerous times it works on my max and him still not acknowledging it I gave up and just tweaked on it for a while my self and got it working

Been shopping for a 5s or 6s lipo and found a shortly used 6s Polyquest enerand cells 6000mah 25c for only $150. from Australia and so excited to get it I just found out the guy cant ship because of new mail restrictions, big fat bummer
Any body got a nice lipo for sale ?

Speeds will be in 50-65mph !

 

[toy4crawlin]

Where did you get those lipos from? Its always good to know where you can get a giant brick of tire ripping power for cheap.

the lipos were on a clearance sale but they went so fast that they only had one left
so I'm still looking for a 5s or 6s setup

where are all the good places to shop for Lipo's ( with Enerland cells) ?

 

[NeXt559]

yeah!!! finally an update!!!

this is the first time i have ever thought the mamba monster max and neu motor looked small :shock:

 

[toy4crawlin]

yeah!!! finally an update!!!

this is the first time i have ever thought the mamba monster max and neu motor looked small :shock:

LOL :ror:
Yea no kidding, hrd to see the motor is 3" long !

 

[toy4crawlin]

Goodbie Crap Green !
I picked up some high heat engine paint (500*) but the yellow was super light so I used regular Enamel that withstands 200 degrees

I masked off the fins so I wouldn't have the tedious task of taking the paint off but I ran out of tape half way. painted it then used razor blade to crap off the fins that were painted

came out really nice

 

[d-fly]

go to hobbycity.com and buy batterys from them. I would suggest a 5 or 6 cell 5000mah flightmax.

http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=8590

thats the 6 cell

http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=8589

thats the 5 cell. I have that and i am going to use it in my truggy conversion with a mmm 2200.

 

[toy4crawlin]

go to hobbycity.com and buy batterys from them. I would suggest a 5 or 6 cell 5000mah flightmax.

http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=8590

thats the 6 cell

http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=8589

thats the 5 cell. I have that and i am going to use it in my truggy conversion with a mmm 2200.

cool, I'm not sure about zippy, only $100. they claim 30c but I dont know for sure.
you get what you pay for .
Any idea what cells are used in those packs ?

I'll do some searching and see how people are liking them.

I'm looking for Enerland cells, Flight power, and I think Thunder power using them, best stuff and will last.

 

[d-fly]

I have the 5 cell version 30c and my freind has 4 of the 3 cell versions. He thinks they are the best lipos he has ever used. They also have a warranty on them. Also they sell a 1/5 and 1/8 esc. I dont know much about it but its only 150$. worth a try. The thunderpower and those brands will cost 350$ for the same 5000mah battery. It is worth trying this. you can get three for less. I liked mine atleast.