Thanks man. It came to a point where it was getting to be tedious trying to be successful at both and I had to divert most of my RC budget to drag racing so it was a no-brainer for me where I get most returns from the two. I am glad that my time and effort are helping you in the race for 100mph.

I've assembled the trans with 34 x 25...looks big

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Looks about the right size :lol: Make sure the gear mesh isn't too tight or you will overheat that motor pretty quickly.

Noted Sunny, it's a relaxed fit!

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After the recent mods, I'll be running again today & will hopefully have a worthy video to post...fingers crossed

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Good luck bud! Would love to see some video!!

PBO, here's hoping for some good results!

Bye bye sliders....... :cry: Good luck!

I was wondering what you meant by 'sliders'...they went bye bye!!

The right side failed under braking from 70.0mph (60-65% throttle), when I lost brakes I ran past a transformer by the road which caused steering glitching (it was slowing very well under steering alone!) followed by a low speed crash into a gutter. The damage report: 2 x new sets of sliders, a new front wing mount & a bit of heat gun work on the front wing

It does handle well though with no apparent gremlins. I'll be running again next weekend, this time away from the transformer but without a Jato drive upgrade (they may be strong enough??) so I'll be nursing toward 80 on stock...I hope!

80.2mph today before the plastic yoke failed. The new sliders recieved some cable ties to help their casue which just transfered the torque to the next weakest link...

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I'm aiming for 90 next week if the steel yokes & Jato drive arrive in time

:surprised:

Still running the stock plastic yokes? Man, they went on my Slash with the VXL on 3s geared 31/76. How have they held on for those runs with the Neu? :gasp:

Oh, and that Rustler is beautiful. Nothing like something that is built for purpose rather than pissing about.

Yep the stock slider/yoke set-up is good for 80 with my setup...just

Closer inspection of the 'unbroken' side shows doom wasn't too far away! Obviously they don't carry any twist normally

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It says a lot for Traxxas quality that's for sure, both yokes (15 months & plenty of hard running) are original & have never shown signs of weakness previously!

80.2mph, thats great man. Keep up the good work.

I just recently got my Rustler running on 4S lipo and a 36-60-2000 medusa and haven't ran for more than 10min in a row without a trans failure. First it was the planetaries, then the plastic diff, now the VXL-steel ringed diff ate the aluminum idler gear. I'm going to buy a FLM trans case to see if that helps at all.

Are you running a steel idler or aluminum? What Zippy lipos are those that you have in the pic above?

-Brian

he is prob. running the vxl trans. which has all steel gears. 80mph on stock sliders is doing good. keep it up.
phil

80 mph on the stock sliders is very impressive. I tore up a stock one with the VXL and 3s, and have gone to MIP CVDs. Seems real smooth and straight but it ate the planetaries today at the track. Most annoying.

I decided not to do the big power mm/medusa thing because I wanted to keep it reliable and not have it break parts. No point if it's going to do it even with the VXL.