uhhh either way dan you make the best gears man :005: the funny thing rc4wd does not talk about their real world testing or anything like you did on your website you explained the whole process and all man that was cool man. I still wish you would make them man......again. :043:

I guess if I could I would, but it's just too expensive to start the process all over again from scratch with a new shop. I was very lucky the first time that I found a shop that would work with me and also enjoyed the challange. But even with them as things went on the costs went up and then I had to have a minimum order etc.
So with that said and not really having the time or money to do it again...
All I can say is I set out to make the best tranny gears for the emaxx that were ever made, and I did. UltraMaxxed gears will remain a part of Emaxx history.

Maybe you could talk to mike or the guys at fast lane machine. It is a choice to make but it could work out.

I was thinking the same thing. If money is the only issue, it can certainly be resolved with the right backing or "friend".

When you were first selling your gears, brushless wasn't nearly as popular or attainable as it is now, so your gears weren't necessary to the vast majority.

Nowadays, practically everybody runs brushless and your gears would sell significantly better than they ever did before.

+1 for starting them up again ....

i say start making them again and maybe mike or fastlane would help you

Hey Micro, I bought your very last set of the GenIII. I wish I never sold it. Boy was that a big mistake. Hopefully someday you would be able to hook us up again.

I sold mine becuase i didnt really that super high power tranny like most of your guys did I did run a dual HV maxx, but still not as powerful as some of you guy though, but after time I sold them since I didnt need it its like buying a lambo top dog, but your never gonna hit past 100mph whats the point of having same with ultramaxx gears best there is, but I had no use for it rather take the gains from it. If these gears work and wont blow up with dual HV maxx im fine.....

The Bottom Line.
 

The bottom line is that you no longer have Ultramaxx gears in production for us to use. That leaves all of the RC enthusiests stranded without anyone to turn to for help. Oh, except for the one company you are bashing for trying. They might not be the best for the job, but no one else is even putting forth an effort to assist us with this problem. Now I am just one of the guys out here trying to have a good time doing what we enjoy doing. creating an RC vehicle that will not only run strong hard and fast, but get through the day without having to stop and fix the tranny after every hard run. So if you truly do care about our struggle with this delema as a team player, then why don't you do something about it. Like help RC4WD out with the design issues that they are facing. If you have no plans on rebuilding your business again, then what difference can it possibly make to you if they succeed where you left off. They have the money and the resources to carry on, and fill the hole that was left when you closed your doors for whatever reason.

Sorry for responding so harshly, but I don't see what you are accomplishing by complaining about RC4WD's efforts if you are out of the business. We RC people come here for answers to our RC problems. What do you have to contribute in answering this problem of needing tough gears for the EMAXX?

Sincerely, Jerry2kone.

Absolutely
 

Well said, they may well be the best ever built, but if they are no longer available then why talk smack about someone who is trying to provide something.

I can tell you right now without running those gear's that they will wear very fast. Alum on alum gear's ~ no go. The idler's should either be steel or coated/ heat treated to withstand the wear. If you put alum on alum in a tranny and use a big brushless motor it will wear, fast. There is a reason why Ultramaxxed coated their idler's. if the rc4wd gear's are in fact wear-proof like the ultramaxxed i'll take my word's back.

No company is going to make expensive gear's for an out dated truck only a few brushless guy's would run. And with the slipperantial coming up, nobody will run a tranny in the future. Atleast that's how I see it.

i have to agree with Sneeck.....I have a full set of Ultramaxxed gears in my tranny, and probably will not part with them.....once the slipperential comes out....I will be going to that....& I'll just keep my old tranny for a future project...

I think the slipperential will provide us with more choices of gearing, lighter weight, single speed and one durable center diff.
Mike told me it would cost less than $200 for the whole thing.
I think he'll sell it with a HB differential.
Probably I'll ask him to replace it with a 8 Spyder diff.

Seemed to me that rc4wd just tried to make a quick buck on those gears when the ultramaxxes appeared to be discontinued., not bashing ANY product, but any engineer, who is showed those gears, can tell you what it's weak point is. The ultramaxx gears where made by a perfectionist, who knew his engineering. Don't want to start a flame about it, but i am just telling it straight to the point.

I thought you US guys invented the sentence; go big or go home?

And with the singlespeed conversion and the 2nd speed lock-dogg, you don't really need the aluminum gears.

And with the slipperential going to be out soon, the racers are covered too.

It's great the rc4wd gears are available to the large public, but they need to do a bit more to get them top-notch. (again, no flame intended, just telling the truth)

very well put serum...

I have had more failures from the input shaft pins than anything.
The ultra maxxed gears can't help you there either. The steel idlers
are a big strength in the trans. If you going to do some awesom weight
pulling like some of he testimonials I could see.