5th scale conversion
 

http://www.riverhobby.com/1-5electric.asp

By river hobbies... never heard of them

http://www.riverhobby.com/images/1-5brushless/a1.JPG
http://www.riverhobby.com/images/1-5brushless/a2.JPG
http://www.riverhobby.com/images/1-5brushless/1-1.JPG
http://www.riverhobby.com/images/1-5brushless/1-2.JPG
http://www.riverhobby.com/images/1-5brushless/2-1.JPG
http://www.riverhobby.com/images/1-5brushless/2-2.JPG


Shown with a 580l feigao

Good concept there! But not digging the motor/esc/lipo selection and recommendations.

4s in a 1/5th scale? geez!

Yeah... 1450kv on 4s? That's 21460rpm... The motor mount looks like it would also have very limited motor selection, due to size restrictions.

The esc looks like a Speed Passion.

It's a hobbywing 150a.

i.e. one and the same

it would be nice if they sold the mount...

Depending on the gearing you may not want motor speed over 30k rpm, as the gas engines cannot turn much more than 15-17k rpm. So unless the gearing is way lower, high rpm motors will not work well. On the baja project, I had figured a 700kv motor on 10s lipo would work for stock speeds with a 12t pinion, 5 teeth less than the stock gas engine pinion... That was around 28k rpm...

HW makes speed passion, venom, and orion(not 100% sure on orion so don't quote me on that).


The mouth does look majorly restricting and is it just me or does that look like a plastic pinion? The plastic spur is nice as it'll keep the noise down a lot(I hate the sound of metal to metal meshing)

I doubt that 580L will hold up for very long, considering I killed one in a buggy that weighs at least 5lb less.

really? howd you do that? what buggy did you have it on?

IIRC it was a XTM XLB

This thread:
http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20807
Still need to make a thread for that buggy...

How do you adjust gear mesh with that motor mount?

It looks like there is a slipper. Looks nice :party:

A slipper doesn't adjust the mesh tho.

But if you look closely, in 1 pic it looks as if the motor has a small slot to adjust on.

I might be wrong but I think I see in between letters I and V in the 5th pic down some space to play with the mesh. One of those with the bottom that stays in the same spot but the top is used to mesh...I could be wrong though