Project: Savage X-17
 

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It was a fun weekend but Mondays sucks! I'm late for work!

What is this, a teaser pic?? Looks like some sort of direct drive judging by the motor position and the pieces on either side of the motor. You know we need more pictures!! :lol:

Might be a 1717 motor?

Your too good Metalman! Bingo Vort3x.

Here is a short video with some still shots mixed in.

It has a 1717 castle 1580kv motor(16t) MMM, AE center diff(52t), stock f/r diffs, Home made f/r drive shafts, both 4s or 6s configs inside the tvp's of a Savage X.

Savage X-17

That truck will last about 3mins !! :)

Very nice work Bruce! I want to see some better pics of the center diff install.

Ha ha I know Speedy, I'll upgrade whatever when in blows out.

Thanks JT!
I've only been a Savy owner for a month. I got a lot of ideas off of RCM. I made this center diff set-up modular for future arrangements. You can release the cross walls from the tvps and slide them up and down in a track. Add different cross walls and spacers for different track(s) width for different center diffs, slipper or an outrunner maybe.

I re-used the old nitro motor and old bent tvp plate for skids / doors.

Thanks for looking.

I would like to thank the wife and kids for giving me the time to work on this build.

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I like it! Gets rid of the "gearbox".

Nice design, well done.

I really like the idea of ditching the legacy 'nitro' gearbox. The Flux really is built out parts that were originally designed for nitro Savages. A redesign for electric would be nice for the next iteration of the Savage\Flux and it would be great if something like this was part of it.

The batteries seem to ride a bit high, although in the first pic of them in the vid they are oriented differently and seem lower. 4s vs 6s? Probably not a great deal you do about it? At least with the standard length chassis.

What weight diff fluid are you running or is it locked?

How did you make the f/r drive shafts?

Dv yeah I had (2)2s hard case lipos on their sides then (2)3s stacked. The lipo placement was a way around buying the flux trays. Not for sure on the diff fluid it's ether 500k or 10k. Feel likes 500k? For my the drive shafts I wanted to use some cheep hacked up screw driver shafts (chrome looking) but they were to hardened for my cheesy drill bits. I found some ornamental steel unhardened roses around the shop and hacked off the stems then I drilled the cross pins, cut up the same size drill bits as used for the hole for the pins. Slide the pins in, hit shaft with hammer to capture the pin, then ca glued them also.

Turned out great :yes: I like your CD mount idea!

cool job on this.. that's using your head and hands

Some pics of a 1520 installed.

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Savage X-1717 Video

Tooth Decay!
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After two days I think snow and salt took it's toll on my pinion! The mesh was loose if anything.

is that an rc-monster pinion?

i have an rc-monster pinion and a RR pinion and they are both showing almost as much wear as your pinion......i thought rc-monster and RR made the best ones?

Thats not one of Mike's pinions is it? :oh:

It can't be ?? Thats a Novak or some elses gear .

I can't say for sure if it was a rcm pinion, but I can't fault it. I kind of neglected to dry and wd40 it after driving it in wet, salty and ice melt chems. Check out the set screw it was a small bolt hanging out too far. It rusted and broke off futher complicating the matter. Also I had a somewhat high motor rpm setup on 6s adding to the friction.

Took it out for spin today with the slipperential w/ mod.8 spur. Here are some on-board Ipod nano videos.

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Riding a wheelie with the slipperential(100k) was no problem for the 1717:bad:....http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/n...nt=wheelie.flv

Update pics with mod .8 slipperential installed.
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new driveshafts or just painted the old ones?

I just painted the old ones _dV, I also added some shrink tube to the ends of the drive shafts to take up play and to insulate for sound.

how does it feel to drive with the slipperential compared to the straight up diff you had before?

Did you run the 1520 yet? How does it compare to the 1717?

With the slipperential I can dial out the wheelies, and smooth out the power supply.

From the small amount of running I did with the 1520 in the Savage-X it was snappy feeling and seamed as capable to move my Savage around as the 1717.


Here is some long range action with the 6s Savage-X17 on Tera-Pins. I am standing next to the camera guy up in some stadium bleachers using a HK2.4 radio system.

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Nice range there. Couldn't really get a feel for the Savage from that distance tho.

can you make another set up kie that? How much you want for it? LMK if you can. Thanks

That thing hauls. I can see why you filmed from far away.

I dont think I could drive from that far away.
1) I couldnt see the dang thing, 2) I'd have haul my old butt down there every two minutes to flip it over, then I'd be dead......

that's a bad dude

Whats your current pinion, spur, motor kv(1580?) and batteries(same gearing for 4s\6s?)? How's motor\battery temps?

PM'ed

I was really taking it easing trying to be smooth and not flip it. I also kept imagining me running down the bleachers and across the field to my burning pile of savage.

The last time out it ran awesome with 15/65 6s 4000, 1717(1580) on big a$$ tires. The MMM's Fan seamed to keep up with heat pretty good. Start up was smooth and it was super quiet running a plastic spur.

Right now the Savage is down waiting for my maintenance and repair department to get to it. They(I) said it might be down for a week!

Thats seems like a fairly high gear reduction ratio for 6s? Brian G calc puts top speed only around 75 km\hr depending on tire size.

Not enough speed has not been a problem. I have really been liking these 6.0" Terra pins. I also run flux tires and badlands for even more low end power.