Pic's of Hyper 8 Conversion
 

Here are some pictures of a Hyper 8 that I helped my friend @ Quark do for a test car. We are going to test their 120 amp controller on it next weekend. I tried it in front of my house today and the controller was sweeeet! :027: I am really looking forward to see if the temp is cool enough to run 15+ mins.

Here is the setup
Hyper 8
Quark 120 amp ESC
Neu 1515 1Y Motor
Kyosho plastic spur gear(direct fit on ofna diff)
14:46 gearing
4s 6000mah Lipo's
RPM radio box
Modified Emaxx motor mount

Excellent! I have been waiting for someone to test the Quarks. The look nice, but there are no reviews or any cars (that I know of) that use them. Be sure to post a full review!


JB

I heard the Quark ESC's are awesome.

nice bl buggy.

Very nice buggy, so far every buggy ive seen has been a nice one!

and so far everybuggy i've seen was also brushless:)

all 1/8 brushless buggies are good because they are not nitro anymore :) :) anyway nice buggy

Tried it today and it worked great. Got 3 15min run times and the controller was smooth as silk. No bad habbits. We are going to test it next weekend and see how far we can push it.

Are you going to take it to the track next weekend?

What's the cost factor of this setup?
By the way nice clean look to the buggy!

Sunday

Thanks!

controller
http://www.sky-technology.net/home.htm
$275.95 you have to call for the price.

Motor
http://66.241.195.91/motors/neu1506....tors&path2=neu
$260.00

I seen a vid with a E-revo and a Quark and it looked good. Is the 1506 the one you running?

In the first post he said it's a 1515.

mmmm, HYPER 8....... mmmm brushless :004:

get some video if you can.

justin

Sorry got ahead of myself and didn't fully read the post:007:

How did you do at the track??
I am really curious how you kept the emaxx plate from flexing a little.

VERY nice job.

How do like those thru straps?? I am thinking of changing my mounts to the one like you have on your car.

Do you have better pictures??
Sorry to be a pain but I think I am going to copy you. One thing tho is do you really need the 125a controller?? Were you able to test the 80a controller?
I am thinking of selling my current controller (9920) and getting a quark 80a

Thanks for the info.
Dan

you will need the 125 Quark, the 80 will not cut it.

And dont forget that RC-Monster now stocks the Quarks and the NEU motors as well....

Yeah, go thru Mike! Also, i'm surprised the fan mount on the top kept it cool since the heat is on the side and back of the esc???

He had it mounted upside down.

cspurlock, do you have any close-up pics of the motor mount area?

I have the H8 as well and am trying to devise a strong motor mount for it. I'm basically cusrious about motor width and length clearances.

I'm still not sure if I want to stick with the stock 46T steel spur and get a hardened steel pinion, or go with a plastic/delrin spur and use a regular pinion. I read that the Kyosho 46T is a direct fit.

One of the things I noticed about the stock steel spur is that it is slightly out-of-round. It's not much but might cause issues I think. Also, the spur is threaded on the hub, or so I've read. I'm thinking the threadlock might break loose when braking or going in reverse. These issues are amking me lean toward using a Kyosho spur, if it will fit.

I idn't notice that it was upside down...oops! How hard was it to resolder the motor wires? i may need to add length in time if i switch motors, so just curious.

Go with the Kyosho spur. In the end it will be cheaper, since if you keep the steel spur and want to try different gearing you'll end up spending a fortune on hardened gears. I can confirm the Kyosho spur gear fits the Hyper 8 diff since that's the diff I picked up off of Ebay. But you might have to play around with the shims to get the spur to fit properly (with proper internal gear mesh).

Great. I might just do that then. I just don't relish the task of messing with the diff to get it shimmed right, plus it's messy. It would be nice to have some type of hub that bolted to the diff and then the spur would bolt to that - similar to how the 51T spur works. That way, replacing spurs would be quicker.

I read somewhere that JT Racing makes an adapter for Hyper 7 diffs that allows you to use the Ofna 51t spur gear. It would fit the Hyper 8 diff, so it seems like that's what you're looking for.

Yes! Though, wow, that'll be a big gear!

I'll do some searching when I get home tonight. I looked around at the Hyper8 section of the Ofna forum, but no one seems to be doing any kind of BL conversions there...