losi 5ive-T conversion pics
 

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looks good...how about some full length pics if you can?

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Hey Brian, How u ben ?

i'm good. tanks :-)

we went for a test spin on the street but pinion loctite wasnt cured and ;well; you know lol.

How much does it weight with lipos ready to run? How much does the stock body alone weight? I suspect the body and roll cage are fairly heavy. Let us know.

I want a brushless 5ive so bad! I like your clean setup.

dont have exact weights yet but its lighter than the gas truck. maybe 5 pounds lighter with a 8s 5000 pack.

make sure you gather some data.. I would love to know what the max amps & watts you are pulling. Ripple would be interesting as well.

Best of luck. i will be waiting to see your results....

Good thanks...very, very busy though...and you?

truck looks great. Sure is a lot of room on that chassis which is nice as it gives you a lot of options to balance the truck

Anyone want to buy a 5b? I need a 5ive-T:yes:

Always wanted a 5th scale but not unless 4x4. Too bad they are not sold with out the motors, rollers only

i sold the motor and gas tank and throttle servo and linkage for 300 to a wholesale guy. ive been running up and down the street cycling these new batterys. you know its hard to tell how fast its going. its so stable and huge.

Looks great! Would love to see vids?

Mike

wwent to the track today but the BEC in the brand new mamba XL2 decided to not work. by the time i figured it out and hooked up a reciever pack it was not "RC time" anymore.

I think the battery tray should be wider, at least 96mm wide:yes:

yup its going to be.

That thing looks great! NIce and clean. Oh boy does it ever look like the 1.0 8T

In looking at the chassis layout more closely, one of the first upgrades I would make is a set of AL chassis braces. Wondering if the plastic ones will allow the chassis to flex to much. Also nice to see that Losi used LST size shocks as well. The suspension looks like it will be plush.

I would like one of these with a truggy or buggy body please!!

Nick

A truggy body would be nice for sure. Wonder how it would look with a wing on it...

+1
buggy for me

The battery tray compartment on Ben's 5ive is 80x180 - we already determined that we need to make it wider. It fits a pair of 4s packs standing up, but will fit them laying down on the update(not much cg difference, but wider tray opens more options).

Any chance a mount for Neu 22 series motors could be made?

awesome beast :D

flex on the losi chassis is a good thing for their 1/8's

flex=traction, it also absorbs impact :yipi:

ive been testing it at the local track and all i can say is WOW!. its geared about the same top speed as my gas truck and motor is running cold.
wish i could get someone to hold a camera !
every part of the track is easier with the brushless truck. and all the suspension changes i made to the gas truck to help it rotate are a non issue with the electric one. one blip of the throttle and it turns:-)

chassis flex? IDK yet. i broke a couple of rims landing hard but everything else is fine.

"In looking at the chassis layout more closely, one of the first upgrades I would make is a set of AL chassis braces. Wondering if the plastic ones will allow the chassis to flex to much. Also nice to see that Losi used LST size shocks as well. The suspension looks like it will be plush."

i think aluminum braces will change where the chassis flexes more than reduce the total flex.
LST size shocks ? me thinks they are MUCH larger than that lol

How are you going with the Deans connectors? Are they getting hot?

they didnt get hot BUT i was testing a NOS set of batterys that were sitting on mikes shelf for years. they never worked out. now i have 4s 8000 packs and they came with bullets on them so i switched over to all 6 MM bullets.
with the NOS packs i never drew more than 160 ish amps. also the spark from hooking them up was chewing the sith out of the deans fast.

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driving around on the street ,some drifting a lot of full throttle.
hobby king 4s 8000 packs with 6MM bullets took 3000 mah to charge back up.
current limit was set at 175

Ditto...
What motor is that on there?...

2028

Well thanks for the updates. You mentioned chassis flex as did I. With a chassis that long it will still flex but w/AL braces I am wondering if it will flex in the wrong places if you know what I am driving at.

You have the batts very forward, how did it handle? Would any benefit come from moving them back a bit? Just curious.

Maybe someday I will get one...just have to save for awhile as it is not cheap. Electronics alone are $ 600+

Hopefully Losi will offer it as a roller some day...maybe?

batterys are in same place as gas tank was and it was a large tank. 800cc?
it flys perfect and is very controlable in the air. just picture a 30 pound losi 8t 2.0.. seriouslly.
if the track ever drys out ill get a vid. snowed 3 inches last night which isnt helping.
the one time i had it on the track it seemed to crash more often. maybe cause i was going twice as fast? it never stops roosting the tires on a 200 foot straight. motor is running COLD! 17 pinion is almost too fast for the track but going by motor temp i can gear it up a lot. so now were talking 50 mph or more?

im not messing with the flex it seems fine as is. maybe a flat brace where the motor was? so chassis thinks the motor is still there lol.
nothing is breaking,bending.
aluminum braces will just move the flex to someware else.

battery tray has like 7 screws in it also.

Looks good I would motor to sit were the lipo are and then run saddle lipo, does look good

You could flip the current mount and center diff, then the motor would be where the gas tank used to be and the battery tray is now. Dont know if theres enough room for the 2028 up there though. A mirror image mount would be better and would be put the motor in the center. Saddle packs might have a bit better balance then. I still think this is the best layout I've seen, balanced and simple with a single battery tray. If it was mine I might cut the esc mount off the tray or just figure a way to move the esc towards the center a bit more.

There are two other kits out. Kershaw is selling someone else's kit that has the motor in the center (where gas engine was) with lipos where the gas tank was (like rc-m). That's alot of lipo weight on the left side and the motor is not helping balance it out being in the center of the chassis. Saddle packs would definitely help in this case.

Skopod has a kit with the motor where the gas engine used to be too (in center), and the esc mounted directly behind. Theirs uses saddle packs, but the trays are mounted really fad out on the chassis, I believe they're actually on the mudguards. Looks balanced, but the trays should be inboard more, too much polar movement (is that the right term?) being so far from center of chassis.

Looks like RC-M wins again!!:yes:

Yes would say that ,Rcm. the others are not value for money.

my battery tray was the first prototype remember. it fits the hobby king 4s 8000 packs perfect but other packs need to stand on end. hence prototype :-)

i have to say these packs are so perfect for this truck. traction is limiting what these packs can put out.
i didnt want to change the center dif oil cause i like its handling and it has good rotation but i think im going to go up to 10,000 (5 is stock) and see if it still handles the same and if that stops the pizza cutter ft tires some.
i upped the current limit to 200 from 175 .

Since saddle packs were brought up I was just discussing layouts. It may be a prototype, but it still has the others beat IMO. Tray size is a minor revision either way, especially for Mike.

darn I wish this firewall would let me see your picks!

Was curious how this had been working out for you. Glad to hear it is going well.

You have me toying with the idea of doing a conversion for the MCD I have. Considering how much MCD likes to charge for their parts, I bet RCM or someone else could do a conversion for less than half the cost.