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Hello everyone thanks for all the kind words on our products on this site.

Okay I have a E-Maxx I have all the goodies to make this work Novak 4.5 H.V. System Ballistic Batteries 8 spyder diffs, ti cvd's all around but need help on tranny 2 spd or single spd needs to be bullit proof. This will be a street truck anyone with any parts or leads would be great. My e-mail is in profile or post here. dacemfg@sbcglobal.net

Regards,

Dale Mowery

Hi Dale, welcome to the Forum!

As for bulletproof trannies, the only thing you'll need are the steel idlers from this site. Single speed or not is your choice. Even the two-speed tranny is hard to kill once you have the steel idlers.
Another trick is to reinforce the pins that hold the gears on the input shaft. I use a small nail or bodyclip.
These two things, and your tranny should be ready for some serious BL power.
And stay away from the Traxxas lightweight shafts.

Good Luck
Daf

you can get the 6061 aluminum gears from rc4wd.com... I know they're not 7075 like the UE ones.... but still better than stock...

Those rc4wd gears are gay..

stay away from 6061 aluminum gears.


The rc-monster idlers are running smoother than the UE's. with brushless you don't really need a 2speed, in fact, i dropped both the 2 speeds and converted them to singlespeed. I have got no experience with the novak, but if you keep your truck light the 1st speed is not absolutely needed. Unless you are planning on crawling.

What ballistic batteries have you got?

Welcome to the forum bytheway, and I love your 23mm adaptors and the maxx shocktowers.

Thanks I will order the Idlers and drop the 2 spd Patrick made me some packs as soon as I get them I will know what they are. Patrick knows what I like so they should be good. The truck is light the batterys way more then it does lol I made my own chassis what spur gear should I run I have the RRP SPUR 65T Metal and 66t plastic Serum thanks for the props we have a sunday night drag racing set-up need to run with the bigger trucks. I have two Kyosho mini's both are brushless 1 is Tekin the other is Castle both are 8kv motors and a lot of fun and nothing can beat them.


Regards,

Dale

Welcome to the forum dale. I agree with what has been said. Do you have
any pics of your maxx? It should be nice.

How heavy will your maxx be?

I'm currently working on a partial titanium maxx, it's turning out rather light (not the lightest around though)

My lightest truck (e-maxx) weights 6.6 lbs rtr. Too light imo.. with a bigger motor and 5S setup it was about 7lbs, and it was hard to keep the front wheels down.. once the winds starts taking controll..

The mini's are great.
I ordered a wraith 7K for my rc18t with a 3S pack, lets see how she goes..

I run the HV-6.5 and only need 2nd gear

Welcome to the forums Dale!

Okay guys got this H.V. MAXX 4.5 They say when you run these combos you need to use this set-up and in bold they say not to use stock e-maxx gearing.
I plan on running 2 6 cell packs 3800 what gears would you all recommend use the t-maxx spur and the steel idelers. They tranny is already single speed any help would be great.

2 6 cell packs

spur ------- Pinion
70-72 ------- 14

or

74-76 ------- 15

2 7 cell packs

70-72 ------- 12

or

74-76 ------- 13

That's right, according to the sheet which can be downloaded from the novak site, correct?

Serum can I use the t-maxx RRP 72 slipper buy the 32 pitch pinon from here and the ideler my biggest concern is the 31 tooth plastic gear in the tranny trying to find one in steel as I want it to be bullet proof. I have 2 sets of 3300match pack batteries and have some 4200's that Ballistic will make me a little afraid to run LIPO as with my mini inferno's I ran thunder power 3s pack and fried it what do you think.

I haven't seen any steel tranny gears yet, except for the idlers... but don't be afraid to go lipo.... the weight you save, will definately help protect your drivetrain.....

Don't worry about that 31 tooth gear. I have had a 2250 on mine with 26 cells
piled on a chassis. It sheared the peg off on the slipper pressure plate first.

Leroy, I had a reverse effect of that...when I use to have the plastic gears, it didn't hold up very well.. I've changed them about 3 times... but that could be from the way I'm driving.... I had dual 1940s with 24 cells back then... every since I had the UE 7075 gears.. it held up no problem..... but my truck was very heavy too back then...close to 18LBs.... with all the junk I had on there.... so maybe the plastic will hold up if less than 12Lbs..

I was talkign the bottom gear with the steel idlers. The plastic idlers will make the trans weak.

Welcome Dace!
You should have a bullet proof tranny just by putting in the steel idlers. Running a steel gear in the tranny against steel iders is a bad idea. If you really want the metal gears, try and find a set of Ultramaxx gear set. Too bad man, I just sold my ultramaxxed single speed conversion last week!

A steel input gear with the steel idlers is not necessarily a problem.

I'll be offering (I think in conjunction w/RC-M) new input shafts an slipper kits. To contend with the steel on steel contact I have DFL coated input gears and can also coat steel idlers (UE or RC-M). Any lube can be used but I've engineered a proprietary lube w/assistance from two major HP oil manufacturers. It rated beyond EP and has an extremely high "Cling" factor to prevent being thrown off at high rpm (typical on brushless apps).

Why are you going too have a system that can handle a bigmaxximum! Spder 8 diffs!

I don't understand your question.

huh?

seems to me like someone is overrating the bigmaxximum..

Hi Dale, welcome to the Forum!

If you want a really fast E-Maxx I recomend you a sensorless brushless setup:

- BK, Schulze or Quark 125 ESC

and

- Feigao, Neu, Lehner or Plettenberg motor.

skip the schulze.

I can give you 12 reasons why NOT to buy schulze.. (and the number of reasons is growing)

The guy has got a setup, why advice him another one?

I am using a 18.149 with a custom heatsink and fan and it runs pretty cool and is smoother than the Quark 125 (this is the ESC of my second E-Maxx).

I am sorry about my advice but I began with a HV-Maxx (it was the 6.5...) and after reading a lot of posts in this forum I finnally went to a sensorless brushless setup. I was surprised with the BIG difference, now I think sensored is for crawling.... But sorry again, I don't want to mess anybody. :010:



BTW, happy birthday Dale!

this are my reasons for not liking schulze.. None of them was replaced under warrantee..

It's not true that the schulze is smoother than the quarks. There is nothing smoother available (the MGM and mamba-maxx are smooth too)

the 9920 with the 7XL was smoother than my schulze bigmaxx combo for reasons i explained before. the schulze is a smooth controller, but it's not better in smoothyness than the quark, that's simple not true.

another VERY annoying thing about the schulzes is their reverse wait time.. Great... 2 seconds before they go into reverse.. and their service is crap/hilarious... I sent back a receiver to them, 1 channel didn't work.. the thing was 9 months old.. needed to pay 20 bucks for repair.. Warrantee? i don't think so..

That's my experience with schulze. Sorry for being so straight forward.

Like i said, schulze is a big nono. If you buy new, stay away from schulze that's my advice to anyone..

Sounds just like my experiance with Novak!

but atleast novak's customer service is acceptable.... ;)

If i had the novak. I would run it for now and get the bugs worked out the truck.
You can step up later. He has it so may as well use it. :D

Amen.

use it, like it and love the real brushless setups later.

Hey rene. Did you ever get around to testing a hv novak out?

No, i wanted to get one for the lightweight maxx, but i had quite a few setups laying around to power it up.

My first setup was the bigmaxx with the schulze.

I was always a sucker for the lightweight truck of harald-hans on 4S lipo with the hv-maxx.. But a lighter setup (such as a wanderer XL) can be more powerfull. That's what kept me from buying one.

I remember you was talking about trying one. Just didn't know if you did or not.
I think a l motor would do better in a light weight. I like the 1512 in mine. It does
really well.

You have light weight and light weight!

my truck is 6.6 lbs rtr with 4S and the XL.

Did you try a L can in it to see if it would work? Maybe be more efficent

Yeah, i put a 9L in it, which has the same KV rating. surprisingly it got pretty hot.

D*amn! Serum!

how the F*ck you get it that light... would you mind PM'ing me your parts list for the Lightweight maxx?... I can only get mine down to 8.3Lbs RTR with 3S 4400.. and LMT Basic...

I got one at 8lbs with 40 series mulchers two speed trans. I won't going for that light it just happend. OH 8000 mah 4s lipo to.

how man... I'm using all stock parts.. cvds.. 40 series velocity and bow ties... 18.61, LMT Basic motor....2 Speed tranny, stock diffs...

I am using some 3.3 stuff. I am not sure on the exact weight. I don't have a fine detail scale. Here have a look. Attachment 1961