RC-Monster Mike's E-Truggy
 

Hello,

If you guys want to see some photo's of RC-Monter Mike's awesome Brushless 8ight-T check out the "Editor's Blogs" section of RC Car Action's web site. Monter Mike was a the opening day of Galli Mods Xtreme RC in New Milford with his sweet ride. I'll post a direct link to the article but it's a long URL so I don't know if it will work directly.

Try clicking here.

DM

here you go:
the man behind all of it.

thats one nice clean conversion there...great job Mike...and thanks for the link...jjumper

Very nice Mike! As usual, AWESOME!

Pretty nice indeed. Now for action shots. Can I test drive it? :D

He has got no reason to look so depressed! (^^,)

that 8ight 8t is great IMO..

Leroy, it's only running 4S, to you fun starts at 8s?

Wow, Mike looks no older than me, I expected him to be a wise old man, not a shrewd young dude.

he is 36 i believe.

It's because he is having his cap on Brewster style.. It keeps his head pretty..

He hasn't been sleeping well these days, I guess. No wonder he looks so down.

Hey cheer up, monster, cheer up!!!:005:

he was up till 2am that day.
i wouldnt look so nice either.

but the monster mike keeps going!!!;)

It was just an oddly timed picture...the RC-Monster was in great form...I was racing there too...it was an unusually long event, I got there at about 9:15am and finished my last race at about 7pm...

DM

So how'd the bruhless 8ight-T fair in the races?????

I think we should ask the MAN himself.

Cool! the 8t looks great there Mike...


Bye:018:

thats such a clean conversion he makes it look so easy great job mike

In the two qualifying rounds, Keith L (Mid Hudson Hobbies/Fine Design) was the clear winner. He was the ONLY person in any class to get 12 laps (in the 5 min qual round) and he did it with his E-Truggy (I think he may have been running a Losi 8T but I'm not sure.) I took 2nd place in both Qualifing rounds, with my E-CRT and Mike finished 3rd close behind me. The main didn't go so well for either of us. If memory serves, Mike had a pinion set screw come loose, he pulled off, fixed it and went back out to finish the main. I had a flakey deans come loose. The first time I was able to get it going again, when it happened a second time, I called it quits. Keith L checked out and won easily but were it not for our little troubles, Mike and I would have given him a run for it in the main. This was the first time my E-Truggy had been run at all since a major winter rebuild and I gather Mike just completed his too so I know I would much rather this have been a practice day to shake out the weak links rather than a race day. None the less, it was good and I think both Mike and I have very capable race trucks. It should be a great race year.

DM

Was this an all electric truggy race? Or were you guys runnin with the nitros?

We were in our own Electric class.

DM

If this is the same race Mike told me about, his grub screw on the pinion came loose. He was trying out a hardened steel pinion on the steel spur and found that you NEED lock-tite on the grub screw.

Yeah, i read it elsewhere on the forum.

He thought it had something to do with the steel/steel thing, vibrating more than plastic/steel

That Lipo is only 4s. It looks big, I thought it must be 5s. It looks like a MM ESC. What battery pack and motor is he running.

Cool truck.

I wouldn't say that rene. My favorite rc is 4s run.

he used a 9xl and a maxamps 5000mAh 4s i think.

Correct...

If he could keep the weight setup from the nitro in the electric conversion, thats one heck of a truck. I just run my Nitro 8T and there is no words to describe it

If anyone knows, what gearing was Mike running with that 4S/9XL combo? 4S/9XL is what I've been running on the track with my 8ight T, and it's a killer combo. My gearing is 16/44.

I believe he was running one of his hardened 16T pinions, if this is the same truck he was running when the grub screw in the pinion came loose...

yes, it was this very truck. loctite is your best friend from time to time. Unless some loc-tite happy dude that drowns them in loctite..

a drop is all you need on the rc car's tiny screws.


i'm wondering where the nice motor mount and battery tray are hiding, me and some other people have been waiting for quite some time now.

i know mike is busy but its taking very long.:002:

I emailed him last night. he said he was cutting them, along with some crt mounts. I know the wait has been long.

The price for perfection! LOL