Electrified XT8!
 

Hey gang,
as some of you know I had the pleasure of spending a couple weeks at the Monsters' Lair. Serum paid us some visits too, to work on some projects. And on the days around The Bash we had Jamie from FLM in da house. It was awesome. I converted my XT8 over there, with much help from Mike. Many many thanks to the Monster himself, for everything!

Unfortunately I snapped a diff pinion at The Bash, and the XT8 was out for the whole weekend. The pinion must have snapped because of extensive chassis flex landing the Barns' big jump. We took care of this later by machining an extra chassis brace.

Anyway, here are some pics of the truck as it is now
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../041007018.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../041007016.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../041007013.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../041007006.jpg
(here you can see the chassis brace we made)

Check out the double stacked Mamba Max!
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../041007009.jpg

The two RCs I took along to the US of A, fresh out of the box back home
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../041007003.jpg

Representing the Electric Revolution!
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../041007027.jpg

The nice mount, courtesy of RC-Monster Mike. Look for it in the RCM shop.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...Daf_XT8005.jpg
Note the mechanical brake feature. I did not use it on my conversion, but it's there, ready to mount everything up.

Some pictures of the truck fresh off the workbench, when it was still new and clean!
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...Daf_XT8030.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...Daf_XT8028.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...Daf_XT8026.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...Daf_XT8031.jpg

Thank you
Daf

Awesome - I can't wait to get mine done. Are the motor plates he is going to have for sale going to have the option of running the stock brakes. I hope so, I was going to email him and ask if it was possible to do, but now I see it is.

How is the extra chassis brace set up? Any pics of it?
Thanks

Yes, Mikes' mounts will all have the mechanical brake option before long.
The XT8 mount will hit the shop with the option, and all other mounts will change later on.

Chassis brace is just a plate, bolted to the chassis under the center diff, servo and another hole in the rear (where the stock electronics box was) You can see some contures in that other pic I pointed out.

Sorry - didn't see the little caption under that one. Do you know if that is going to be available in the shop too, or is it a special request item?

I'm sure Mike will cut you one if you ask him. (And ask him about the name of the file on his USB drive :eyes:)

thats nice!!!


what caps are those?
what is the advantage of dual mm boards?

Really nice. What size is that fan?

great looking conversion. I dont run mechanical brakes but that is a nice option to have if people choice to go that route. that battery tray looks great too. I will have to get one of those when ever mike starts listing them in the store front.

Daf your XRAY'S look real nice. Is that asmooth can NEU or a LEHNER with the sticker off ?.

Thats such an amazing truck!! Parts, body, etc... just awesome.

What Lehner motor is that BTW?

what connectors are on the battery?

That's a Lehner 1950 Hippie;

the mount will be listed in the shop pretty soon.

The connectors are deans.

It's a GREAT conversion for sure.

Thank you! As for your questions:

-Yes, look for the mount in Mikes store soon!

-Yes, the connectors are Deans indeed.

-It's a Lehner 1950/8.

-That's a 25mm fan, one of those vibro-proof ones. Keep using them for years, never had one break!

-I don't know about the caps, GriffinRU made the Mamba mod. Double stacked boards (in parallel) doubles the current rating (in theory).

Thank you
Daf

Your XT8 is very beautiful !!!
I love your battery mount !!!

Watch out for battery trays like this in Mikes' store. He will make them in all the most common sizes.

Daf

this truck is amazing, being 15 and bored i spiced up one of the pics on photoshop, i need to get one of those tbattery trays
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...Daf_XT8031.jpg

Daf,

Where did you buy the fan? Sorry for all the questions LOL.

No problem. I get them from a swiss mailorder place for electronic stuff.
I will find out the manufacturer and item number for you, I'm sure you can get them in the states too... maybe they are even made there? Stay tuned, I'll post the info here. Those fans are really good, and you can have them in 12V or 5V.

Daf

Thank you.

Nice looking XT8, looks clean.... BUT...

Nice looking stuff not looks like it practical specialy on OFFROAD CAR. ESC leads welding and PCB is naked no protection from SAND/MUD/Water! Same with RX that place where is it is extremely dirty

I beat my CARs so hard as I can, because they made for that! for me briliant clean looking not so important. So i think that you need to Merge practical and good lookings.
Yesterday i was been on track and and start raining a litle bit. I didnt abort my race and finished first but car is full of mud and wet sand.

BTW XRay is realy good Model car its realy tough. I got most amazing crash pize. With full speed i hit the metal bracket what holds track plastic pipes that came out after 1/6 race. My care flew stright to up about 8.2 feets with extremly fast rotating (Saltos) like propeller :) and landed on tires and continued to the end of race. Damage is: bent front left shock shaft, destoyed first bumper, left lower arm is with extremly deep scratch and front left upper arm turbuckle was bent also.

I have no intention of running it through a puddle.
And running it on watered tracks seems to be no problem, the mudguards and the body do a good job.

You beat yout trucks as hard as you can? I have bashers for that. Racing, I try to stay on the wheels.

But thank you for your input

Daf

Daf im the same way. If the track is wet my cars dont go on the track :lol:.

Daf, Glad to hear you got the problem that caused your pinion to snap figured out. It realy sucked that you couldnt race in the main at the bash. But, you did make up for it with the buggy at the battery blast the next day.:wink: I guess the first time you take a newly built conversion out to the track is when you find any weak spots. Its all part of building something thats not just off the shelf!

That is for sure a sweet ride, but based on the rest of your trucks they always turn out very clean neat and efficient.

I don't know if you guys questioning Dafs setup for being "to clean" are farmiliar with Daf, but his trucks are no shelf queens. They are made to race, and race well they do.:yes:

Thank you Jeff. You got it.

Very nice car!
I would like to ask that where do the dustboots come form?
Frome the car or Revo?
I am looking for dustboots for my truggy.

Here is where I got mine from. Dynamite make some too.

Lutach, I found the manufacturer of those fans. They are made by Micronel. If you find an US supplier, look for their 25mm line.


Gallagher, those are TSAIS boots. But the ones Mailman suggested look better and are less expensive.

Thanks again, especially JHautz! :great:

Daf

Thank you Daf. I will give them a call.

Anyone who doesn't like daf's clean rides should check out the cars that the factory pro drivers run at a big time race. They are super clean and tidy, almost like they have too much time on their hands, lol.

I like to make/keep mine that way but often just get it close and call it good. heck, most of my cars still have dirt on them from the last race. :cry: Sometimes I'm way too busy for this hobby. :grrrrrr:

These conversions are AWESOME. I love how at first glance it doesn't even look like all the "guts" are there. But then... yep... rx, yep...esc,.... everything's there.:yipi:

Ofcource conversion is beutiful and clean and to be honest I LIKE IT, I am amazed how solved wire mess. I have allways stupid wires everywhere :(
but when you race you need to be sure that your truck dont have weak points. He protects from dust his CVDs but not electronics. I can understand this on on-road car but definatly not on off-road.
Maybe I am too paranoid? :)
Meybe I pay more attention on that becouse I live in north, we dont have here perfect weather all year long, in winter wet and snowing, spring and fall lots of raining and in summer maybe only one month of perfect weather in other month every week rains bit more bit less.
Some pics once from our race day in winter :D
http://gallery.pistik.com/albums/tar...7/P1060367.jpg
http://gallery.pistik.com/albums/tar...7/P1060404.jpg

I wish to live somwhere in better place

Respond Earlier on my coment: Under car beating i mean that i drive hard as i can I am going to limit. Who not risk dont drink champagne ;)

WOW - I would be affraid to drive any electric car/truck in conditions like that. :surprised: Nitro I would have no problem, but electric - no way. :no:

Hardcore racers don't normally run their good cars in condtions like that (pics above) unelss it's a big time race and you have to.

I have never seen, in person... a race in mud puddles, etc like that. I have seen it in mags etc... like in the UK... and even the 1/10 IFMAR worlds that were just run in Japan. But those guys traveled halfway around the world and had one shot to race. When our track is a lake we cancel the race cause nobody wants to annihilate their cars like that and have to spent hours cleaning them. Seriously you should tear it down completely and spray out and lube bearings, etc.. the entire car... after a race like that.

That's what a basher vehicle is for.

But I do have a background in 1/10 electric, and we don't have everything sealed up/ waterproof etc. So it doesn't seem odd to have everything "naked".

You know what cars are good for running in snow/mud crap like that? Nitros LOL!!!!

In "normal" race conditions... our clean "unprotected" rides are perfectly fine. In your race condtions, I would fire up a nitro. :)

Edit: BTW, a buddy and I have a blast running his RTR 1/8 buggy at our track one day when it had huge puddles all over. We had to keep stopping every few laps to wring out the air filter, lol... It was completely soaked and covered in mud, and he took it to the car wash when we were done. We were laughing pretty good. But we would not do that with a good race car, even a nitro one.

Ofcourse its not for electric and here is nitro race but i just show sample what wheather conditions possible to drive. This is race day and like glassdoctor said we have to race. And when race started weather conditions been much better just to the end of race day its like on pic.
Anyway i told my point.

Whatever. I never had a problem. I'll make sure to report back when something happens.

Daf


posted from a fellow swissie:
http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8042

Daf . . . nice ride, one of the best I've ever seen. Great work bro!

Another nice one by Dafni.

I for one fell like my just looking at the pic's of Dafni's rigs makes them somehow....dirty.......:love:

Thank you guys!

Bro!! Your set-up and lay-outs are always the SWEETEST Rides!!

Hey any word on those battery trays? And when they do come out will they fit the Xray XB8EC or only the truggy? By the way you posted on my thread over on Xrays forums about pinions and I just ordered a 16t but I will have to continue with the plastic spur because all the hardened pinions from 14t-17t were out of stock so for now the plastic spur will remain until I can get a hardened pinion.