Lightning basic electric setup???

here its 3:35 for unlined

and that boat IS NUTS!!!!

[supralover72]

3.35! THAT's Nuts!

Her it's 2.80-290 usually.

[nativepaul]

Thats even cheaper than I thought, I was under the impression you where up to $4/gallon, it must have been dirt cheap before, no wonder your love for V8s. My last cars engine was 998cc, very light car tho, bigest I've had was 1312cc.

Originally Posted by bdebde

8.95 a gallon!?! Time to convert the full size car to brushless!

You think I have a full size car! LOL not since I got into modeling.
I have had a car but I had no spending money so it had to go, I did think of a brushless conversion, and the motor and esc was affordableish, but I didn't fancy filling my car with deep cycle lead acids, for the crappy peformance and range, and I could probably buy a house in another country for the price of a Lipo pack big enough.
A MM, 14xl and 12 cells on a bicycle is more my budget.and would still leave me with money for models.

Sorry for sidetracking your thread here aod.
Back on topic, aod have you seen that Mike has finished the lightning stadium mounts and there on the website.
No more about petrol prices, just helpfull info about the lightning conversion for aod, I think he is particularly interested in a suitable battery.

[squeeforever]

Around here its around $2.25 I think.

[Sower]

Originally Posted by nativepaul

Things look good in Idaho with electric racing and a lake, got a flying field too? with your low petrol prices (I know they have gone up a lot recently but my local regular unleaded is £4.77 per gallon XE tells me that thats $8.95!) how much is it over there? Emigration looks good right now.

Idaho? Who's from Idaho here? I went back and checked and didn't see anyone. I'm from Boise. If anyone's from Idaho - let me know! :027:

[nativepaul]

Oops I meant Iowa, I saw IA and thought of Idaho, I blame Procharged and his joke of the day #7

[glassdoctor]

Originally Posted by aod8850

Looks like we'll have another electric buggy as well. I convinced Dave to convert his tripple seven to electric so we'll have boat load of big electrics this year.

Hey I'll have to talk to Dave about his 777... since I have one already converted.

Also let me know how it's going with the Aveox etc. See you at the track.. here's the flyer I made up.

[MetalMan]

Wow, racing/practicing is cheap there! At SoCal RC Raceway, it's $10/day to practice, and $15/class for racing.

[glassdoctor]

No doubt... we thought about bumping the prices up but we are hoping to build up the racing turnouts. The lower fees should help... I would think....

The practice has always been free here fo the outdoor track... but the track isn't prepped or anything for practice.

[BrianG]

Unless I die or suffer some personal catastrophe (and weather permitting), I'll be there on Wed night, May 2nd. I'm anxious to start racing. :)

[glassdoctor]

Hey... I forgot all about your Jato! I know you love the crt.5.... but we should work on the Jato for wed might. Put a race setup on it... and it would be a good track truck.

The problem is still the class though.... these are both "illegal" for novice... but personally I'll let you run with them if we can get them to run at "stock" speeds.

Another idea: :D put 1/10 truck tires on the crt.5 and run it in mod truck. :027: Dude... that would be awesome.....

[BrianG]

LOL. Sounds like a plan. I was actually looking for some 10th scale tires for the CRT today. I test-fitted the Jato tires (2.2" with Losi pins) on the CRT and they fit perfectly.

If you dial down my EPA to stock speeds, that'll be no fun. ;) Whatever man, I'll do whatever; you're the expert. :)

Sometime, I'll bring the whole stable and we can see what can be done...

Ok major bummer. The aveox motor is a 1209!!!! It's useless basicly. I have an 8xl in the mail and 2 polyquest 4000 4s packs to parrallel. My 1/10th truck and buggy are ready for electric night and I can't wait. Throw back a few shasta's and race under the lights!
Dustin, If you talk to Dave, hound him about converting his buggy. I haven't talked to him in a few weeks but he sounded gung ho about racing an electric.

Pual, I just bought an 07 civic:cool: and it get's 40+mpg. Gas here is 2.70. We grow corn, not potatos. ;)

[glassdoctor]

He hasn't seen mine run this year... :D that should help him get motivated, lol...

Brian... you only need to tame the Jato if you want to run in novice or stock class. You can keep it as fast as you like for mod. :)

My truggy is up and running!!! The setup goes as follows. 9xl, MM esc, poly rc 4s2p 4000's for 8000mAh on board. I used a motor mount from Mike with my own milled back motor support and installed twin digital "El Cheapo" tower hobbies servos for steering and made my own mounts and hardware for that. I used the simple yet effective boat technique for securing the batteries. Velcro on the bottom,in between the cells, and wrapped around the whole pack. They stay in place nicely and I can move them back and forth about 3 inches for track conditions. It's not pretty but it's for racing not car shows.

It's quite fast with the 9xl and the brakes are crazy! I had no idea how much better they work than discs. I'm running a 44 spur and a 14 pinion. It's too tall so I have a 46 spur and a 13 pinion on the way and it should put me right at where I need to be. I believe the truck to be slightly LIGHTER than when it was nitro. I removed alot of parts and replace a few things with woven graghite parts that I fabbed. What do you guys think?