General Speed-Running

[MetalMan]

Originally Posted by Serum

It's one fast mt2!

Are you the person holding the transmitter sky-high!? LOL.. not good... It's glitching like crazy! i think it might went a bit faster, the GPS is kind of slow to get to the real speed. How hot does the 8L get? and how much does the entire car weight? i would say fair light, since the nitro version weights next to nothing.

Yeah, that's me holding it up high. And to think 6' 2" tall isn't tall enough :005:.
The 8L hasn't been running too hot, maybe 150 deg. F tops. The Mamba Max ESC seems like it will thermal before the motor hits 180 deg.
Not sure on the weight, or the weight compared to stock. Some time I will have to weigh my Revo as well.

Originally Posted by jhautz

Looks like it runs sweet on that setup. Except for the glitching. Thats some pretty impresive speed for on a 13.2V system. You might try putting a little weight on the front of that thing next time you go for speed runs. A couple of old AA baateries zip tied to the front bumper makes a huge differance in keeping the front end down.

You need a ladder for a drivers stand.:005: Dude, get youself a 2.4ghz tx/rx before doing any more upgrades. What good is a fast setup if you cant get the range to let it run.

At first I did have a 5cell receiver pack on the front deck, but I removed it since I'm running a low enough voltage to use the internal BEC.

Yeah, I do need a radio system that won't glitch. However, the antenna on the receiver I'm using did get shortened about 1/4" since it was repaired after it ripped.
I think I want to wait for the Airtonics MX-3FHSS, Airtronics' first attempt at 2.4ghz. It's supposed to be out in March. Tower shows it for $165 for the TX/RX, which is a pretty good deal. And then I can get it cheaper through the LHS I work at. I've also emailed Airtronics to see if they could just convert one of my two MX-3 transmitters to 2.4ghz. They are pretty local (~25mins away) so I could just bring it to them if they were to offer that service.

Originally Posted by BrianG

Too late I guess. Bandwidth limit has been reached! :(

You are in luck. I have a second page where it can be downloaded from (:)):
http://metalmanx.xoompages.com/mt2speed.zip