Losi E-8ight

Originally Posted by Cloak

Thanks Dez, good to see you here too (since you're the one that told me about this site.) :D

Thought it would be helpful, lots of great info and informed members.

I put in that thicker center diff fluid and it is doing much better. I also got in some of the Ofna diff lock and the 120,000 stuff as well to play with tuning it.

I also reprogrammed the esc and I noticed that I was getting some odd results. Turns out I had the radio set to reverse so I was getting 50% reverse throttle limit while going forward instead of backwards. It runs quite nicely now. :D

That being said, on the 15t pinion and I don't remember the spur, the motor got HOT. 200+F hot after I measured it 2 mins later. Burnt my fingers pretty good too.

The esc was about 120ish and the batteries were around 85F, I don't know ambient temp.

What should I be looking for here, bigger pinion or smaller?

Here is a thread that will address your temp/gearing question:http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2200 Feigao motors generally run pretty warm even with correct gearing; I highly recommend an RCmonster motor heatsink and some ventholes in the body around the motor area are a good idea as well.

Thank you. I was sure I read it before and just couldn't find it. I figured it would have been answered but no amount of "hot motor" turned up the results I wanted in the search. :) So either a 10XL motor and/or a bigger pinion are probably in order. I'll start with the pinion and go from there.

Here's some raw footage I took today.

And 2 and 3.