New hi-speed project

[BrianG]

Not much, but a little progress. Was away on vaca in SoCal and the previous week was pretty busy...

Anyway, got Mike's mount in the mail. Fits like a glove, but does require you to mod the stock spacer a little. All you have to do is trim the side edges. Really, only one really needs to be done, but I did both for consistency.



Also got the optional 44T 2nd gear along with Mike's 2 speed pinion adaptor and the 20T and 25T pinions. So, gearing will be 49/20 in first and 44/25 in second. Man those pinions are big! Was a little tough to get the mesh set perfect since the pinions are too large to fit the hex wrench in there to tighten down the motor screws. But I managed.

Also got the CC HV-110 ESC in as well. Castle said they would make a custom HV-110 for me so it was more like a HV-160, but we'll see how this one works first. If the ESC has issues, I'll spring for the added FET layer. The ESC will be mounted in the center for optimum wiring.

As you can see in the picture below, the side guards were removed. I plan to make new ones the correct width out of fiberglass. That should help undercar air turbulence as well as give me more room for the lipos, receiver, BEC, etc. Not sure yet if I want to mold the battery tray into those guards or keep it seperate, but the battery tray will be fiberglass as well. Glassdoctor was nice enough to give me a few samples of different fiber weaves to try out, so I'm pretty psyched. Just gotta get to Home Depot to pick up some lumber to make my tray molds and get my butt in gear...



I got a little anxious and temporarily hooked up an extra MM on 4s and ran it in the basement a little. All I'm gonna say is this thing will be fast! There was just a teeny bit of cogging, but I haven't updated the firmware on the MM yet, the wiring wasn't exactly optimal, and the gearing is kinda high.