Medusa 60-2000 vs. 60-2200 for 1/8 Buggy

[lincpimp]

Either will work, which is currently in stock? I would personally go with the 2200 motor and gear down a bit...

Originally Posted by lincpimp

Either will work, which is currently in stock? I would personally go with the 2200 motor and gear down a bit...

It's going in a Caster EX-1, stock gearing is 44 spur, 13t pinion with 43/13 gearing ont he diff. Apparently Caster is so new that there can be some production variation with respect to where the front chassis brace is located, limiting how far down on the pinion one can go. There's one guy who was able to fit a fat Castle 2650 in there with a 12t pinion (barely) yet someone else could only fit a 15t. Yeah that's pretty sloppy on the tolerances I would say. I think the EX-1 is a fairly elegantly designed chassis being thought-out as electric almost from the ground-up but perhaps some cost savings on the production end shows in the end product. In any case since stock is 13t I would hope the worst case variation would still allow going down to an 11t, especially with a 36mm dia Medusa motor. Plus a 46 spur now comes on the Pro version of this buggy so that can allow for some options. 60-2200's are available...Impakt has them for sure, and out of stock pop-up doesn't show on RC-M.

[Matthew_Armeni]

I usually run 13/48 or 14/48 on my 8ight with the 60/2200 motor and have great results. So if you run 12/44 or 13/44 that'll put you very close to (what I think is) an ideal gear ratio.

Thanks for the input...I'm getting this buggy together primarily so I'll be able to run something other than just 1/10 truck at Barona. I have only been out there a few times since it is hard to justify the drive out there and an entire day spent just for a little practice and three 5 minute runs in 1/10 truck! Would like to give ARC a try as well.

[Matthew_Armeni]

Originally Posted by DARKWAV

Thanks for the input...I'm getting this buggy together primarily so I'll be able to run something other than just 1/10 truck at Barona. I have only been out there a few times since it is hard to justify the drive out there and an entire day spent just for a little practice and three 5 minute runs in 1/10 truck! Would like to give ARC a try as well.

You definitely need to come out to ARC. I didn't know you were in the San Diego area. All of us Tekno guys race at ARC all the time, you'll be in good brushless company :)