Project: Savage Flux 5T

[Jahay]

i run 30k front and back... 50k in teh front will kill your steering and is way to thick.
You could run 30k front and 50k back if youwould like... Would give you some nice oversteer which i prefer with a longer truck...

The BP Diffs will hold up nicely, but i did manage to break a pinion but that was because i landed on throttle very hard... Otherwise you should have no problems

If i were you, you will soon find that the tranny will be the weak point for all the power... You will prob need to eventually look into a centre diff mod.

You should get the RSC Savage suspension conversion by HPI.... Increases steering and is very strong so no more probs with your hub carriers.

I love those baja wheels and tyres!!! They look great! But i hate the beadlock design... Im hoping some baja rims will come out without them...

[thzero]

To upgrade to the BP diffs, all you need are part #102692; it is just swapping the ring and bevel gears, all the internals are the same.

I've been running 20k/10k. Here's some info on what increasing/decreasing the thickness of oil will do:

Front

Thinner
• Increases steering into corners (off-power)
• If oil is too thin the steering may become inconsistent,
especially it can lose forward traction (and steering)
during acceleration out of corners

Thicker
• Increases stability into corners during braking
• Increases steering on-power at corner exit

Rear

Thinner
• Increases cornering traction
• Increases steering into corner

Thicker
• Decreases rear traction while cornering
• Reduces wheelspin

Most truggies run between 7k and 15k in front, and 1k and 10k in rear from what I've found (results may vary). I run 10k/30k/3k in my RC8Te, so I basically took roughly the same ratio and went up in thickness due to the weight of the vehicle, although I may reduce it to 15k/7k.

The tranny should be fine under 6S power; there are some benefits to going to a center diff, but it is also not a straight forward mod either [either you end up running really large spur and small pinion, or you need to do a gear reduction of some sort].

Jahay, I know about the Savage Suspension conversion kit; pricey and undoubtable decent, but try finding individual parts for it *if* something does break is nigh impossible (try it for yourself; go to amain, tower, stormer, horizon, etc. and see what you find... not the entire kit but just say a rear hub) so that makes it much less of a quality upgrade.