Homemade Brushless Baja 5B style Buggy

[v8hatch]

Yeah i know it's crazy, i put very thick oil in the centre diff too.

i never geared it for any sort of speed i just went concervative to see how all the temps were and i haven't felt the need to change anything yet. it's got the muggy centre diff and a 15 tooth pinion.

No suspension tuning yet but i'm looking at getting some raven dual rate springs, not sure what oil yet. the buggy wieghs 6kg rtr but i'm thinking of fitting in one 6s lipo along with the other 2 3s lipo's and run it parallel with the 3s lipo's for longer run times this would bring the wieght up to around the 7kg mark.

Well since a stock LST is around 5kgs and uses 30wt oil, I'd suggest 40 or 45wt to start with.

[brian015]

Originally Posted by CarstenL

Well since a stock LST is around 5kgs and uses 30wt oil, I'd suggest 40 or 45wt to start with.

40wt oil in an LST shock is very thick. I was running 30-35wt oil in my 19lb buggy with the RC-Raven springs and it was plenty. More recently I've modded my pistons and will try out some weights, but you can read about that elsewhere.

[v8hatch]

Originally Posted by brian015

40wt oil in an LST shock is very thick. I was running 30-35wt oil in my 19lb buggy with the RC-Raven springs and it was plenty. More recently I've modded my pistons and will try out some weights, but you can read about that elsewhere.

WOW.....i checked out your build, very nice. yeah i'll start with 30 and see how it goes.

[lydiasdad]

Very nice build! Do you know its top speed the way its geared?