Another Brushless REVO conversion

[GorillaMaxx360]

Hey man i was looking at the revo yesterday and i thought good truck but today beings i was so board i looked at each picture very closly for like a minute each and i realized how you mounted the motor. that is so cool and sick. Great job not only on the looks but one the machining and the design to allow you to use the stock motor mount(which is very strong because it has to hold the 3.3 power) using the existing motor mount gives extra stregnth to the motor mount your made nice job!!. i do not have a revo but if i did and i wanted to go electric and i wanted to use the stock revo trans i would want something like that (very clean, sharp, looks prrofessional). Man you should talk to monster mike and see about selling that motor mount because people would buy it NICE Again

[Shark413]

Ok, I took it for a spin today and man does it go. Very strong from a stand still (I forgot how much torque electric motors have, been running nitro's too long). Had to loosen up the slipper a little because I was worried the spur would lose some teeth. The disk brake works great, I had to loosen them up as well (way too strong). It was getting dark and I didn't have anyone around to hold the radar gun so I didn't get any speed readings (coming soon). I did get a chance to weight it on my super duper Oregon Scientific model BWR102 scale. Using generic 3000 mAh batteries the E-Revo weighted in at 10.3 lbs. Without the batteries it weighted 8.8 lbs. My almost bone stock Nitro Revo weighted 8.7 lbs. So not too bad.

[squeeforever]

Originally Posted by GorillaMaxx360

Hey man i was looking at the revo yesterday and i thought good truck but today beings i was so board i looked at each picture very closly for like a minute each and i realized how you mounted the motor. that is so cool and sick. Great job not only on the looks but one the machining and the design to allow you to use the stock motor mount(which is very strong because it has to hold the 3.3 power) using the existing motor mount gives extra stregnth to the motor mount your made nice job!!. i do not have a revo but if i did and i wanted to go electric and i wanted to use the stock revo trans i would want something like that (very clean, sharp, looks prrofessional). Man you should talk to monster mike and see about selling that motor mount because people would buy it NICE Again

You obviously weren't that bored since you didn't read this:

The motor mount came from a fellow rc monster poster, his URL is www.eaglesviewaerial.com/products.html and he does fantastic CNC machining in metal and carbon fiber.

[Shark413]

Ok some new pictures. I added a handmade antenna mount, the ESC looked way to vulneraleble so I put the rollbar back on. Since it is heavier I went one spring stiffer front and back.






Normal Pro-line Badland at rest


Hitting the throttle. Good test of your tire gluing skills.

[GorillaMaxx360]

Originally Posted by squeeforever

You obviously weren't that bored since you didn't read this:

when i said i was board(i meant the site did not have any new posts for a while so i decided to take a closer look at the revo pics(without reading all the replies-very stupid of me) i saw the motor mount and then had to comment AFTER i posted my comment i then read where he got it from and i kind of felt bad he already answered it ) SORRY:007:

[Shark413]

I was able to make a few runs today before it got too dark. Unfortunetly I only had some 3900 mHa 6 cell Ni-Mh packs and I wasn't even sure they were fully charged. Anyways I made some runs of about 100 feet and the best I could do was 36 mph. I am running a 40T spur and a 15T pinion. I made about 10 full speed runs and the motor and ESC were cool to the touch. Does that speed sound ok with the setup I used? The accelleration was very strong, and the truck was very quick it just seemed that the top speed was a little low.








Happy Holidays

[BrianG]

If both the motor and ESC were cool, I'd gear up to the 38T spur and see how that does. If everything is still cool, go to the 36T spur.