Savage X SS FLM Brushless Conversion

Well I'm taking the plunge and converting to brushless (giving up on nitro).

Heres what my baby looked like right after I built the SS Kit with nitro engine.




At the moment she's in many pieces awaiting the arrival of my FLM forward tranny kit

The mailman left a present in my mailbox on friday :)







I spent quite a while getting the wires to look nice


I used a hot glue gun to keep the wires attached to the bottom of the servo plate...the glue peels right off with a little force (sometimes it needs a little help from a hairdryer)


What are these parts for? I cant figure them out.


Am i supposed to use all three battery stops or is the third one extra? And are the big rings just larger versions of the small ones I put on the top battery holder?

[magman]

Great idea w the glue and the pvc frame. Looks nice! Welcome to the forums

nice. i cant wait tell i get mine.

[jhautz]

Originally Posted by dpb318

What are these parts for? I cant figure them out.

These are the mounts for a mini servo if you want to have the option for keeping a reversing tranny. If you dont run a reversing tranny then they are spare parts.

Not sure on the battery stops. I used velcro straps and a full plate battery stop for the front of the battery. The little posts just didnt look like they could take the beating to me. The entire kit is awesome as a whole though.

yeah this kit is very good, even with the few minor errors such as the servo plate brace and the tranny holes not lining up. those are very small problems that were easy to fix, this kit is well worth its money

i found it kind of fun not having directions, it was fun to just play with it and figure out how it all goes together (although i did have to cheat a few times and check this site)

for the battery im going to make a hard "shell" for it out of plexiglass since ill be bashing with lipo so that should help disperse the force of the small battery stops

Make a good battery stop to use closest to the spur instead of the delrin stop. Killjoyken made one for his using two of the tabs to screw on the bottom skid plate. The two tabs were replaced with one of the cross braces from the stock kit and already had holes drilled lining up with the skid plate. Ken made me the same battery stop after we talked about this. Eight inch velcro loops work well to keep the battery pinned against the outside rail.

http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11741

I got a shipment today...

RC Monster Heatsink and Feigao 9xl


MRC 989 and LBA 10 Balancer


The Motor


Now all I need is a battery and an ESC

Would a 20 tooth pinion and a 49 tooth spur be good for general bashing?

[MTBikerTim]

Looking good. My only issue with my kit that I do not know how to fix is the flexing steering servo plate. That plate needs to be a little stronger.

so it flexes when you apply steering? what servo are you using it must be uber powerful to flex that plate

[MTBikerTim]

yeah it's the 5595tg but the servo saver weakens it or brings it to the same level as most servos I would think. Where the plate bends is between where the steering servo hole starts and the first screw that holds the servo. It may not end up being a problem though.

wow i wouldnt have expected that, it probably doesnt make too much of a difference, you could always try reinforcing the plate with some of those braces that are used to hold the stock engine plate on. just cut them to the proper length and drill some holes in them, and bolt them to the edges of the servo plate, it may help reduce flexing

No instructions pissed me off it was very anoying, and the mounting for the servo plate made absolutley no sense. There's the little aluminum cross brace which screws to the chassis side plates using the larger 4mm screws then the two holes in the middle of the brace which line up with the two steering posts are threaded for 3mm which clearly can't work...they have to be drilled out to allow the 4mm screws to drop through and screw right into the steering posts in order to brace the thing and to mount the servo plate. Now that that's done how does the genuis who designed this thing propose to brace the other end of the plate to keep the thing from flexing up and down (which I'm guessing was what mtbikertim was refering to). And the battery hold down is not gonna cut it...I will have to use a velcro strap of some sort. Other than those issues the kit is kick ass and is a good deal for the price.

the kit comes with a velcro strap, as for the lack of protection for the battery i made a case out of plexiglass for it. the servo mount is a little weird, the plate should be thick enough as to not flex though. but i suppose anything is possible with a big enough servo. ill update with pics of my battery thingy later

[jhautz]

Originally Posted by dpb318

What are these parts for? I cant figure them out.

Its the mounts for a mini servo for activating the reverse module if you want to use it.