Custom Carbon Fiber Brushless RC8T Pics

[Ryu James]

so this weekend i had it on the track finally. it did seem to run hotter than normal. after 20 minutes of hard driving my motor temp was 144*, esc was 135*. this is on an indoor track so ambient temp was roughly 70*. this is alittle warmer than i like to see so i may try the alum suggestion but i dont have any thick enough right now.

i have made some adjustments since the last pics. i got rid of the center diff shim so that the brake servo lines up without all the shims and also this really lowered my CG. i am able to run 13/46 gearing now for less rotational weight.

the thing drove amazing at the track. after a few suspension tweaks it was perfect and absolutely nobody was even keeping up. there was a lot of interest in it. hope this spurs others to build their own 1/8 conversion since it is in its infancy here.

anyway, i am pretty pleased with it right now and dont plan to make any changes to this current setup for a little while. i still want to build a carbon chassis that will work so i will be building a milled 3mm carbon chassis with kickup. i think this will provide the flex that is needed. i also now have the tekno chassis for the RC8T and it looks very nice so i plan to try that soon also, maybe with a complete separate build though.