Freeze's Savage Flux "Frostbyte II" build thread

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Unless the fan is on all the time I wouldn't worry to much about the esc, the fan is doing it's job, just make sure the fan comes on at start up everytime so you know it's working. Also because your tires are slightly bigger and heavier I would have to recomend dropping a tooth or two on the pinion, that will definately help the esc, and may help the motor a bit too. I think the brushless MTs all come over geared out of the box, gearing for over 40 on 4s is a lot!

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I did experience a hotter motor running those tires on my previous Flux build. They do weigh a lot more. They're around 320gm each, stock tires are about 250gm. So thats and extra 280gm of rotating mass all up or 28% more tire mass.

Unfortunately i didn't have a temp gun at the time so i can't quote temps. However i do know it wasn't so hot that i couldn't hold my finger on it and that was with 5mm chassis and LST shocks adding more weight.

So far, im not too impressed with the XL conversion all around from my few drives with the truck. I may end up going back to stock Flux size if my tweaks on the XL chassis don't improve it. I think actually prefferred and had more fun with the Flux when it was twitchy and unstable due to the insane amount of power on a standard MT chassis.

Well just got back having a BLAST with "Frostbyte II" without the XL conversion. I was amazed at the difference. With FB2 back in stock form, wheelies were now simply on demand as much as I wanted, so much so that I forgotten how easy it to flip it on its lid, the XL conversion definitely cuts down wheelies alot, under 4s power anyway. I now also had the ability to control my truck in the air alot quicker then with the XL conversion. I was now easily able to do backflips for all the kids in the park that were running from the birthday party and skate park to watch my truck in action. To bad I didn't have my camera to record my jumps, backflips and shit loads of crashes, but I was just too busy having fun with my truck at long last and watching little kids go "Whooooaaaaa!" as my truck did wheelies in the dirt, jumped around and did speed runs, not to mention my numerous crashes and bad landings which only resulted in breaking the front bumper support strut, thats it!

I also recieved my Duratrax temp gun this morning so I was checking the motor at random times. I never saw the temp go above 48c and the MMM fan was sometimes running, sometimes it wasn't. The XL conversion definitely puts more of a load on the motor on the stock 20/44 gearing.

That being said, i've got some major cleaning up to do as it rained last night so I got FB2 a wee bit dirty but I had a blast all the same. Now its just a matter of if I wanna jump up to 6s with the XL conversion kit or just leave it in stock chassis form and do a new body. Needless to say, alot more driving and having fun is needed!