My new hopped up CRT .5

[Candyman2]

Just got my hands on this, going to use the vxl stuff on 3s.

Bought this for a fair price, its like new, jato's on the front 1/8's on the back. Mikes chassis, titanium turnbuckles and hinge pins and I think every alloy hop up that jammin make! must have cost a fourtune new.

[snellemin]

Very nice man. But I would put an equal impressive brushless setup in there.

[lincpimp]

A MMP sc setup on 3s would be real nice, save for the 1/8 motor shaft. A 1509 with 3000kv or so on 3s with a MM or MMpro would be my setup of choice.

[Candyman2]

hmmmmmmmm, and for 4s? just thinking ahead, MMP and ? what motor

[E-Revonut]

mmp sct combo! 1415 1y 2400kv

[nastety92]

MMPro with a 1509 Neu motor. I think that is the hot setup.

Mine will be running a MM Pro with a Figeao L motor eventually. Right now it has the VXL motor and ESC in it as well. I'm going to run mine on 2s and 3s.

Thats a nice looking rig, good luck with it.

Nick

[Candyman2]

Im going to try the vxl on 3s first, if its not enough i'll get a MMP and look for a motor, I dont want anything too expensive so probably wont use the Neu.

[Arct1k]

Must go home and check mine - looks almost the same... Although you are missing the RC-monster front top plate...

I'm sure Mike would sell you one... Personally I'd go for a 5mm shaft with this - I've snapped a 1/8th shaft on a CRT.5

[Candyman2]

Originally Posted by Arct1k

Must go home and check mine - looks almost the same... Although you are missing the RC-monster front top plate...

I'm sure Mike would sell you one... Personally I'd go for a 5mm shaft with this - I've snapped a 1/8th shaft on a CRT.5

ah, I think i'll leave the top plate as is.

Finally got the kyosho 46 on the diff, had to make a little collar to take the 8mm spur up to 10mm for the bearing, then had to trim the spur to get it in. Then had to enlarge the chassis cut out by 1mm so it doesnt catch.

[silentsnow31802]

Looks very nice!
Whats the benefit of running that spur?

[Candyman2]

im not a fan of metal on metal noise and wear. I run a plastic spur on my other cars, keeps everything quiet.

[el tomaso]

I have tried my new mini truggy setup just recently. Its a hyper mini STe, with modded MM, NEU 1509 2400kv, and 4s 3300mah 35C. I ran for over half an hour before the LVC kicked in, and temps were all under 100f. I am looking forward to trying bigger wheels and pinions

El Tomaso

[brainanator]

I've been working on a used crt.5 I picked up from ebay. Not going to be nearly as nice as yours...look at all that ofna Al hop ups!!! :O :O
looks really dang nice!

[Candyman2]

Well I did a couple of runs on the VXL with 3s and it was pretty good...... but not perfect, power was ok but not great. Everything was running quite hot as the vxl on 3s is already at the limit without using a heavy crt .5 (not that heavy but heavier than the rustler it came out of).

So......... so I bought a MMM and a 1512 2650kv weight is about 100g more but a much better combo, im going to try it with a 3S this afternoon for a direct comparrison then probably get hold of a 4S pack. Im going to make a new chassis as I think the motor needs moving back and out a bit to make room for rest of the electronics.

Oh yes and after fighting with diff gears, outdrives and prop shafts i've given up, im going to fit a PROPER regular sized 1/8th center diff with a plastic 46t kyosho spur and use beffy 1/8th prop shafts.

[Candyman2]

right here we go then



very nearly the same size!






just got back form running it on the 3S, very good it has the effortless sort of power I wanted, motor is strong and the whole system seems a lot less stressed, this confirmed by the 20 minute run time! The vxl on the same pack was giving about 9 minutes. Not sure about switching to 4s now, might leave this as is for a bit, gonna start working on the new chassis.