what was i thinking???

[tallyram]

i'm really confused right now. i want real power, but i want the truck to handle like stock also. a guy at my local track just bought a rtr like mine and he is selling both of his lightning trucks. everyone at the track raves about the truck if they get to drive it. is there a perfect setup? plenty of power for a motocross style large track and a reasonable weight that won't effect handling to much. please help.

[squeeforever]

A 1940 on 4S or 5S lipo would be pretty quick as well.

[SpEEdyBL]

A 6s setup will always be faster than a 4s or 5s setup, unless you are running a really slow motor on the 6s setup. If you wan't more speed, you need faster motor for 6s, or 7 or 8s lipo on the same or slower motor.

[squeeforever]

The thing is you can only use so much power on the track...The 1940 on 4 or 5S lipo will be a light POWERFUL setup like what he wants.

[tallyram]

you guys do know that this is the truggy and not the buggy, right? for my local small track i could use the 1940. if i pick a wind for 3s lipo will it run hot quicker? its around 90-95 degrees in florida right now.

[squeeforever]

I wouldn't run 3S lipo. It would require to hot of a motor. 4S minimum probably. I would proabably use 5S.

[tallyram]

that will be a lot of weight on one side of the truck though. our track only runs 5 min. races so i could use smaller lipos(2100 or 2500 mah), right?

[squeeforever]

Not if you run a 2S on one side and 3S on the other. I would run the 3S opposite the motor though.

[tallyram]

the servo, top plate, and elec. box are there. was going to mount esc to top plate along with ubec, put Rx and lvc in the box. motor and battery will have to go on other side with nothing there.

i'll get a pic with a link in a second.

[squeeforever]

I know what it looks like but its usually required that you remove the RX box and stuff.

[tallyram]

what about the plate that goes over the servo? that would free up a nice space.

[squeeforever]

It depends on if you want to leave the brake servo or use the motor brakes. If you do, I would leave the servos and put the motor behind them low on the chassis with the battery/batteries on the other side. It just depends on if you deside to use motor brakes.

[tallyram]

i already gutted the chassis all nitro related parts are gone, except for the freaking motor mount from hell, two screws wont come out. i'll be using the esc brakes. so i can get rid of that side plate, it wont hurt chassis rigidness?

thanks for helping me, squee. this will be a big project for me.

[squeeforever]

Nope. The chassis is 7075 I believe so it should be pretty strong. Just cup that throttle/steering servo plate so that only the steering servo is left. Are you gonna run 1 or 2 lipo packs?

[tallyram]

what do you mean cup the servo plate? "cut" the servo plate? i would like to run 1 pack.