The Nerd's Hyper

Nice idea, I think I've got some cone washers floating around here somewhere.

Kieren

Rather small update, but I have designed the battery tray. It will be machined out of delrin sometime when I get around to it. Also sorry about the wireframe view, but my 6yo graphics card doesn't like shaded views so it will have to do till I get a new one.



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Did a little machining this afternoon. Just need to drill the holes to mount it. It turned out a little different to the CAD, but it will work fine.









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Installed





Now all I need is a ESC, batteries, tires/wheels and a new body...

Kieren

Turnigy trackstar and 10s worth of zippy packs ordered. If only they would actually come in 3 days like the shipping says

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Don't need tires any longer, ended up going with a set of suprasales badland copies. They didn't have them on spoked wheels like I wanted but they will do anyway. Now it's time to finally get this old girl going...

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Very minor update but my CC bullets came in. Still wanting on my HK and suprasales orders, hopefully soon.

Kieren

HK order turned up To quote the immortal words Darryl Kerrigan (The Castle) 'Time for some fun'. Most likely not many will get that but hey it fits.

Kieren

Wiring is getting a little closer to done







I haven't got any straps long enough for anything bigger than 3s, so I'll have to flog some straps off Bundy Racer. Now I just need to grease things up and hope the wheels come tomorrow.

Kieren

Wheels did not turn up, so it looks like i'm out of action for atleast another weekend

Kieren

I couldn't wait so out came the stock tires, or should I say 3 stock tires and one stock rim I was just running on 3s around the house, mainly to get the gear mesh right and fiddle around with radio settings. I ended up going with -20 expo just to smooth it out. With linear it was just a bit jolty starting off, but now it seems to be a good balance between take off and smoothness.



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Wheels arrived, test drive soon!

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I have a feeling it might want a bigger pinion/smaller spur. The ESC is ice cold but the motor is getting warm. The strange thing is I've been ready about 1:1 rollout being a bit of a sweet spot, and it's already around 1.2:1 with the 17t? I might just put a 16t in there and see if it gets hotter or cooler, easy way to find out.

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Well I just tried the 16t. It seemed (I have no way I've truly measuring this, I need to flog bundyracers laser thermometer sometime) to run cooler for the first part of the run and then when I started really hammering on it (harder than with the 17t) it didn't seem to get any hotter than before when I was being gentler on it with the bigger pinion? I really need a proper measurement here as I can only go yep feels cooler now sort of thing.

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Finally got some pictures. First two are from the maiden run, last is a more recent one with the 15t pinion.







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