Not been on here in a while, my Savage (like to the rest of my RCs) has been somewhat neglected over the past year and a have been busy moving house, etc etc. Anyway, I'm getting back into the 'game', and my Savvy has had a fairly big change. I know I never said I'd do it, but it's gone brushless!
It came about when I was bored one day and decided to have a little play and see what it would be like with brushless power, so I bodged the centre diff and electrics out of my Hyper into it......and I actually really enjoyed it!
So I decided to do it properly. Cue an Alza Racing centre diff mount:
Lovely bit of kit.
During building it back up:
Battery tray and electrics in. I wanted to keep the battery in board, I don't like battery trays hanging off the side, so I've mounted it up front. Helps with weight distribution too, it's a wheelie monster so any weight up front is welcome
Done.
Treated it to a new shell too, as the other one was a bit beat up. Also had a cutout for the nitro engine, which obviously wasn't needed any more.
Currently running silly low gearing of 52/11 due to it being a heavy truck and a 2200kv motor, but it's already huge fun, even at 4S. Going to run 5S soon, then plan to get hold of a 1717 and raise the gearing. Never thought I'd go brushless with this truck, but really enjoying the dark side