MrPeaski

BTW, the socket on the left, is so you can program it without having to 'plug everything in'. instead you connect a 6v receiver pack here (black wire left) and proceed as above

This is the programming sheet The grey items are defaults So looking at the table above, if you want to change the cut off voltage to 3.4V/ cell it would be menu item 1, then value 5, then ok

Heres how you do it Connect the car up as if you are going to run it and switch everything on. ( a partially charged LiPo will do) Disconnect the black/red/white wire coming from the ECS out of the receiver (Channel No 2) Connect this to the right hand socket on the programmer with the black wire on the left like this, and it will light up Use the menu button to pick the function, and the value button to change the option. Press OK to set the option. When you're done, turn the ESC off and disconnect the programmer Good to go

@daniel parkinson Haven't had much chance to 'bash' much this week with the crap weather so haven't fully explored the slipper setting. After fitting the spur I just tightened it fully then backed off about 2 1/2 full turns. It is something I'll look into though

Hi Everyone While waiting for my brushless Carnage to arrive I ordered some practical upgrades, stock spur and pinion swapped for 49/13t RW 32DP versions Aluminium front and rear suspension arm holders Aluminium steering Ackerman (drilled out to take the steel inserts from the stock plastic part) Front and rear sway bars Aluminium Wheel hex hubs (Absima version, little wider than stock plastic part and also needed to be drilled and tapped to take a grub screw) Rear dogbones swapped for front CVD's The car was delivered just about a week ago, so the parts have now been fitted. I've done a couple of mods as well Motor mount holes blanked off to help keep crap away from the spur gear (the black plastic bit) I might have a go at a 3d printed part in the future, but for now this will do Hole under the motor blanked off washers sandwiching the 'rear wing' and body to (hopefully) add durability and covered in carbon look vinyl I was surprised by the amount of slop in the stock servo saver arm, so today I made a 3d printed part to add a bearing and eliminate the spring and circlip. 3D printed part after a little clean-up Bearing inserted. The bearing is 11mm outer diameter, 5mm inner diameter and 4mm thick Remove the C clip and spring, cut off 5mm from the top of the original part as shown. Superglue the 2 original parts together, (watch the orientation)and then superglue the 3d printed part in place of the spring and C clip and when dry press the bearing in. I also glued washers on the underside of the top deck where it meets the servo saver posts to add durability You will need a servo mounted saver now, I used an Associated Prolite one with the 2 smallest 'springs' fitted The steering system is now much betterthan it was, it still has a bit of play, but this is coming from the multitude of ball joints. If any one wants to do this themselves, the thingiverse link is here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4515599 Thanks for reading

@GorillaZilla Thanks ,but apart from the shocks and sway bars I have nothing left of the ST so it would mean starting from scratch anyway

I have an Edge 500 (had it years) that I'll be trying this out on just as soon as my car arrives. It's set to 1 second recording so for what I want it should be good enough. Not looking into speed runs etc, just curious as to how quick it will go when messing about

Bearings, driveshaft, diffs..... The last time it actually run was wet and decided to be a PITA to start. When I finally got it going and driving and it ended up stalling in a puddle I hadn't seen. Obviously it flatly refused to re-start and I was so P***ed off with only 'playing' for a few minutes, I just hung it up as it was. So everything had basically seized and in my eyes not worth now messing with. In dismantling, I have kept the shocks and the sway bars, they might work with the Carnage in some way

Thanks for the welcomes @Gaz! The proposed conversion was supposed to be a lockdown project so it could be used now while I'm unable to travel far so doing bit by bit wasn't really what I had in mind. @GorillaZilla I had looked at your thread, very comprehensive and I'm sure would have helped. Unfortunately, when starting, there was a lot more damage and hence more parts than I'd realised, so took the easier option of going with a new setup. The ST has since been broken down and recycled.

Hi all, new user here, but not new to RC and just getting back into it. A little history.... My first foray into the RC world was with a Tamiya Blackfoot around 1986, This i used to ‘bash’ at the local BMX track (Cocks Moors Wood in Birmingham) with a mate I worked with who had a Hotshot, Clodbuster and a couple of other bitsa cars cobbled together from old broken ones. After that, I had a Kyosho Optima Mid and did a bit of informal racing with a few others at the same BMX track. A change of jobs saw things fall by the wayside, I didn’t drive (IRL) then so relied on my mate (who moved oop North) for transport. After a minor failed dalliance with aeroplanes and helicopters, I returned to RC some years later with some new mountain biking buddies. This time I went Nitro for the cars and over the course of a few years bought, ‘bashed’ and sold on….. Traxxas T-Maxx, HPI Nitro RS4 3 with Honda Intergra body, pretty quick but very limited places I could run it HPI Nitro MT with Ford F350 body HPI Savage 4.6 with 3 different bodyshells during the course of running Finally HoBao Hyper ST The last 2 were semi raced on a patch of waste ground local to me with a few biking buddies. This was until after a period where we couldn’t meet up, we returned to our race spot, only to be told that the land had been sold and developers were moving in. so we had to leave We tried another spot, but it wasn’t the same and eventually the interest fizzled out. That was probably about 12 years ago, the Savage and Hyper ST were just ‘put away’. I’ve now moved to Bridgend (3 years), where the Savage and Hyper ST were hung up in the garage with a brief attempt to get them running, but that didn’t go well so they were hung back up again. This brings us to the present (with the lockdown situation), nitro fuel has gotten expensive! especially if you want it delivered. The Savage is still hanging up borked engine!, but after watching some YouTube videos the Hyper ST was looking to be a conversion project from the nitro engine to brushless on LiPo’s, most of the electrical stuff seems readily available, but the motor mount is like hens teeth! So by the time I factored in all the new bits, with 2.4Ghz radio (the set in the Savage and ST was 40Mhz) it was proving to be expensive………So I now have on order an FTX Carnage Brushless setup ready to run for about the same. I've read a good chunk of the Vantage/Carnage owners thread, I'm aware that its towards the budget end of the scale, but it seems like a good reintroduction to RC Cars and have some (I think) upgrades ready to go straight on and on order for as soon as the car finally arrives. One of the newest things for me is the 2.4Ghz radio and No Crystals!!!, BITD 40Mhz was posh!, all my buddies were on 27Mhz. But the biggest change has to be the LiPo batteries, done a fair bit of reading (there's a lot of scary stuff out there) and I think I've got a handle on it, but as yet not charged a battery beyond a test storage charge. Wow that ended up longer than I expected for a first post!....ooops