Redback

Sure wakes you up tho, a good bit of electricity keeps the doctor away.

It wasnt marked as trx 4 specific, i dont think the trx4 specific one is 30kg and 7.4v no biggie just ran a extender.

https://www.brca.org/club-page/PaddlesworthRc Kent, nr Hawkinge, CT18 8JR

Check bearings, could be in the portals, its the only thing besides the shift servos that has ever failed on mine. I'd be surprised if it was in the drive train, the gearsets a tank and unless you have removed the slipper it should save portal and diff gears, i also run mine on a high powered brushless setup and its driven by a child thus hes not kind to it. Its been a long time coming and ive wanted to upgrade it for ages just not been able to afford it, we just added 140g of brass to the front and upgraded the stock traxxas servo (its still working how? dont they all die right away?) to a 30kg hv powerhd to handle the extra weight, Good servo tons of torque on 7.4v if the front is bound down, it will move the back of the truck in some instances. But Power HD why is your servo lead 10mm to short for the trx4 but your shift servo cables are 2 times too long lol... The brass is nice fastrax version, fits like a glove, my old bearings didnt want to seat easily removing them will be a task! I only went with outer front portal covers as not got loads of money to shell out on the rig and to much weight affects peformance so going little bits at a time.

If your bashing probably better but the motor can take any S its the esc thats the limiter. Eg you can buy a hobbywing 4s combo comes with a 4300kv motor and the esc is 4s but the motor says limit is 2s. I put 4s into the motor and it came out fine, although i wasnt bashing it, it didnt explode.

I'll take both, batteries and servo please!

Shorty packs, marked red on the negative hole for some stupid reason makes me put the red wire into it. 11v backwards direct into the servo will do that. 😞 sigh

Will hold up well doing trailing but break quickly when jumping or doing any form of speed. My lad runs an outlaw and its been pretty solid, if you read back through the thread theres lots of good points and tips to improve it. Lower rear arms and the chassis are weak points as snap easy on light roll overs, metal those and the sway bar arms. Lads outlaw on the bench after the beach bash at ROSSA we broke some stuff. As usual it ate a front set of bearings, like 3 sets a year it seems. Also was a bit naughty and put 3s into it, knowing something would break the weak point was my drive shaft, no matter plenty of spares and was about end of its life from the looks of the cv joint. The gmade transmission is holding up amazing, looks like there is no wear on the main gear 3 years on 4600kv gotta hand it to this transmission its a tank!

How to ruin your day 101. Accidentally connected the battery backwards, smoke pored out of my HH shv 600 servo. Gutted doesn't even begin to explain how p0ed i am with myself. Good bye 120£ 🤐 Least the axe system has reverse polarity protection so wasnt also cooked. fml

Those cups look nice, ive noticed the center ones need replacing every few runs it seems. I also found we have twisted some drive shafts 25% atleast are there stronger ones? The stock diffs are super strong, just did 70mph with the savage at a recent speed run event on stock motor too. Seems the power is to much for the drive cups out the transmission as they are eaten, along with 6 shattered grub screws, shearing the pin on it seems common.

He did awesome for his first time at ROSSA and to go away with 2 hats is something else, well done to him! Was good to see you again mate and see your car run, shame about your typhon but least you was able to commit the limitless and smash those pbs! Was most impressed from the 69mph from the lads little savage xs.

ROSSA attempt 3 results. Couple of test passes got about 60mph on 3s. Didnt manage to test 6s or 4s as crashed it on the waiting line lol. Not sure how the shock tower got taken out, Shock bent the front driveshaft too. Going to upgrade the tower to carbon fiber. Side skirts shattered, proto types none the less, thinking carbon fiber next time do it properly. Front splitter vaporised, needs carbon fiber i think next time. Overall very light damage and cheap to repair got off lucky really. First ever trophy...thanks little car well done!

Yes it can, put a low kv sensored brushless system in it, and or do a transmission swap. You can check out my Outlaw Crawler thread for the info. Not ideal as it will just melt, the gearing for the truck is to high for crawling on any brushed motor, i used cordless drill motors and they still melted.

Cheers chaps, it had a good run and its in safe hands, had a mess about with it before the crash and it wasn't working 100% over geared but still did some 60mph passes on 3s, awaiting the results. Going to fix the issues, maybe pick up some carbon-fiber sheet to replace the 3d printed parts. Also no footage from the event as my phone has died... There has to be some changes kept as the sensored system that was used prior, is going in the savage xs if i can find the right gearing for it. She will run again perhaps in aug...

ROSSA attempt 3 for the Banzai! Was hoping for 125mp and got 0mph as it drove off by itself as i set the failsafe to 50% breaking.... but on the banzai its reverse rotation on the motor for some reason, thus 50% throttle right into the grass bank. RIP Bent drive shaft, smashed shock tower, 3d printed parts vaporized, smoke poring out of something, new tires shot to bits. Really gutted it didnt get to run, with so much effort put into prep, but thats how it works live and learn. Use the memory function in the remote to ensure your failsafe is failsafe for the car your running and not a safe FAIL.... Decided i wont run it again... i'll put the 108mph gearing back in and its now handed down to little redback to send it and get his first hat as he did outstanding at the event.

They are potted in so hard to fix, check were the wire comes out as its pretty tight around that area, maybe one of the wires is damaged and you can tap in some soldier to fix the broken connection.

RW Racing pinions, havent had one fail, that being said, if the tooths breaking off the pinion, atleast its a cheap failure point, the next thing that would go would be the diffs, so maybe easy up on the breaking when ending your speed run.

Shame wont see the dragfraction leaving fat 11's down the runway! Glad you had the fun with it, who ever gets it is getting a solid buy!

2 Weeks till ROSSA Rd1, know a few msuk'ers will be there! @Nick too? Time to begin packing and prepping, picked up a 2nd charger so can charge two 4s at once, new power unit too, should give better more stable current for the charger thus better juice! Cant wait to see ya all again!

Put 4s into the savage xs and it ran well, till i hit a curb and to say the lad wasnt impressed is an understatement 🤨 Luckly hpi spares are in stock 🤯

Will you do this as a roller? If so what price, Thank you.

y'all are NUTS! Looks great jack, glad you went with black, suits it better than the chrome ones imo, let us know how it rolls, should help a bit with performance. What weight were the wheels?

Superb driving and skills, the difference between some one doing it as a passion vs some one doing it for youtube views! Is this right there... I hope he runs some traps and sets the world record some healthy competition for razz too, only a handful in the world are 200mph in... can you believe the cars can handle this much power? When converted back to real world the numbers are off the charts.

The solid axle Element Enduro Sendero if your set on element with hd gear set and a bit of brass. Gatekeeper is a bit top heavy.

Small wheels and ifs thats not a performer (rock crawling) but looks and drives nice, its a trail truck, so does just fine on the light stuff. Needs some bowhouse parts for the ifs to get it working right, they also no longer make the ifs kit, so spares will dwindle long term. Diffs are the weak point, but they do heavy duty ones. If you print the knightcustoms low profile ifs, bowhouse parts will not function.