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Looks fast, looking forward to seeing it fly! What motor you gone for to push it to 70?

Mines the LWB TF2 not sure if yours is the same.

Yeah sadly its not in the budget this month, and i didnt want a single speed or i would have gone with a rtr single speed with body that would have been cheaper than this kit. Whats the laws on customer satisfaction, if rc4wd say its normal and its clearly crap, they cant have a high refund rate being the way the hobby is. Just a bit of a sour taste makes me want to attempt using it even less and giving me less reason to finish it, feeling like pulling it all apart and reselling the kit probably at a massive loss. Im glad i didnt open up the transmission thank you for showing whats inside, can see its by design the slop is there and only fixable with custom parts. 😒

Because the roads around here are like gravel so would shred and destroy the foams after a single pass. Foams will come much later on. No point wearing out expensive foams doing testing and having fun.

After getting some benchmarks on stock gearing its time to start modding. Found a better spot for the max 10 esc, the xerun wont fit without a bit of trimming. Getting ready to cut the chassis for longer motor cans, put propper oil in the diffs, and some diffrent pinions and spurs. Some weights for those intrested. Body with repairs ¬129g. Chassis without driveshaft and battery holder ¬782g. Max 10 stc and 3652 motor¬ 352g. Weighted wheels ¬ 600g. Underpan & diffuser ¬ 144g. Stiffend the underpan will probably do a v2 with more material, the rear fenders bolt to the rear shock tower, the front are fixed to the top chassis brace, now strong enough to hold some big batteries. Also being held back by the amount of traction being lost on micro bumps, going to swap out the wheels and tires to road. 43mph max punch. Gave 4s a little try just to get a base mark and see how the motor did with 60/100c 300g extra weight, got 38mph. Seemed like the esc didnt want to push the motor any harder and bogged out at the top end. The adventure continues thank you for reading.

Got some speed readings in, damm tiny bumps giving air slowing it down.

oh my god! how many units has your army got? Amazing!

Speedo arrived, got some tastey data. Not even close to 50mph lol, long way to go yet.

was it the cold or a bad landing?

Indeed looking again now i think a couple of 4s drone packs might have been better. that 4s pack probably wont even fit, its also almost the weight of 2x 7000mha 2s lipos. 641g https://wheelspinmodels.co.uk/i/305466/ https://wheelspinmodels.co.uk/i/327647/ https://wheelspinmodels.co.uk/i/271448/ Corrected my mistake and ordered 2x 1600mha 4s 100c that ill run in parrallel

Yeah exactly, i know its big but ideally i want to use the battery in other trucks too the only other real choice is a 2500 spectrum for the same price, so this will do. Charger, battery, speedo ordered.

Speedo gives them a reason to not sit on the shelf, wonder how fast my trx4 goes, well speedo ordered so guess i will soon find out haha.

Unless i run 2x 2s i will have to wait, will order logger should arrive this week. Yes im currently running a 3s shorty for 4s im looking at this as i cant find a shorty pack. 5000mAh 4S 14.8v 100C LiPo Battery - Overlander Extreme Pro £109.23 What would you guys reccomend?

If this was ever to see mud i would cry. But i hope it does one day as it looks to good not to be driven! 😄

Few more runs today, no crashes, did well doing a hill climb. Didnt get a weight read with it as stock but the car is currently weighting in at 2.317 kg with a shorty 3s. With the underpan fitted, can now fit 2 batteries either side, didnt build it with this in mind, so if i do go this route might need a bit more stiffness. 6s lol 🥴 Added some foam to prevent the posts smashing through the shell like yesterday, should have thought of it from the start. I dont have a 4s pack or charger yet, i didnt really plan on putting much if any money into making this thing amazing it was supposed to be a budget build from parts i already have, but for speed runs, i dont really want to be running 300+g of extra battery weight also. The motor gets warm right now, the motor and power wires get hotter than the motor, my 4mm to 3mm converters might be the bottleneck, itching to put in the 4s motor... but to be fair on Jack ill wait for his to arrive 😜 Should i pull the xerun 8 from sale and put it in this? or would that be cheating?

@Gunswere is that place please, love to check it out after lockdown! Cheers

Take the trucks into the shower with you, the missus wont think its weird they are just getting a wash 😁

Yes! Please oh yes!

woah those are awesome, cant belive some of those are home made, really unique collection and worth a huge amount with all those vintage action men! Love it!

Thanks chaps, after speaking to Jack, going to go with the speed flea, but not sure about its durability with damp roads and spray, so might end up going for a skyrc speed meter later for that. Battery wise im a bit stuck, there's limited 100c discharge 4s lipo, most are 50c that seems like it wont be enough. Interesting you think its already over 50mph, like you say the speed can be deceptive. Hard to say how much of an impact the mods will make to lift as there will still be some air distortion around the wheel arches, and the wheels are keeping it far more planted that on standard plastic rims.

A real work of art! This really is something very special. Cant wait to see it in action.

I wondered how fast can you push a cheapish ftx drift car go, build still in progress and no gps or real speed readings yet but here goes. Worth even doing probably not, fun experiment yeah! Maybe the topic should be titled "A clueless attempt at speedrunning a driftcar" I picked the Banzai as i was looking at the HPI RS4 Sport 3 CE for a rally platform and the FTX being the same price and also shaft driven caught my eye. Cheap spare parts & shares parts with the outlaw, vantage, carnage, eg the diffs, steering, bearings etc got me thinking about setting it up for rally or speedruns. Gave it a go as stock drifting, was good fun and will keep the drift wheels as its a nice change. Before going to my RW hardened pinion and spurs that are higher geared, given it a blast on the 30t stock pinion on rally block tires so slight over gear at the tires. For the motor I started with what i used to use in the outlaw a HW 3652 3200kv & MAX10 SCT on 3s 120c lipo. Started doing some test runs tired peeled off the rims after a couple of passes, so now mounted on crawler beadlocks. No issue with peeling and the extra weight helps plant the power, if rotational mass is good or bad for speed runs i don't know, ive never done this before, just going with what works 🤷‍♂️ Added a gyro, mounted above the rear diff, mounted in foam for its safety. Added a skidplate to help a bit with undercar airflow and keep some crud out, simple front diffuser that slides under the foam bumper and a basic rear diffuser. If you snap a body post, it might be saveable with some heatshrink tubing, this one snapped at the base superglue and heatshrink, fixed body post. Trying to reduce the amount of lift generated from pressure inside the body by covering the main offenders. Will move to foam and might take it to ROSSA if its open this year to get some real data and see some real cars in action but till then the experiments will continue on rubber and roads. No more power system changes till speedo arrives to get a base figure of what the stock gearing can do. Got a 4s motor im keen to try come the summer but need to cut the chassis for it to fit, also got a sensored system that if doesnt sell i might run in this. What speed do you think it will hit, what speed do you think its currently getting in the videos 50ish mph? I'm in a competition with myself to at least hit 70mph like JackR is trying with his Maverik Strada chassis. If it hits 100 i'd be amazed.

😱 Should be able to easily go over 70mph when it comes back from the future with hover wheels 😂 What motor are you putting 4s into, what can size / length can you max out in the strada 3670? I'm doing something similar with the cheapish banzai be good to see how they compare 🙂

Yes the esc does the cutoff. Yes another esc might work, just watch your motor temps as its doing that to protect your hardware from overload.

Snapped a body post that then took out the rear window otherwise good to go back out, the heavy wheels and gyro make a big diffrence.