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My son has a bandit and it is a pretty stout car. He has gotten used to it on 2S and I had a large 3S battery that I was not using (I crashed the airplane it came from) and I wanted to put it to use. I bought the 3725X battery expansion kit and it on it says it is good for the Bandit (and Rustler an...

I put a $37 Surpass Hobby 9T 4370 brushless combo in it and it got the much needed kick in the pants it needed! The power is just about perfect now! While the top end was pretty good, it had really poor acceleration after going from the stock gearing (46 tooth idle gear and 14 tooth pinion) to a 42 ...

Yep, that's plenty fast. :) However, to play devil's advocate...you're running it--an offroad buggy--in a huge, empty parking lot with no obstacles. How driveable do you think it might be if you setup a course with a bunch of pylons, some jumps and lane markers? ;) Speaking for my own bad driving s...

I have a few videos of my 10.5T/60 amp setup on youtube now but here is the most recent video. It is plenty fast for me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aFj7x9yClk&t=554s

It sounds to me like your car is too fast. :mrgreen: I think your goal from the start has been to outrun your son's Bandit, and you've succeeded handily in that venture...only to find it's too fast to be reliably controllable. Speed runs up and down a straight road are fun and all, but you're one c...

The truck is super light (IMO), I weighed it once with a 2s lipo in it and it was right around 3.5 lbs. I've previously ran the truck pretty hard for an extended time like I did yesterday, but with a 2s 4000mah 35C battery and the motor never got more than pretty warm to the touch. But hot doggin w...

I have never had a sensorless setup but one think (I think) that makes sensored better is the ability to jack up the timing using the ESC (though I guess you can still do it on the endbell with some sensorless ones?). I had my timing up at 15 degrees and it made a significant difference! I just turn...

Made a few videos of it running today..... it seems like it is running good (hopefully not excessive wear.... I don't want to open it back up as I have just barely snugged down and used thread locker to allow it to stay nice and loose).

Video:

https://youtu.be/kk87DeC9uE8

You can get a good LIPO battery with at least a 70C rating for like $40 or a cheap one that will still works well (likely with less capacity that advertised) for like $15. I have the Hobbywing QuicRun 60A ESC/10.5T setup in my Ultima Pro XL and it freaking FLIES! Once I figured out that I needed to ...

Well, got the first shake down run after servicing the trans... she is a ripper even with the punch on its lowest setting (1 out of 9)!!! The torque of the Hobbywing 60 EZRun setup is almost too much as I can make it any weaker. There is a BIG difference from with the original gearing (22 tooth pini...

Coelacanth wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:28 am I wish I had a Rocky so I could see if I could find some way to resolve that bad bump-steer issue. I realize that car's steering setup is not too practical and difficult to modify.

If I lived near you I would gladly have you look at my Raider with the same issue!

480 gold with a tall gear is a nice combo! also....no one ever usually see's what anyone looks like on this site so u get an image in your mind after reading peoples posts what they might look like....i gotta say when i saw in that 2nd video that you looked like an MMA fighter it wasn't what i was ...

Here is a video of it running with the new gearing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-uYe3XMFtI I am still working on getting a decent camera angle.... I only had like 10 min today before I need to pick up my daughter from daycare so the video was rushed. It looks like (sounds like) the gearing is a...

Like I said, that was a Tamiya aluminum pinion. They are well known for being garbage. The gear mesh looked and felt perfectly fine. The only reason that I happened to have one in that particular size is that I never used it originally, opting for a steel pinion. I was using it to run in a freshly ...

I've mixed mod .8 spurs and quality 32p pinions without any issues on Tamiya cars. I had read to avoid Traxxas pinions when doing this, as they tend to be noisy. I recently had a mod .8 Tamiya pinion mixed with a 32p Associated spur. They appeared to mesh well but you could see aluminum dust everyw...