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If you can find it, get yourself Kyosho's RD-22 parts bag for the Raider. It has the optional 32 tooth gear in it. Many years ago I bought a brand new raider and it was an absolute slug with the stock motor and gearing. I changed it to the 32 tooth spur and 18 tooth pinion which made a massive diff...

Ever since I was a kid, I was underwhelmed with the top end speed of my Turbo Raider. I saved my money and ditched the LeMans 05 stock engine after a while in favor of a Revtech 15x4 turn motor and it was better but still not great. The car accelerated well but quickly tapered off as it is so under ...

What was really interesting to me was how they stacked the different motors against each other vs some of the dyno testing that I have seen.

I found something cool in the Rocky manual that is missing from my Raider manual (I am trying to get some more speed out of the Raider). When looking at the gear ratio options, the Rocky manual breaks down many of the LeMan's motors and how fast they are (based on whatever data they used). Pretty co...

I have the predecessor, FlySky GT3B, and it's great for bashing around .......something you don't find in a lot of other lower-end radios. Being able to limit your servo travel is an essential feature for me. Just info, the gt2e has servo travel adjust for steering but I only went that route so tha...

What size rod is it? My older Kyosho stuff uses 4.5mm ball ends with M3 threads, but have a small 2mm threaded rod. That is going to be a hard find. If you intend to run it regularly, I'd look for a more viable replacement option. The original ends weren't great when new, so shelling out money for ...

I had to let my Ultima Pro XL sit a week or so as I was so frustrated. I needed to process another long repair on a car that I was not familiar with. :cry: I took it out last week with the 28 tooth pinion and I dialed the timing up to 15 (if I recall correctly) and the thing was fast!!! Easily faste...

May I suggest the HobbyWing BL120 esc for $54.00, I have 4 of these and they are a great enrty level powerful esc's. Ive been over 60mph in RC drag racing 132' with them, bashed with them and run between a 3.5-10.5 motors without issues. Just buy the correct programmer for the $11.00 and have fun.....

Today wasn't my day. I was out running my Turbo Raider and making my first narrative video on Youtube and I ran out of memory about 2/3rd in.... figures. I had hit a cone earlier and cracked my "ball link" end so it no longer will stay on the ball joint (4.5 mm). I was looking in the manua...

The 31 may be too much but you can at least try it to see how it compares, just beware of heat or cogging as that's a sign of being over geared. Sorry guys, I am making all kinds of mistakes here. So I was working on the car before work this morning and I seem to have confuse the spur gear teeth wi...

RC10th wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:13 pm The RC10 says 8.68:1with 10.5

So.....

If that's the case I would start with a 28 or 29 tooth pinion

76 ÷ 28 × 3.3 = 8.96 FDR
76 ÷ 29 × 3.3 = 8.65 FDR

I already picked up a 31 when I was near a hobby store but if it is too much I will try a 28 or 29! Thanks!

Find a buggy that lists a recommended FDR for 10.5T and calculate the gear radio backwards. You can use any buggy, doesn't matter. Spur ÷ pinion x transmission ratio = FDR Use this as your starting gear ratio. So I come up with 11.4:1 if I have a 76 tooth spur, 22 tooth pinion and a 3.3:1 trans rat...

Hey guys, I have 2 vintage Kyosho buggies and I was trying to source a wheel option and I bought the Schumacher U6760 set https://www.ebay.com/itm/NOT-HEX-TYPE-Schumacher-2wd-Front-Wheels-Tyres-U6760-Cut-Stagger-Slim-Yellow-/392781539288. I figured worst case I can just use the tires on a set of 2.2...

Hobbywing's customer service is not what it used to be and their warranties have diminished to nothing. I have been a fan of Hobbywing for a while, but lately have been much less impressed. I still run them in all my race cars, but if you don't need the options, like boost/turbo timing, active abs,...

I'd be careful with the gearing. For off-road applications, that esc only looks to be rated down to 13.5 turns. I might end up putting the ESC in my Big Brute or Turbo Raider at some point as I didn't fully appreciate it isn't the most robust ESC but so far it seems adequate for what I am doing. It...