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Castle 4600Kv motor
Castle Sidewinder 3 ESC
2s Reedy 4800mAh saddle packs
32 pitch gears
18t pinion
66t Kimbrough spur
Airtronics VT2P radio
Futaba FP-R122JE receiver
S1903MG servo
T4 suspension
MIP CVD
Gladiator rear tires
*quite a few hop ups

Just finished this while waiting on gearing for my GT2 monster to arrive, can't wait to try her out tomorrow.

Was thinking about this with your other truck, but ya might wanna move these to the RC10T/GT forums. Probably a better spot, maybe?

Man she is quick and light!! 1790 grams (3.95lbs) RTR with a body. Put in my last 2.4Ghz setup I had because **** AM/FM radios.





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yellowdatsun wrote:Was thinking about this with your other truck, but ya might wanna move these to the RC10T/GT forums. Probably a better spot, maybe?

I PM'd Scr8p. I wasn't sure if this was a tech thread because of the one off fab work involved.

Man it has been a long time since I've seen antenna flags in use.

Glad to hear your truck runs well, it looks like a blast. Pretty clean install too.

RC10th wrote:Man it has been a long time since I've seen antenna flags in use.

Glad to hear your truck runs well, it looks like a blast. Pretty clean install too.

Thank you! This one is qickly becoming my favorite runner. The balance seems perfect for the setup. Maybe geared a little too high but that's easily overcome with your trigger finger. Temps are right in line, but it is very cold here.


I'm surprised no one asked about the bullet connected ESC.

Ran it this weekend on a dirt track. The mid motor on loose soil does not hook up well. I need to loosen the diff too. Some tweaking will have it better suited for high traction tracks.

Even worse, I got heavy with the trigger finger and launched it onto its back. I quickly found out how strong 20 year old plastic is. The mint rear tower shattered. Luckily I have fiberglass and carbon fiber towers. But dang it that part isn't easily replaced.

those RTR towers weren't strong 20 years ago. I've got quite a few boxed up and put away that were new take-offs when I put the carbon fiber ones on. Also, something that I seen a few guys try out was to double up the graphite/carbon fiber ones and use longer mounting hardware. Unless you are just out pure bashing you'll never break another one.

Todd

That is a real good idea! Thank you I'll be on the look out for another fiberglass one or 2 CF ones.

I put on a fiberglass one I had and got it some new proline gladiators and AE wheels with solid axle pins. Also dug up an old body and re-stickered it, then rebuilt the shocks. Maybe this weekend I can test it out again.

Drove this for a few hours today. It is simply amazing how much different this mid motor handles and jumps from a 10T rear motor. Completely different animals. If you let off the throttle on the mid motor it nose dives. You can launch it, but it really loves to jump low and level.


Who needs a t5m

11/66 gears now (32 pitch)

Anyone know if a GT body could be using or has anyone tried it on a T5M?


I have a Tub style GT (as well as the previous non RTR version of the GT) and I too was curious about an E conversion. Is that the RCMonster conversion or which one did you go with?



MOmo

I don't own a T5M so I can't comment there.

I did not use a kit for my conversion. I used 3M molding adhesive lol! I cant think of what a "kit" would include. A motor plate? Electronics? The motor adapter you can make from just about anything.

Here is a raw aluminum tub GT-e with a T-4 motor plate. All you need is a drill with some drill bits. The GT1's transmission is actually very simple to convert THE FIRST HOLE LINES UP! Just attach the first screw, mark the next hole, drill it, waste 2 screws piloting those new holes, get 3 longer screws, over bore the center hole for GT1 clutch OR: get a T4 top shaft and convert to a new dual slipper/V2/VTS....done.

Got this FT blue chassis setup for clay finally. Spent the weekend dialing it. Installed some Integy SC10b/t4.2 remote res shocks with 32.5 associated oil in them. Front tires used to be 4 ribs, rears used to be bowties. Moved the batteries back. This car is so much fun. Gearing is 11/64.

I would like to build one of these one day. I have half the parts but our dollar is poor and shipping is astronomical at the moment. GT's also seem to be fetching reasonable dollars at the moment.

Looks like fun look forward to updates.

Not sure if this will help with the body question or not. But I did fit a t5m one of my blue flat chassis GTs and of course after cutting the area out for the head to come through the body it worked really well. Don't have any pics of it to post but when I get some I will. Hope it helps

That's one of the cleanest conversions I've seen. Most look complicated and botched.

I also noticed the radio receiver thing when reading the bullet points. Once I noticed they were different brand, I knew it was old school.