opAsx
03-06-2005, 09:00 PM
I will do one car at a time,
tonights lucky miscreant is the Mini-R
my mini-r was purchased for the excessively reasonable sum of $90 from Perth Hobby Centre last weekend after kingrob alerted the forums here they were on special.
i was somewhat dubious as to how well such a cheap little car would run.
4x AA 2500mAH batteries = hmmm
1x 7.4V high discharge Kokam lipo = coolio
1x 11.1V Dualsky lipo = wowsers
that was all with the stock motor which still hasnt died.
i could drift this thing on the rough concrete driveway and drift through the house with no more than 1/4 throttle on the lino.
felt rather impressive to me as it was so cheap and all this fun was form some after market batteries.
after mentioning i would try the mamba 8000 in it and seeing someone thinking it was a waste of time, i gave it a shot tonight.
motor swap took 5 mins.
using stock receiver just changed the motor (fitted too easy) and the stock esc out for the mamba 25 and away it went.
it was a little too quick for the damp driveway, i dont think i used more than 1/8th throttle otherwise she spun around a few times :P
im going to hopefully tak it with me tomorrow if the weather clears and try it on the new tarmac at the wagin airport (i have a ground crew clearance so im allowed on there and we dont get planes landing that often)
the only real issue is the motor will balloon the tyres off the rims at even 1/4 throttle off the ground.
im going to try gluing them before tomorrow and give it a shot again.
here is a pic of it in its temp stage yellow electrical tape and all :P
e107_files/public/102_mambar.jpg
tonights lucky miscreant is the Mini-R
my mini-r was purchased for the excessively reasonable sum of $90 from Perth Hobby Centre last weekend after kingrob alerted the forums here they were on special.
i was somewhat dubious as to how well such a cheap little car would run.
4x AA 2500mAH batteries = hmmm
1x 7.4V high discharge Kokam lipo = coolio
1x 11.1V Dualsky lipo = wowsers
that was all with the stock motor which still hasnt died.
i could drift this thing on the rough concrete driveway and drift through the house with no more than 1/4 throttle on the lino.
felt rather impressive to me as it was so cheap and all this fun was form some after market batteries.
after mentioning i would try the mamba 8000 in it and seeing someone thinking it was a waste of time, i gave it a shot tonight.
motor swap took 5 mins.
using stock receiver just changed the motor (fitted too easy) and the stock esc out for the mamba 25 and away it went.
it was a little too quick for the damp driveway, i dont think i used more than 1/8th throttle otherwise she spun around a few times :P
im going to hopefully tak it with me tomorrow if the weather clears and try it on the new tarmac at the wagin airport (i have a ground crew clearance so im allowed on there and we dont get planes landing that often)
the only real issue is the motor will balloon the tyres off the rims at even 1/4 throttle off the ground.
im going to try gluing them before tomorrow and give it a shot again.
here is a pic of it in its temp stage yellow electrical tape and all :P
e107_files/public/102_mambar.jpg