Mojave Bulkheads: Hot Racing vs Vitavon

[IrieWheeler]

Given price is irrelevant and money is no object, which do you choose and why? Cheers

 

[dk3000]

Never heard of Vitavon? Na I'm joking. I think hot racing more widely used but I've been curious myself

 

[GRIFFINJ]

Vitavon if you want red and can wait 6-8 weeks.

Hot racing if you want it now

 

[jkflow]

Honestly, neither.
HR and Vitavon are equal quality from what I've seen online. Bulkheads are not very high on the 'must do' list. Probably everything else prior those.

 

[MFM]

I have both. I like that vitavon comes complete. The HR ones are sold in separate pieces.

 

[Combo]

Vitavons are much higher quality guys..
Much much higher.....

 

[Cheez]

I’ll be installing Vitavon bulkheads in the near future. Will let you know. Right now I’m having problems with their rear hubs and wheels.

 

[StephenSchandelmayer]

I’ll be installing Vitavon bulkheads in the near future. Will let you know. Right now I’m having problems with their rear hubs and wheels.

What kind of problems? Been looking at their red hubs and trying to decide if its worth it or not

Edit: Just read your other post about your problems. Very nice mojave build btw

 

[MFM]

Love their hubs and bulks. The issue is the actual GP diffs fitting in bulkheads. Other than that everything else all good

 

[StephenSchandelmayer]

Love their hubs and bulks. The issue is the actual GP diffs fitting in bulkheads. Other than that everything else all good

So do the RTR diffs fit fine?

 

[MFM]

Yessir. The rtr diffs fit perfectly. The GP5 do not lol. Still shaving and filing to get em to spin freely.

 

[StephenSchandelmayer]

Yessir. The rtr diffs fit perfectly. The GP5 do not lol. Still shaving and filing to get em to spin freely.

Sweeeet. But that's very unfortunate the gp5 doesn't fit. New design coming soon from vitavon I guess?

 

[GRIFFINJ]

Can you post a picture of why the GP5 diffs won’t fit?

I have the HR diff housings and both style diffs fit in them. I thought the Vitavon was a universal part for RTR or EXB diffs

very curious

 

[MFM]

Can you post a picture of why the GP5 diffs won’t fit?

I have the HR diff housings and both style diffs fit in them. I thought the Vitavon was a universal part for RTR or EXB diffs

very curious

The diff was hitting the back of the housing next to the pinion.
pulled it again and it’s also hitting the m2c chasis!

Rubbing here

 

[Liquid SSSnake]

The diff was hitting the back of the housing next to the pinion.
pulled it again and it’s also hitting the m2c chasis! View attachment 126750View attachment 126751
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I had that happen on my V2 Infraction (GP5) with a new plastic bulkhead. I just Dremeled out the extra material.

Weird thing is that the "slag" on the stock bulkhead was on one side and the new one was a mirror image... same part number.

 

[MFM]

 

[StephenSchandelmayer]

Weird. Seems like the gp5 would fit better by looking at those pictures but obviously you have proof that it doesn't lol

 

[MFM]

Check out the ring gear mating surface difference between the two.
the bottom are the same in blue.

Thought it would be a better fit w the alumin case. Now it doesn’t even fit!

 

[StephenSchandelmayer]

Ooooo I didn't look at it like that. I was looking at the flat on the bottom not the teeth side. That makes sense now

 

[MFM]

The red indicates difference between 15t and 10t pinion gears as well as the spiral vs straight cut. 1.5-2mm outer depth just enough to hit indent on m2c chassis. Fml. Gonna remove diff cup shims and dremel chasis indent. Fml.