Skaxis
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ESC & Motor
It's nearly Christmas and I've had this truck since summer. It was purchased to be a "loaner" truck for my son's buddies so they could bash with him and his Losi XXX-SCT. Turns out I end up driving it a lot more than his buddies and I just can't let a RTR sit stock.
The Mega Fury pressed the issue when after just a few battery packs the stock Mega 15T motor burned up. Arrma graciously replaced it under warranty but I never took it out of the package. I ran a Tamiya Dirt Tuned motor for a while. It's a mildly tuned 27T motor. Although it's slow, it's a nice piece of kit and I figured that a slower truck would be better for his buddies to pilot. After about a dozen battery packs I swapped out the Dirt Tuned for a Tamiya Super Stock BZ. It's a 23T more aggressively tuned motor and was noticeably faster than the Dirt Tuned. If you don't want to move to a brushless setup and would like a more reliable replacement motor for the stock, I can't recommend the Super Stock BZ highly enough. It's a GREAT motor and is plenty fast, seriously.
I ran it with that motor for months. Just last week I finally installed the Castle Creations Sidewinder SCT combo with Neu-Castle 1410 3800 KV combo I bought this past fall. I have to say, this combination is brilliant in this truck! It has just the right amount of power. It exhibits minor cogging at only the absolute slowest, barely on the throttle speeds. Speeds that slow are never seen in a basher or on the track, and would be completely unnoticeable under any normal driving situation other than expressly trying to make it cog.
Edit: I should also add that using the stock pinion on a 56 degree day the motor temps were mid-50 degrees F across the body of the motor. I checked at one minute intervals for a while then extended the interval checks to 2 minutes then 5. Even after 5 straight minutes of full throttle running across uneven grass with hills the highest temp I recorded was 74 degrees F near the end bell.
I also got the Castle Link cable and adjustment card. While the link is nice, it's cumbersome to connect up to the computer. All adjustments can be made from the card, and the adjustments are plentiful. I can't say enough good things about this very nice, very affordable combo as an upgrade to a Mega Fury (or other Mega line vehicles). If the Dynamite Tazer ESC in the Losi is any indication of what the ESC in a $350 RTR SCT truck is like, I believe the Sidewinder would make a wonderful upgrade for those running a BLS or BLX.
This thing now runs neck and neck with the Losi, on the tarmac. Once we get into grass or dirt the Fury is bouncing a bit out back which is robbing it of speed and control. That's when the Losi starts to walk away from me. So up next will be to see if I can tune and/or modify the stock dampers so they'll function better. Stay tuned...
It's nearly Christmas and I've had this truck since summer. It was purchased to be a "loaner" truck for my son's buddies so they could bash with him and his Losi XXX-SCT. Turns out I end up driving it a lot more than his buddies and I just can't let a RTR sit stock.
The Mega Fury pressed the issue when after just a few battery packs the stock Mega 15T motor burned up. Arrma graciously replaced it under warranty but I never took it out of the package. I ran a Tamiya Dirt Tuned motor for a while. It's a mildly tuned 27T motor. Although it's slow, it's a nice piece of kit and I figured that a slower truck would be better for his buddies to pilot. After about a dozen battery packs I swapped out the Dirt Tuned for a Tamiya Super Stock BZ. It's a 23T more aggressively tuned motor and was noticeably faster than the Dirt Tuned. If you don't want to move to a brushless setup and would like a more reliable replacement motor for the stock, I can't recommend the Super Stock BZ highly enough. It's a GREAT motor and is plenty fast, seriously.
I ran it with that motor for months. Just last week I finally installed the Castle Creations Sidewinder SCT combo with Neu-Castle 1410 3800 KV combo I bought this past fall. I have to say, this combination is brilliant in this truck! It has just the right amount of power. It exhibits minor cogging at only the absolute slowest, barely on the throttle speeds. Speeds that slow are never seen in a basher or on the track, and would be completely unnoticeable under any normal driving situation other than expressly trying to make it cog.
Edit: I should also add that using the stock pinion on a 56 degree day the motor temps were mid-50 degrees F across the body of the motor. I checked at one minute intervals for a while then extended the interval checks to 2 minutes then 5. Even after 5 straight minutes of full throttle running across uneven grass with hills the highest temp I recorded was 74 degrees F near the end bell.
I also got the Castle Link cable and adjustment card. While the link is nice, it's cumbersome to connect up to the computer. All adjustments can be made from the card, and the adjustments are plentiful. I can't say enough good things about this very nice, very affordable combo as an upgrade to a Mega Fury (or other Mega line vehicles). If the Dynamite Tazer ESC in the Losi is any indication of what the ESC in a $350 RTR SCT truck is like, I believe the Sidewinder would make a wonderful upgrade for those running a BLS or BLX.
This thing now runs neck and neck with the Losi, on the tarmac. Once we get into grass or dirt the Fury is bouncing a bit out back which is robbing it of speed and control. That's when the Losi starts to walk away from me. So up next will be to see if I can tune and/or modify the stock dampers so they'll function better. Stay tuned...
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