Bought two groms about a week ago, decided to pick up a third a one a few days later.
I started off by designing an esc mount for the servo. This is slightly larger than the one available to purchase from arrma. Does it’s job well only took me a few hours including print time and a few revisions.
After that was the power plant, I love castle stuff but wasn’t patient enough to send the micro x2 back to CC to have it swapped out for one with a built in BEC. This chassis is too small for that much wiring. This is a 390 sized sensored brushless motor. 4500kv.
Now I did want to run this sensored so I had to make a small notch in the chassis. I wish the battery tabs would have been lined up towards the top but because of the hole spacing on the can this is the only way they would fit.
Up next is ESC. I had a spare Hobbywing just stock laying around. It s a 1/10th scale 60a ESC. So I did some measuring and it’s roughly the same foot print to the Micro X2 so I decided to go with it.
Up next, shocks. Too impatient to wait for arrma shocks, saw that someone posted a link for these on amazon. 20$!! Plus everything is interchangeable, and by everything I mean, springs, spring retainers etc. They’re almost identical. Stock springs are a little long so I stuck with what was on them because I wanted the truck to sit a little lower.
Up last is just finding exactly how I wanted to route everything, found a way I was happy with. Here it is compared to stock form. Overall it weighs about 50grams more than stock. Not too bad. I do have an NDSRC micro servo on the way but that hasn’t shown up yet. These stock servos aren’t bad it’s just a ton of slop in the steering assembly.I bet there will be a mini typhon released at some point, that’s what I’ll save the servo for.
Here’s the final setup I decided to go with after getting the sensor wire routed.
I started off by designing an esc mount for the servo. This is slightly larger than the one available to purchase from arrma. Does it’s job well only took me a few hours including print time and a few revisions.
After that was the power plant, I love castle stuff but wasn’t patient enough to send the micro x2 back to CC to have it swapped out for one with a built in BEC. This chassis is too small for that much wiring. This is a 390 sized sensored brushless motor. 4500kv.
Now I did want to run this sensored so I had to make a small notch in the chassis. I wish the battery tabs would have been lined up towards the top but because of the hole spacing on the can this is the only way they would fit.
Up next is ESC. I had a spare Hobbywing just stock laying around. It s a 1/10th scale 60a ESC. So I did some measuring and it’s roughly the same foot print to the Micro X2 so I decided to go with it.
Up next, shocks. Too impatient to wait for arrma shocks, saw that someone posted a link for these on amazon. 20$!! Plus everything is interchangeable, and by everything I mean, springs, spring retainers etc. They’re almost identical. Stock springs are a little long so I stuck with what was on them because I wanted the truck to sit a little lower.
Up last is just finding exactly how I wanted to route everything, found a way I was happy with. Here it is compared to stock form. Overall it weighs about 50grams more than stock. Not too bad. I do have an NDSRC micro servo on the way but that hasn’t shown up yet. These stock servos aren’t bad it’s just a ton of slop in the steering assembly.I bet there will be a mini typhon released at some point, that’s what I’ll save the servo for.
Here’s the final setup I decided to go with after getting the sensor wire routed.
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