I bought a used Typhon 3S a while back off ebay. What sparked my interest in it was that the axles had been converted to take Big Rock wheels. As a bonus the servo had been replaced with a 25kg one.
Once I had given it a good check over and a few shakedown runs, I took to the body with some drywall tape and Shoo Goo and replace the tranmitter receiver with a DumboRC setup, A few months after I replaced the ESC/Motor with a HW Max10SCT 3200kV combo. I also added a wheelie bar. The spur gear was already starting to wear out (super sharp teeth) when i got it. It was driven in a fairly dusty area so dust had worked into the innards. Whilst the shriek it made under full throttle was impressive, it was just a time bomb waiting to let go so I recently replaced that.
With the Big Rock wheels the buggy is surprising forgiving to drive. Sadly the original Typhon wheel and axles were not part of the sale. I ended up getting those parts and drove it for a while with a set of Typhon wheels and also a set of Hoons for some netball court runs. Whilst the Typhon is much nore nimble on the factory wheels, I ended up going back to the Big Rock wheels as the grin factor is much betterer!!
For anyone wanting to do the conversion you need the highlit parts below in additional to the wheels. It only takes a handful of minutes to swap them over, I was thinking of getting an extra set of driveshafts to make it even faster.
I have only given it a few runs on 4S and it certainly moves along.
To Do List:
The drive train has held together so far, but I expect I will need to upgrade to some 4S gears in the near future.
I haven't had any issues so far with the motor overheating, but am looking around to see if there are better cooling options available.
I'll add some photos over the weekend.
Once I had given it a good check over and a few shakedown runs, I took to the body with some drywall tape and Shoo Goo and replace the tranmitter receiver with a DumboRC setup, A few months after I replaced the ESC/Motor with a HW Max10SCT 3200kV combo. I also added a wheelie bar. The spur gear was already starting to wear out (super sharp teeth) when i got it. It was driven in a fairly dusty area so dust had worked into the innards. Whilst the shriek it made under full throttle was impressive, it was just a time bomb waiting to let go so I recently replaced that.
With the Big Rock wheels the buggy is surprising forgiving to drive. Sadly the original Typhon wheel and axles were not part of the sale. I ended up getting those parts and drove it for a while with a set of Typhon wheels and also a set of Hoons for some netball court runs. Whilst the Typhon is much nore nimble on the factory wheels, I ended up going back to the Big Rock wheels as the grin factor is much betterer!!
For anyone wanting to do the conversion you need the highlit parts below in additional to the wheels. It only takes a handful of minutes to swap them over, I was thinking of getting an extra set of driveshafts to make it even faster.
I have only given it a few runs on 4S and it certainly moves along.
To Do List:
The drive train has held together so far, but I expect I will need to upgrade to some 4S gears in the near future.
I haven't had any issues so far with the motor overheating, but am looking around to see if there are better cooling options available.
I'll add some photos over the weekend.