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[chino]

cool. maybe this time u guys wont spin out as much(like tha melbourn race u guys had a while bak). and if u guys are solid on ur electronic setup then it u want either hot glue or epoxy ur curcuit boards. makes them rain proof. its so much fun kickin up water , goin through puddles at full speed or drifting with hard slicks in water across a smooth parking lot.

sumtimes i wish i wus in aus. seems like u guys have more 1/28 races than they do out here. all my races consist of mainly 1/18s. and every one else with xmods are too slow. no one around my area knows to much about fets and motors. i would kuv to race wid yall. 4cell ofcorse i ol use the six to keep up with xrays and micros

Edited by – chino on 18 October 2004 15:58:14

[chino]

yess! finally, i like it already. next step, alloy cups? well the heat shrink should hold up as long as the diff isnt locked.

a bit of silly putty in a gear diff helps make its handling

[chino]

my reception is only better cus its longer. i jus needed an antenna that can take alot of abuse. so it flexs instead of bending and braking every time i land cockeyed after a jump. also its easier to keep in my pocket

[chino]

i wich car? this six cell is jus usin a s2 with barings and neos. it s been more efficient<cant spell haha. also very good edurence ad battery life at tha track

my 4 cell is vented bb vented can rite with neos and a 30 turn Plasma Dash armature. great torque and ok top speed 34kph

i got for free yesterday a nsx and a ZipZap f150.
i jus painted the nsx body today and decaled it for a contest on xmodrc

[chino]

every motor i wound does great and way cheaper than to buy a whole one jus sum of this one has bee melting w/ 6 cell. its fine with 4 cell

i finally got started on my skylines body work, current ly under blk primer still thinking of a color
heres sum pics
http://photobucket.com/albums/v51/chino925/project%20anti%20RS4/

[chino]

yeah i seen that, ive gottah get a bunch of thoes RX’s for all the xmods i have with fried boards. or maybe any rc car i have tht i wat to make digital propo. i hope shippig ist too much for US

[chino]

i saw some silver bearing solder at radio shack, would that work?

[chino]

i forgot where i got the smaller cells from but jus a lil trimming of the part the front deck screws down(only screw in the whole car) and it drops rite in. ad i have solder tabs solderd directly to the bottom charge conections

[chino]

i got one of thoes i temp ones that has like a pistol grip. two leads coming out meeting in to one tip. that should work right?

[chino]

lol

[chino]

probibly, ill have to go by the hobby shop and ask them about that stuff. thnx betty

[chino]

thx alot for tha links. ill to learn as much as i can. do i need new fet or jus positions and jumpers? man, i wish i couls read that language. ill try to figure it out with tha pictures. thx alot, thas the most help i got in 2 years, well that maade anykind of sense anyway

[chino]

yeah i noticed, seem to happen more frequently now, i try to use tha hooks as much as possible but i always seem to break them prying them open. i saw that sum trinity 540 motor arms have the wires solderd to the comm. i wanah set that kind of solder.

[chino]

haha not really. but thoes things are suprisingly pretty strong. out of the whole time of my xmod truckin i only broke one, and it wust tha cv joint part it wus the shaft that gos in to the wheels. i rammed full speed in to a chair leg with my right tire. took tha shaft right off the joint. the front cups will go out way before the cvs do. on the truck now ever since my new gear settings ive bee doin sum mjoir off raoding and reverse whellies are no problem for it. and able to do stoppies where the rear wheels go up like a sport bike. the bigger tires puts so much more stress on tha drive train than the smaller tires, and it handles it with ease.

it should be no problem at all for thoes lil tires. cups will go out (if heat shrinked, the shft end will round out) way before the CVs ever break. but if u still dont trust its strength jus use the ball diff in front. slips enough not to break anything and grabs just enough to pull the car for stability on corners. also does wonders for drifting. the circle clear plastic things the xmod tires com in new make good cocrete drift tires.

[chino]

haha thnx, ill take that as a compliment. i wus gonna do guitar string like my xmod but then i wouldnt be able to put in in my pocket

i realy want to do a fet updrade but im still pretty clueless in that dept. for these lil cars. i wish i knew how:sad:

Edited by – chino on 13 October 2004 13:28:04

[chino]

ok cool. jus the motor winding connections melting off. i must get better solder.

[chino]

i noticed ur still running only 9tooth. if u want, they that motor lift thing a posted before and use a 11tooth pinion with that red bevel. it should be a great acceleration and a good top speed, especially with your set up. (nelly and s03)

[chino]

haha. u know wuts funny i acually knew that but i guess tha name betty kinda throws me off when in trying to type fast. haha mah bad betty

[chino]

haha thx betty, well yah performance wise, that stock fet hav no kind of torque. but for sum reason swaping out one of the drive fets for the smaller steering fet(i had extra) almost dubbled the torque. i did this fora while before i got my bag of SI’s its been good to me. i dont know why it works but it does. ive been useing a 40turn with it

[chino]

nice one betty. why dont u put ur evo body on it. u know, since its 4wd. hehe i want that bodie

[chino]

im gonna hav to go to my frends house to watch that vid.

yeah xmods are really buff. u should try hitting speed bumps at full speed. its really fun! the car tumbles and flips for 4 feet. well only if u gottah body u dont care about. the bodies are pretty tough too. unlike a friends z body that shatterd on impact with my xmod.

main weak parts thoe are jus the short cups and bottom of the kuckles. but betty has solved that problem with her car

[chino]

i just rewound tha motor to a 40 turn. it wus so much faster haha.
but while chasing cars in front of tha mall, my xmod suddenly stopped. tha ar still turns. i havt opened it up yet. but i do hope its just the motor com conections melted away. i really hope i didnt fry my fets, haha its tha last 2 SI’s i hav. i guess immah have to get some more soon anyway. i jus dont have any money. where do u guys buy ur fets from?

ok plz, pray for me that its only the motor thats the problem. stock xmod fets suck!

[chino]

betty, haha ur pretty rite tha car rarely flips over. that body wus recently mounted on that car. it used to be on my 4cell car wich has been through alot since it wus my first xmod. thas my beater body, most of tha damage came from rough play with micros. also i abuse tha car very badly, ram and hit other cars, jump ramps , speed bumps, stairs, escalators, and has been ran over once. it ok thoe i got so many other bodies. and 3 of them are RSXs red, painted blk and the blk RSX top kit.

ph2t, thnx

pork_hunt, i got the pinion set from my local hobby shop, they are a set of pinions made by O’kami 9 to 17tooth pinions, made for mini4wds

[chino]

i guess its a 1:1 ratio from wut sumone else has told me(im not to at the technical lingo) i use 2 bevel gear and one of them for a pinion. i cut the hole bigger and squeezed in a small brass pinion with a vise then glued it in place.

my rear tire are wide tamyia foams for mini 4wd cars. to mke wider rim to fit the wide foams i customed 2 stock rsx rims. i cut and extra set i had in half and glued the back half in front of the rsx rims shaved down the spine in the rim, then i wus able to fit my fatty foams. dubblesided tape is needed cus they tend to fly off w/o them. i ight need sum newones soon, as u can see, their pretty eatin up from racing.

idea: this chassie has holes to mount a miniZ01 rear end. before i got a 55kph with 4cell and a stock motor with a mrs4 13tooth pinion. i jus got a 17tooth pinion i wannah see wut it can do with a six cell.

btw: how much is ur second version of nelly be shipped to the US california?

[chino]

thnx alot, ive been doin ph2t’s method but sumtimes thabs are stck down so good. the eccesive force i use ends up cutting it off. haha i guess i should be more carful.

jamie, slver solder wont melt under high motor heat? my motor sumtimes gets finger print removing hot. haha

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