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Post by Cooper on Oct 3, 2005 18:27:27 GMT
the steel pinions fit  that's not what Richard told me a couple of months ago, you would need 150£ for pieces and he was thinking about releasing it as a set for 100£ still to much, that's why I came up with the tamiya conversion. so i'm very!! curious about this ! |
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Post by pro4nut on Oct 3, 2005 19:58:44 GMT
yes they fit as i had to change a spur gear in my x10 and strip an old one out of my older car in the 30 minutes in between rounds and still have time for a smoke and a coffee, in the end i just chucked the shaft complete with spur into the x10,
so all you need is two steel gears and a couple of diffs, and probabley a spot of dremel action
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Post by Cooper on Oct 3, 2005 20:19:04 GMT
baaah my tamiya's work fine at the moment  |
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Post by YoKoMo-MX4 on Oct 3, 2005 20:27:56 GMT
...into the 8's and even 7's ... How does that compare to you guys? "stupidly high" might describe those ratios well ... I think I'd get 1/2 lap before the electronics melted Back to the 'real world' ;D ... I'll assume that the 9x2 at 9.9:1 was with a 73T spur 18T pinion? That would probably be a bit higher than where I would start out with a 9x2 (I'd probably go down to a 17T ~10.5:1) but it would really depend on the type of motor and the temperature outside. So I guess 'your' gearing isn't too far off from 'our' gearing in that case. I've never driven or geared a Pred (yet ... still building it) but my guess is that due to the super light weight drivetrain I might be able to go up a tooth compared to other 4WD buggies I've had. 'nuff said, MX4 |
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Post by Northy on Oct 3, 2005 21:31:05 GMT
Yeah, that was indoors aswell (where we tend to gear lower). I was using an Orion 9x2 V2 and it din't get anywhere near as hot as the 12x3 (non V2) in my P8 that my mate was using. The V2 endbell helped, but I think the X10 has better cooling. I was running 10's in the 8's and 7's on grass! Don't you run on dirt tracks? I'd have thought you'd want to gear low to stop wheelspin and smooth it out. I am a smooth driver in general, if the cars wheelspinning your loosing time  |
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Post by YoKoMo-MX4 on Oct 4, 2005 3:57:27 GMT
I was running 10's in the 8's and 7's on grass! Don't you run on dirt tracks? I'd have thought you'd want to gear low to stop wheelspin and smooth it out. ...did you mean gear high? Beer again? ;D Usually I try to gear so the motor doesn't overheat and try to control wheelspin with the trigger finger and/or ESC settings. I dunno what the secret is ... that's just the way it is. 'nuff said, MX4 |
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