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"Necessity is the mother of invention..."
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:44 pm
by Maxximum Attack
Well I had bought a 2nd hand Xmod EVO, it cam with alot,if not all, of the usual RS mods. However I didn't get all the pinions and idlers for the stage 2 upgrade. I am having some traction problems with it in RWD and I decided to gear it up from the 8-tooth it came in. I thought 10 teeth should keep the ass in line, but, I didn't have the green idler

. So, I had to find a way to combine the 10t pinion with the 25t idler. I just used the 11-23 spacer
And now listen to it go
Mind you, these batts are half-dead, and it's screamin like it's li-ion'd up.
I'll test it at the track this evening and update.
Maxx
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:53 pm
by ynad
thats loud

looks fast
I just used the 11-23 spacer
is that from the stage 2 kit?
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:24 pm
by Maxximum Attack
ynad wrote:thats loud

looks fast
I just used the 11-23 spacer
is that from the stage 2 kit?
Yeah it is. The speed maybe a bit disappointing. Tho I have greatly reduced the torque, I'm still too slippy in the corners.
Calculations show that this setup has the same torque as the 9-23 setup and more topspeed than it. Maybe I have to gear it up some more and maybe look for an 11 or 12t setup.
This setup is troubling my diff

I had to take it out during testing and tighten it up. I can't wait till the GPM diffs are availible
Maxx
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:31 pm
by HACHI-RYOKU
Are they gonna be ball diffs?
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:12 pm
by Maxximum Attack
'think so, check the group buy thread to be sure.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 2:15 am
by The Final Blast
WAZAAA
I love the high pitch wine of the motor. And about the rear diff kit is there anyway to mod one of those diffs to work in the front for AWD, I got platic on but its dead as a door nail. and if its a ball diff I realy hope the make a front diff, and I tried this with a front wheel drive (thats right front wheel drive) XMOD evo and damm the front tries were actually burning ruber and leaving skid marks, I was using the slammed truck wheels with soft compound but it looks so cool and sounded like a F1 racer.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 8:37 am
by Maxximum Attack
I think both the front dif and the rear are the same. BUT, the front doesn't have the gears that take input from the idler. Get me? So I guess you can just grind off that section with a dremel or something, then try to fit it in the front.
Can someone else make sure that the diffs are both the same length.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 1:36 pm
by color0
they should be, you can interchangeably use the front and rear diff outdrives.
nevertheless, GPM's making a front ball diff, so you could just wait and buy a front and rear...
final blast- general rule of thumb is that the louder something sounds, the less efficient it's actually being at putting power to the wheels. might want to check that car carefully.
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 2:09 pm
by The Final Blast
I have and it seems normal to me. I guess the plastic lego drag track may have helped a little

. F1's are loud as heck but are fast as a bat out of hell of course they have a insane power to weight.