B44 motor / gearing
Novak 5.5R with a sintered rotor upgrade. 16t Richardson Racing titanium pinion and 84t composite spur (stock AE), ceramic diff balls and ceramic bearings throughout.
Sintered rotor definitely gives more punch off the line and at mid-throttle -- typlical race conditions. Plus, it stops like a 10-cent crack whore picking up a penny with a little front finger push. Need to adjust the GTB to be 9% instead of 27% breaking.Top-end is perfectly in line, or faster with the R series motors. I have giant maxamps 5500 Lipo packs, so I get 20 min+ runtimes with all that hot motor. What I have to be especially careful about is balding my front tires too soon in the race. It's easy to do because the car just pulls and pulls. I might need to set my wing a little more agressively to conteract the front steerage. I'll be looking to upgrade the motor bearings to ceramic as soon as they're available -- LRP just announced them and I think the specs are the same for Novaks.
Couldn't be happier with the setup -- just have to drive consistently to optimize speed over uncontrollability.
Again, the sintered rotor is definitiely a cultured improvement for the 5.5R Novak. Your milage may vary. I can't imagine a faster motor in this car....
DX3R + digital HRC36965S Hitec servo, BJ4 carbon and alu steering kit, BJ4 center diffs; lundsford Ti everything.
-- font9a
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