After getting my 501x back in november and waiting for my 5.5t brushless combo to arrive in the post... then not having pinions deep enough.. Last night I set about getting my 501x ready to race at Bury..
The electrics install was such a pain, in the end I used teh ariel fitting to hold the esc and servo wires under the belt and then bring them up to fit in the Receiver.
So by then end of the evening the car was doign mini drag runs in the lounge
Anyway there are a few issues that I would appreciate if any of you guys can answer, its been a while since I raced buggies so some of these might sound a bit soft.
the set-up is 17t pinion, front one way and ez-run 5.5t brushless with gp4300's
1) The Gears are meshed correctly, but the car seems loud compared to my touring car (which does run finer 0.4 pitch gears). Its not so bad going forward, but in reverse (even slowly) it sounds like a tractor. Could it be the slipper clutch being too soft / hard? The motor is brushless so its silent when not meshed.
2) The servo / esc wires are going under the ariel mount to keep them from the belt, this seems fine, however could I get interferance or juttering?
3) The car would just cut out and stop randomly, I know the esc will stop when the car looses signal or over heats but this was in my lounge after around 30 sec to 1 min of drivng. It doesnt seem to do it if I run it for ages with no load, only under load. (I only have one old set of saddle packs so it could be them, so to test i am making some more saddle packs to see if its just a bad pack)
4) The steering doesnt always centre 100%, the servo / transmitter is fine (its a KO and I use it for my TC which is pin-sharp) the mechanism is free when unconnected to the servo. The only thing that I think it might be is the (losi ball cups) or the tamiya servo saver (which as much as I like tamiyas are a bit poor).
thats it, (for now), just need to convince the wife to look after the kiddies next week so I can race my car...