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Originally Posted by PaulRotheram
Hello the micro scene!
I'm awaiting delivery of a Lrp shark, as southport radio car club are going to be running them indoors this winter I'm interested to give it a go!
The car Seems to have quite a few upgrades, aluminium towers, shocks, front top plate, carbon fibre servo strap and I think it's a carbon battery strap. I'm going to assume it has ball doffs as the seller races mainly micro but I'll double check when it's here.
Along with the clubs series I may look to do two of the more northern nationals if I can, or at least attend ellesmere/Chester.
I'd like to get the going going well, but not have to pay stupidly high prices.
The club has made it clear we need to run hard case lipos and there's no flex in that, what batteries can I get, and how many will I need to get me through meetings?
Do people run brushless combos on the micro scene? If so what should I be after? And what rated motor should I aim for that will have enough speed and controllability?
Going to need a servo to get it around a corner, again advice on this is helpful!
Last of all - wheels and tyres! What am I going to need here? Is the wear rate good/bad with micros?
I know there's alot of questions, but best to get the right advice before I buy blindly!
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hey paul, glad to have you in the micro fold!
first up, motors, we pretty much all use brushless now. the only sensored motor is the novak 380 (10.5 or 13.5t is the best choice here) and you can use any 10th speedo or the mongoose to run this. The tekin rs is pretty popular.
sensorless, the choices are huge, for bang for buck go for the ezrun combos, but the caslte mamba systems are pretty awesome. any thing from 5400kv -68ookv will be good here
servo wise, go for the ino-lab servo, its the hg-d261, an absolute belter and just doesn't break
wheels and tyres, tc wheels 24mm all round, rubber tyres are the way forward if your running at the nats, schumacher rally blocks or pins. yellow compound lasts longer with the wear frate on the whites being pretty sever on some tracks.
Hard case lipos are a tricky one, only lrp, vampire and intellect options as far as i can see, one should be fine for a nights racing, two to be safe.
hope that helps mate