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[chevy camaro]

I just bought it 2 weeks ago. I wanted to know is the ss esc semi water proof and can I up grade from the 10.5 turn to a faster one ? What's some speed tricks to get more speed out of it. I have a 3300 nimh . What's a good lipo combo.

Thanks. Mike

[ElectricThunder]

It's not water resistant or waterproof. It also has a motor limit of 8.5 turns brushless, or 12 turns brushed. You can always run a 7 cell NiMH pack, or a 2s lipo will certainly wake up the 10.5 or 8.5. Something like a 4000mah 20C pack should get the job done nicely with an 8.5 turn, and should be more than enough for a 10.5 turn.

Another thing you can do is buy the sintered rotor (either 12.1mm or 13mm; the larger one will give more torque which means more gearing and also in general, a cooler running motor). Installing a larger capacity capacitor will also allow the ESC to run cooler, and a cooler ESC is a more efficient one.

I used to have the original SS5800 setup, and on 7 garbagey cells, it was a nasty little guy in a nice and light T3. I still have the motor, but traded the ESC in for an SS+ ESC in XBR's clothing (IE- SS+ programming/firmware, but XBR "guts"). It's a blast in my hopped up TT-01. I've yet to run it with lipo though in the TT-01 (in the Rustler I have though, and it's a nice little motor at that!). I also have the sintered rotor in my SS5800 motor.

[Bnoland]

I just bought one last week. I like it alot. What are you looking to use it for? I have set mine up for drift with a 7 cell 4200 pack and it works very well and I get about 25 min of run time that way.

[chevy camaro]

Raceing and drifting but more for raceing .

[Bnoland]

What class restrictions are there? I know a guy who bought this car, took it out of the box and won a fairly competive race with it. They are set-up very well straight out of the box. Depending on what you are up against I would start with just trying diffrent gearing and get the suspension working like you want.

[chewie]

loosen up the drivetrain. loosen the belt as MUCH as you can without getting beltskip. that will free the drivetrain up TONS

[chevy camaro]

I heard from some of the other guys at the track that they are going to race in a class of their own . I am not sure if they finalized it yet. I just want to be competive.

[chevy camaro]

Well I got my car out a few minutes ago and charged the battery .hooked it up and turned the tx on then the car and all I heard was a brief high pitch wine and a little bit of smoke right be hind the servo pig tail. I checked the esc temp it was at 100. And I haven't even run it what happend

[chevy camaro]

Its off to novak saturday