Tamiya Sand Viper DT-02 with Traxxas Velineon VXL

[qbandog]

cool bot i think you could ajust your camra

to the middle of your car alli sse is the left

shock

[Quoc011]

hi i have a sand viper aswell and im thinking of getting a brushless system on it. could you please tell me what modifications you had to do to the gearbox and how much it cost ? thanks

[JaCkkBrahh]

does

brushless motorrr last longwer then stockk

like the battery timeee or does it waste out quickk

hit us bakk chers

[craze1701]

No, it uses more battery.

[1521joe]

@JaCkkBrahh

how can i be a fag, when im banging yow MUM ?

[sepague]

how fast does it go cuz i want to put that on mine

[grunzefix]

hey darüber steht doch auch ein bericht im rc-forum oder?

[camel303]

what kind of gears did you use? 15t pinion gear?

[craze1701]

I used the 17t actually.

[camel303]

So you are using all the original gears from the sandviper? And the Vilineon motor/speedcontrol does'nt get to hot?

I had a conventional 11 turns brush motor on it with 7 nicad cells and the motor just went up into flames.....

[craze1701]

I stripped the pinion gear, that's about it. I use it for kicking around and not for racing anyway.

[craze1701]

Yes, it's brushless.

[craze1701]

I haven't clocked it. The speed limit on that street is about 35mph. i can catch up with most cars, assuming they're doing the speed limit (yeah right) it's about 35 to 40mph.

[calsonick]

Sick Vid man 5 stars.

Awesome power man good stuff.

What other hop ups did you need to strengthen the car ? Are you having trouble with the spur gear or diff since upgrading to brushless ?

[gurtipapa]

nice car and pretty vid...

fast car on road. :-)

THX

[jmey107]

i have this engine for my evader st and i dont know how to gear i, any help? or tell me a website that can help

[ctrlaltdl]

I think your breaking the 30MPH speed limit there!

[craze1701]

And that's with a Nimh. I don't have Lipo....yet.

[vindex101]

i'm a noob to all this upgrading stuff but does upgrading a tamiya sandviper to brushless cost much and is it hard to do?

is there any risk in upgrading parts?

[craze1701]

That's what Tamiya haters want you to think. It's the same as any other RC car. All I had to do was drill a few holes in the motor casing to make room for the Traxxas motor. If I bought any other brushless motor, drilling would have been unnecessary.

[vindex101]

thnx for the quick reply :P

is it hard to do? (updating the motor) especially for someone who has never done it before. any sites you recommend me looking at?

:)

[craze1701]

Buy the kit, don't buy the ready to run model, and you'll be fine. The kit comes with full instructions (probably the best you can find, gotta love Tamiya), and after assembling, you'll do fine changing the motor.

Pretty much any other motor is a direct replacement, so there's no modifications like I had to do.

Look at radiocontrolzone, and rcuniverse. They have good forums for discussion and advice.

[eatricetransam99]

Tamiya is KNOWN for their fantastic instructions. I am an Team Associated guy and I think Tamiya has some of the greatest cars ever! But no one around me stocks parts... and by the way, on my T4, the Traxxas system didnt fit either, so I cut the shaft off with a Dremel. But I do like Associated, they are SUPERSTRONG!

[crazy4candice]

i have a kyosho lazer nd i put a brushless in mine... u need a brushless motor nd a brushless speed controler thats it

[konatsukuonji]

Have you upgraded or stripped any gears yet? I'm thinking about putting my velineon into a new Dark impact df-03 that I just bought today, but I'm worried about the nylon gears.

[craze1701]

Actually I chewed up the aluminum pinion gear for the motor. The nylon Tamiya gears are tough! Pinion gears are easier to come by anyway.

[konatsukuonji]

Thanks! That's very encouraging!

[jayman5002002]

nice build very creative people need to do more things like this on here custom rides inter changin rides making a monster sweet car thanks for the video great car fast to

[craze1701]

Thanks. I didn't see many other people use the Traxxas brushless on anything other than Traxxas cars, ao I figured why not.