Mod – Page 2 – Shane's Shed

Fitted Motor Heatsink and Indicator Lights to Silvia

Today I fitted some more parts to my tt01.

I added an Aluminium heatsink to the motor as they tend to get hot when drifting, I noticed this myself last time I took the car out. The heatsink comes as standard with the drift edition of the tt01 chassis but as I am building from the standard chassis I had to buy my own.

I also added some indicator leds to the body shell. I prefer to have all the lights left on so I have put aside the light controller that come with the leds and just connected them to the standard tamiya one.

Added some xenon lights to my Nismo Silvia (TT01)

Why I can drive my car in heavy rain.

How I can drive my car in heavy rain.

Waterproofing the receiver is as simple as stretching a party balloon over it and tightening the end where the wires come out. I had already replaced my stock speed controller with one that happened to be water resistant so no action was needed there.

Upgraded Monster Truck Rainy Bash With Jumps

Taking our souped up Tamiya Blackfoot monster trucks for a bash in the park and skate park.

Tamiya Blackfoot test run with its new 12t motor and esc

Upgraded Blackfoot with 12t x2 Motor and new Electronic Speed Controller

I decided to once again upgrade my motor on my electronic monster truck. The maximum upgrade people seem to recommend for a truck of thistype is a 12 turn with x2. the x2 gives it a little more torque to make up for the torque lost by using a lower turn motor. In order to use this I also had to replace the stock speed controller with one that would support a 12t motor.

The motor is an LRP v10 spec5 12×2 and I am using a Modelsport Sniper RV-12 ESC.

They seem to give the truck a nice boost compared to the small gain received by upgrading it with a tamiya motor.