X6 Lipo ready

[Spencer Mulcahy]

By spencermulcahy, shot with Vivicam 5399 at 2008-11-28
By spencermulcahy, shot with Vivicam 5399 at 2008-11-28
By spencermulcahy, shot with Vivicam 5399 at 2008-11-28

A bit of demel action I think it is neat anyway, just need black servo and speedo wires.

[kropy]

You could always use some black heat shrink on those wires

[Squintz Palladoris]

Looks great Man. I need to do that to mine!

Brad

[Big E]

Here is how I have done mine.

I didn't go to the lengths of puting th emotor wires throught he chassis but all the receiver wires are

Also filled in the cell slots so as not to get dirt in the car.

E.

[Big E]

And here is some pics of my X5 with lipo fitted in.

E.

[mark christopher]

Big E

what did you use to fill the slots in and what posts are they for the x6 cell holder?

Mark

[Spencer Mulcahy]

I have some lexan under the speedo and under the wires in the cell tray I have not done the X5 yet bit I have some ideas. Who would have thought you could do neat installs with brushless. Those pics are not the best I will do some more when I have time.

[bigred5765]

lookin good spence

[SHY]

Originally Posted by Big E

Here is how I have done mine.

I didn't go to the lengths of puting th emotor wires throught he chassis but all the receiver wires are

Also filled in the cell slots so as not to get dirt in the car.

E.

Great solutions as always!

Can you explain how you did it?

X-6:
Std. brace or custom? Posts from?
What's in front of the ESC? Heatshrunk wires?
Do you have lead weights under the battery? Any thoughts/tests on this? (I see the S2 drivers put lead in the front also)

X-5:
How do you secure the carbon brace in the rear?

Anything pre-made in the pipeline from X-Factory (more E-Speed parts maybe?)

[Richard Lowe]

Originally Posted by Big E

Here is how I have done mine.

I didn't go to the lengths of puting th emotor wires throught he chassis but all the receiver wires are

Also filled in the cell slots so as not to get dirt in the car.

E.

Is that all lead under the speedo making it sit that high?!

[Darren Boyle]

The brace on Ellis X6 is a hand made affair, we have one in the offering at present which will work in a similair method except it may possibly use thumb screws similiar to those used by Associated on the B44.

The black stuff in font of his speedo in the 2wd is heatshrunk units of lead weight.

I am not sure if Ellis runs extra lead under the ESC or LIPO, he will need to confirm that

On the X5 the brace is secured on the inner side with a screw passing through the sway bar mount on the rear diff cover and threading down into the carbon strap. Ellis has drawn up and designed the strap and is currently testing the prototype to see if any changes need to made. This may become an E-Speed part or we may possibly decide to produce it under the DMS X-Partz range (which is all being added to the X-Factory site this weekend)

[SHY]

Originally Posted by DMS Racing

The black stuff in font of his speedo in the 2wd is heatshrunk units of lead weight.

WTF! Please explain! Why?

[Darren Boyle]

To help keep the balance of the car and weight bias/distribution "exactly" the same as when we ran NIMH's, now we get to add or remove the weight as needed.......

[JustARcFan]

When will this lipo retention be available?

You have an idea when the blue motor mount will be delivered?

Thanks

[SHY]

Originally Posted by DMS Racing

To help keep the balance of the car and weight bias/distribution "exactly" the same as when we ran NIMH's, now we get to add or remove the weight as needed.......

I understand the "physics"

How do you mount it? Why not just lead weights with adhesive?

[JustARcFan]

That's what I did but you have to put 145gr in the 2 cell slots

So a lot of lead.

[Darren Boyle]

ESpeed blue motor mounts are now free from customs and should be delivered here on monday

[Big E]

The post on the X6 are just 2 of the rear post but lowered a touch.

The cell slots are filled with some stuff called Permabond that I borrowed from work

There is some weight under the speedo. Also as Darren says the 2 black lumps are real lead that I have heatshrunk, it weighs more than the stick on weights so I can have more weight but in a smaller physical size. They are in 2 lumps so I can remove them if I want to alter the cars handling. Just something I wanted to try out really in case I ever wanted to run the front of the car lighter, or in effect more weight bias to the rear. They aren't stuck in in the picture, normally they are servo taped but I just put them in for the pic.

And the car jumps soo much better with the speedo in the middle...not that it was ever bad before

[SHY]

Aha! Where can I get lead like that?

How about tungsten - is that an idea too?

Should be a market for these things now...

[mark christopher]

elis do you run the motor heat sink to compenste for the carbon motor plate?
Mark