Thanks for this video! I wanted to comment so if anyone else runs into the same problems. My sons Teton stock motor stopped functioning after about a month of use. So we followed your video and I ordered the GoolRC motor and esc, and the Ovonic battery. I ran into three things worth noting, (1) We had to buy an XT60 to T plug (Deans?) adapter in order to connect the battery to the esc, it cost about 5 dollars at my local hobby shop, but there are lots on amazon too. 2) We moved the original pinion gear to the new motor and it would not fit over the new GoolRC motor shaft. So I took a drill bit that was slightly smaller than the hole on the pinion gear and ran my drill pressing against the walls reaming the hole of the pinion gear until it slipped over the the shaft of the GoolRC motor shaft. This took some time, but eventually is smoothly slipped over the shaft. I also bought a metal 60t spur gear. I asked for a 54t but the guy gave me a 60t and I didn't realize it until I was home so, right or wrong I just stuck it in there with the original metal 9t pinion. I did have to remove the mesh spacer and adjust the mesh. This was not difficult but warrants focused attention to get it right. (3) The GoolRC motor and esc that I received from Amazon did not look exactly like the one in the video. Nothing on it was labeled as "GoolRC" and the esc was red and blue. That seems to happen when buying such things on Amazon. I put it all together and was ready to try it out. I intentionally hooked the colors up blue to blue, yellow to yellow and peach to red just to see what it was like and forward and reverse were backwards even after resetting the controller it stayed with the controls backwards. So I tried it blue to blue, yellow to red and peach to yellow. Like in the video, the car was about the same as the original speed, but now the controls were correct. We ran the car until it was drained of all battery it lasted probably 30+ minutes, probably much more. Which was satisfying. Still I was disappointed that we didn't get the same kind of speed results, then I read somewhere days later, I don't remember where, that someone had the same issue. They solved it by wiring it red to blue and peach to blue and yellow to yellow. I tried this and the car was then achieving that higher top speed, which is probably too fast but still very fun. After a bit the tires came right off the rims and rolled down the street. This was our first attempt at something like this, and start to finish, I had 4 hours invested in doing this. Honestly, this would be way too difficult for my 8 year old son to do by himself. It was well worth our time for us to try something outside of our comfort zone! If you are still reading this, you can do this and in probably less time!
Hey I got this same motor and esc and after I play for only like 5-10mins it just makes a beeping sound like (beep beep beep, beep, beep) then it continues to work for a secon then repeats the same sound and I put this same motor that you showed and put it on the same Rc that you did is it doing this beeping sound because it needs a lipo battery or is it just because it’s dead my nimh battery is: 1200mAh 7.2v please let me know if you had a similar problem and if you did how and if you got a better battery can you please link the battery for me to buy? Thank you for taking the time to read my comment please reply soon.
Mine did not do anything like what you are saying yours is doing. I don’t even know what to tell you is wrong with it. There are other batteries linked in the video description if you wanted to check it out.
It’s so fast. I haven’t had any real problems with mine except for stripping the rear dif. Other than that the motor and esc have worked great and I had about 10 battery cycles through it since I installed it.
@@ReadytoRunRC I have 3 scx24s Rubicon, Gladiator, C-10, and then my Rebel RC Rebelcon, and my RamCharger SCX10. It's a great way to spend an afternoon in the bush.
Did you have to remove the metal plate for the gear mesh ? Using that stock mesh didnt give a good enough mesh for me. Had to remove it and set mesh myslef with the 14t and 54t
are the stock motors known for dying quickly? for some reason mine recently has been dying fast AND the power dies down like dramatically not gradually if you know what i mean
@@ReadytoRunRC I use a different brand rc but it has a chassis just like that. although have u tried using metal diffs to see if that fixes your problem
I just picked up the same truck and put a mamba x2 ESC and 0808 brushless. Little truck "gets some" now! Had the same forward reverse mistake 😂 I was ready to tell people it was a rear steering truck, ya know something brand new🤦.
@@xXB.FunkXx there is a trick to shim the diffs to try and help save the diffs a little. I haven’t tried it. Just put aluminum oil filled shocks on and aluminum shock towers but I’m swapping out the plastic bulkheads for aluminum very soon. We will see if that helps save the diffs a little better or not.
Ordered the same damn motor as you. Gave me 2 problems. One the pinion gear that fit before would not get on the motor shaft and 2 the motor would bot even move the car it just sat there having a seizure. How did you get the pinion on the shaft? 2:13
@@D8Dozer I didn’t have any problems with the pinion. The seizure is called cogging and that’s because it’s an uncensored motor. Some do it bad some not so much. Mine on this didn’t do it much at all. I’ve had another motor on another car do that. I had to give the car a little push to get the wheels moving so it turned the motor. Then it ran awesome. Once I stopped it would cog again and I couldn’t move. It did it really bad in grass. Pavement was a little better but I still had to give it a slight push. There’s no real way of fixing that because of the motor being uncensored.
@@ReadytoRunRC All I know is the one I got was the one that didn't have wired capaciter. So I might try to order it again and hope I get lucky. But even woth the push it wouldn't move. It just seized up and tiked
I got the same motor for my latrax Teton but it doesn’t seem to have a lot of power at launch but at half throttle it’s fast and reverse it crawls. Apparently there is a program card you use for them did you use one to program it or did you find a way to bypass it
I have a program card but did not have to use one for the esc/motor I put in this. It worked just as you see it in the video. Maybe the program card will work and maybe it won’t. It’s hard to say with these cheap esc and motor combos.
@@ReadytoRunRC awesome! The only reason I referred you to the video is because I can't remember the spur size and I'm not home at the moment to have a look. But through the video you'd probably be able to guess accurately. BTW nice channel. Good work. Subbed. I could learn a lot from your content.
@@Rek_Rc thank you! I returned the favor and subbed to your channel as well. Those are some fast little SCT’s. You have me wanting to go run my Prerunner on 3’s. Hopefully it doesn’t burn up.
I used this GoolRC 2435 but mated to a Velineon VXL-3M esc. it's actually the exact same size as the stock esc and fits right in. I believe that's the brushless esc upgrade option for the 1/16 slash. iirc it's a 52a esc and the goolrc is 30a so the goolrc motor mated to that esc does get kind of hot. worth getting a heatsink. but man it gets stupid torque and acceleration, nuts for something so small
Oh nice! Yeah this little motor has this little truck running stupid fast. I shredded my rear diff because of it. I can’t imagine running on anything bigger than 2S.
@@ReadytoRunRC I was concerned about my diffs but they're fine so far. I put a couple drops of Hoppes #9 gun oil on the gears and then packed the diff cover with black synthetic wheel bearing grease before reassembly. Also plan to get some shims to tighten the slack. Next figure out how to make it more controllable. Mines been pretty robust besides the stock motor, but real squirrely
Hey how is yours handling up? This sounds perfect for me so I can keep using my traxxas batteries and chargers and still upgrade my teton. Also did you change anything else besides esc and motor?
@@CRno25 it's holding up well. I found heatsinks that fit the motor. Actually perfect size to fit 2 of them on and it's the same length. I have also since added Fast Eddy bearings and aluminum axles because the stock plastic axles were getting rekt, as were the stock bearings. Nothing else right now besides that except new shock oil. Wanted to do more little stuff to it like a servo but just haven't yet
@@dorianshepard2841 ok thanks, What traxxas battery do you use that fits the teton?( im assuming you use traxxas because of the esc) And how is the handling with that much power? ( would I need a wheelie bar and better a steering setup)
When I first turned it on after I installed it, I gave it throttle and it was going opposite of what I wanted it to do. I reversed the throttle controls on the transmitter and thought all was good. Then when I had it out testing it out and noticed reverse was extremely fast and the braking was extreme I realized I needed to switch the wires because having them connected to the same colors was actually backwards. It’s a rocket now.
The brushless kit was $39. I will have to run this a little more to see how reliable it is. I didn’t run it in any grass just to keep the heat down on the motor and help prolong its life. It must have went out of stock since I posted this video because it was available when I created the link. Hopefully it comes back in stock soon.
Nice video! I was wondering 2 things: 1-how has the motor and esc held up? 2-did you ever go get the GoolRC programming card and tune the motor/esc any differently? Thanks again!
I haven’t ran it too many times after this because I’m constantly getting new stuff for the channel so I don’t really run the same RC over and over. I have not gotten the program card but it wouldn’t be a bad thing to have.
You could do just that. I did and threw a 2S lipo in while I was at it. I made a video about that. The only thing was it made the little stock run hot and it burned out pretty quick.
@@texasranger5815 yep you’re welcome and I never answered your question. It does make it faster. It adds 4-5mph on the top end with 2S even running with the stock motor.
I just bought one lmao kinda late but are there different body options other then the basic pre runner clear body or can you fit any relative 1/18 scale body kit aslong as the wheels fit
I don't know of any aftermarket body's specifically meant to fit on the Prerunner but I'm sure with a little a modification, you can put any body on that is a 1/18 and fits the wheels.
Yeah the stock motor is garbage. I got more than a second run out of mine at least before it gave up. I think running it on 2S so much didn’t help. Got hot a lot.
@@ReadytoRunRCI had a 7200kv and after the 3rd time on 2s it grenaded itself. Also did you ever need to put any different screws in the motor to set the gear mesh?
I love it bro but I would of went with the brushless motor I sent you a link it's the same price but it's a stronger ESC & motor 35amp and bigger cam motor so you could use 3s all day but the one you have I own it and it can only handle 2s... your not going to want to stop upgrade your cars after my first brushless upgrade I wanted everything brushless so I bought a bunch of brushless Combos I have quite a few.... I did here it In your voice you are happy and that's all that matters
I’m not planning on going crazy with speed on this one. I’m about done with this one. I want to put some metal parts on. Next is metal oil filled shocks. You’re right about not wanting to stop upgrading. It’s addicting. I was pretty happy about this when I got it running the way it was supposed to.
@@ReadytoRunRC just keep in mind that a 35amp and a 25amp ESC are almost the same size. So if you get a 35amp ESC it will be Blue like your setup and fit perfectly and you can use 3s.
@@ReadytoRunRC only because I THINK I NOT SURE but the more metal gears you put in the harder it is to spin. But I'm not sure I watch a lot of rc videos because I am going to upgrade my arrma brushless granite from 3s to 4s and I am learning about gears
I haven’t run this one on 3S but I did just do a build with this same esc on my Jubatus B416 buggy and ran that on 3S with a 2445 5400kv motor. The motor gets pretty hot but the esc handled it.
Actually I take that back. The one on my Jubatus is a 35A esc. I did talk to someone on here that said they run 3S with the same ESC I have on my Prerunner.
@@ReadytoRunRC Did you have any issues with the pinion gear meshing? I found that my stock 14T pinion would not mesh with my .5 MOD Hot Racing spur gear. Apparently the stock 48 Pitch Pinion gear is like .529 MOD so it's super crunchy. I have ordered a confirmed 2mm/.5 MOD/14T pinion gear now that should work, but I was just curious to see if you've had similar issues. I know that's a lot of technical BS, but your video is the reason why I'm sitting here with a Hot Racing Spur and a Lipo/Brushless setup now 🤣
@@anotherpewtertahoe I have not noticed any issue but that could’ve been my own ignorance too. I never noticed it run like there was any issue though. If it was clearly grinding the gears or just seemed like it was binding up I would’ve never kept running it either. There was no overheating issues or anything that would’ve been obvious. Didn’t realize they were just an ever so slight difference in the mod. Glad you were able to find something that better meshes with the spur gear. What pinion did you end up finding?
@@ReadytoRunRC I ordered a Robinson Racing 2mm/.5MOD/14T Pinion, and it arrived today. The hyper-annoying part? The pinion gear is literally out of round right out of the box. You can watch it spin out of round, and the mesh goes tight, loose, tight, loose, etc. If you take the grub screw out, and free spin it on the motor, you can still watch it move left, right, and so on. Ugh. So in theory, the setup I've got should work great, if I can just get all the parts to either be compatible as they arrive, or not arrive DOA.
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I bet that's much faster than my cheap, 30a 2435 size, 4500kv Hobbywing combo will be. Gonna have to get a 2s battery real soon. I made the drivetrain have a lot of resistance with thick, grade 3 open gear grease. Shimmed the diffs really tight too. Both the input/pinions and ring gears on both sides. No slop at ALL. It came with all metal diffs right out of the box. Hot Racing 60T spur with Latrax 14T pinion, and coated those with the same grease. It has some moly in it too. Like black, shimmering tar. It's a Teton. Hopefully, the cold Michigan winter will keep the electronics cool until I think about a bigger ESC for a cheap 2445 size 5400kv motor that I already have laying around for next year.
Great video. I just bought the same kit for my teton. Did your new motor have two larger screw holes?? Mine did not. The stock screws seem to be to large to fit. Thank you for a great video 😀
Thank you! The stock screws fit right in on my new brushless motor. I didn’t really look to see if the holes were different sizes since mine fit right in right away.
Yeah the plug on the esc is a deans connector and the plug on the battery is an xt60. You will either need to solder a new plug to the battery or the esc that matches each other or you can get a plug adapter. That would be an xt60 male to deans female adapter if you wanted to go that route.
@@daanvalcke sorry. Yesterday was a hectic day. We had an animal emergency and had to take our dog to the hospital. I still am not sure why it shows out of stock for you but when I click the links it shows in stock and even when I do an Amazon search for the same batteries they still show up as being in stock as well. Unless you are not in the US. That’s the only thing I can think of. If you want another battery instead of those just search 2S lipo 2200 Mah and compare the dimensions of the batteries that come up in your search with the battery that I used. most of them are pretty similar in size if they are the same Mah.
@@ReadytoRunRC I'm sorry I forced you. I hope all is well with your dog. I don't live in the US so that's why. and i found the battery on the internet. thank you for helping me. Another question, can you charge that battery with a traxxas ez-peak charger.
Anyone know of a good servo that directly replaces the traxxas one. I keep striping gears and I know traxxas makes a metal gear but I just kind of lost faith in their servos
@@ReadytoRunRC These little prerunners are fun. Not gonna lie. Just bought one hence how I found your vid. Lol. If you ever get a chance get a Traxxas erevo!! If you prefer smaller models get the 1/16th Traxxas erevo. It’s identical to the erevo 2.0 only small. It matches up with the Xmaxx for half the price
@@_Volkhunter_ glad you found the channel. They are fun little trucks. I’m working towards bigger scaled RC’s. I don’t bring a new RC to the channel if I don’t plan on giving one away. So I do some little upgrades to the ones I do get until I get more RC’s. I will definitely at some point be getting an erevo on the channel. I been wanting one for awhile.
@@ReadytoRunRC ya I absolutely understand. I only own 2 rcs but multiple ESCs and motors. I have a Kraton esc. An xmaxx esc and motor and just swap motors out and stuff. It’s like having them with out the cluster lol. The erevo 2.0 is certainly worth the review
Wondering if you have any insights why I can't get it to respond or work with my Prerunner? Did the same upgrades using the same parts the link light is solid green and it won't power anything. Thanks!
@@ReadytoRunRC Is it possible to private message you a photo of what I am seeing? I tried re-synching the remote which sits solid green. Channel two is for throttle and channel 1 is steering right?
My son had me watch this video. Based on how easy it looked I agreed to help him do this upgrade. This is not easy and things like the metal piece on the motor need to be removed so the gears line up. "Just play in reverse" HA! How do you do that? Trust me this does not come apart as easily as the video alleges.
This job is very easy, your son should try to do it himself especially for the gear mesh. It’s a learning process and treat it as building something with legos.
Did everything you did and I can not get it to go forward with 4×4 .only when I push reverse on the transmitter it will then go forward and fast. Fuck did that make sense... I switched all the wires around.
Recalibrate your controller. If you’re using a stock latrax controller you can change the forward and reverse positions. There’s videos how to do that somewhere on TH-cam.
I put one on my 1/18 and it's so fast I can't even control it at full speed. If I put wings on it I think it would fly the fastest I was able to clock it before it spun out was 44mph
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Thanks for this video! I wanted to comment so if anyone else runs into the same problems. My sons Teton stock motor stopped functioning after about a month of use. So we followed your video and I ordered the GoolRC motor and esc, and the Ovonic battery. I ran into three things worth noting,
(1) We had to buy an XT60 to T plug (Deans?) adapter in order to connect the battery to the esc, it cost about 5 dollars at my local hobby shop, but there are lots on amazon too.
2) We moved the original pinion gear to the new motor and it would not fit over the new GoolRC motor shaft. So I took a drill bit that was slightly smaller than the hole on the pinion gear and ran my drill pressing against the walls reaming the hole of the pinion gear until it slipped over the the shaft of the GoolRC motor shaft. This took some time, but eventually is smoothly slipped over the shaft. I also bought a metal 60t spur gear. I asked for a 54t but the guy gave me a 60t and I didn't realize it until I was home so, right or wrong I just stuck it in there with the original metal 9t pinion. I did have to remove the mesh spacer and adjust the mesh. This was not difficult but warrants focused attention to get it right.
(3) The GoolRC motor and esc that I received from Amazon did not look exactly like the one in the video. Nothing on it was labeled as "GoolRC" and the esc was red and blue. That seems to happen when buying such things on Amazon. I put it all together and was ready to try it out. I intentionally hooked the colors up blue to blue, yellow to yellow and peach to red just to see what it was like and forward and reverse were backwards even after resetting the controller it stayed with the controls backwards. So I tried it blue to blue, yellow to red and peach to yellow. Like in the video, the car was about the same as the original speed, but now the controls were correct. We ran the car until it was drained of all battery it lasted probably 30+ minutes, probably much more. Which was satisfying. Still I was disappointed that we didn't get the same kind of speed results, then I read somewhere days later, I don't remember where, that someone had the same issue. They solved it by wiring it red to blue and peach to blue and yellow to yellow. I tried this and the car was then achieving that higher top speed, which is probably too fast but still very fun. After a bit the tires came right off the rims and rolled down the street.
This was our first attempt at something like this, and start to finish, I had 4 hours invested in doing this. Honestly, this would be way too difficult for my 8 year old son to do by himself. It was well worth our time for us to try something outside of our comfort zone!
If you are still reading this, you can do this and in probably less time!
I love to watch people make upgrades to RCs. I would love to see more of this.
There’s more coming to this and the axial SCX24 very soon.
what battery is it?
@@hollisterwithtomo504 25c lipo
@hunterandjetschannel3471 bro that's over 90 volts
Thank you for an easy to follow video and links. I did exactly this to mine and it’s much more fun to drive now!
You're welcome! This really wakes it up and is so much faster.
I use similar setup in Remo Hobby Rocket 1625,
80km/h max at 2S lipo
@-@
And you had to change the wires, that's why it was on "safe" speed mode :)
That’s moving pretty good at that speed.
Hey I got this same motor and esc and after I play for only like 5-10mins it just makes a beeping sound like (beep beep beep, beep, beep) then it continues to work for a secon then repeats the same sound and I put this same motor that you showed and put it on the same Rc that you did is it doing this beeping sound because it needs a lipo battery or is it just because it’s dead my nimh battery is: 1200mAh 7.2v please let me know if you had a similar problem and if you did how and if you got a better battery can you please link the battery for me to buy? Thank you for taking the time to read my comment please reply soon.
Mine did not do anything like what you are saying yours is doing. I don’t even know what to tell you is wrong with it. There are other batteries linked in the video description if you wanted to check it out.
I like that the tires have enough strength to not balloon when free spinning.
I was surprised that they didn't balloon. I haven't run this on 3S yet and wonder if they'll balloon on that and how much.
They ballooned with a 2s 35c lipo for me and the hobbypark 4800kv motor
I'm personally liking what i'm seeing, great video as always!
Thank you! Glad you’re enjoying the content.
Just picked one of these up and I love it. I definitely plan to do some upgrading appreciate this video a lot.
It’s so fast. I haven’t had any real problems with mine except for stripping the rear dif. Other than that the motor and esc have worked great and I had about 10 battery cycles through it since I installed it.
@@ReadytoRunRC Good info! Im used to bashing with a hoss so breaking stuff can be pretty normal lol. Recently got into crawling to.
@@thatoneguyyouthought crawlings fun. I just have my SCX24 but would like to get something 1/10 scale for crawling.
@@ReadytoRunRC I have 3 scx24s Rubicon, Gladiator, C-10, and then my Rebel RC Rebelcon, and my RamCharger SCX10. It's a great way to spend an afternoon in the bush.
Running this exact setup in my prerunner. Real question, i live in a ver hot climate, any good options for motor and esc cooling?
You could put an aluminum heat sink on the motor. As for the esc I’m sure you can rig up a little cooling fan to it also.
I plan to get one of those prerunners soon and a Traxxas slash oba vxl
Awesome! A Slash and a mini Slash. They're fun and this upgrade makes it really rip.
@@ReadytoRunRC yep
Did you have to remove the metal plate for the gear mesh ? Using that stock mesh didnt give a good enough mesh for me. Had to remove it and set mesh myslef with the 14t and 54t
Yeah I took it out then.
Really cool RC
It’s a really fast really cool RC now.
are the stock motors known for dying quickly? for some reason mine recently has been dying fast AND the power dies down like dramatically not gradually if you know what i mean
The stock motors are garbage. Not sure of your power issue.
The more I watch conversions like this it makes me wanna do it even more
The only problem I have with mine is I keep shredding differentials now with all the power. Other than that I love it being brushless.
@@ReadytoRunRC I use a different brand rc but it has a chassis just like that. although have u tried using metal diffs to see if that fixes your problem
Great video. Brilliant footage and a cool edit.
Thanks Jon!
I just picked up the same truck and put a mamba x2 ESC and 0808 brushless. Little truck "gets some" now! Had the same forward reverse mistake 😂 I was ready to tell people it was a rear steering truck, ya know something brand new🤦.
I bet it does rip. Is that the 8200kv motor in yours? You’ll be shredding diffs left and right. I’m on my second set and I stripped that set now.
Na 4100kv that's what the guy at the hobby shop said. Guess I'll buy a few in preparation
Is my first rc car I've always been into boats so I guess I'm have to learn all these parts that break.
What does the KV mean what does it do?
@@xXB.FunkXx there is a trick to shim the diffs to try and help save the diffs a little. I haven’t tried it. Just put aluminum oil filled shocks on and aluminum shock towers but I’m swapping out the plastic bulkheads for aluminum very soon. We will see if that helps save the diffs a little better or not.
Great edit.
Thank you!
6:03 Where the actual test starts.
Do you have to change the gear for brushless?
Do you mean gear size? The answer is no but you probably don’t want to run nylon gears. I would switch to all metal or you will destroy those gears.
The motor it’s not available anymore?
It must be out of stock at the moment. It was available when I posted the link.
Just got this little guy...are you able to use 3S and did you upgrade other parts to handle the power?
I have not tried 3s with it. Not sure if it can even handle it. The only upgrade I did on the drivetrain is the metal spur gear.
@@ReadytoRunRC it cant 😢 but a battery with 8 volts will work fine 😊
It may not give the the truck more power but it'll last longer and is less maintenance and you should get more battery life
I am thinking of upgrading my prerunner, do you have to change the gearing?
Nope I used stock sized gearing but upgraded the pinion and spur gear to metal.
I have the same brushless motor and ESC in my wpl c24 but my on and off switch is different. is your ese a 25A?
Yeah it’s 25A.
Ordered the same damn motor as you. Gave me 2 problems. One the pinion gear that fit before would not get on the motor shaft and 2 the motor would bot even move the car it just sat there having a seizure. How did you get the pinion on the shaft? 2:13
@@D8Dozer I didn’t have any problems with the pinion. The seizure is called cogging and that’s because it’s an uncensored motor. Some do it bad some not so much. Mine on this didn’t do it much at all. I’ve had another motor on another car do that. I had to give the car a little push to get the wheels moving so it turned the motor. Then it ran awesome. Once I stopped it would cog again and I couldn’t move. It did it really bad in grass. Pavement was a little better but I still had to give it a slight push. There’s no real way of fixing that because of the motor being uncensored.
@@ReadytoRunRC All I know is the one I got was the one that didn't have wired capaciter. So I might try to order it again and hope I get lucky. But even woth the push it wouldn't move. It just seized up and tiked
@@D8Dozer hmm that’s weird. That’s one thing with buying budget stuff. The quality control isn’t as good.
I got the same motor for my latrax Teton but it doesn’t seem to have a lot of power at launch but at half throttle it’s fast and reverse it crawls. Apparently there is a program card you use for them did you use one to program it or did you find a way to bypass it
I have a program card but did not have to use one for the esc/motor I put in this. It worked just as you see it in the video. Maybe the program card will work and maybe it won’t. It’s hard to say with these cheap esc and motor combos.
Use the surpass hobby program card goolrc and surpass hobby are the same thing
I put the same system in an Animus SCT and it ran nearly 50 mph .
That’s awesome! What size pinion and spur gear did you use?
@@ReadytoRunRC 13 tooth pinion. It's actually the most recent video on my channel. From yesterday actually
@@Rek_Rc I’ll check it out.
@@ReadytoRunRC awesome! The only reason I referred you to the video is because I can't remember the spur size and I'm not home at the moment to have a look. But through the video you'd probably be able to guess accurately. BTW nice channel. Good work. Subbed. I could learn a lot from your content.
@@Rek_Rc thank you! I returned the favor and subbed to your channel as well. Those are some fast little SCT’s. You have me wanting to go run my Prerunner on 3’s. Hopefully it doesn’t burn up.
I used this GoolRC 2435 but mated to a Velineon VXL-3M esc. it's actually the exact same size as the stock esc and fits right in. I believe that's the brushless esc upgrade option for the 1/16 slash. iirc it's a 52a esc and the goolrc is 30a so the goolrc motor mated to that esc does get kind of hot. worth getting a heatsink. but man it gets stupid torque and acceleration, nuts for something so small
Oh nice! Yeah this little motor has this little truck running stupid fast. I shredded my rear diff because of it. I can’t imagine running on anything bigger than 2S.
@@ReadytoRunRC I was concerned about my diffs but they're fine so far. I put a couple drops of Hoppes #9 gun oil on the gears and then packed the diff cover with black synthetic wheel bearing grease before reassembly. Also plan to get some shims to tighten the slack. Next figure out how to make it more controllable. Mines been pretty robust besides the stock motor, but real squirrely
Hey how is yours handling up? This sounds perfect for me so I can keep using my traxxas batteries and chargers and still upgrade my teton. Also did you change anything else besides esc and motor?
@@CRno25 it's holding up well. I found heatsinks that fit the motor. Actually perfect size to fit 2 of them on and it's the same length. I have also since added Fast Eddy bearings and aluminum axles because the stock plastic axles were getting rekt, as were the stock bearings. Nothing else right now besides that except new shock oil. Wanted to do more little stuff to it like a servo but just haven't yet
@@dorianshepard2841 ok thanks, What traxxas battery do you use that fits the teton?( im assuming you use traxxas because of the esc) And how is the handling with that much power? ( would I need a wheelie bar and better a steering setup)
Does the brushless motor still work?
Yes
was the adiou messed up? and btw i was shocked when brushed is quicker than brushless, but you had it backwards lol
When I first turned it on after I installed it, I gave it throttle and it was going opposite of what I wanted it to do. I reversed the throttle controls on the transmitter and thought all was good. Then when I had it out testing it out and noticed reverse was extremely fast and the braking was extreme I realized I needed to switch the wires because having them connected to the same colors was actually backwards. It’s a rocket now.
How much was the setup? It’s unavailable on Amazon. Also really curios if itll be reliable cause if it is I need one asap
The brushless kit was $39. I will have to run this a little more to see how reliable it is. I didn’t run it in any grass just to keep the heat down on the motor and help prolong its life. It must have went out of stock since I posted this video because it was available when I created the link. Hopefully it comes back in stock soon.
Hi i have question , i have the same setup. But how you bind the receiver to de esc?
You plug the esc in the receiver
Nice video! I was wondering 2 things: 1-how has the motor and esc held up? 2-did you ever go get the GoolRC programming card and tune the motor/esc any differently? Thanks again!
The motor is held up by a bracket that mounts to the transmission and it looks like the esc is held up by adhesive tape.
@@austingorny3424 I think he was asking how did they hold up over time after using it time and time again.
I haven’t ran it too many times after this because I’m constantly getting new stuff for the channel so I don’t really run the same RC over and over. I have not gotten the program card but it wouldn’t be a bad thing to have.
I though about just doing the gearing swap for my Teton, but would it make it any faster? Also planing on doing a 2s swap with traxxas batteries
You could do just that. I did and threw a 2S lipo in while I was at it. I made a video about that. The only thing was it made the little stock run hot and it burned out pretty quick.
@@ReadytoRunRC ok, thanks for the info
@@texasranger5815 yep you’re welcome and I never answered your question. It does make it faster. It adds 4-5mph on the top end with 2S even running with the stock motor.
@@ReadytoRunRC ok, thanks, your fine👍🏼 keep up the good work
I just bought one lmao kinda late but are there different body options other then the basic pre runner clear body or can you fit any relative 1/18 scale body kit aslong as the wheels fit
I don't know of any aftermarket body's specifically meant to fit on the Prerunner but I'm sure with a little a modification, you can put any body on that is a 1/18 and fits the wheels.
What was the top speed after an the upgrade
It was 26. The speedometer got cut off on the bottom so it only showed about half of the numbers on the MPH. 22 to 26 was a nice little increase.
Was soldering needed
Nope. Drop in and go. Unless you want to change the battery connectors. I ran with the deans that comes on it.
Can you give a link for the lipo battery you used please?
Links to everything is in the video description.
I maybe am late to watch but could I get the link to the gears if they are for 1 18 scale rc cars
Links to most everything in this build are in the video description.
Did the stock radio bind with this setup?
Yes, you’re still using the stock receiver.
Would a 7200KV brushless motor work too ?
That might be way too much kv for the size of this truck and get extremely hot.
I had the same problem with the brushed motor. It seized up after the second run and when I was running it, it started to give off a plastic smell.
Yeah the stock motor is garbage. I got more than a second run out of mine at least before it gave up. I think running it on 2S so much didn’t help. Got hot a lot.
@@ReadytoRunRChow has the motor been running now?
@@steezy.cheez. the brushless motor runs flawlessly. Ran many batteries through it.
@@ReadytoRunRCI had a 7200kv and after the 3rd time on 2s it grenaded itself. Also did you ever need to put any different screws in the motor to set the gear mesh?
@@steezy.cheez. that’s such a high kv. I’m not surprised it didn’t make it long. I am using the stock screws and stock mount for my mesh.
what is better the venom of the ovonic
There’s not much of a difference. Might get a little longer run time out of the ovonic. Other than that they’re pretty similar with performance.
I love it bro but I would of went with the brushless motor I sent you a link it's the same price but it's a stronger ESC & motor 35amp and bigger cam motor so you could use 3s all day but the one you have I own it and it can only handle 2s... your not going to want to stop upgrade your cars after my first brushless upgrade I wanted everything brushless so I bought a bunch of brushless Combos I have quite a few.... I did here it In your voice you are happy and that's all that matters
I’m not planning on going crazy with speed on this one. I’m about done with this one. I want to put some metal parts on. Next is metal oil filled shocks. You’re right about not wanting to stop upgrading. It’s addicting. I was pretty happy about this when I got it running the way it was supposed to.
@@ReadytoRunRC just keep in mind that a 35amp and a 25amp ESC are almost the same size. So if you get a 35amp ESC it will be Blue like your setup and fit perfectly and you can use 3s.
@@MightyistheRCGamer that’s good to know. I’ll keep that in mind.
@@ReadytoRunRC only because I THINK I NOT SURE but the more metal gears you put in the harder it is to spin. But I'm not sure I watch a lot of rc videos because I am going to upgrade my arrma brushless granite from 3s to 4s and I am learning about gears
@@MightyistheRCGamer it does make it heavier so it will draw a little more power. Can’t wait to see that granite on 4S.
14t pinion, 54 tooth spur? You were able to keep the little plate that holds the mesh?
Yep. Kept everything. Got my mesh where I needed and tightened the screw to hold it.
I have one just like how much does it cost me to modify it
Depends what you do to modify it and how much you spend on it.
try an aluminum bell crank it will help alot with the steering and control
It already has one on. I put it on a few months ago. Made a video how to do the install on the hot racing bell crank.
Cool video buddy
Thanks!
ever run it on 3s? wonder how long the esc would take it
I haven’t run this one on 3S but I did just do a build with this same esc on my Jubatus B416 buggy and ran that on 3S with a 2445 5400kv motor. The motor gets pretty hot but the esc handled it.
Actually I take that back. The one on my Jubatus is a 35A esc. I did talk to someone on here that said they run 3S with the same ESC I have on my Prerunner.
@@ReadytoRunRC i have tried 3s with the same hobbypark esc and it just doesnt work. bummer
Very nice!
Thanks! It’s a lot of fun now.
I want to do this conversion but I don't know where I can get the parts? Can you tell me where I can get them, thanks
Everything is linked in the video description.
How are you filming this
Phone & Go Pro mainly.
Does that 2S battery fit in the stock location?
It’s a little tight if you lay it flat. The center driveshaft actually rubs against it. I stand it up on its side so that doesn’t happen.
@@ReadytoRunRC Did you have any issues with the pinion gear meshing? I found that my stock 14T pinion would not mesh with my .5 MOD Hot Racing spur gear. Apparently the stock 48 Pitch Pinion gear is like .529 MOD so it's super crunchy. I have ordered a confirmed 2mm/.5 MOD/14T pinion gear now that should work, but I was just curious to see if you've had similar issues. I know that's a lot of technical BS, but your video is the reason why I'm sitting here with a Hot Racing Spur and a Lipo/Brushless setup now 🤣
@@anotherpewtertahoe I have not noticed any issue but that could’ve been my own ignorance too. I never noticed it run like there was any issue though. If it was clearly grinding the gears or just seemed like it was binding up I would’ve never kept running it either. There was no overheating issues or anything that would’ve been obvious. Didn’t realize they were just an ever so slight difference in the mod. Glad you were able to find something that better meshes with the spur gear. What pinion did you end up finding?
@@ReadytoRunRC I ordered a Robinson Racing 2mm/.5MOD/14T Pinion, and it arrived today. The hyper-annoying part? The pinion gear is literally out of round right out of the box. You can watch it spin out of round, and the mesh goes tight, loose, tight, loose, etc. If you take the grub screw out, and free spin it on the motor, you can still watch it move left, right, and so on.
Ugh. So in theory, the setup I've got should work great, if I can just get all the parts to either be compatible as they arrive, or not arrive DOA.
can you run this motor with stock gearing?
Absolutely.
@@ReadytoRunRC thank you!
Did you calibrate the controller with the esc
Yes
How do you calibrate the controller with the esc? Just upgraded but getting an input lag
Very nice video bro keep it up bro I like your all videos and giveaway it my dream to win a giveaway in my life but I not win ...but I happy when you arrange and announce the giveaway winner. It is big giveaway .
Thanks but this is not a giveaway. Not every video I make is a giveaway. Nowhere in this video did I say I was giving anything away.
what is the name of the battery and charger?
Ovonic 2S and I use my Traxxas charger
I put a mamba x2 on mine with a 5200kv motor and it is ridiculously fast
I bet that rips! How do the diffs like it?
I bet that's much faster than my cheap, 30a 2435 size, 4500kv Hobbywing combo will be. Gonna have to get a 2s battery real soon. I made the drivetrain have a lot of resistance with thick, grade 3 open gear grease. Shimmed the diffs really tight too. Both the input/pinions and ring gears on both sides. No slop at ALL. It came with all metal diffs right out of the box. Hot Racing 60T spur with Latrax 14T pinion, and coated those with the same grease. It has some moly in it too. Like black, shimmering tar. It's a Teton. Hopefully, the cold Michigan winter will keep the electronics cool until I think about a bigger ESC for a cheap 2445 size 5400kv motor that I already have laying around for next year.
Great video.
I just bought the same kit for my teton. Did your new motor have two larger screw holes?? Mine did not. The stock screws seem to be to large to fit. Thank you for a great video 😀
Thank you! The stock screws fit right in on my new brushless motor. I didn’t really look to see if the holes were different sizes since mine fit right in right away.
@@ReadytoRunRC Thanks for the reply.
I just saw another tutorial with the same kit. Two bigger holes for the screws. Mine doesnt have that. 😂
Mine was the same way with only small holes too 🙃
Can I get link to the gears
Video description
Which LiPO battery did you use?
I used the ovonic 2s for the speed test. It has a little higher discharge rate than the venom. I used the venom for my little bash.
Where in US is that?
PA
do i need to get a new spur gear if i wanna get a motor?
No but if it’s the stock plastic one then it probably won’t last too long.
@@ReadytoRunRC okay thank you also how do i charge the ovonic 2s lipo battery? what kind of charger do i need
@@dailyroejoganclips. just search lipo charger on Amazon and pick one with good reviews.
@@ReadytoRunRC what’s the name of the adapter from the ovonic battery to the new esc?
@@dailyroejoganclips. I used a deans to xt60 adapter but you can solder on whatever connector you want. Then you don’t have to use an adapter.
Nice video
Thank you!
i bought the ovinic battery but it came with a yellow adapter and im still figuring out how to plug the battery into it
Yeah the plug on the esc is a deans connector and the plug on the battery is an xt60. You will either need to solder a new plug to the battery or the esc that matches each other or you can get a plug adapter. That would be an xt60 male to deans female adapter if you wanted to go that route.
@@ReadytoRunRC thank you!
what charger would I need for the ovonic battery?
Any charger works.
@@ReadytoRunRC thank you!
@@Gleddy pretty much any charger that you can plug a 2s balance lead in will work. I actually just use my Traxxas charger to charge mine.
the batteries in the links in the video are no longer available which battery should I buy
I’m not sure why they are showing not available because I just clicked on the links and both batteries are showing in stock.
@@ReadytoRunRC it says it is out of stock. Do you know another battery I can buy
pls answer
@@daanvalcke sorry. Yesterday was a hectic day. We had an animal emergency and had to take our dog to the hospital. I still am not sure why it shows out of stock for you but when I click the links it shows in stock and even when I do an Amazon search for the same batteries they still show up as being in stock as well. Unless you are not in the US. That’s the only thing I can think of. If you want another battery instead of those just search 2S lipo 2200 Mah and compare the dimensions of the batteries that come up in your search with the battery that I used. most of them are pretty similar in size if they are the same Mah.
@@ReadytoRunRC I'm sorry I forced you. I hope all is well with your dog. I don't live in the US so that's why. and i found the battery on the internet. thank you for helping me. Another question, can you charge that battery with a traxxas ez-peak charger.
Anyone know of a good servo that directly replaces the traxxas one. I keep striping gears and I know traxxas makes a metal gear but I just kind of lost faith in their servos
Savox is a really good servo. This SH-0262 Metal gear one should fit up exactly with the stock servo mount. amzn.to/3bxVc0m
Amazing?? Have you never ran an erevo 2.0!
I haven’t.
@@ReadytoRunRC These little prerunners are fun. Not gonna lie. Just bought one hence how I found your vid. Lol. If you ever get a chance get a Traxxas erevo!! If you prefer smaller models get the 1/16th Traxxas erevo. It’s identical to the erevo 2.0 only small. It matches up with the Xmaxx for half the price
@@_Volkhunter_ glad you found the channel. They are fun little trucks. I’m working towards bigger scaled RC’s. I don’t bring a new RC to the channel if I don’t plan on giving one away. So I do some little upgrades to the ones I do get until I get more RC’s. I will definitely at some point be getting an erevo on the channel. I been wanting one for awhile.
@@ReadytoRunRC ya I absolutely understand. I only own 2 rcs but multiple ESCs and motors. I have a Kraton esc. An xmaxx esc and motor and just swap motors out and stuff. It’s like having them with out the cluster lol. The erevo 2.0 is certainly worth the review
Wondering if you have any insights why I can't get it to respond or work with my Prerunner? Did the same upgrades using the same parts the link light is solid green and it won't power anything.
Thanks!
Do you have it plugged in the right channel on the receiver? Should be plugged in to channel 2.
The esc I meant to say, should be plugged in to channel 2.
@@ReadytoRunRC Is it possible to private message you a photo of what I am seeing? I tried re-synching the remote which sits solid green. Channel two is for throttle and channel 1 is steering right?
@@Icefishing73 sounds like you have the plugs in the right channels. I really don’t understand what’s causing your issue.
@@ReadytoRunRC Do you think I need to use the ESC programming card?
My son had me watch this video. Based on how easy it looked I agreed to help him do this upgrade. This is not easy and things like the metal piece on the motor need to be removed so the gears line up. "Just play in reverse" HA! How do you do that? Trust me this does not come apart as easily as the video alleges.
This job is very easy, your son should try to do it himself especially for the gear mesh. It’s a learning process and treat it as building something with legos.
Sounds like operator error
Have to gear it for speed
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I already did a couple years ago.
Motor spins opposite of input but when I hold forward it is still the faster direction car just goes in reverse
Try reversing the throttle on the transmitter. That should do the trick.
When you want to hit curbs with more speed 😅
🤣 if you're gonna break it, break it good.
I want it to go 60 😭
You might want something bigger than 1/18 scale then.
What size shaft is on that motor
Probably 2mm. 2.3 at most, but I doubt it.
Anyone have a link for these upgrades I’m also looking for metal diffs
Links to everything is in my video description.
@@ReadytoRunRC thanks I’ll definitely have to get them I am very new to the rc cars of this caliber and looking to dive in
@@k5rjtxj Not a bad little platform to get started on. Quite a few upgrades available on this one that I didn’t even touch yet.
@@ReadytoRunRC I got a prerunner for Christmas from my wife it seems like a durable platform and I’m having fun with it.
hello esc 25a brushless yup bro
hello yeah bro
Muy buen video likes
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Did everything you did and I can not get it to go forward with 4×4 .only when I push reverse on the transmitter it will then go forward and fast. Fuck did that make sense... I switched all the wires around.
Recalibrate your controller. If you’re using a stock latrax controller you can change the forward and reverse positions. There’s videos how to do that somewhere on TH-cam.
@@ReadytoRunRC thank you very much for getting back and thanks for the video.
@@ReadytoRunRC found it thanks again
Add grease
Yep that is very much needed.
The abrupt cuts from dialogue to music are...jarring.
It’s a shame what happened to the hobby. It’s essentially a bashers hobby. Building rc from a kit to race is a thing of the past.
Yeah that's a lot of what it is now. I love both the building and the bashing.
Hi sir nice video keep it up and god bless your family and very cool RC car buy one and make a video on giveaway I will participate 😎😎😎
I already did a giveaway on this RC a couple years ago.
What a fucking pain in the ass to work on.
Try 3s
Definitely.
I put one on my 1/18 and it's so fast I can't even control it at full speed. If I put wings on it I think it would fly the fastest I was able to clock it before it spun out was 44mph
Same. Mine rips with a 2S. I might try doing some speed runs on 3S if the ESC doesn’t burn up.
How do you bind it?
It never lost its bind so I didn’t had to bind it. I don’t know how to bind it. I’m sure google knows.