The next stage of the build is electronics installation. This includes the motor, speed control, receiver, etc. Those are pretty straight forward and I won’t show them to you. If you want to check out ALL my photos, please see the gallery at the very end of the post. However I will make some notes.  The kit comes with 2 spur gears, one for 48 pitch, and one for 32. The 32 is intended for high torque applications like 550 motors. Since I am running the Castle Creations 1410 3800kv 4 pole motor (from the Sidewinder SCT combo) I opted for 32 due to it’s immense torque. I started with a 13t pinion (after racing it moved to 15t).

A note regarding the receiver box. It is pretty far back on the truck, and there have been numerous reports that certain servo wires are not long enough to reach. My servo is one of them. I’m using the Associated DS1015. It requires a 6″ extension lead. My suggestion is to also run an extension if you run a transponder. This way you don’t have to open up your receiver box every time you want to remove it. For instance, the 2 tracks I frequent use two different type transponders. One is AMBrc and the other is iLap R/C, so running the lead allows me to swap them out without the pain of opening that box.

Here’s a couple shots of assembly up to this point. The truck is propped on to of my AJS Machine 5.5″ 360 stand (Came in VERY handy for putting on the shocks).