u/fuzzerabbit

Sorry for the long post but I'm explaining what I did to this little monster.

Pretty happy with what I was able to figure out to upgrade my quake grom. I got this truck used and with the money I saved going that route I was able to upgrade it to the monster it now is for only a little bit more that what a new brushed version is and this has brushless so (in my opinion) it's better in all ways.

As you may know, the battery tray is a big issue. It takes a certain spektrum battery and it's hard to get anything else to work with the layout. I 3d printed a battery tray adapter to work with some cheap ovonic batteries from Amazon. Works great so far.

I went with the hobbywing system in it cause I like hobbywing and the spektrum stuff was like $50 extra and I wanted to get away with not using it. It may have been worth the price in the end with time spend 3d modeling but now I can say my car is custom lol.

I had to make a mount for the esc and receiver. This wasn't bad. Just a square piece double sided taped to the grom servo adapter kit. The hardest part for me was doing the motor mounts. Arrma only sells the motor mounts for 16mm apart bolt holes and the motor I had had 16 or 19mm holes but the way the motor is designed I had to use the 19mm holes so the wires would actually fit and come out the top. So I modeled a new motor mount. It's not super impressive but with my limited modeling skills I'm very happy with what I was able to figure out.

Had to build body spacers cause the new esc is a little too tall so this gave extra room for airflow reasons and so it didn't rub on the body.

I upgraded the shocks to the arrma aluminum shocks. I much prefer aluminum shocks to plastic composite shocks even though the internals on these are the same with both styles.

Only thing I'm now needing to do is get a better servo for it and the build is done. When the body and tires get worn out I'm going to switch it over to the purple style cause I like that color combo better than the green.

Sorry for the long post but I'm explaining what I did to this little monster.

Pretty happy with what I was able to figure out to upgrade my quake grom. I got this truck used and with the money I saved going that route I was able to upgrade it to the monster it now is for only a little bit more that what a new brushed version is and this has brushless so (in my opinion) it's better in all ways. 

As you may know, the battery tray is a big issue. It takes a certain spektrum battery and it's hard to get anything else to work with the layout. I 3d printed a battery tray adapter to work with some cheap ovonic batteries from Amazon. Works great so far.

I went with the hobbywing system in it cause I like hobbywing and the spektrum stuff was like $50 extra and I wanted to get away with not using it. It may have been worth the price in the end with time spend 3d modeling but now I can say my car is custom lol. 

I had to make a mount for the esc and receiver. This wasn't bad. Just a square piece double sided taped to the grom servo adapter kit. The hardest part for me was doing the motor mounts. Arrma only sells the motor mounts for 16mm apart bolt holes and the motor I had had 16 or 19mm holes but the way the motor is designed I had to use the 19mm holes so the wires would actually fit and come out the top. So I modeled a new motor mount. It's not super impressive but with my limited modeling skills I'm very happy with what I was able to figure out. 

Had to build body spacers cause the new esc is a little too tall so this gave extra room for airflow reasons and so it didn't rub on the body. 

I upgraded the shocks to the arrma aluminum shocks. I much prefer aluminum shocks to plastic composite shocks even though the internals on these are the same with both styles. 

Only thing I'm now needing to do is get a better servo for it and the build is done. When the body and tires get worn out I'm going to switch it over to the purple style cause I like that color combo better than the green.

From what I've seen (at least quantity of post wise) the quake doesn't seem to be as popular as the other groms and I'm curious as to why that is? Or is it popular and people just don't post as much about them? Or it's newer? I'm new to the groms and found a quake on marketplace for $75 so I picked it up. First impressions are all good for it being high center gravity it doesn't seem very tippy. Main issue I'm running into is finding a battery besides stock that fits this thing! Do any of you have the quakes or not? And if not, do they just not interest you?

I might have preferred a mojave but I couldn't find one less than $150 but I think I want to get the mojave in the future to try out though.

I have an arrma vorteks and recently it has been overheating. Both the esc and motor feel hot to the touch. I can't even keep my finger on the motor for more than a second or so. The only things that I've changed are recalibrating my throttle endpoints and I have new batteries for it. Before changing throttle endpoints I couldn't get the thing to wheelie and top speed seemed to be suffering. Now it wheelies with ease and max speed goes 50. Nothing crazy as that's what it's rated for. But I would like to figure out why it is overheating now. Punch and brake settings are maxed out. They were maxed out before too when I was trying to get more speed out of the thing. Is the motor just bad and causing the esc to overheat or do I have another issue to maybe look for?

It has the blx100 esc in it. Do I need to try reprograming it? I've heard of people keeping their car on Max punch and brake and never having issues.

Got some full sends in this morning. Was hitting triples (and also the tree lol). My steering is worn and loose so I need to get that fixed so I can keep a straight line easier.

Anyways, I'm having issues with the ec5 connector popping out. I know I'm full sending it but even doing small jumps it wants to pop out. Anyone know why that would be and how to fix it?

After the third jump the motor cut out and wasnt wanting to turn the wheels. It was super choppy. Got it home and pulled it apart (only live like 3 mins from the park). It's definitely the motor. Did I just get the motor a bit too hot? I'm pretty new to RC so I've never had that happen before either.

Ordered 6 ovonic 5200mah batteries and had 3 of them bad out of the box or not reading voltage on two of the cells. Anyone else had this issue? I wanted to get SMC but the batteries I wanted were all out of stock everywhere I looked. Am now thinking I'll spend the extra cash and get premium batteries.

Added granite shock towers and typhon 6s shocks. I like the look of the vorteks body better than the granite so I 3d printed a body mount adapter to use the rear granite shock tower with the vorteks body mount. Turned out pretty good! (It has senton wheels on it cause that's what I bought it used with. I'm waiting on vorteks tires and will probably get granite tires to switch between the two. It would probable look better with the bigger granite tires)

I think it sits a little high. I saw that the team associated yellow springs were closest to the vorteks stock springs so I wanted to try them. I ran out of adjustment and that's how high it still sits. Waiting on the typhon springs to try that as they are softer so I could get it sitting lower. My goal was to get a vorteks with a vorteks stance but on longer travel upgraded suspension. I will try it how it is though and see how it works. I also bash and like to jump it so I might keep it taller to help with the hard landings.

What do you all think?

I don't remember it sounding like this but I never ran it on the table like I'm doing now. I'm newer to RC cars. I took this one apart to grease it and clean it (I got it used) and when I put it back together I thought I'd test it. Does this sound right? I thought it could be gear mesh but that seemed alright. And I've moved it around a bit and it's still making a similar noise. This is the best I've gotten it. It still has its composite slipper gear in it so I was thinking that's just the sound it makes?

I know the granite and the vorteks share the same body and I can make my vorteks a granite. The thing I'm mostly curious about is getting longer travel shocks on it. I can change the shock towers and shocks over to what the granite has and that would do that for me. I was wondering how much less stable that would make my truck. I was thinking of keeping the vortex wheels on it. If I did bigger wheels I would want to keep the vorteks body though. It looks a whole lot better than the granite does to me.

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Has anyone done this? How does it perform? Would it want to do more flips in the air or does air flipping come more from what tires are on the truck?

Pic of my new forerunner 970 that I'm loving for attention. Been loving the upgrade of having the flashlight the most but also love the maps and speaker/mic.

I don't get the argument that a lot of people make for needing better battery life if you could help me to understand that. These already all get insane battery life. I don't understand the argument and logic that people have here where they want the watch to have 1 month battery so the get the solar mip display. Or upgrading their watch with 10 days of battery life to one with 15. To me it seems all the same.

I have a hard time understanding why much more battery life is needed especially when these watches also charge super fast. I throw mine on the charger when I shower (only when battery percentage is getting low not every day) and it seems like most of the time its done within an hour which isn't that much time without having it off. I mean even if your watch lasts a week that's 1 out of 168 total hours you're not wearing your watch that's .6% of the time you are alive without having you're watch on. Not bad at all.

I 100% understand the issue with apple watch and other smart watches with their battery life cause those things don't last long at all. It does start to feel like a hassle charging it, especially when the battery wears down and it doesn't last more than a day. (I know the ultras exist. I had one before, and even that 3 days of battery life was fine by me.)

I'm just trying to understand. Do people just want to be wearing their watch 24/7 or are there other reasons that battery life matters that I'm not really seeing?

I am looking to trench in some sprinklers to my front yard but I'm not sure how many heads and zones I should do. I got around 7.5 gpm and 60 psi when I hooked to the hose bib I would probably tie into. I am open to rotary (I have a temporary setup where I ran garden hose to 6 Saturn 3s and have them set on a 2 zone set up. I am leaning towards fixed misting type if I'm already digging a trench though cause I heard they are more consistent as far as how much water gets on every area of grass. I was thinking I could do 15 but I'm not sure how to zone them based on my water pressure and gpm. Could I get away with less or is this a decent setup? Or is it not worth the pain and just trench in my 2 zones of rotary heads and call it good?