Hopless hop up for old Maxx?

[Beane_O]

I have the old E-Maxx and I am planning on hopping it up some. I have been looking at Kershaw Design stuff and he has some things I differently want to get. But there is one thing I really want to replace on the Old Maxx that I can't seem to find. I want to replace the plastic shafts for metal ones that connect between the diff and wheel. Thus far this all I could find from Rc Monsters site: http://www.rc-monster.com/proddetail.php?prod=RCMdiffshaft&cat=17

The problem I see with this is that it is in the list with hop ups for the new E-Maxx. What advice you all may have? I'm stumped.

[Cajun]

Use some Revo or 3.3Maxx shafts instead of the metal ones. They're much easier to find, cheaper and you can cut down the length if need be to make a custom length shaft. You will ne too upgrade your wheel hibs to 3.3, but you can usually find all of it pretty cheap on Ebay. I think it cost me $30 to upgrade my Maxx to 3.3 shafts.

[Beane_O]

so should those shafts handle thw torq of a brushless system? I ment to add that to what I was planing to do with one of my hop ups.

[Cajun]

Yeah, they should handle the torq just fine from a brushless. My Revo 3.3 conversion has never had a problem with the shafts.

[Beane_O]

Yeah, they should handle the torq just fine from a brushless. My Revo 3.3 conversion has never had a problem with the shafts.

That's good to know. Are or were your center shafts metal or plastic?

[Cajun]

Centers are the stock 3.3 plastic too on my Revo. They're starting to get a little sloppy, a little slack in the yokes, but they have held up for 2+ years.

[Beane_O]

okay, that's kewl. The only thing is my shafts have been thrown out twice. Once I was WOT into a garden and the other I know for sure was not good and that was going reverse then hitting forward. Yeah, it killed the rear diff but made a hell of a double reverse flip.  I will deffenetly be more careful but I do want to upgrade this thing to BL when I get the $$$.

[Cajun]

That's the stock shafts. The 3.3s are quite a bit beefier, I'd be suprised if you could blow those out. I've had zero problems with shafts on the Revo and I have beat the snot out of it.

[RCShocker]

The 3.3s are quite a bit beefier, I'd be suprised if you could blow those out. I've had zero problems with shafts on the Revo and I have beat the snot out of it.

I must agree.


Wanna see a comparison?










These are the Traxxas centers on an E-Maxx I built for my son (since sold):



Here are my centers: Thats a MIP front and then an extended dogbone for my extended chassis. RCMonster Mike can make dogbones any length you like I believe.