killerkrank
Newbie
so, first i want to start with stating that i know not all of you will read the whole way through this but i want to post it not only to tell you guys but it can also be a helpful log for myself. should you read the whole way through, post something up to tell me what you think and should you have any questions please don't hold back. anyway....
so, i had been debating for some time and after finally getting my yeti i instantly fell in love. the yeti is a very originally handling machine. the positive attribute to it are instantly very obvious. now as i was pleased with the way it handled and ran, there is always room for improvement. after running for a little while and playing i made my first plans for upgrade. i had very quickly made my mind for a choice of speed. now i'm not sure if i did this at a different angle from everyone else or not but i figured if the big trucks worked well, why couldn't my yeti be a good candidate for the same approach, so first i made my transmission a two speed. upgraded the radio to a dx4c and the 4210 receiver. my first run with the two speed proved a failure. ran it straight into the railing along side our porch and broke the turnbuckle for the steering. nice going. went to a hobby shop and picked up parts to fix.
now since i got that going i figured the next step was to change out my gearing some. small step to start. 18 tooth spur gear. now i know that that's not a big change but being that the untold part of this story is that it was a preowned yeti i guess yeah, the next failure would have been the diff wouldn't it? so now the diff has gone i upgraded it to the axial hd bevel. still the 38/13. now. since ive started upgrading ive been having a problem with my receiver shutting down. after consulting with you friendly folks and you confirming what i feared i came to the conclusion that the digital servos i put in had burned out the bec in my stock vangaurd esc. now this all set off a motion. now this is where it kinda gets complicated. when i upgraded to the two speed i upgraded to the dx4c/4210 transmitter receiver combo. but that receiver can only be run with digital servos. or else it has a habit of burning servos, at least that i have found. lost a handful of servos to it.) now for some reason the servos killed the bec and it was shutting down the receiver. for some reason the bec going killed the esc completely. anyone seeing how unfortunate this is?
so, in one foul, i got bold. added in a cc bec 2.0, motor cooling fan, esc cooling fan, changed out for a sidewinder v3 and changed from a 18t pinion to a 22 tooth pinion. now anyone who has done this has found that this thing becomes a little monster. add in the hyrax 2.2's and you'll know that this thing is seriously getting fast. the handling is a bit sub par at this point. no weight in the back and front suspension is bottoming out to fast. so i got a big gens ace 7000 mah battery. it just....JUST barely fits in the battery bay. now the rear springs are too light. upgraded the rear springs. doubled the stiffness and the rear was taken care of. the front i got a little midieval on. the girlfriends uncle had bought shocks for the rear of his yeti but were two short. i saw possibility. i bought them. now they were 10mm longer then the front shocks. they wouldn't work well with the chassis the way it was, so i made a modification. the control arms are only held back from continuing to rotate down by the chassis itself. so i cut the chassis back a little bit and put the shocks in and voila. long. travel. suspension. which does exactly as its name suggests. the car now has a full 4 inches of suspension travel. it cam come through my yard at full speed and never leave the ground and my yard isn't exactly.....smooth.
now. at the end of this tail i will give you only one more detail. the stock tranny gearing is 26/28. if you don't already know, the 2 spd kit gives you options. my high gear in the transmission is a 28/26. now i'm now good at math but there are sites for this stuff so i fed my info in and it gave me answers out. i should be hitting a top speed of 44.8 mph. i believe in actuality i'm closer to 38 or 36. theorize and all. i imagine i'm pretty close to this but can tell you for sure so instead ill give you leave to tell me your thoughts.
so, i had been debating for some time and after finally getting my yeti i instantly fell in love. the yeti is a very originally handling machine. the positive attribute to it are instantly very obvious. now as i was pleased with the way it handled and ran, there is always room for improvement. after running for a little while and playing i made my first plans for upgrade. i had very quickly made my mind for a choice of speed. now i'm not sure if i did this at a different angle from everyone else or not but i figured if the big trucks worked well, why couldn't my yeti be a good candidate for the same approach, so first i made my transmission a two speed. upgraded the radio to a dx4c and the 4210 receiver. my first run with the two speed proved a failure. ran it straight into the railing along side our porch and broke the turnbuckle for the steering. nice going. went to a hobby shop and picked up parts to fix.
now since i got that going i figured the next step was to change out my gearing some. small step to start. 18 tooth spur gear. now i know that that's not a big change but being that the untold part of this story is that it was a preowned yeti i guess yeah, the next failure would have been the diff wouldn't it? so now the diff has gone i upgraded it to the axial hd bevel. still the 38/13. now. since ive started upgrading ive been having a problem with my receiver shutting down. after consulting with you friendly folks and you confirming what i feared i came to the conclusion that the digital servos i put in had burned out the bec in my stock vangaurd esc. now this all set off a motion. now this is where it kinda gets complicated. when i upgraded to the two speed i upgraded to the dx4c/4210 transmitter receiver combo. but that receiver can only be run with digital servos. or else it has a habit of burning servos, at least that i have found. lost a handful of servos to it.) now for some reason the servos killed the bec and it was shutting down the receiver. for some reason the bec going killed the esc completely. anyone seeing how unfortunate this is?
so, in one foul, i got bold. added in a cc bec 2.0, motor cooling fan, esc cooling fan, changed out for a sidewinder v3 and changed from a 18t pinion to a 22 tooth pinion. now anyone who has done this has found that this thing becomes a little monster. add in the hyrax 2.2's and you'll know that this thing is seriously getting fast. the handling is a bit sub par at this point. no weight in the back and front suspension is bottoming out to fast. so i got a big gens ace 7000 mah battery. it just....JUST barely fits in the battery bay. now the rear springs are too light. upgraded the rear springs. doubled the stiffness and the rear was taken care of. the front i got a little midieval on. the girlfriends uncle had bought shocks for the rear of his yeti but were two short. i saw possibility. i bought them. now they were 10mm longer then the front shocks. they wouldn't work well with the chassis the way it was, so i made a modification. the control arms are only held back from continuing to rotate down by the chassis itself. so i cut the chassis back a little bit and put the shocks in and voila. long. travel. suspension. which does exactly as its name suggests. the car now has a full 4 inches of suspension travel. it cam come through my yard at full speed and never leave the ground and my yard isn't exactly.....smooth.
now. at the end of this tail i will give you only one more detail. the stock tranny gearing is 26/28. if you don't already know, the 2 spd kit gives you options. my high gear in the transmission is a 28/26. now i'm now good at math but there are sites for this stuff so i fed my info in and it gave me answers out. i should be hitting a top speed of 44.8 mph. i believe in actuality i'm closer to 38 or 36. theorize and all. i imagine i'm pretty close to this but can tell you for sure so instead ill give you leave to tell me your thoughts.
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