MN82 Toyota Showdown stock vs. slightly modified

Testing two MN82 Toyotas, yellow is slightly modified and the red one is fresh out of the box, I'm kind of surprised. Video is long but tested in several different areas.

[@daijoubu4529]

I wonder if modding the stock electronic will yeild better performance, the battery leads wire gauge is sooo very thin, the motor and switch are slighty bigger gauge but that switch is so dinky, those small slide switchare only rated for like 0.2-0.5A DC, I would bypass the switch and wire it another battery connector/leads with at least 20awg, the stock rx/esc motor controller is the SA8336D which is capable of 7A continuous and 14A peak current but with that much voltage loss/resistance in the wire, forget about that lol edit: I just checked and the switch is wire with 24AWG, I measure the resitance of the power leads and its also probably 24AWG, just looks thinner because of the thin sheath, but then the connector is also a limiting factor, JST PH 2.0mm are only rated for 2A max

[@SRCE2070]

In this video the yellow truck has a WPL 30amp esc running 3s, it has plenty of power and wheel speed, I even changed to thicker motor wires, huge difference over the red one.

[@aeroelastic6736]

@srce2070 what about the low speed control of the 30amp esc? Does it give more torque? For slow crawl. Still with stock motor.

[@sergeantmtb]

​@@SRCE2070 on stock remote and receiver?

[@daijoubu4529]

I would run it on 2nd speed which has drag brake, capped at 50% PWM

[@SRCE2070]

Yes I agree but not a great drag brake, the WPL 30amp 3s esc will actually hold the truck on a hill.

[@daijoubu4529]

@@SRCE2070 yeah i did brushless conversion and the truck holds by itself without power hahaha

[@SRCE2070]

@@daijoubu4529 That makes sense, I was comparing two brushed trucks, yellow has 30amp 3s WPL esc and the red one is completely stock.