Build thread for my baby, Ground Control, a race board
Backstory/How This Happened
Backstory/How this Happened: P.S. This is LONG
I finished this build at 2:57pm, Sunday May 18th, 2020. This is my baby, the first part came 4 months ago, although it was by surprise.
The actual idea of building another board, a race board to be exact, happened after the first SoCal Outlaw race, September 22nd, 2019. @MoeStooge graciously let me ride one of his race boards. It was on a redember 44 deck and was setup for a 200lb rider The second I pulled the trigger I had felt nothing like it before. The power on Moe’s board is unmatched, Moe had warned me about it being powerful but this was something else. I edged around the track at a speedy 5-10mph due to me trying not to get thrown off the board. After that experience I texted Moe a week later asking about his race wheels, and when his next batch was planning on starting. That same day I asked if he could add me to the 3links waiting list. Mind you this is just after he started selling them publicly. Not exactly sure but I think I was in one of the first 2 or 3 batches of trucks he made. Anyways back to the story. Within the next week I had asked Moe countless questions regarding inrunners, Mamba Xlx’s, and his godly open gear drive. A couple weeks went by, and he started to develop his widened pneumatics. Starting with the six shooters and evolving into what we have today. Once a week or so I would bump Moe on what the progress was with 3links and widened wheels along with checking how my parts list worked.
Skip ahead to late December, just a couple days before Christmas. Something thin and long shows up in the mail addressed to me. I cut it open and right in front of me is the deck I was about to hit “Order” on! @FourteeOZ, My secret Santa, had sent me a Jet Killshot 40.5. I was amazed and so very grateful for it! Skip ahead to after Christmas and I was #4 on the list for 3links! The #3 spot was on the fence, and I was next in line for them! On the last day the person decided to buy the 3links, which bumped me into the next round. Moe had good news though and that was because he was making axles for the next round already! I was top of the list and guaranteed a spot in the next round!
Skipping ahead to March 2nd 2020 I was in contact with Moe and I pulled the trigger and had some Metro Hubs, tires, and mod1.5 gears sent to him to get “stoogified” This was about 1 1/2 months after a Moe had started testing his personal Metro wheels.
I’ve been talking a lot about Moe, so let’s cut to some other stuff and get back to that! Backing up to January 29th 2020 (Damn these dates are getting confusing) After talking on and off with @Sender Tim who has been crazy helpful and put up with all my questions (Although I probably annoy the heck outta him), I carved out some of my budget for my board to get “sexified” aka senderized.
After around a month of picking fabrics, changing ideas, and re picking fabrics it was late February. Tim put my deck in the que and then everything went downhill… Covid lockdowns in the US started and everything. Tim handled it all well and got my deck finished super fast still.
March 23rd came around and Tim started to glass frit my deck while Moe had finished up my trucks and wheels and shipped them out that day. April 6th rolls around and Tim is getting my deck ready when he pulls a fast one and dips to Mexico… Then he woke up and got reminded that the borders closed He shipped my deck out with a mounted enclosure and Akhulut plates! It all arrived safe and sound and looking freaking amazing! Honestly Tim, I don’t know how you do it!
Splitting off again this time without exact dates (don’t worry ) I took part in the QB group buy hosted by @klaus79856. Everyone’s cells came in and arrived to them… Except mine. Mine were shipped to @Jansen, the SoCal cell distributor in the group buy. Took MONTHS to get a date right, but finally everything lined up. Jansen was heading down to SD to do crazy speed stuff with Mike and Lei @370HSSV grabbed my cells from him for me. @BluPenguin Meng , the new resident SoCal Battery builder god grabbed my cells from Lei and started work on my pack. Couple weeks later with a few minor hiccups and here we are… Okay now that you read that whole thing time to get into what you want to here…
Oh and P.S. Special thanks to @Arzamenable for A. Hooking me up with a GT2B which is running on this board and B. For reminding me not to be a complete idiot while riding. Also special thanks to @ahrav resident “Unity Button Dude” who hooked me up with a Unity button when mine came without one. And if anyone one is wondering, me and Jansen are chill now
He’s been helping me out
Thank YOU @KOOK for making me not mess up my hubs!!!
Spec Time!
Top Speed: 57.8mph
Range: 30-35 Cruising ESTIMATED 20-25 Pushing hard (This is with full batt setup)
Battery: Internal 13s4p 40T with optional AUX 13s2p 40T Parallel pack
Amps: 120/180a
Gear Ratio: 24/58
Drive system: @MoeStooge Open Gear Drive
Tires: Metro 155mm’s
VESC: Focbox Unity (For Now)
Telemetry: Metr Pro
Parts list
Deck: @Sender Jet Killshot 40.5
Trucks: @MoeStooge 3links
Wheels: @MoeStooge Stretched Metrohubs
Drive System: @MoeStooge Open Gear Drive
Motors: 2x @torqueboards 6380 170kv
VESC: Focbox Unity (@Arch 100D Later)
Battery: @BluPenguin 13s4p/6p 40T
Enclosure: @BigBen Killshot Enclosure
Remote: @Arzamenable Modded GT2B
Button: @ahrav Unity Button
External Batt CAD: @yelnats8j
Telemetry: @rpasichnyk @hexakopter Metr Pro
Name: @MoeStooge Suggested build name
Mid Building Pics!
Mid Building Pics and First ride ever video :
End of Motor shaft after hacksawing
Soldering MR60’s
Electronics all in!
Accidental heart shaped sensor wiring
And She is Ready!!!
(PM me if you would like the first ride video!)
Thank you so much to everyone who helped me with this board and made it a dream come true! Thank you for answering all my questions and tolerating my stupidity! Thank you so so much again I hope to meet more of you fellow Socalians and join more group rides! Thank you for reading and helping
See you on the streets!
Peace see y’all in the morning!