{"id":102,"date":"2013-05-22T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/wordpress\/?p=102"},"modified":"2013-05-22T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T00:40:00","slug":"under-the-hood-with-tekin-powered-ryan-lutz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/under-the-hood-with-tekin-powered-ryan-lutz\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Hood with Tekin powered Ryan Lutz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known as one of the nicest most approachable guys in RC racing, Ryan Lutz chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>electronics after meeting team manager Randy Pike at a local race. &#8220;Lutz had recently defected to California and into my backyard. We began talking and he&#8217;d mentioned he was tough on electronics and often ran into issues running the classes. Tekin took it on as a personal challenge and he&#8217;s been on the team ever since.&#8221; Randy Pike<\/p>\n<p>So when asked what was Ryan&#8217;s favorite electric class ride to show off he didn&#8217;t hesitate to whip out his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>powered Team Durango Dex408 buggy. Let&#8217;s take a look at what&#8217;s &#8220;under the hood&#8221; of Lutz&#8217;s E buggy.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9gO8g3M81u0\/UZwQYdq4sVI\/AAAAAAAAE4c\/vNIKyA7CYHY\/s1600\/IMG_0721.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9gO8g3M81u0\/UZwQYdq4sVI\/AAAAAAAAE4c\/vNIKyA7CYHY\/s400\/IMG_0721.jpg\" width=\"300\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ryan chooses to run a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/t8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin T8 1900kv<\/a> motor controlled by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rx8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin Rx8 Gen2<\/a> esc. Powering up his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>system are a pair of Protek 100c 2s packs. Check out that fly white wire!<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-85tIYDxLei4\/UZwQgoXebhI\/AAAAAAAAE40\/rKtU9mXEeuE\/s1600\/IMG_6558.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-85tIYDxLei4\/UZwQgoXebhI\/AAAAAAAAE40\/rKtU9mXEeuE\/s320\/IMG_6558.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ryan learned everything he knows about clean wiring and beautiful soldering from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>team manager Randy Pike \ud83d\ude09 \u00a0Look at that install job!<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-PQGXoa0C-PY\/UZwQhWzBgZI\/AAAAAAAAE48\/ZBpL7NIVZKc\/s1600\/IMG_8952.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-PQGXoa0C-PY\/UZwQhWzBgZI\/AAAAAAAAE48\/ZBpL7NIVZKc\/s320\/IMG_8952.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As if Ryan wasn&#8217;t easy enough to spot roaming around the race track at well over 6 1\/2 feet tall he runs his well known Blue\/Pink paint scheme with AKA white wheels. \u00a0If you ever get the chance make sure to stop by and say &#8220;hi&#8221; to Mr. Lutz.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-plvnEnMxrbQ\/UZwQZAnK57I\/AAAAAAAAE4s\/iKd6GA138VQ\/s1600\/IMG_2873.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-plvnEnMxrbQ\/UZwQZAnK57I\/AAAAAAAAE4s\/iKd6GA138VQ\/s400\/IMG_2873.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Be sure to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/lutzinator.com\/lutzrc\/cart\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Lutz RC<\/span><\/a>, follow Ryan on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lutzrc?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a>, and catch his race reports <a href=\"http:\/\/lutzinator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span>here<\/span><\/a>!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known as one of the nicest most approachable guys in RC racing, Ryan Lutz chose Tekin electronics after meeting team manager Randy Pike at a local race. &#8220;Lutz had recently defected to California and into my backyard. We began talking and he&#8217;d mentioned he was tough on electronics and often \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/under-the-hood-with-tekin-powered-ryan-lutz\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}