Cool pics. I've always been intrigued by the Telluride. I've got About half the parts to build a Telly from scratch. I would have to invest probably $200-250 To complete it? Or I could just swap parts on my stampede 4X4. Do you think it's redundant to build one even though I have a TRX4 sport, and a Wroncho?
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If you have or can get your hands on a brushed Stampede 4x4 for cheap, that’s what I would use as a base to build another then add the Telluride suspension, body, mounts, and SCT rolling stock of choice. Reason for the brushed vs brushless is that the brushed is geared shorter at the rings and pinions out of the box vs the brushless and gives you a better final drive to work with, then you just need spools (HotRacing had them, bought some but haven’t installed them yet) or an egg of Silly Putty (which is still working fine and why the spools aren’t installed) to lock those diffs. I also recommend that if you’re using using the standard Traxxas “Long” style front shocks up front,’get the “X-Long” shafts from the E/T-Maxx and put them in the “Long” bodies as you don’t lose any any off the compressed length and you gain droop. I also just used the rear shocks as they came other than the RPM spring cups and rod ends, the springs are even the factory pieces!
As for redundancy, keep in mind, I have a SCX10 that was converted from a AX10 Scorpion and a Wheely King that was flipped and stretched using Savage, T/E-Maxx, and Revo parts and both were built prior to the Telluride coming to market back in 2013 and have even built a Tamiya MF-01x Jimny along these lines, but was able to add the portals from a Monster Beetle TR to it and make that work just as good as the Telluride does, so far as I can tell at this point.
Looks good. I haven't driven my Telluride in a long time...but I haven't driven any of my other RCs in a long time either. Too busy with work, homeownership, and parenting. My kid is a toddler now and he's continuously doing things that require supervision. When he was an infant, parents with toddlers would comment to me about how active he was. I didn't realize the implications of those comments at the time. That level of activity, combined with his attitude of "I wan' dangewous!", means when he's awake he requires constant shepherding to avoid intentionally running into traffic.
This thread reminds me of the good old days, when I actually drove my RCs for fun instead of just giving them a quick test to make sure they work and then moving on to the next project. On the other hand, "the good old days" in my case involved years-long mental illness that I hadn't yet figured out how to treat effectively, but my RCs were a bright spot.
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MaX-D, the Telluride is a unique drive. It's almost impossible to topple over due to its low center of gravity. Of course its ground clearance isn't the best and it's definitely not scale, but it's nonetheless intriguing to see an independent-suspension "truck" doing the same job as all the solid-axle crawlers out there. It flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that solid axles are indisputably the best way to crawl.
Between my change of career, being busy with a sick parent and my current work, the Covid hitting shortly after she passed, followed by me getting a nasty case of MRSA a couple months ago, I haven’t done much crawling in years and most of my R/Cs have been parked. Don’t have any kids either, though I do have an 18 m/o niece that is getting that way for her parents. My Sister caught her playing with her surviving Grandma’s lap top and wearing her readers after disappearing on them, then when she realized she had an audience, she just looked at my Sister and smiled at her.
I love to fly in the face of conventional wisdom. Go against the grain if you will. I've got a set of shortcourse Pitbull Rockbeast tires in alien compound just begging for a project like this.
That's it! I'm doing it! Build thread to commence shortly.
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What Fyrstormer says about it being a unique experience is right, in some areas of the park I was at, it will pull lines that my SCX10 will and out crawl my friend’s box stock Ridgecrest RTR as well. One thing that in my opinion that does help is that with it being a SCT based platform, the chassis it shares with the Stampede 4x4 makes for one big skid plate, kinda like Jeep does with it’s Trailhawk package on the crossovers, just with even more area to skid on! The reason I call mine Blasphemy is that these things got huge amounts of hate for just being a rehash or a rehash and then not being a “real” crawler or trail truck since it’s SCT based with an indie suspension all around instead of solid axles. Making it into a trail rig was kinda blasphemous, so the name seemed appropriate and two middle fingers way, way up (as in
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I’ll keep an eye out for that thread, can’t wait to see your spin on the concept"thumbsup"
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