This thread is meant to document the changes of this truck for the end of the current season plus beginning of next.
So the truck was originally built about 2 years ago using a v1c1 chassis with trx4 axles due to ar45p axles being difficult or expensive to get. The rest of the build was a tgh fmm with a slipper and 56t spur, to a tgh transfer case. Shocks were 90? mm dravtechs. Wheels and tires: tgh wheels and proline hyrax’s. Electronics were castle copperhead, 2700kv trail master brushless, reefs 422v2 and a savox 2290 on a tgh dsm.
Body is a rc4wd Mojave with a marlin bed. The center of the bed was removed to save weight and replaced with thin styrene. I cut the hood off and used a bow house hinge kit for scale points as well as a gspeed roof rack and scaled fab roll bar. Front bumper is a wide tgh adjustable with rear being I believe an ierc. Also some sale items in the bed for more points. Interior is from rc4wd with snake eyes and lady jay driving.
Now onto how it did….
First comp it did…… well TERRIBLE. It left the start gate as soon as the front tires hit a rock, the slipper hated life.
By the next time out I installed a spacer for the slipper and it helped, but didn’t fix anything. That was the end of the first year with it…..
During the off season the truck underwent a bit of changes. First swapped the axels for a set of ar45p, also swapped the dravtechs for 10.3 takeoffs to remove the Carolina squat. Also swapped to a hobbywing 1080 and Holmes brushed motor.
Results:
First comp, started off fantastic but fell off due to a nut backing off. First course I was the only one with no penalties! Second course I wasn’t the best or worst. Third course I was doing ok until the issue. But still finished 3 out of 4 regardless
Second comp:
This one was another in between. Some gates were ridiculously tight, plus some driving errors. Finished 3rd again because I was too confident in the truck and went for a bonus that nobody made. Other guy who went for it finished right behind me. I noticed some issues though, basically the servo is glitching a little bit plus it could use a little more wheel speed.
So onto the changes!
First thing is I’m getting rid of the stock proline foams in favor of voodoo halos! Also will be switching to a Holmes tug buddy and shv650 among others
Pics from when it was first built:
I’ll post updated pics as changes happen
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So the truck was originally built about 2 years ago using a v1c1 chassis with trx4 axles due to ar45p axles being difficult or expensive to get. The rest of the build was a tgh fmm with a slipper and 56t spur, to a tgh transfer case. Shocks were 90? mm dravtechs. Wheels and tires: tgh wheels and proline hyrax’s. Electronics were castle copperhead, 2700kv trail master brushless, reefs 422v2 and a savox 2290 on a tgh dsm.
Body is a rc4wd Mojave with a marlin bed. The center of the bed was removed to save weight and replaced with thin styrene. I cut the hood off and used a bow house hinge kit for scale points as well as a gspeed roof rack and scaled fab roll bar. Front bumper is a wide tgh adjustable with rear being I believe an ierc. Also some sale items in the bed for more points. Interior is from rc4wd with snake eyes and lady jay driving.
Now onto how it did….
First comp it did…… well TERRIBLE. It left the start gate as soon as the front tires hit a rock, the slipper hated life.
By the next time out I installed a spacer for the slipper and it helped, but didn’t fix anything. That was the end of the first year with it…..
During the off season the truck underwent a bit of changes. First swapped the axels for a set of ar45p, also swapped the dravtechs for 10.3 takeoffs to remove the Carolina squat. Also swapped to a hobbywing 1080 and Holmes brushed motor.
Results:
First comp, started off fantastic but fell off due to a nut backing off. First course I was the only one with no penalties! Second course I wasn’t the best or worst. Third course I was doing ok until the issue. But still finished 3 out of 4 regardless
Second comp:
This one was another in between. Some gates were ridiculously tight, plus some driving errors. Finished 3rd again because I was too confident in the truck and went for a bonus that nobody made. Other guy who went for it finished right behind me. I noticed some issues though, basically the servo is glitching a little bit plus it could use a little more wheel speed.
So onto the changes!
First thing is I’m getting rid of the stock proline foams in favor of voodoo halos! Also will be switching to a Holmes tug buddy and shv650 among others
Pics from when it was first built:
I’ll post updated pics as changes happen
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
