Working on a few updates throughout today & tomorrow since I'm stuck at home with my 2 little monsters.
I received a snazzy little piece from EverretY a couple of weeks ago & this will be 1 of the changes...
I guess he designed this CF motor plate for NCD so they sent him a handful & he was nice enough to give me 1 outta his stash. Thanks kiddo "thumbsup"
As always...the machining & material comin outta the NCD camp is top notch.
A few weeks ago Chris over at Creation Fab texted me to tell me they had a shipment of 450mAh packs coming in & I'd better jump on it if I wanted some.
I tried switching over to the Gens Ace 450's a couple seasons ago only to have a pack die mid course...TWICE. So I promptly yanked em & went back to my trusty Thunder Power 850mAh packs. I've had these TP's for a LONG time. Out of the 15 packs that I have, about a third have a date of 2009 on em :shock: Still...no puffing & all the punch I need.
But they're just too huge & I'm tired of my tire getting into em, ripping em from their mount so that I can drag em around the course until they finally come unplugged.
So here's the new STACK-O-PACKS...
I ended up grabbing a dozen of em so that I had plenty for the 2.2p rig as well as the sporto.
1st thing I always do with my packs is tag em with my name, date & number em. So far...I'm digging em. I plan on getting out this weekend & running a pack HARD & timing it's life...but I'm sure they'll be fine.
I broke the steering wheel on my 4PKS. NO CLUE as to how but it happened & only the foam "tire" was keeping it from falling apart.
I had a brand new Dynamite aluminum wheel from my DX3R days & figured it would not only LOOK disco...it would be strong. But of course it wasn't gonna just fit so after removing the old wheel & the "disc brakes" from the TX...I had to bust out the 5 axis Dremel to machine a new seat so that it would fit on the Foo-tah-buh radio.
OK...Onto some actual work.
I built this rig pretty quick as it's been mentioned. I did literally ZERO tuning & built her VERY neutral just to get her on the rocks. I grabbed my spare set of aluminum SCX shocks, threw some Mini-T silvers up front & blues out back. I couldn't remember what weight oil I built em with months before this but figured it had to be around the 30 range.
Since getting some play time with the rig...I wasn't liking how stiff she seemed. For most, it probably woulda worked fine but I like my rigs loosey goosey so I started the rebuild by yanking the shocks.
I completely rebuilt em with new O-rings & the new machined SCX pistons. I did my usual greasing of the seals & Teflon top & bottom to keep leaking at bay. I know some don't like the Teflon idea but as long as you don't go overboard with it...it DOES help. The biggest issue I see when people do this is they wrap the poo outta the threads & it SPREADS the plastic cap actually opening the threads...if not splitting the caps.
I filled all 4 with 35w Losi oil to start & threaded the Mini-T silvers onto the JeepinD retainers up front & MRC silvers out back.
A WCRCC club member Snail78 made me these snazzy collars outta delerin to eliminate the bulky aluminum "nut" that comes stock on these shocks.
I also went to the bent link ends to help the shafts clearance the servo arm & drag link a little better.
After popping in some aluminum Revo balls...the long ended turds up front to eliminate the Axial spacer...I mounted em up on the Nino Tres Locos chassis. Again....fairly neutral locations with rears 1 hole forward & the fronts, 2 holes forward.
Here's that long hollow ball that acts as a stand-off...
That's where I left off last night. Today I'll be installing that CF motor plate from Ev & NCD along with replacing the CVD I bent to piss 1 minute into a little shakedown.
I'll also be playing with the steering a little & tuning the foams but this is how she's sitting this morning...
I'm still learning this new camera but someday I'll figger out how to keep all my pics the same temp. Same issue I had with my cell's camera. Rookies huh?
Stay tuned for more Nino Tres Locos Mokos...
