Harley's LS Hero Rock Bouncer

[Harley]

Like many others, I get sucked in watching these big piles of tube try and climb a hill with the finesse of a sledgehammer. Seems like something right up my alley. After hours of watching these videos I found a rig that I felt I wanted to loosely model my project after. Trenton Park's LS Hero.

​

So now my next project begins, or I guess it technically began several months ago when I traded a bunch of berg comp rig parts to my buddy Colby for him to finish up a building a chassis for me. The chassis is scheduled to arrive in just minutes and I'm looking forward to start mocking things up.

 

[Harley]

Setup
Front Axle
Vanquish Currie Axle
Vanquish Knuckles and C's
Axial Universals


Rear Axle
Centered Currie axle
Custom shafts

Rolling Stock
Orange 2.2 Methods
Axial BFG's
Crawler Innovations foams

Transmission
Super Shafty goodies

Driveshafts
MIP or Junfac depending on clearances.

Suspension
4" Shocks of some sort.

Power and Control
Holmes Hobbies BRXL
13t Crawlmaster
Futaba 4PKS-R
Futaba BLS157

 

[Harley]

Videos:

Episode 1
<iframe width="640" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9WbP_RJm9-c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>


Episode 2
<iframe width="640" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/AmmEF7o-baI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

[STANG KILLA SS]

Current Setup:

Videos:

awesome!

 

[Harley]

awesome!

:mrgreen:

They will fill in quickly...

 

[scottanthony]

Sub'd like its gonna be good!!

 

[JohnRobHolmes]

When you wear out that crawlmaster, a big block outrunner would look pretty good in it :mrgreen:

 

[Harley]

When you wear out that crawlmaster, a big block outrunner would look pretty good in it :mrgreen:

I wanted to go brushed for simplicity and ESC packaging. Unless you know of a new little brushless ESC I could run...

 

[Ballistic17]

Can't wait to see this progress.

 

[arcanecrawler89]

kinda surprised ur runnig the axial bfg tires after the review from ur budget build...

 

[Harley]

kinda surprised ur runnig the axial bfg tires after the review from ur budget build...

The stock tires are stiff but I still liked them. The R35 versions are very nice though. Having a hard time not running swampers but I really like these BFG'S.

 

[Brandon]

The stock tires are stiff but I still liked them. The R35 versions are very nice though. Having a hard time not running stampers but I really like these BFG'S.

The R35's are awesome, one of my favorite scale 2.2 tires. For RTR tires the S40 standard compound is pretty dang impressive, I think you found a perfect home for them.

 

[jwalker]

This this is looking good, I really want to build a bouncer some day but I need to finish my other builds lol. Kinda thinking about building a large scale bouncer.

 

[Harley]

The R35's are awesome, one of my favorite scale 2.2 tires. For RTR tires the S40 standard compound is pretty dang impressive, I think you found a perfect home for them.

Yup, exactly the same way I felt. I was impressed with them even in the harder compound on the PSC Wraith. I think the lack of traction over the R35 versions will work well in this rig for pictures and video.

 

[Szczerba]

I wanted to go brushed for simplicity and ESC packaging. Unless you know of a new little brushless ESC I could run...

Mamba Max Pro 1 Cell?

...



Sent from my thumbs.

 

[Colby]

Josh- First off I want to say it was a pleasure working with you. I apologize for it taking longer than I originally anticipated. I think in the end it came out extremely badass and I am excited to see how it works out for ya "thumbsup"

Secondly, you got it... so wheres your pics of it?! all thems the ones I sent you! :twisted:

 

[Harley]

Mamba Max Pro 1 Cell?

...



Sent from my thumbs.

I didn't think that was really any smaller. The Tekin RSpro is an option but I would really love to have this truck be simple with going back to some brushed power.

 

[Harley]

Josh- First off I want to say it was a pleasure working with you. I apologize for it taking longer than I originally anticipated. I think in the end it came out extremely badass and I am excited to see how it works out for ya "thumbsup"

Secondly, you got it... so wheres your pics of it?! all thems the ones I sent you! :twisted:

Worked on it all night. Shot some video and just came upstairs. Going to edit some of it together and get it posted up tonight.

 

[Harley]

Working on mock up and such tonight, I threw it on top of the PSC Wraith. I'll be sticking with this same wheelbase I suppose.

 

[Bulldog]

Nice to see you turning to the dark side Josh.:lmao:

KOH, SRRS, Redneck offroad...it's all good. It's hard not to appreciate a southern buggy. Nice work guys. Can't wait to see it pulled together.8)