turbodan13
Quarry Creeper
It all started when I picked up an HPI Mini Trophy, years ago. While it was a great looking truck, it just didn't cut it. It's now on shelf queen duties. I've been wanting another trophy truck for a while (hey, who doesn't want one?), but the SCORE TTs seem to be near impossible to find these days. I've already got a beast of a Yeti built up, so I didn't want to cut into that for this build. After seeing Rivas Concepts' truck, I knew this would be a fun project.
I won't bore you with the basics... I started with the KORP Kit, built it up and gave it a few runs to see how it worked. Not too shabby for a basic RWD MOA truck. It's a far cry from the old Grasshoppers of eons ago! As it sits now, All the rubber has been swapped out for Proline 1.9 Class 1 BFGs. Those are mounted on some Chanquish Method clones. Shocks are the stock alloy-bodied Kyosho units (which are pretty darn smooth, I must say). The rears have been swapped into the forward of the two mounting positions, with a set of 113mm GMade secondary shocks from the GOM in the rear position. Doing the position swap on the 100mm stockers gains another 8-10mm of downward suspension travel. I do feel that some limiting straps will be needed, just to keep from blowing out the driveshaft at full extension.
Power is currently an old Duratrax Onyx brushless 2S system (see also: re-badged Castle Sidewinder). It's plenty quick on 2S, so that's most likely where it will stay. The new setup is going to be a Hobbywing Xerun 3652 & XR8 SCT sensored system... staying on 2S. The truck is fairly light, by comparison, so I don't think it needs to be any faster. I do want it to live past its first run. Haha!
Transmission is, for now, or until I find a better setup, a standard Axial 3 gear unit with the front-facing output shaft cut off. Space is tight, so there's no need for an unneeded spinning bit in there. Driveshaft is just some 10.2/10.3 parts cobbled together, mainly for mock-up/positioning right now. This all drives an SSD Diamond axle, for the OG SCX10. Vanquish axle shafts, Axial AR60 overdrive gearing, Yeti open diff internals with 2M silicon diff "fluid"... which is more like glue than fluid.
Yeah, yeah... I know... a thread is useless without pics. These are just a few from tinkering with things/eyeballing parts fitment. I'll have a proper build thread going soon enough. But in the meantime, here ya go, ya savages!
I won't bore you with the basics... I started with the KORP Kit, built it up and gave it a few runs to see how it worked. Not too shabby for a basic RWD MOA truck. It's a far cry from the old Grasshoppers of eons ago! As it sits now, All the rubber has been swapped out for Proline 1.9 Class 1 BFGs. Those are mounted on some Chanquish Method clones. Shocks are the stock alloy-bodied Kyosho units (which are pretty darn smooth, I must say). The rears have been swapped into the forward of the two mounting positions, with a set of 113mm GMade secondary shocks from the GOM in the rear position. Doing the position swap on the 100mm stockers gains another 8-10mm of downward suspension travel. I do feel that some limiting straps will be needed, just to keep from blowing out the driveshaft at full extension.
Power is currently an old Duratrax Onyx brushless 2S system (see also: re-badged Castle Sidewinder). It's plenty quick on 2S, so that's most likely where it will stay. The new setup is going to be a Hobbywing Xerun 3652 & XR8 SCT sensored system... staying on 2S. The truck is fairly light, by comparison, so I don't think it needs to be any faster. I do want it to live past its first run. Haha!
Transmission is, for now, or until I find a better setup, a standard Axial 3 gear unit with the front-facing output shaft cut off. Space is tight, so there's no need for an unneeded spinning bit in there. Driveshaft is just some 10.2/10.3 parts cobbled together, mainly for mock-up/positioning right now. This all drives an SSD Diamond axle, for the OG SCX10. Vanquish axle shafts, Axial AR60 overdrive gearing, Yeti open diff internals with 2M silicon diff "fluid"... which is more like glue than fluid.
Yeah, yeah... I know... a thread is useless without pics. These are just a few from tinkering with things/eyeballing parts fitment. I'll have a proper build thread going soon enough. But in the meantime, here ya go, ya savages!
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