Hvrc
Quarry Creeper
http://m94.photobucket.com/albums/cornbread7o7/mini slash vxl trail runner/ ok it seems as if my iPod won't copy and paste this URL correctly. On photobucket.com search for "cornbread7o7" then click veiw album. If someone with a pc or mac could post the link for me I would be a very happy new member!
Hopefully that link worked for my pics along the way.
On the trx forums people were talking about a mini summit and how Traxxas should make one. I thought, why not build it myself?! And so started my journey. I've been using my pede chevy body as a shell. The wheel base doesn't exactly sit perfectly, nothing a little hacking away couldn't fix. Not even a whole lot really, about 1/4" from the inside of the wells. Next was getting it mounted. I've drilled out a couple bolts, and a couple plastic rods to decide what would work best. I'm using them both to play around with a tiny bit of weight. With the body on and ready to roll it was time to tackle the speed demon and break him into a tame torque monster. Inside the transmission I've flipped the input with the idler gear giving the ratio a nice drop in wheel spin. But it wasn't enough so I strapped a 13t rrp pinion on the motor and a merv 50t spur. Man this thing is slow! I mainly use 2s in parallel with a whopping top speed of 7ish mph. With a 3s maybe 10. But it pulls hard. I've been climbing carpet in the back at 50-70* angles and it makes it's way up easily! I was experiancing unwanted diffing out one the rocks. I locked the front diff with some rtv and ca mix. Hard yet little flex for removal when needed. The rear I packed down with some silly putty type of clay courtisy of my daughter. The turning radious grew at a welcome expense to the traction gain. My only high center is tires. I've been using stockers. There is no tires I can find that match the size of the stockers (tire to chassis space, scaleness). I was thinking about chopping up a set of 1.55" but I can't find plastic wheels for them. My budget is low hence my wanting to use plastic wheels. And at a price higher then my slash tires I don't want to jump right in chopping and mesuring rc4wd's 1.55" line of rubber. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
well I hope you guys like my build. And any updates or added parts will be sure to post pics and update my build thread. Thanks!
Hopefully that link worked for my pics along the way.
On the trx forums people were talking about a mini summit and how Traxxas should make one. I thought, why not build it myself?! And so started my journey. I've been using my pede chevy body as a shell. The wheel base doesn't exactly sit perfectly, nothing a little hacking away couldn't fix. Not even a whole lot really, about 1/4" from the inside of the wells. Next was getting it mounted. I've drilled out a couple bolts, and a couple plastic rods to decide what would work best. I'm using them both to play around with a tiny bit of weight. With the body on and ready to roll it was time to tackle the speed demon and break him into a tame torque monster. Inside the transmission I've flipped the input with the idler gear giving the ratio a nice drop in wheel spin. But it wasn't enough so I strapped a 13t rrp pinion on the motor and a merv 50t spur. Man this thing is slow! I mainly use 2s in parallel with a whopping top speed of 7ish mph. With a 3s maybe 10. But it pulls hard. I've been climbing carpet in the back at 50-70* angles and it makes it's way up easily! I was experiancing unwanted diffing out one the rocks. I locked the front diff with some rtv and ca mix. Hard yet little flex for removal when needed. The rear I packed down with some silly putty type of clay courtisy of my daughter. The turning radious grew at a welcome expense to the traction gain. My only high center is tires. I've been using stockers. There is no tires I can find that match the size of the stockers (tire to chassis space, scaleness). I was thinking about chopping up a set of 1.55" but I can't find plastic wheels for them. My budget is low hence my wanting to use plastic wheels. And at a price higher then my slash tires I don't want to jump right in chopping and mesuring rc4wd's 1.55" line of rubber. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
well I hope you guys like my build. And any updates or added parts will be sure to post pics and update my build thread. Thanks!
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