New to the forums and wanted to share my gen 8 v2, I guess you could call this a build thread or maybe a summation of the current build, I think I like tinkering with this thing more than driving it.
Original Body
Creepin'
Inside goodies, lot of 3D printed parts including a Dig Unit(this is a class 2 build I hope, so will only be used outside of comps)
Underside
So far I have brass outer portals all the way around and brass inners up front as well as brass diff covers, aluminum for all the axle/suspensions bits, the front shock towers are custom printed to fit the creep body with a bumper mount and it moves the steering servo up to line up the drag bar with the panhard to eliminate the bumpsteer and lets me flip the horn facing inwards which also moves the panhard and drag link parallel with the fron axle, currently on 100mm RCLion shocks set up for 60/40 compression droop and Deepswoods cr c3 1.9's. For electronics I'm running the hw 1080, trailmaster 21T, 35kg servo, and the FlySky FS-GT5 transmitter/reciever combo, Next update will likely be some better shocks, they work well but I cant tune them very much. Then I plan on a full 3d interior, as well as a custom 3d bed to get rid of the uggly creep backend, love the willys truck but hate the rear of the creep body. Then some scale point things and hopefully will be seeing its first comp in august. So far love how well it crawls, with the CI dual stage foams in it sidehills very well especially when I lost the Scout body, I love the looks of it but its way to heavy and long, and just that change made the climbing improve dramatically.
Thingiverse file if anyone is interested in the front shock mounts
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4892478
Original Body
Creepin'
Inside goodies, lot of 3D printed parts including a Dig Unit(this is a class 2 build I hope, so will only be used outside of comps)
Underside
So far I have brass outer portals all the way around and brass inners up front as well as brass diff covers, aluminum for all the axle/suspensions bits, the front shock towers are custom printed to fit the creep body with a bumper mount and it moves the steering servo up to line up the drag bar with the panhard to eliminate the bumpsteer and lets me flip the horn facing inwards which also moves the panhard and drag link parallel with the fron axle, currently on 100mm RCLion shocks set up for 60/40 compression droop and Deepswoods cr c3 1.9's. For electronics I'm running the hw 1080, trailmaster 21T, 35kg servo, and the FlySky FS-GT5 transmitter/reciever combo, Next update will likely be some better shocks, they work well but I cant tune them very much. Then I plan on a full 3d interior, as well as a custom 3d bed to get rid of the uggly creep backend, love the willys truck but hate the rear of the creep body. Then some scale point things and hopefully will be seeing its first comp in august. So far love how well it crawls, with the CI dual stage foams in it sidehills very well especially when I lost the Scout body, I love the looks of it but its way to heavy and long, and just that change made the climbing improve dramatically.
Thingiverse file if anyone is interested in the front shock mounts
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4892478
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