OSRC
I wanna be Dave
Well, I haven't really finished part 1 or 2 yet, but what the hell, let's start a third one!
Started off with this one. Another Maxx roller I picked up on the cheap, about $100. I converted it to a low CG E-Maxx - huge motor, 3S, and geared for monster truck duty. Heck of a basher, but I had a hard time finding a body for it. Putting everything on the lower chassis give it a low belly, and with the body sitting on top of the shock towers, I couldn't get it low enough to cover the chassis and it just looked hack. Ran awesome though - I don't drive fast much anymore, it kind of awed me with how freaking fast this truck went. I grew up in the Grasshopper days and sometimes forget how powerful brushless motors can be.
Sometimes cool ideas happen to pop up out of nowhere. While helping my daughter with her math homework (and trying to dredge up stuff I haven't thought of in 35 years) I was idly thinking about what to do with those tall shock towers. Having just built up the Summit project, I got the bright idea of somehow adopting the rockers over to the Maxx platform. So in between trying to explain how to re-write equivalent expressions to a reticent 11 year old, I was doodling on my notebook and came up with a plan. The next morning before work, I ran down to cut up a piece of scrap aluminum and drilled some quick holes, stole the front end off the aforementioned basher E-Maxx, and played with some leftover project parts. Boom! Turns out it's not hard at all.
So of course I had to go out and burn a paycheck and ordered a ton of bits and pieces. Actually, there are a ton of TRX chopshops still on e-bay and I found everything fairly cheap. I needed front LT rockers all around since they had a bit more offset, so I ordered two sets of those, plus posts, shocks and pushrods. I found these HB 4x40mm turnbuckles for a whopping $2.36/pair, and used some TRX4 rod ends.
Posts and Revo shocks showed up.. since the Maxx uses the same shock setup on the front and rear of the tower, I just mirrored the rocker and shock setup front to rear on either side. It all fell together perfectly!
Final mock up... I had these old Moabs on PL beadlocks stashed away, I think it's finally time to use them.
Seeing that everything seemed to work out, I tore down the mockup and started building for real. Finalized the shock tower and made 2 of them, and went to the hardware store and got some 6mm locknuts for the rocker posts. Can't start a project without a proper pair of rocker nuts.
Died the rockers and some of the other parts black and re-assembled. I think it looks badass personally. I left the diffs in for now, but they are filled with earplug silicone and are pretty stiff. I need to order some spools eventually. The rockers support as much travel as the arms will give, so it's got a ton of travel, and it moves like butter. I'll fine tune the suspension once I get it standing on the tires.
Compared to the original shock tower. It's much lower overall... probably raises the COG putting rockers and shocks up there, but I don't care.
I've built 2 quick chassis for this already and scrapped them both. Not sure what I want to do here yet... I'd really like to use the Element trans for a bit of OD, about a 16" WB and definitely 4 wheel steering, but that's as far as I got. I could just drop the axle assemblies on the C-maxx and call it a day, but that truck is working damn good and I don't want to mess with it. So I'll just build a 3rd Maxx trail truck, what the hell. Not for any specific goals really, just for the sake of building something. I've got something in mind.
Started off with this one. Another Maxx roller I picked up on the cheap, about $100. I converted it to a low CG E-Maxx - huge motor, 3S, and geared for monster truck duty. Heck of a basher, but I had a hard time finding a body for it. Putting everything on the lower chassis give it a low belly, and with the body sitting on top of the shock towers, I couldn't get it low enough to cover the chassis and it just looked hack. Ran awesome though - I don't drive fast much anymore, it kind of awed me with how freaking fast this truck went. I grew up in the Grasshopper days and sometimes forget how powerful brushless motors can be.
Sometimes cool ideas happen to pop up out of nowhere. While helping my daughter with her math homework (and trying to dredge up stuff I haven't thought of in 35 years) I was idly thinking about what to do with those tall shock towers. Having just built up the Summit project, I got the bright idea of somehow adopting the rockers over to the Maxx platform. So in between trying to explain how to re-write equivalent expressions to a reticent 11 year old, I was doodling on my notebook and came up with a plan. The next morning before work, I ran down to cut up a piece of scrap aluminum and drilled some quick holes, stole the front end off the aforementioned basher E-Maxx, and played with some leftover project parts. Boom! Turns out it's not hard at all.
So of course I had to go out and burn a paycheck and ordered a ton of bits and pieces. Actually, there are a ton of TRX chopshops still on e-bay and I found everything fairly cheap. I needed front LT rockers all around since they had a bit more offset, so I ordered two sets of those, plus posts, shocks and pushrods. I found these HB 4x40mm turnbuckles for a whopping $2.36/pair, and used some TRX4 rod ends.
Posts and Revo shocks showed up.. since the Maxx uses the same shock setup on the front and rear of the tower, I just mirrored the rocker and shock setup front to rear on either side. It all fell together perfectly!
Final mock up... I had these old Moabs on PL beadlocks stashed away, I think it's finally time to use them.
Seeing that everything seemed to work out, I tore down the mockup and started building for real. Finalized the shock tower and made 2 of them, and went to the hardware store and got some 6mm locknuts for the rocker posts. Can't start a project without a proper pair of rocker nuts.
Died the rockers and some of the other parts black and re-assembled. I think it looks badass personally. I left the diffs in for now, but they are filled with earplug silicone and are pretty stiff. I need to order some spools eventually. The rockers support as much travel as the arms will give, so it's got a ton of travel, and it moves like butter. I'll fine tune the suspension once I get it standing on the tires.
Compared to the original shock tower. It's much lower overall... probably raises the COG putting rockers and shocks up there, but I don't care.
I've built 2 quick chassis for this already and scrapped them both. Not sure what I want to do here yet... I'd really like to use the Element trans for a bit of OD, about a 16" WB and definitely 4 wheel steering, but that's as far as I got. I could just drop the axle assemblies on the C-maxx and call it a day, but that truck is working damn good and I don't want to mess with it. So I'll just build a 3rd Maxx trail truck, what the hell. Not for any specific goals really, just for the sake of building something. I've got something in mind.
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