I love it. I wish I could still get one in green. I've found a few on walmart's website in silver, and another company makes the SUV without any add-ons in blue and another in silver. I'm kind of eyeing the blue.
Your point about the low CoG is a good one.
Did you need to do any mods to the wheelbase to accommodate the Newbright body? What about any other part of the chassis? Also what brand of GRU, and motor did you use? Also, did you use the stock ESC?
Still get the LR3 you mean? Yeah, they're discontinued but come up sometimes in for sale forum. They don't come in green though, you know that right? I painted mine. The silver one may be a 1:6 scale one so make sure the ones that come up are 1:10 if you are buying. there is another company that makes the LR3 body but not the off road version. It has a full interior, opening doors/hood/tailgate and is slightly bigger than the one I have, that one having a wb of about 11.25".
To get my LR3 body to fit, at 10.5" wb, I simply moved the axle back to the longer wheelbase setting on the stock chassis (where it would be for the touareg). I had to get a longer driveshaft though. I used traxxas half shafts but once you factor in the $20 for metal yokes I could have easily gotten the metal touareg stock driveshaft for $20 on ebay.
Only other mods to the chassis were to accommodate the gru. This LR3 has a RC4WD 4:1 gru. Another one I have uses the HPI wheely king crawler gru. I would recommend the RC4WD one hands down. Goes in front of the motor so it pushes the motor into the battery compartment. Thats where you have to mod it to get the motor to fit. slight bit of cutting is all it takes.
this is a different cc-01 I had but you can see how the motor is pushed back a bit and I turned the battery 90* in the same spot. this is a RC4WD gru shown here too.
Any motor is fine. I use 55t or 65t in these with the gru. One has a Novak Fifty-Five, others have used a standard integy 55t. The sequoia sas cc-01 I'm doing uses the HPI gru on the stock silver can (27t) motor and its pretty slow enough.
One has the stock esc. I think the LR3 does too. The one pictured had an old Futaba that was probably 20 years old (still used a replacable 30A fuse, lol). I've used several types of esc from sidewinder micros, traxxas xl-5, stock tamiya, etc. They respond in this rig like they would in any other. The xl-5 and stock one have a slight reverse delay which can be annoying. The sidewinders are a great esc and worth the money.
They are a blast to drive.
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