PinchFlat's Street Class 1 Trail Ranger - Little Goat

[PinchFlat]

PinchFlat's Street Class 1 Trail Ranger - Little Goat

As usual I wait until the last minute to build rigs for the Axial MSD Scale Nationals. With Mod & Trail taken care of (mostly), I had no idea what I was going to build for street class. If all else fails I could run my CC01 Pajero as a back-up plan, but I really wanted to build a rig for Street class. Between 60 hour work weeks & building 5 Reign Labs cages for friends so they all had rigs for the Scale Nats, my time was VERY limited so options were low & limited to what I already have available.

In the running for a Street build were; a HPI D90, a New Bright LR3, a Tricked out an Axial Dingo, a Tamiya Bronco (Like I ran last year at the Nats), a Chino Clone or the Pajero CC01 I already have built and running. I had also considered a Speedway Pal Samurai with MRC axles but I already had an SCX10 roller for this build.

While I was building my Utard & modifying the borrowed Pepe for my Trail class rig, I flip flopped hourly on what I was going to build for the Street class. It eventually came down to the HPI D90 ,because Kaetwo D90 turned out so KICK ASS, & the NB LR3 Land Rover. Eventually it came time to bust ass on my Street rig (less than a week ago – OH MY!) I decided to go with the LR3. I love to look of that body and thought I could do it justice.

After a few days of staring and lining up the LR3 body onto the roller & adjusting the wheelbase to fit the body. I began cutting the bumper off to make room for a sweet ARB style bumper. I then realized that I needed weeks, not days to build this like I want to. Discouraged, I resigned my self to running my ever-faithful Pajero CC01. This was Friday night, yeah the Friday before The Scale Nats & I was fine with that.

Then I remembered I have an Axial Trail Ranger body sitting around and searched Google for images of a Suzuki Samurai LWB build I could fallow. I came across an image of a Sami that sparked my brain into build mode. It was the Suzuki Samurai that holds The World's Record for the highest altitude driven to by car. ( World Record – Suzuki Samurai To The Highest Altitude | iZook - Suzuki 4x4 Tech Information, Accessories, Travel & Adventure ) Only thing is it was not a LWB Samurai and I didn’t have a Speeway pay body or MRC axles to build it.

So I took a deep breath and decided to shorten the Axial Trail Ranger body. Shorten a lexan body...WTF was I thinking? So I dove in head first.

This was a very quick build, I only started it on Saturday. So this isn’t much of a build thread but there are plenty of finished pictures.

[Harley]

Good luck this year man. Nice stable of cars you are taking along

[PinchFlat]

Originally Posted by Harley

Good luck this year man. Nice stable of cars you are taking along

Thanks Harley... I kind of ended up with a Sami theme by accident.

[86zuk]

i was going to say that yuo must like samis. i did the same thing to a trail ranger but fiberglassed the inside i cut it right behind the door so you couldent see the cut very much it was never finished so it had some big tires.

[PinchFlat]

Nice. Yeah I just shogooed lexan to the inside seam & the styrene diamond plate on the outside.

[chicostaxxs007]

badass are those dingo fenders?

[PinchFlat]

Originally Posted by chicostaxxs007

badass are those dingo fenders?

Thanks... those are the stock molded in lexan fender flairs.

[Just Zach]

Nana nana nana. I get to see this tomorrow. Pinch, you're going to have to drive and Kaetwo and I will spend some time in the back seat with this little fella.

I'm going to say it though, it needs different tires to look right.

[PinchFlat]

Here is a pic from Montana with his D90 buddy sneaking on the frame twister TTC course.
BTW...I'm gathering parts to duplicate this build in a 1.55 MRC size using a Speeway Pal Sami body. Keep an eye out for that build.

[BigFish]

Good job, can't wait to see the micro build.

[scottb83]

Turned out pretty cool for last min. I like it alot, not as much as the Utard though.

[meanbgreen]

That zuk is awesome, I remember the news when it came out takin the record from Jeep. That is a bad ass trail ranger ya got there, I don't think my skill is that awesome to do somethin like that yet or ever. Awesome work

[meanbgreen]

oh and shortening the body it still fits on the SCX10 chassis?

[bob1961]

truck came out sweet looking ....doesn't class 1 need the tires covered by the fenders though and not hanging out from under from what i read in the rules....i have a C 1 planned and thought the tires needed to be covered........bob

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[PinchFlat]

Originally Posted by meanbgreen

oh and shortening the body it still fits on the SCX10 chassis?

Thanks...

What I did was move the skid forward a bit and shorten the links and also cut of some of the chassis rails off the rear.

[PinchFlat]

Originally Posted by bob1961

truck came out sweet looking ....doesn't class 1 need the tires covered by the fenders though and not hanging out from under from what i read in the rules....i have a C 1 planned and thought the tires needed to be covered........bob

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Thanks. It was tires half covered. With those wheels they are more then half. With the Axial 1.9 wheels it covers right a 1/2 of the tread.

[meanbgreen]

cool I was wondering if I would need to mod the frame, preciate the shout outs

[crunky]

wow, i liked these before but now i think i want one.

looks great as always pinch, but as others have said you surely could give that thing an image boost with a new set of sneaks.

[PinchFlat]

Originally Posted by crunky

wow, i liked these before but now i think i want one.

looks great as always pinch, but as others have said you surely could give that thing an image boost with a new set of sneaks.

Thanks crunky...

any suggestions on sneaks?

[travis c.]

Dammit, I just finished a Trail Ranger build, after seeing yours, I now know I need to rebuild mine. Beautiful rig, love it!