Well Tuned Vanquish Build
 

Alright! I finally got so time to post my build with all Vanqauish Products except for the front and rear axle link mount plates.
It is a shafty that thinks its a MOA.
I have to thank Jim and all the other guys at Vanquish for building incredible products!
So here is the specs

VP Chassis
VP Hurtz Dig
VP Razors for rear shocks
VP Tranny Case
VP SLW V2 .700 Wheels with Hubs
VP Zero Ackerman Knuckels
VP Mini servo mount for dig
Robison Racing Gears for Tranny
300m front CVDS
Heavy duty Gears front and rear
Axial inner C's
Axial Straight axle kit in rear
Custom hand made front servo mount and link plate in front
Custom hand made rear 4 link plate
All Custom handmade Links
High Tech 225mg Servo for dig
High Tech 7950TG Servo for steering
Tekin FXR ESC
Tekin 45T handwound motor
Custom handmade BTA
Axial comp shocks in front
Kyosho Shocks in rear
DX6I Stick Radio w/3 positon mod
Custom handmade Electronics plate
1100mah Hyperion lipo 35C
Hot Bodies Sedonas

Now some pics

Chassis

http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010045.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010046.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010052.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010054.jpg

Now the Dig

http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010048.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010050.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010055.jpg

Now the Axles

The small axle is a MIP
The large axle with more steering is the 300m

http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010060.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010061.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010065.jpg

The spool the 300m Axles come with

http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010064.jpg

Now for the wheels


http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...Crawler001.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...Crawler006.jpg
the wheel on the left is a J concepts wheel and the wheel on the right is a Vanquish wheel
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...Crawler008.jpg

Now everything in mock up

http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010057.jpg
Still have to lower ride height but still stable.
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010059.jpg

Now the Body
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010082.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010083.jpg

the tranny case from VP

http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010068.jpg

Front shocks
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010076.jpg
rear shocks
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010077.jpg
Custom front and rear 4 link plates

http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010095.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010096.jpg

Electornics plate
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010094.jpg

Home Built BTA

http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010071.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010070.jpg

Did a little fine tuning with upper link positions and then rebuilt the BTA with Vanquish Knuckles

So here are some Action shots

http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010130.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...4182010131.jpg

http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...er017-Copy.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...Crawler010.jpg
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...Crawler018.jpg

So I guess the battery is mounted on the upper links? Seems like you could get alot more steering from those Super 300's. It looks nice, but why have a plate on top of the chassis? All in all, a decent build. I'm sure you'll improve it further.

Yes, the battery is mounted on the upper links on the front. The plate is for the electronics cause the chassis is so narrow and the tranny under it.
plus the wiring looks way better than having wires every where.
I do have full steering out of the front. Pics dont do justice.

video..
 

a video will do justice to this fine built rig. its a lcc killer lol.

Will get some videos dont have any at this time of this rig. But it climbs everything a MOA has. It also has zero torque twist and only weighs in @ 4.8lbs.:mrgreen:

What length are you links and what shock oil are you running?

The links are a hair over stock legth cause the way they are mounted and the uppers are 83% the length of the uppers. All link angles are super critical when running a shafty vereses an MOA. It took about 2 months to get the rig dialed but now all I have to do is drive it. I also changed the front upper 4 link plate a little. I will post pics soon.
The shock oil in the front is 35 and the oil in rear is 45.
running team assosiated silver springs in the front and full length axial super softs in the rear with a upper team assosiated green spring cut down as a preload. So the rear has a dual rate spring setup.
The rig is extermly forgiving like a MOA so you can race acroos the rocks to make up time when comping but still can crawl anything long as it gets traction.

Also if you want to see my other rookie build check out my comp tuber I built

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showt...+Assassin+tube

Thanks for the info. I made some links for mine and am in the tuning stages. This info will help!

That VP stuff is classy! Very nice. What's the code# of your hubs? I also like the roof of the body, that looks like a cool tatoo! "thumbsup"

How much of a pain in the a$$ was it to mount ur tires on those wheels?

i have the .7 v3's and the first one sucked...after i trimmed my foam its just like mounting any other bead lock

i am Running the 850 offset

Wasnt to bad have a couple tricks that I use to make it easy. The only pain in the a$$ part was weighting the wheels not my space to work with

Looks great! Could you please post better pics of your link holes mounting on chassis, so we can see what holes you used. And would you post the eye to eye length of the links. That will help a lot for others who are building the VP incision too.

I too own a shafty incision and am very pleased with it.

VP is always top quality, and they have excellent customer service too!