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Silent Panda's Bomber This is my first Axial and first scale type rig and first crawler. I am newly returning to hobby after racing buggies and trucks in the early/mid 90's. The fun factor of this truck has fully surpassed my expectations. My use is bashing, crawling natural and man made terrain, hill climbing and running over my friends Wraiths and Bombers. My interest in this truck spurred the purchase of 3 Yetis, 1 Trophy Truck, 1 Bomber and 1 Wraith (so far!) in my circle of MTB friends. None of us had any idea how much fun crawling could be. My setup: $ Mods HH 3300 Stubby, HH BLE Pro Savox 1286 Axial Servo horn Vanquish steering links Vanquish trailing arms American Machine Works front upper and lower links and rear upper links Axial sway bar 13T Pinon/Stock Spur Wraith top damper bushings 30wt oil in the shocks - might move to 20wt... Free Mods: Spare removed Cut tires Thin washers used as spacers to tighten up the mount to ballend slop. Near Term Mods: BEC - want to run the servo at 7.4V Fumi 8 spoke beadlocks - ordered Super Swamper Xl or Rockbeast II New paint job on new panels - some type of Bilstein livery Some 3S power I'm a big proponent of supporting you local hobby shop so if you are in Cincy check out Pit Row and Hamilton Hobbies. Only my links and wheels have been ordered online. Pics and a vid from a early run before the links. Enjoy. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...pswylxskx1.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...pssktohw8c.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...pseal2sdm7.jpg https://youtu.be/UqKNy4zhE2w Video link is fixed |
Re: Silent Panda's Bomber don't forget The Pillowbiter (SCX10) 3 Bombers 1 Wraith 2 Yetis 1 SCX10 Way to spend all of our money |
Re: Silent Panda's Bomber Welcome back to the hobby. And it looks great, you are building a machine to be proud of. Pics are great, video comes up as private in screen link. |
Re: Silent Panda's Bomber I forgot Nate's Bomber and The Pillowbiter. Thanks for letting me know the vid link is jacked...I'll fix that. |
Re: Silent Panda's Bomber Awesome! You're lucky your buddies all jumped on board. When I showed my friends my wraith they all wanted one until I showed them prices. I'm still the only one with an RC car :( |
Re: Silent Panda's Bomber More changes forthcoming... Fumi 8 spoke beadlocks in Bronze - I usually don't order stuff from Hong Kong but I really like the look of this wheel. XL Swampers HH BEC Robinson Slipper and steel spur STRC motor mount Losi 103mm shocks Carter Fab panels - will be painted in a Bilstein livery. Pics to come soon. |
Re: Silent Panda's Bomber A couple of pics from a recent run with my Bomber (cut tires, no spare) and some of the other fools that jumped in the deep end with me. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...ps8hsvg2ek.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...ps4mm6zcu4.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...pss7a2cu0t.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...ps8aurpitd.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...pslyoujppa.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...psfonc8qhe.jpg |
Re: Silent Panda's Bomber Wheels, tires, BEC, RR slipped installed and added some MIP driveshafts...overkill for sure. The front requires trimming the radio box a little and a new front left upper link screw (shorter). Pics after the Carter panels arrive. I also changed up the wiring during the BEC install. Used the 2 speed mount, part of the body posts from the spare parts trees and an old car rental membership card for the ESC/BEC mount. Everything fits under the interior. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...ps7fzdt6zz.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...psqpnngxot.jpg |
Re: Silent Panda's Bomber The Fumi wheel and Swamper XL. The Fumi is double beadlock and 30mm wide across the rim w/o the lock rings. Using 6" DD foams with med outer foam and the thin strip removed. I wanted a beadlock wheel but did not want to mes with hubs. I feel like adding the hubs adds potential points of failure for the truck. Lots of fasteners to loosen... http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...psu7pnwvtj.jpg |
Re: Silent Panda's Bomber Wheels, tires and panels on...flying my corporate colors... http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...sk1zfbfku.jpeg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...sgvlpi4ob.jpeg |
Re: Silent Panda's Bomber Excellent sticker placement! Colors look good with the silver background!"thumbsup" |
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Re: Silent Panda's Bomber Looks real nice, glad to see the recruitment of friends having fun. If you flip your motor down so that the pinion is on the bottom and pulls up into the spur. It will drop your motor cg like 1/2" |
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Re: Silent Panda's Bomber Mods complete. Latest round was... Fumi 8 spoke beadlocks XL Swampers HH BEC Robinson Slipper and steel spur STRC motor mount Losi 103mm shocks Carter Fab panels with a Bilstein livery MIP drive shafts Axial universals HH spools Rolled the motor into a lower position - Thanks Trig! Ran 22wt oil in the Losi dampers with stock springs. I love the way it crawls and the bashing was excellent. Running the servo at 7.4V worked wonders for the steering power and stopped the brownout glitching. The spools assembled with no drama and eliminated the slop from the stock iron cross lockers. The MIP parts are MIP parts. They assembled well and are super burly. The Super Swampers on the wide (30mm bead to bead) Fumi wheels were a HUGE step up from the stock tires. I am totally happy with the most recent round of mods. A few pics...didn't pull out the big camera this time...I was having too much fun http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...sfipt3pjv.jpeg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...skz2uzahv.jpeg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...smglyz9vh.jpeg |
Re: Silent Panda's Bomber Updated build list with pics and video below. $ Mods * = new adds HH 3300 Stubby HH BLE Pro Savox 1286 Axial Servo horn Vanquish steering links Vanquish trailing arms American Machine Works front upper and lower links and rear upper links Axial sway bar 13T Pinon/Stock Spur Wraith top damper bushings *Losi shocks - stock springs 22wt oil *Robinson Racing spur - stock size *Stainless axle tubes front and rear - wanted the 7075 Beef Tubes but Good wife surprised me with these for V-Day! *Holmes Spools *Axial universals in FA *MIP drive shafts *Holmes BEC *Fumi 8 spoke wheels *Super Swamper XL's *CI dbl deuce 6" foams with outer ring removed - Medium outers FA and RA *XR10 hubs - moved steering crossover to rear of axle. *Al panels with Bilstein livery Free Mods: Spare removed Thin washers used as spacers to tighten up the mount to ballend slop. *Move ESC to under passenger Pics from Phon D Sutton in Arizona. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...pswcazh7td.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...psgyz2rgwr.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...pstpkvckzk.jpg Video doesn't show how cool or how steep Phon D Sutton is but here are a couple. One is vertical...sorry...shooting and drawing is not my shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpgARPT-Mc0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpgARPT-Mc0 Pic of the hubs and steering relocation - need to make a new crossover...I was stuck in a hotel room for work and away from my shop. I just bent the Vanquish part to get me out on the trail. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...sj53hkquh.jpeg |
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