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01-13-2010, 11:07 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Houston
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|  SCX10 Mudder Done
Well I couldn't wait for the damn Honcho kit so I just bought the SCX10 from a LHS. Crawling/Scale kits here in Houston, TX is next to impossible to find in stores. So I decided to shell out $210 for the older SCX10 with the ProLine Flat Irons...and used some custom New Bright mud tires mounted on HPI Super Star wheels. The front I had to give it a 15mm offset as I will be doing tons of mudding in this truck. the rear offset is about 12mm with plastic hexes until I can find better ones. Does anyone know where I can get rear off-set hex hubs to match up with the front offset? You can see the difference in stance from a vertical view.    |
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01-13-2010, 11:13 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Bradenton
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looks awesome what size wheels you running
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01-13-2010, 11:42 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Southern, IN
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new bright tires? are they really hard? on 40 series wheels?
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01-13-2010, 12:18 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: May 2007 Location: pasadena, tx
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looks good man. im the one that you talked to at the hobby shop. we 'll be getting in some honcho's soon if you still want one. |
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01-13-2010, 01:26 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Houston
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The New Bright tires came off a toy Bigfoot monster truck rc...the whole truck and tires cost me 50 cents as it was broken just laying around at Fry's electronics...they're not exactly 2.2 but bigger than 1.9 which is why I used the HPI Super Stars I guess you can call them 2.2"s they're meant for nitro cars/trucks. http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXCEA1 They are pretty firm but that's the way I want them to be as I will be using this rig for mudding/water/street runs. I have no plans to use this as a crawler especially with a Traxxas 2075 servo which I've fried before on my AX10. The only rocks it will see are probably pebbles or small rocks where I plan on mudding so the servo shouldn't see any heavy duty use. Last edited by alexchen86; 01-13-2010 at 01:35 PM. |
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01-13-2010, 01:43 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Southern, IN
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was just wondering. the wheels looked bigger. the hard compound might be better in the mud
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01-13-2010, 01:48 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Houston
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Yep too soft a compound on street use will flip the rig. I'd rather have it slide a bit...so far I've been trying to soften the treads a bit with WD-40 and make them a little grippier...I am running stock uncut 2.2 Axial Rock Lizzard foams I had laying around and just barely fit them in there!
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01-13-2010, 01:51 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Stuck on a Rig in the middle of nowhere Utah.
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Now, that looks like fun  . Are you planing on putting all the electronics in a box or just leave them alone sence they are supposed to be water proof already?
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01-13-2010, 02:00 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Houston
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The only thing that's waterproofed is my receiver. I put it in a latex glove double zip tied it and used waterproof plumbers grease on the open end. Then I put it in the supplied SCX10 electronics box and used massive silicone the sidehole where all the wires come out. Followed by smearing little dabs of silicone around the entire box. Then of course moment of truth....I dunked it in my tub full of water submerged and everything works perfectly. I will be going ballistic this weekend near a lake hahaha. |
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01-13-2010, 04:33 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Southern, IN
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if you want them to be softer, Simple Green works pretty good for traction
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