The Crawl Space Poi Pounda

[The Crawl Space]

Yea, its not the best pic but look at the right of the picture and you'll see it just on the counter edge

I'll do a quick video and post it up

Right on, we just redid the rock course and its a bit more scaler friendly and we'll have some motors in stock when ya get up here

[The Crawl Space]

The Crawl Space Poi Pounda - YouTube

J-Fab Creations Pull Pal - YouTube

[Numbcrawling]

Originally Posted by The Crawl Space

Yea, its not the best pic but look at the right of the picture and you'll see it just on the counter edge

I see it now lol, that thing has got to be good to support the weight of that pig of a rig!

Originally Posted by The Crawl Space

Right on, we just redid the rock course and its a bit more scaler friendly and we'll have some motors in stock when ya get up here

Sweet man! Can't wait to see it when I get up there!

[Numbcrawling]

Dang man, that thing stays planted on the rocks in that first video!

And that pull pal is really impressive! Looks like it can certainly take a beating!

[The Crawl Space]

Originally Posted by Numbcrawling

Dang man, that thing stays planted on the rocks in that first video!

And that pull pal is really impressive! Looks like it can certainly take a beating!

Yea, thats a pretty steep sidehill and now that I have a lower CG with 4" shocks it does alot better in all aspects.

[The Crawl Space]

We recently had a Birthday party scale GTG at a friends house and
thanks to Justin and Marcus I have some pics of the rig on course

I was very happy how the truck performed on some pretty gnarly terrain and suprised with taking 1st in class 3

[Rook82]

Woody approves Great looking rig.

[kingkong101184]

how did you attach those radio shack project boxes

[The Crawl Space]

Originally Posted by kingkong101184

how did you attach those radio shack project boxes

Depending on the placement you can either screw them into the chassis rails/ladder supports or zip tie them.

A quick update sans pictures. I finally scored a decent brushless set-up for this rig at the recent swap meet at the shop, CC Mamba Max Pro ESC and Tekin redline 21.5 sensored motor im very happy with the set up and how the truck performs. The brushless does lag slightly in some binds, but a quick throttle stab and it cut the wheels loose no sweat.

[ttv8ra23]

Awesome truck dude i will have to suss out where to find some wheels like that! If i cant find some ill machine some up. Makes the look of the hilux!

[The Crawl Space]

I decided to revamp the Poi Pounda to be more "trail ready" but still retain its Island roots. I went back n forth about making it a truggy or bob the bed and in the end the bed won out.

I didn't have time to snap build pics but I do have some end result pics and some tech to go with it.

I cut the bed back as far as I could to increase the departure angle and added a bed rack to fill out the back and legnthened the wheelbase to bring it to a respectable 12.75" stance.


I attempted a chassis mount servo but the geometry wasn't working out quite right so replaced the axle housing cut some new beef toobs and ran some longer screws thru the servo plate and into the mounting posts on the axle to try and lessen the steering twist, the Hitec 7990 can push alot of power
I did do the "AXR" steering mod and with the over/under diff gear this rig is turning on a dime Also added a servo winch to handle the trucks 13+ lbs girth


Some action shots.
The truck was already handling great before the revamp, just wasn't getting the reach and steering I wanted. The longer wheelbase and steering mod did the trick and the rig is working even better
Added some more rock lights for effect.


I did limit the rear shocks with some bump stops to prevent the tires from getting into the fenders and rear bumper too much and possibly binding.

[Travis24vctd]

I didn't think this rig could get anymore bada$$ but you did it very nicely, can't wait to see it in action.

[Rook82]

Great job. Mods look great and look like you planned them well. Increase in wheelbase is always nice. And you reduced body parts sticking out...that's the way to make it work offroad. Sucker is a big fat pig at 13.5 pounds. You should bury it and cook it