New Axial Rubicon

[BodiBuilt]

Originally Posted by PSSUPERSTORE

did the project box mount easily? thinking about giving that a try with mine. Still have my battery located in the rear.

I used a strip of self-adhesive Velcro/double-loop to secure the project box to the original battery mounting plate which worked out nicely... secure yet easily removable if needed

[BodiBuilt]

Received a couple goodies from DSPRO earlier today... swing-out spare mounted dual Jerry can holder with 2 cans

Got the holder mounted, still intend to apply some "weathering" to the cans before I secure them...

[PSSUPERSTORE]

Originally Posted by BodiBuilt

I used a strip of self-adhesive Velcro/double-loop to secure the project box to the original battery mounting plate which worked out nicely... secure yet easily removable if needed

Cool thanks for the help. I will check my local radio shack to see if they have one.

[TrailAddict]

Originally Posted by BodiBuilt

Thanks for the kind words

Once again I have been lacking on updating this thread... too many pans in the fire I suppose... I got side-tracked with my Wraith Build and have been neglecting finishing off the Rubicon... finally got around to relocating the majority of wiring to the rear installed into a Radio Shack Project Box, still need to button things up - should turn out pretty clean when it's done

I don't see how you hooked up your BEC to battery power, where do you tap it in? Congratulations on this awesome build, I really like the mods you are doing and btw your wiring is top notch compared to what i achieved on my Honcho .

[bastard jr]

i like what you did with this!! looks goood

[BodiBuilt]

Thanks for the positive comments guys, I appreciate them!

Originally Posted by TrailAddict

I don't see how you hooked up your BEC to battery power, where do you tap it in? Congratulations on this awesome build, I really like the mods you are doing and btw your wiring is top notch compared to what i achieved on my Honcho .

I confess I had a little help with that...
My buddy Mike from my LHS did the soldering on the BEC. (He's got mad soldering skillz, way better than mine lol)... I had him open up the ESC to waterproof it for me, and while we were in there I had him solder the BEC leads directly to the main power leads where they contact the P.C. board. Turned out super clean and looks as if the BEC came wired to the ESC from the factory!

[TrailAddict]

Soldering the BEC lead to the PCB is a great idea I'm going to try it on my next AE-2 (My stock one has alredy been waterproofed) or maybe I'l just try to pry it out of the plastidip . I'm probably going to buy a new AE-2 anyway because the battery leads now measure about 1" (It was one of my first times trying to solder a traxxas plug and also the last, those things are a pain in the butt ) because i kept cutting down the wire to make a new attempt at soldering the traxxas plug. But just before running out of wire to solder onto, I switched to deans, wich has made my life a whole lot easier btw . Nice build keep it comming.

[TrailAddict]

Originally Posted by BodiBuilt

3Racing 12mm Brake Adaptor (used as wheel spacer's for additional tire/knuckle clearance)

Where did you buy the brake spacers? because I can't seem to find them. How much more offset did these get you? Because I am trying to fing a thick 12mm hex to mimic the effect of your brake rotors (increase offset).
Thanks

[BodiBuilt]

Originally Posted by TrailAddict

Where did you buy the brake spacers? because I can't seem to find them. How much more offset did these get you? Because I am trying to fing a thick 12mm hex to mimic the effect of your brake rotors (increase offset).
Thanks

I picked them up from my LHS, but I just did a quick search and found them available through Integy...

My best guess is they only added about 2mm offset per wheel, which gave just enough clearance to not allow wheel/tire/linkage to rub on VP knuckles... only down sides I see aside from cost is the "hex" portion is not quite thick (deep) enough to fully seat all the way into the hex cavity of the (stock axial plastic) wheel, so it may induce a bit of extra stress on the (wheel) hex which may be a concern for higher powered motors running plastic wheels? Also, they are still a bit too wide to allow you to reuse the OEM hub nut covers.

I have actually removed them since then and gone another way using a set of these... the centering "nub" will need to be filed down flush so it does not protrude (which only takes a few minutes with a file) in order to work with the Scx10 style wheels. I also had to open up the ID just a hair with a dremel and a small cone-shaped bit in order to get them to seat all the way down on the axle flanges. Once modded they work well.

For under $4 a set it was worth the effort IMO

[TrailAddict]

Thanks

[TrailAddict]

Do you have binding issues using the Axial universals in conjunction with the stage 1 vanquish kit? Do the CVDs bind at full steering?

[BodiBuilt]

Originally Posted by TrailAddict

Do you have binding issues using the Axial universals in conjunction with the stage 1 vanquish kit? Do the CVDs bind at full steering?

No sir, no binding at all so far

[TrailAddict]

So Vanquish CVDs (or even super 300 for that matter) are not mandatory to extrac all the possible steering angle from the Vanquish stage 1 kit.

[BodiBuilt]

Originally Posted by TrailAddict

So Vanquish CVDs (or even super 300 for that matter) are not mandatory to extrac all the possible steering angle from the Vanquish stage 1 kit.

I have the steering exponential adjusted on the radio so that at full crank it will just start to rub the edge of the tire's against the shock's... if the shocks were not in the way, I may be able to get even more steering angle out of the setup until I reached the point where something else was rubbing or starting to bind!

Vanquish VVD's are certainly nice, but I can buy 3 set's of Axial universal's for around the same cost as a set of the Vanquish version... and so far the Axial set is holding up well without any issue... so for me it is hard to justify the cost difference.

[TrailAddict]

Originally Posted by BodiBuilt

Thanks for the kind words

Once again I have been lacking on updating this thread... too many pans in the fire I suppose... I got side-tracked with my Wraith Build and have been neglecting finishing off the Rubicon... finally got around to relocating the majority of wiring to the rear installed into a Radio Shack Project Box, still need to button things up - should turn out pretty clean when it's done

What dimension project box is it? I plan on housing my electronics inside of one but since I have the honcho I'll use two boxes placed on the rock sliders.

[BodiBuilt]

Hey TrailAddict, sorry about the REALLY SLOW reply... you probably got your set up all figured out by now ... but for future reference I used the 4x2x1 size box which is Radio Shack # 270-1802