SCX 10.2 69 Blazer with Gen 8 Portals

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Hey guys just wanted to share with you my 69 Blazer with Gen 8 Portals. I tackled this customization last night. Really loving the way it drives with the extra gear reduction. Currently using the Gen 8 Portals, wheels/tires and shocks. Shocks will likely stay, wheels and tires will be changed soon.

Appologies for the low quality photos, I had no idea this tablet was capable of such thing.

[lonleycreeper]

Looks good, The portals really give it A highly modified look.....

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Originally Posted by lonleycreeper

Looks good, The portals really give it A highly modified look.....

Thanks, it was a lot of fun swapping them in.

[dezfan]

Looks pretty good.👍🏼

[LetsBash]

Nice!! How's the steering? Any improvement due to the axials servo location?

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Originally Posted by LetsBash

Nice!! How's the steering? Any improvement due to the axials servo location?

As far as just hanging the wheels off the ground and turning lock to lock. It was. But with the stock servo it struggles to turn the tires during actual use. The angle in which I had to put the steering linkage is just too extreme. It needs a dropped servo arm. I tried using the red cat servo arm but the base of it was too big so when you turned toward the driver side it would cram into the pan hard mount and really the little bit of offset it offered wasn't enough.

I actually ended up disassembling it and putting them back under my redcat. Since I really like my Gen8. I've turned my focus to working on a couple of abused RCs I got in a trade at the moment. And hoping to get a 3d printer so when I tackle this next time I can set things up a bit more accurately. Unfortunately they weren't parts bin axles or I would have kept going with it but they came from under my gen8 which is only a couple weeks old. I was bored one night and wanted to see how it would turn out.

Overall performance, it wasnt really all that much better than the Blazer in stock form and not as good as the Redcat in stock form. The gearing was crazy low in it though, had tons of torque. Ended up breaking the hex out of the inside of one of the rims when a tire got bound between 2 rocks. It was also deathly slow and had no wheel speed. I'd estimate the speed full throttle around 3mph

[indybama]

If u ever run into the issue of needing the servo arm to have a drop in it, i found a decent solution. I had the same issue with my hi-boy scx10ii. I used a pivot/hollow ball between the servo arm n the drag link. Ive had no issues of binding nor does it seem to wanna move side to side like its tryin to bend. Its been runnin this way for better than a yr. Takes roll overs n steep tumbles n comes back for more

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Originally Posted by indybama

If u ever run into the issue of needing the servo arm to have a drop in it, i found a decent solution. I had the same issue with my hi-boy scx10ii. I used a pivot/hollow ball between the servo arm n the drag link. Ive had no issues of binding nor does it seem to wanna move side to side like its tryin to bend. Its been runnin this way for better than a yr. Takes roll overs n steep tumbles n comes back for more

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I had thought of something similar, not exactly what you done, but using a longer screw with a tubing spacer. But where I had to use the stock Axial servo arm which is plastic, I figured it would have just ended up bending so I never tried it. I would like to fabricate a solid servo arm. I like your truck and your idea though. I just recently got rid of a 1:1 high boy.