NorCal's Wraith on VP/Currie RockJocks

[NorCal 2500HD]

Ive been wanting to do a wraith build for awhile now so one of my buddies hooked me up with this for Christmas. My axles from RPP showed up yesterday along with a bunch of other stuff I had ordered. 1 day shipping is great. After I got off work, I started to put everything together.

Startng with the chassis. Added the BGR Stinger front bumper with d-ring mounts and the rear cage.











Im sure its going to come apart at sometime during the build but I wanted to see what everything looked like together.

Now that I had that out of the way, it was time to start on the front axle.
Blasted this one out real quick....



My Parts Breakdown from RPP.
VANQUISH Currie Axial Wraith Front Axle Black
Vanquish Wraith Steering Knuckles Black
Vanquish Products Incision XR-10 Wraith C-HUBS (BLACK )
Axial HEAVY DUTY BEVEL GEAR SET 36T/14T

VANQUISH Currie Axial Wraith Rear Axle Black
Axial HEAVY DUTY BEVEL GEAR SET 43T/13T

I already had the front shafts from the Kit so I didnt feel I needed to upgrade to the Vp ones right off the bat.



I was browsing the vendor section and saw the new GripFab "Grip-Lok" Spool. Ordered 2 of those and they were here to Ca from Il in about 3 days. Die-Laughing had em out fast..

GripFab "Grip-Lok" Spool!!




Mounted up with my 36/14 HD R&P



Goin in the center section...



Tubes/Truss/Diff Cover





Backside of the housing.



Steering



Completed front.



Detail of the truss.








Starting the transmission tomorrow.....

Brian

[NorCal 2500HD]

[badger]

Pictures look great so far! I'm curious to see what you are going to do with the back of the cage that's over the aluminum KOH cage.

[evan03]

the axle make this build very very awesome. the bgr bumpers are also kinda cool to. the top of the cage is the coolest of the bgr stuff.

looking forward to see more progress on this

[lowlow]

dam that shit is hard.. always nice to see somthin like this a few weeks after droppin a G on original VP wraith axles.. I like mine, but those are the $hit!!! looks good

[badger]

Originally Posted by lowlow

always nice to see somthin like this a few weeks after droppin a G on original VP wraith axles..

Have you been living under a rock for the past 4 months? It has been known since November that there would be a wraith version of these.

[lowlow]

Originally Posted by badger

Have you been living under a rock for the past 4 months? It has been known since November that there would be a wraith version of these.

nah no rocks big enuf around here to live under, i had seen that they were comin out but why wait..im just impatient.. BAD.. ill end up with a set of these also im sure..

[JasonInAugusta]

That truss looks like it came from somewhere other than VP. Just doesn't match the axle.

Weird.

Originally Posted by badger

Pictures look great so far! I'm curious to see what you are going to do with the back of the cage that's over the aluminum KOH cage.

Cut it off?

[badger]

Originally Posted by JasonInAugusta

That truss looks like it came from somewhere other than VP. Just doesn't match the axle.

Weird.

I think they were going for a Artec truss look. I haven't seen VP come out and say it though.

Originally Posted by JasonInAugusta

Cut it off?

That's the first thing I asked him. He said he left it intact because he was working on something magical. Coming from that fruitloop, that could mean anything.

[NorCal 2500HD]

Originally Posted by badger

I think they were going for a Artec truss look. I haven't seen VP come out and say it though.


That's the first thing I asked him. He said he left it intact because he was working on something magical. Coming from that fruitloop, that could mean anything.

If I wanted your opinion I would give it to you.

[JasonInAugusta]

Originally Posted by NorCal 2500HD

If I wanted any of your lip I'd scrape it off my zipper.

That's pretty harsh, dude.

[NorCal 2500HD]

Originally Posted by JasonInAugusta

That's pretty harsh, dude.

Nah thats mellow, you should see some of his text messages...

[evan03]

Just had a better look at the bgr front pictured here and it looks awesome. Tons better to my eye then the first bgr front.

[Die-Laughing]

Wow! Very nice!

[siguy2k]

So sick!

[cmnyj28]

Nice work

[NorCal 2500HD]

Had the day off so I got the transmission assembled and ready to go.



Added the Robinson Racing hardened steel idler gear from RPP Hobby along with the Robinson Racing one piece bottom diff gear.

Hardened Steel Idler Gear

One Piece Steel Bottom Diff Gear

This thing is stout...


Hopefully it doesnt go BOOM..pins a little popped out thats why it looks funny but its all good.



Snagged the Holmes out of my JK Build for now....

[BodiBuilt]

Originally Posted by badger

That's the first thing I asked him. He said he left it intact because he was working on something magical. Coming from that fruitloop, that could mean anything.

Standing by to see your magic trick on the cage work...

Great looking build so far NCHD!

[NorCal 2500HD]

More goodies showed up from RPP and Motoworx Racing so I finally was able to make this thing a roller.....

From RPP:

Vanquish Products Wraith Panhard KIT
Vanquish Products Wraith Chassis mounted Servo KIT
Vanquish Products Axial Wraith 3/16 Diameter 10pc Titanium Link Set







Also tossed on the MIP Drive shafts
MIP C-Drive Spline Center CVD Wraith

[NorCal 2500HD]

I debated on wheels for the longest time. I saw these from Motoworx Racing and had to have em. I opted for the 2.2 LE 8 Spoke. Raw center with black rings and hubs. I also ordered a pair of the Scale hubs Jake offers as well. For tires I went with the Pitbulls.

MotoWorx Racing
2.2 LE 8 SPOKE, Black rings and hubs on Raw aluminum Wheel
Scale Hubs

PIT BULL 2.2 Rock Beast II Scale Crawler,with Komp Kompound

With the black hub:


With the scale hub: