making a wraith bigger?

[ben10]

So I have seen people put bigger tires on a wraith with the stock wheel base, and it looks funny. I am supposed to be getting a used wraith in the mail either today or tomorrow. I was thinking about trying to up the size. get bigger tires and extend the wheel base front and back maybe 1/2 inch each way. I would probably need to get a different motor, and beef everything up. anyone see this done before? I like the idea of a bigger crawler like 1/8 scale or bigger.

[evan03]

i exstended mine about 3/4" with suspension links. i also use traxxas tmax shafts and cut them to the lenght i need. i think a 1" about 1.5 is the max i exstend the overall wheelbase.

ground clearance will suffer the longer she is

[ben10]

thats where bigger tires come into play. I think my main goal is to get over bigger obstacles. an inch and a half would be about right, then maybe 1-2 inch bigger tires and maybe widen the stance a bit.

[evan03]

Tall tires on a wide offset give away they're height advantage to shorter tires on narrow offset.

Tall tires on a narrow offset have a huge height advantage.

[ben10]

I like the idea of scaling it up. I want to be able to conquer bigger obsticles. Longer wheel base means I can make it up taller ledges and same with bigger tires. Out where I'm from there are a lot of big obsticles.

[Cherokee Chief]

Here is how I'm making mine bigger.

[evan03]

Shit man that's bad ass, you need some 57" michelins.


What coil overs are those.

[ben10]

Hahaha yeah I'm working on one of those. I have a ranger on 1 tons. But 1:1 is waaaaaay more expensive. I have more in my axles than most people have in their rc cars.

[Cherokee Chief]

home made coilovers. I took a big rig shock and welded a plate to the bottom and installed 2 springs then anoher plate on top and then a hiem joint

[Natedog]

Originally Posted by ben10

So I have seen people put bigger tires on a wraith with the stock wheel base, and it looks funny. I am supposed to be getting a used wraith in the mail either today or tomorrow. I was thinking about trying to up the size. get bigger tires and extend the wheel base front and back maybe 1/2 inch each way. I would probably need to get a different motor, and beef everything up. anyone see this done before? I like the idea of a bigger crawler like 1/8 scale or bigger.

Axial Racing - The playground just got a lot smaller

[evan03]

What did that cost you. I'm debating a 1/4 eliptical rear because I can't afford coil over s.

[Cherokee Chief]

shocks were 40.00ea X 4, springs were 50.00ea X 8, made my own plates out of 3/8 plate I had
hiem joints 20.00 for 4

[evan03]

Hmmmm maybe you could post some photos . That is with in my grasp. I only need to build two for now.

[Cherokee Chief]

these are the bottom plate and top plate



bottom plate welded to the bottom of the shock



cut the top smaller bolt off and welded a larger bolt on for the hiem joint



the top plate on the bolt then the hiem gets tightened down locking the springs in place



sorry no picture of the hiem installed but you can imaging that.