My "Not really a build" rebuild Wraith

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So I guess I'll start a thread on my Wraith. I hope it can help some who are starting out with a RTR and have zero knowledge about crawlers. I'm no wordsmith, so bear with me...

I bought my Wraith Spawn almost a year ago from my LHS. The got it as a store demo and one of the employees broke it while "testing" it. The owner didn't care to fix it so he sold it to me for a fraction of the retail price. Got it home, tested it out, and foumd it to have a stripped servo horn. $12 and a HR horn later, I'm GTG!

I quickly went to Asia Tees and wasted a way some cash on a ton of aluminum parts. Everything from a skid, links, steering linkage, hubs and lockouts, and chassis parts... I didn't know any better and I was a bit wreckless. I've since used this forum as a huge resource to learn about all things rock crawler. I'll try to chronicle what I've upgraded and where I'm at now and as well as future upgrades.

Body:
My very own aluminum body panels.
AMF rear panel w/ tow hook
Poison Spider interior and seats
Axial lighting kit with four white in front and two red in rear.
Yeah Racing gas cans
****On order****
HeyOK Winch Kit
WertyMade Stinger Bumper

Suspension:
Traxxas Big Bores with Integy Springs
Gear Head droop kit
Boom Racing aluminum links (still working for now but getting a little bit of slop)

Drivetrain:
MIP drive shafts
Hot Racing trans gears
Gear Head 56T 32P spur
Axial Universals
Vanquish Hardened Rears
Axial HD Underdrive rear diff
HR spools
SSD Diff covers (THESE ARE AWESOME)
DMG rear skid plate
Vanquish hubs and lockouts
****On order****
Vanquish V2 front and rear axle housings
DMG front skit plate
Axial HD 38T/13T front diff

Steering:
Savox 1230
HR servo horn
Vanquish Ti steering linkage

Electronics:
Castle Mamba X
Tekin ROC 412 3100Kv
Tactic Tx/Rx

Wheels:
Axial Method Beadlocks
Axial BFGoodrich Krawlers
CI D. Deuce 5.5 Med/Hard front and rear (I think?)

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Tonight I made some front inner fenders. They really cleaned up and covered my front battery box. Started with construction paper, transferred it over to aluminum sheet, and copied that for the other side. Wish I had done this sooner!

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It's a good thing my new Vanquish servo horn arrived today...

Another lunch break crawl at the dam. I think I'm done with HR servo horns.

[mooman]

DANG!! How did you manage to do that!? Thats impressive what kind of power plant is in there!

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Originally Posted by mooman

DANG!! How did you manage to do that!? Thats impressive what kind of power plant is in there!

I was testing out my ESC and motor for glitching the day before on asphalt. I torqued the arm a bit from it flipping...

Then yesterday while doing some hard core crawling, the horn stripped out and I'm guessing I nose dived into a rock. The Savox survived the whole ordeal! My HH HV500 would have died just lookimg at the rocks...

Im running a Mamba X and Tekin 412 3100Kv.

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It's so... BEAUTIFUL!!!

Doing some upgrades after my parts arrived today.