Furadi's LCG Enduro Kit build | Creep

[furadi]

Hey folks! This is only my 2nd ever trail truck / crawler that I build for my kids or as a backup. My current rig is a TRX4 Sport so I wanted to try something different and it was between this and the SCX10 II kit. I decided on the Enduro as the SCX comes with plastic shocks.

I knew I was going to be heavily upgrading based on what I've learned over the years from my TRX4 but I'm impatient so I started building the night I bought it.



I already had the Creep body ordered so as I was building I went ahead and cut the running boards. I also cut the bottom out of the battery tray to use as the mount to reduce and excess plastic adding weight.



I finished the kit the next day.



I was still waiting for the creep body so I threw my old TRX4 body on so my son and I could take it out with our group of rc bros.




Initial impressions were that it's nice and light and has tons of steering. But the kit suffered from being very top heavy due to the all metal gear transmission being mounted above the frame rails and being the highest point on the chassis so it was time to break out the credit card.

[furadi]

Next step was transferring my old Hyrax onto some new proline denali wheels. I like the plastic proiline wheels because they're channeled to hold the dual stage foam centered.



The body showed up so I started getting it fit to the chassis. Good combo!



Then all of my upgrades to bring the CG way down showed up.

SSD knuckles and rear axle weights

A smaller HH 540 motor and softer springs



Just adding the SSD parts made a huge difference. The Enduro could barely sidehill my easiest runs that first weekend. I did a ton of indoor testing due to the snow and once I added the brass I was very impressed.

[furadi]

Final pieces showed up which were the IE RC comp bumper and shock keys and the club 5 +3 brass wheel hexes.



For paint I went with Tamiya bright gun metal gray. (one of my sons favorites)





and after all the upgrades it can match my TRX4 Sport in sidehilling so far.

[furadi]

Some things I forgot to mention. It has the full samix high clearance link kit and yes those are rubber bands on the axles. They're looped up around the shock towers to keep the axles pulled in. Without them climbing and side hilling is greatly reduced.

[Phildirt]

Looks good. Mine will be getting high clearance links and the lcg skid this week. I started with an rtr but will be swapping to factory team shocks and gatekeeper panhard bracket as well. It already has SSD axles/knuckles/c hubs/lockouts.

That creep body looks good, I really like the color. I may be running a JP1 body if I can talk my girl into letting me have it. If not I have a backup plan.


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[furadi]

Originally Posted by Phildirt

Looks good. Mine will be getting high clearance links and the lcg skid this week. I started with an rtr but will be swapping to factory team shocks and gatekeeper panhard bracket as well. It already has SSD axles/knuckles/c hubs/lockouts.

That creep body looks good, I really like the color. I may be running a JP1 body if I can talk my girl into letting me have it. If not I have a backup plan.


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Thanks! Yeah so far the Creep is my favorite. Have you seen the new proline cliffhanger? I'm kinda iffy on it so far.

[Phildirt]

Originally Posted by furadi

Thanks! Yeah so far the Creep is my favorite. Have you seen the new proline cliffhanger? I'm kinda iffy on it so far.

The cliffhanger is cool but something I’d rather see modified versus out of the box. Kinda like when Harley decided to make 100 different flavors of ‘pre customized’ sportsters...iron 88s were cool when you had to do it with a grinder in you garage, not so much when bought at the Harley mall.


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[HaveBlue83]

i have a chep $300 gatekeeper coming that is gonna go LCG with either a creep, powerwagon or something thin. might try and cut a creep body and make a lexan cover for the rear, as i dont need a bed. i dunno if ill keep the traiing arms or not. looks simple enough to make it a 4-link again!

I'll be doing a similar route tho! subscribed to see where this went!