"Holy Roller" Mrs. Cruzin Illusions Berg Build

[Cruzin Illusion]

I was surprised that my wife was interested in RC Crawling. We had gone out a couple of times to run my crawler and she showed interest so I let her drive mine. She was definately hooked. Her birthday was coming up so I thought I would get her the parts to build her own. After sometime collecting the parts she would need I thought I would drop the surprise early. I figured maybe she would get it built by her birthday. She surprised me and had it done in less than a week working on it for a couple of hours a night. I am very proud of her wanting to build her own and us me just for guidance. I was really surprised at her soldier skills. She picked up on it quick and they looked great.

Here are the specs on her Crawler:

Axles: Berg
Front: not clocked for BTA Steering Set Up
Rear: Clocked to 25 degrees
Chassis: SWX
Steering Servo: JR DS8711
Battery: 3S 11.1V 1320 Lipo
Dig Switches: Holmes Hobbies Manly Switches
Dig Servo: Hitec HS-55 Feather lite servo
Motors: Integy V11 45T Pro Rock Crawling Motors
Wheels: Vanquish Products DH Pros 6 weights in the front, Zero in the rear
Tires: HB Rovers Stock foams with 1/3 Losi foams in front, HMTT Hybrid Reach Foams with 1/3 Losi foams in rear
ESC: Tekin FXR
Radio: Spectrum DX3R with 3100 Receiver
Steering: CKRC Tie Rod and High Steer Knuckles built with full behind the axle steering (Thanks Tim Magee for the design)
Axle Skids: Cato's Skids
Shocks: Losi 4" with White Springs and 35 weight oil all around
Rear Axle Lock Out: CKRC full straight axle conversion
Body: Losi Killah Body
BEC: Castle Creations set a 6.0V
Front Axle Link Brackets: 1/4" x 1/4" x 1 1/4" Aluminum C-Channel (Cut and Ground to fit the BTA Steering)

I would like to thank Tim Magee (Tmyjeeper), Ty Giebel (Turtle), and Cato (Cato) for their help and knowledge.

Her is Becky working on her rig "Holy Roller"


She installed all the electronics and kept it fairly clean


Her dig switch build with Holmes Hobbies Manly Dig Switches


Beckys behind the axle steering set up (Again thanks to Tim Magee for the help with the design)





A look at her links and rear axle set up


Passenger Side View:


Drivers Side View:


A full bottom view:


Some Body Shots:

[Cruzin Illusion]

Some more body shots:
















Becky will drive her first comp with this rig tomorrow Friday the 13th. She should do well.

Just after some indoor trial runs this thing is smoking my axial:-(.

[wrightcs77]

looks good as a rolller. Paint is great, too.

[daiki-ezorock]

looks nice and clean
i also like thats paint.

how long axle sides lower link hole to shock mount hole?

[TURTLE]

This rig looks great Tom. You and Becky did a great job I look forward to seeing this rig in action.

[dpdsurf]

Very impressive, well done

[Rocksolo]

nice work!
the steering look great and that paint is off the hook!

[Agama]

Sweet looking build! Can't wait to see it on the rocks.

[GaBronco]

Good Luck today!

[Xtant3150c]

Sweet Build Mam

And the paing is "KillahZ"

[dirk379]

Chassis looks clean, it's easy to clutter it up on berg builds but you did it nicely.

[kasper]

Wow good luck at the comp nice looking rig great to see more ladys getting into the sport had a couple do comps at my house they did well for there first time

[Ced RC]

Very clean looking rig

It's good to see more women getting into crawling

[Cruzin Illusion]

She thanks you all for the great comments. She is very happy and proud of her build. She has only run into one problem and that was during her second run at the comp tonight she did not have any input from her radio for about 10-15 seconds. I was just wondering if the FXR went into Thermal Shutdown. It didn't seem that hot and we could not check the codes because she was in the middle of her run.

[Ced RC]

Where did you get that 1/4" aluminum channel? I checked McMaster Carr and I can't find 1/4"

[TURTLE]

A little bird told me Lowe's.

[Cruzin Illusion]

Originally Posted by Ced RC

Where did you get that 1/4" aluminum channel? I checked McMaster Carr and I can't find 1/4"

I got it at Lowes.

[Ced RC]

Originally Posted by TURTLE

A little bird told me Lowe's.

Originally Posted by Cruzin Illusion

I got it at Lowes.

Thanks

[Agama]

Mrs Cruzin, good meeting you today. Good job running at the comp. Sweet rig.

[Cruzin Illusion]

Originally Posted by Cruzin Illusion

She has only run into one problem and that was during her second run at the comp tonight she did not have any input from her radio for about 10-15 seconds. I was just wondering if the FXR went into Thermal Shutdown. It didn't seem that hot and we could not check the codes because she was in the middle of her run.

We found the problem. She was overloading the receiver with the JR 8711, so it would shut down and reset in about 10 seconds. Thanks to Cato help, she bought a Y-connector with two females and one male end and hook up the BEC to run just the steering servo. She now runs the dig servo and receiver off of the built in BEC in the ESC and runs the Steering Servo off of the BEC. With the Y connector it was really easy to hook up and a must if you are running a high torque servo.