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06-08-2010, 10:47 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: EvilCrawlerDesigns@comcast.net
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|  Camo Moon Buggy Build
Last year, I built a custom tuber berg for a buddy of mine (Superduty44s). He has fairly succussfully run it for the past year, but after that much use and abuse, the old girl is in need of a majoy overhaul. Upon braking off another shock mount and braking a rear lower link, he decided it was time to pick up a Moon Buggy. He works a ridiculous amount of hours (typically 6 - 12's), and just doesn't have time for building new rigs, so he asked me to toss this together for him. He hasn't seen it yet (and doesn't know that I sacrificed one of his favorite Savage bodies for the panels). Here's the specs so far: - Bergs w/ VP Knuckles, Super300 shafts & CKRC rear lockouts. - RC Innovations Steering - HH Torquemaster 35t motors - T1e Moon Buggy - T1e bent rear links - Turbofest bent front links - Duratrax Evader 3.5" shocks w/ Losi gold & grey springs - CC BEC - CC Sidewinder - Homebuilt dig switch - JR DS-R8801 robotic servo - CAC Wheels w/ white Rovers Soon to receive: - Punk RC dig 2.0+ - Tekin FXR ESC - Futaba s9157 steering servo - VP ProComp DH front wheels - VP SLW V4 rear wheels - Pitbull Rockbeast tires - Crawler InNOVAtions foams - will probably clock the front axle 20 degrees Here's the pics:   Last edited by EvilTwin v2; 06-08-2010 at 10:58 AM. |
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06-08-2010, 11:55 AM
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| Official Cook of the ECC   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hawthorne, Florida
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It's camo'd, I can't see it.  Looks good, he will like it. I sure as hell like mine.  |
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06-08-2010, 12:09 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: May 2010 Location: Atlanta
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thats a nice build he'd be crazy not to like it..but just incase he doesnt like it i'll take it off your hands..lol
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06-08-2010, 05:19 PM
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| "HOLLYWOOD"  Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Miami
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Is that a body you cut up? looks good.
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06-08-2010, 05:25 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: EvilCrawlerDesigns@comcast.net
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06-08-2010, 10:36 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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lookin' good. is it gonna be ready for sunday? hope it don't get rained out  |
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06-08-2010, 11:23 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: EvilCrawlerDesigns@comcast.net
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The punk dig, SLW's, weights and tires are all in the mail and will be added as they arrive. Were you, Tom & Ed planning on driving down for the comp? We'll post up Saturday night if it's going to move to The Crawl Space. If you want I can send you a pm or even pm me a phone number and I'll call or text you if the location is going to change. | |
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06-09-2010, 08:07 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: T1E Country
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What?? No EvilJerk panels yet Carey ?? |
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06-09-2010, 08:14 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: EvilCrawlerDesigns@comcast.net
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06-10-2010, 04:09 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: T1E Country
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Are you running said body on your Rockshow chassis? I ran a body on my BJV3 bodiless chassis at ECC. I'm working on doing it the right way and running a Y-Town "Juice" chassis soon. I like the way the G.I. Joe camo turned out. Is your buddy gonna have anytime to actually drive it you think? | |
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06-10-2010, 04:33 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: EvilCrawlerDesigns@comcast.net
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wow, I haven't seen that in years! Quote:
Yep. I had 2 comps in a row where I had to take rollovers because my cab just didn't fall in the right place to allow me to get back over, so i pulled it & went bodied. Besides, too many people in my club going bodiless. It was cool when there were only 3 of us out of 20 - 30 at a comp, but now everybody and their brother is getting BJ's and Moon Buggies. Quote:
I'd bet that the 1st time he'll drive it will be at our comp on Sunday. In fact, I probably won't get to do much testing with it, since the old servo gave up and we're not getting the servo arm for the new one until the morning of the comp. He's not a bad driver, though, and it already is far more capable than his old tuber. | |||
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06-11-2010, 02:55 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Cumming/ North ATL
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Rig looks good . . I love the tuckers!! If you ever want to get rid of em let me know . . . . |
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06-11-2010, 03:02 PM
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06-11-2010, 09:15 PM
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06-11-2010, 09:22 PM
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09-17-2010, 08:30 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: EvilCrawlerDesigns@comcast.net
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As an update, this berg Moon Buggy has very little driving time (only 2 comps with the owner driving and a handfull of times with me behind the controller tuning it). With as little time as I've taken tuning it, the thing just plain works. I consistantly can drive this considerably better than my own T1e Bully that I have countless hours testing and tuning. It never fails, I pick up the controller and it's like pushing an easy button. It just plain works. |
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