redcat based mini foff build

[f150monster]

To avoid hijacking redranger's mrc based build thread, I will post some pics of my clone based build here. These axles and trans/motor have lived in a pseudo scaler/ mega mud truck, then as a mini revo caged monster/1.9 foff attempt. These axles are too small for 1.9 or 2.2 tires and foff duty, imo. These tires are off of a litehawk igniter and Ive cut every other lug off for more of a paddle tire. I have more than one set so ,after these wear a bit, I may make them smooth and put paddles on. Motor is 2445 3200kv stock spur 20t pinion mrc mip cvds alum spool igniter shocks. Axles have been narrowed ~3/16 and clocked. 33 amp quark esc and two 2s 800mah 30c lipos for 4s total. If anyone knows of a jeep body in the 8-9 inch wb range, let me know!









When it had a 1/8 esc and a 1800mah 4s lipo

[f150monster]

Made a little progress last night, bout to head to the shop and do some more! I got the chassis plates pilot drilled and bolted to the skid so i can start to work on links.
Its looking like it will have a 8 3/4" wb 5 3/8" tw with 1 3/8" ground clearance on 2 3/4" tires.

[rustneversleeps]

Great start isn't fun fabricated,so fun i go the cheap route and get it made for me...Keep up the good work...

[f150monster]

Made some good progress over the last couple of days. Actually got her running and melted a spur down. I have a aluminium spur on order but it'll be a couple of weeks. Truck ran well, I was happy with the off the line hop given the drop in battery size. I'd like taller gearing but the esc gets warm as is.

[f150monster]

I've ran this little beast through ~3 packs and ate up a spur each time. On the last run, i got the motor hot enough to un-glue the endbell and windings, allowing both to slide toward the non-output side of the motor. I reset the windings and bolted the end bell on and put a new 21 t alum pinion on. I noticed that there was lots of play between the motor plate and the transmission so i epoxied it to a spare trans case. The small gear in the trans was worn so i replaced with a used steel 13t 48p pinion. I would have liked to have a long pinion, but we will see how she does. I also set up a jig to drill out spurs to fit this trans so now I can have spur gears!
With all this done, the trans is the smoothest it has ever felt. I've added a fan for the motor and one for the esc. I cant decide on whether or not to run a bec.

[f150monster]

I got tired of breaking cutting board skids, so i bought a sheet of 1/4 in lexan and built a sexy new see through skid!


I also put a overdrive pinion in the front axle (tra-7079), savox servo and cut the stock 1.9s and put them on while i work on my paddles. I've since bashed the hell out of it and played on the sand hill lots and zero problems with this setup. I geared it down so crawling is better but i still have lots of wheel speed when needed.


Cool down break!

[f150monster]

I finally found some 1/10 scale sc paddle tires on sale at my lhs. Ive finally got my tires done! Front tires are approx 3/16 larger in diameter at the paddle tip due to longer paddles and have 8 paddles while the rears have 6 paddles each.

[f150monster]

Finally got a jeep body on this rig!