05-09-2010, 03:39 PM | #1 |
Newbie Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Little Rock
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| 'Nother GC3 build
I've been lurking for a little while now.. waiting .. watching.. anyway, I got a wild hair up my butt one day and decided to try out this crawler stuff. It looks fun. I purchased a drive train from a losi mini crawler on fleabay and a gc3 chassis.. without knowing much about them.. (I found this forum a few days after) I've been putting it together carefully with parts I have and a few parts I purchased. I think I have a decent rig set up (though the suspension might be a little loose).. Here are some pictures also.. the main conclusion I've come across while testing and all that is that the losi tires are really really not sticky. and the foam inserts are a bit stiff... so that will be the next upgrade.. After I put a body on it |
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05-09-2010, 04:00 PM | #2 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Rock Bouncin' with the Patented Technique
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Looks pretty damn straight to me! Great Job for your first!
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05-09-2010, 05:39 PM | #3 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: May 2008 Location: Lafayette, Indiana
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go with some rovers with novas single stage foams
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05-09-2010, 07:11 PM | #4 |
Newbie Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Little Rock
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I purchased HB Rover's the other day in the mail. How is the foam that comes with them? I haven't stepped up to the wheel purchase yet.. the ones I like cost 100-140 ish.. .. |
05-09-2010, 07:32 PM | #5 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Mesa
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| I like the foams that came with them. I like a little more firm foam in the rears so i used a cut down flat iron foam in the rears. But they work perfect in the fronts. Haven't tried novas foams unfortunately.
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05-12-2010, 12:25 PM | #6 |
Newbie Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Little Rock
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I received the HB Rovers last night (red.. soft).. and they are soft.. much softer and much more grippy than the losi oem tires.. I also splurged and ordered some Mayhem competition beadlocks.. pretty excited about it,, also have a baja body in the mail too.. will have to paint.. and I will post more pictures once it's all together |
06-09-2010, 08:41 PM | #7 |
Newbie Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Little Rock
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It can crush beer cans with a single tire |
06-09-2010, 08:43 PM | #8 |
Newbie Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Little Rock
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new pictures posted .. it's pretty much finished.. I received the mayhem wheels tonight.. as a side note the product is good but I get the impression the company is a little disorganized.. either way they look good I will have to start fine tuning and testing the machine now. |
06-09-2010, 09:23 PM | #9 | |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Rockaway
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06-09-2010, 11:53 PM | #10 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Frisco, Texas
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thats an awesome truck! |
06-10-2010, 12:20 PM | #11 |
Newbie Join Date: May 2010 Location: uk
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+2. Lookin' good!
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06-10-2010, 12:45 PM | #12 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Yay Area
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Nice rig dude. Mayhem has a good rep with quality. They have awesome wheels. I like the bug body. Am I the only dude with an MRC that does not have that GC3 chassis? Skulz V2 FTW. How do you like that Excelorin system? Are you comping or bashing? The Rovers are far and away better than those stock bricks from Losi. I keep mine only as emergency backups. |
06-10-2010, 01:17 PM | #13 |
Newbie Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Little Rock
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so far it's just been bashing.. but I'm hoping to enter a competition .. So I try to take the bashing easy. also there is enough money in this to keep me from wanting to really smash it. the xcelorin system is pretty good, there is a lot of torque and it allows for really good speed control.. really slow,, or really fast (for a crawler). I am only running a 2s lipo in it so I don't know what it's like with the 3s that some on this forum are running. I like it more than the stock system, but the stock setup seemed good as well. (I am new the the crawling stuff so I don't have a lot of experience with multiple systems) also.. as additional info.. I've added 4 bb's to each front wheel and the rear are empty.. I trimmed foam from the front tires and left the rear tires stuffed |
06-10-2010, 03:26 PM | #14 | |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Yay Area
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I'm still a newb too so I don't have a good frame of reference for motors and the like. Your rig looks top notch dude. | |
06-11-2010, 03:34 AM | #15 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Nice truck, what motor are you running?
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06-11-2010, 07:15 AM | #16 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2010 Location: Stowe
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| Can't see your pics.
not sure if the link is broken or what?
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06-11-2010, 09:30 AM | #17 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: West of Eugene, OR
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| Read two posts up. I can see them OK. It could have been an issue with the hosting site. "4bb's." Literally, 4 of those little [air-gun] BB's? Or is that a typo and it's 40? What are the weights, front and back? |
06-11-2010, 09:56 AM | #18 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2009 Location: 354
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those wheels are bad ass dude, good job on your first, BTW did you check/replace youre lockers already, if you want to comp or go hardcore bashing that's all you really need and this thing is bulletproof. I turned my MRC into a scaler and i've used this thing for a tough truck challenge type courses and they are holding up pretty well. good crawling, Pedro |
06-11-2010, 04:14 PM | #19 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Illinois
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by "bb's" I think he means the large metal balls the go inside the Mayhem wheels. J |
06-13-2010, 08:46 PM | #20 | ||
Newbie Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Little Rock
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YES.. the metal balls that come with the mayhem wheels. My wife has hidden our scale (kitchen scale) so I'm not sure on the weight presently. I have upped the count to 5 ball bearings (this should be a better term and now that I think of it may be where 'bb' came from) | ||
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