My Losi MRC

[Tim_]

After getting bored of building trucks and waiting for bits and not being able to do any crawling at all I bought a Losi MRC a few months back. Since then I have taken it out and to be honest, I've been quite disappointed with it on the rocks. On a trail or light rock use it's been absolutely stunning but the usual high COG has taken it's toll.

Over the past week I have had hours of fun with my Honcho out and about in the glorious sun and I was missing the building side of life, so my attention turned to the Losi. Here's what I've managed to do...

Wheels and Tyres;

The standard Losi ones aren't too great in my opinion, they lack grip and they seem a tad narrow. I've upgraded the tyres and wheels to match to 1.9 Proline Flat Irons and I have weighted the front wheels:




Chassis and Electronics;

Having browsed through a lot of forum material the night before I realised that this truck had been built "backwards", it was too high, the gearbox in the wrong way, not enough weight low down etc. so my modifications include;

Limited Shocks,
Softened Standard Springs,
Hardend Diff Lock,
180 Degree Reversal of Gearbox,
New standard Motor,
Reversal of Top Plate,
30 Degree bent Lower Links front and rear,
Re-mounted ESC,
Re-mounted standard Battery,
Spektrum DX3S TX,
Removal of Gear cover,
Removal of rear plate







Body;

I decided the Losi was a tad bland and well, my fetish for Carbon Fibre took over. I will let the picture do the talking;




So that then leaves the final assembled pictures...

Before;




And after...

[country_crawler]

Looks great but pop some holes higher in that body and lower it down.

[NEW YORK BOY]

Originally Posted by country_crawler

Looks great but pop some holes higher in that body and lower it down.

x2 on that!

[ol puddin head]

looks good. kinda wish i hadda went with the flat irons instead of chisels.

[rickysb]

Originally Posted by country_crawler

Looks great but pop some holes higher in that body and lower it down.

x3 for sure