A little Love for MST CMX-W I noticed MST doesn't get a lot of love around here, so in hopes of boosting its prospects thought I'd share some pics of the recent build I did for the Misses who's a huge Toyota fan. Gotta say, of all our rigs this one turned out the cutest. https://i.imgur.com/srW0Wj3.jpg As usual I brushed on acrylic custom mixed to match this 1-1. https://i.imgur.com/v4JurX2.jpg The kit was a fun build and went together really well. https://i.imgur.com/JCUvJSR.jpg Tried to dress up the cage with some accessories and painted the light bezels silver https://i.imgur.com/8LcalKq.jpg It’s box stock for now except for the wheel/tire combo. I wanted to try my modified SCX10 III tires with every other center nob removed, but will probably install SSD steelies and Hyrax clone tires eventually. https://i.imgur.com/y6UUeKb.jpg My impression is that this is a first-rate platform with solid design and engineering. The only substandard part are the tires that are so hard they can support the truck WITHOUT the foams installed, here’s proof: https://i.imgur.com/zpc9tKX.jpg And that’s with a heavy NIMH battery sitting in the back! IMO the tires are only good for display purposes and one’s already gracing the back of my UMG10 as the spare. Speaking of Mogs, I really like that the body/cage rotate up and out the way for service. https://i.imgur.com/EP3xsHs.jpg OK, but can it climb, you ask?? With the remnant of Hurricane Zeta hitting South Florida this weekend, we weren’t able to take it out for a test drive. But that didn’t keep us from using our cat furniture to test it!! https://studio.youtube.com/video/uDYxvjxRw3Q/edit Let me know what you guys think?? https://i.imgur.com/Pvyntos.jpg |
Re: A little Love for MST CMX-W Great looking truck, color is spot on! |
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Re: A little Love for MST CMX-W Looks awesome! The FJ40 is one mean looking truck with a rear cage Sent from my U693CL using Tapatalk |
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Re: A little Love for MST CMX-W Looks great! |
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Re: A little Love for MST CMX-W looks cool! I've one to build too, that will be my third CFX-W :shock: For your body, a nice realistic touch would be to draw all junction body lines with an extra fine black felt pen, like the ones to write on plastic and CD "thumbsup" |
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Nice truck by the way... |
Re: A little Love for MST CMX-W Nice job, it looks great in blue. I have two MST drift cars but no trucks yet. If the trucks are as nice as they're cars they will do really well, no question. |
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It's amazing how much fun you can have going slow!! |
Re: A little Love for MST CMX-W wow so nice. |
Like Pretzels?? So the wife's been having fun with her FJ 45 for the past month and even ran it in our club's fun comp in December. With a few mods the rig can handle pretty much everything in the Markham park crawler course. We added some brass to the front: https://www.rcmart.com/xtra-speed-br...24001-00083542 and 8mm wide hexes to widen the stance a bit. It's held up pretty well to the use with one exception: https://i.imgur.com/vQ1u9bx.jpg That's the SECOND shaft thats turned into a plastic pretzel. When the first one failed I figure she had just gotten a wheel stuck somewhere and applied too much throttle, but this second one leads me to think the part is simply not up to the job. She has WAY more hours on her TRX-4 on the same course with zero failures. We've since replaced the plastic MST drive shaft with the optional all metal unit part # 210574: https://www.ebay.com/itm/210574-MST-...-/113714130046 I think anyone considering this rig for anything more than light-duty trail running should order the metal drive shaft along with the kit. |
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Gonna bump this. Jim, my friend’s CFX-W twisted and snapped both center shafts on it’s very first run. After hearing that I prepped mine during the build by filling the hollow spline with 2 part epoxy. Mine got a good handful of runs but eventually twisted as well. Both of us replaced them with the center shafts for an Element Enduro. They bolt right on and no problems since, and this rig gets more use than almost all of my others. I’ve been debating doing 4 wheel steering on mine since it’s already set up for it given that the rear axle is already just a 2nd front axle with a lockout to keep the knuckles straight. Just need the 2 steering links for the rear axle. Truck already has impressive turning so 4ws would be the danglies! |
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Re: A little Love for MST CMX-W Remove the shock springs and run it full droop and your jaw will hit the floor :mrgreen: |
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