Traxxas 4-Tec 2.0 GT Rally Mod
 

Greetings, I've had my GT for a few weeks and overall I've been impressed with the durability after it flipping end over end for 30ft and not a single broken part. But now onto why I bought it in the first place. I was wanting to turn it into a rally platform and with a little modification it turned into just that. The rear only required to removal of two small pieces of the chassis and longer shocks, while the front I had to take a dremel to allow the hub carrier to move further down. Now with adding a little larger tire and the suspension raised I achieved what I was after. With the large tire and stock suspension height the chassis was riding at 18mm and with the modified chassis and longer shocks the chassis is riding at 26mm.

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great job...how does it drive as a rally car?

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So far it drives smooth and handles great. Right now my only complaint is the spring rate on the shocks, but I may deal with it for awhile because at some point I'll get a true 62mm length shock instead of my hack job. I did add 500K oil to the diff it has greatly improved the traction on dirt compared to the stock.

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I was happy to know that with very little modification it could be turned into a rally platform. I mean i have looked at Tamiya and few others, but I wanted a platform that I could get replacement parts easily and with the outlook of aftermarket support only a short time away.

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Does anyone on this thread have a way of reposting the pictures without Photobucket? I'm really interested in seeing this car and the mods but cannot see the pics due to Photobucket's new P500 thing (and I have no idea how I exceed their bandwidth either but that's another story)

Thanks!

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Photobucket is garbage.

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I just bought a Star here (became a member), that allows uploading direct from your PC - and other benefits as well!

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/payments.php

Re: Traxxas 4-Tec 2.0 GT Rally Mod
 

Very cool. I like that you turned this new road car into a rally.

I use Flickr. It's not perfect, but it works.

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Alright the pics have been reloaded. If anyone has questions, please just shoot me a message or reply in here.

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Soo. One of the big question is what length shocks are you using?
The stock shocks are (eye to eye) 60mm.
I don't have a bunch of road course shocks laying around and thought about 70mm shocks.

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I'm still running the stock shocks just with longer rod ends to get the ride height. I wanna say there around 65mm after the new rod ends. Most aftermarket shocks are either 58mm/60mm or 70mm and up, but it seems the 65mm length works best for now. I'll eventually get a true 65mm length shock when I can afford to. I'm also running a larger tire that's around 75mm tall.

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O Ya.. longer rod ends.
Cut the limiters off of the bottom of the chassis under the arms too?
I'm still looking for a body for mine. :)

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Yep cut off the limiters on bulkheads and a little bit of trimming on the front a-arms and your in business. The larger tires that I'm running I found through amazon.

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Sweet rally built, what wheels are with amazon tires?

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These are the rims that I got. https://www.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXM958
I have another set of tires that came with the same style of rim, but I haven't run them yet due to burning out the steering servo and I just haven't had the chance to get a replacement.

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Sweet ride wolfsbone! again thank you for sharing your link on the traxxas forum.

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Your welcome, I don't see a lot of following over at the traxxas forum, but I figured I post at both and seeing I follow the crawler forum I figured I get a bit more following.

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so from what is in picktures above looks like you sanded the c-hubs and removed the aarm limits on lower chassis (im sure theres a name to that part) and got it to sit much higher off the gound. did i miss anything

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The only things that I did was remove the chassis limiters and carve out the areas on the lower a-arms allowing the hubs to have more travel and also running a longer rod-end on the shocks giving them a longer reach. If you need more pictures let me know.

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Awesome build, love the correct scale of the rally car. Their rally car is way to big. Do you have any videos of it?

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