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11-02-2011, 07:15 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Portugal
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|  Bully Havoc
After I got into the RC world, with a RedCat early this year, I thought it was time for me to try and do my first build. I bought myself a, 2º hand, set of cast bully's. After disasembling them I noticed that some parts needed to be replaced.   After some research there were 2 reasons why I went for the bully's. -They seam to be bomb prof -They will need a lot of work to work well        For the chassis, I went with a JP Customs Havoc. I was told that it is a bit dificuld to set-up but I wanted something diferent. "Everybody" has a beetlejuice or a T1e....  The electronics are: ESC: Tekin FXR Pro DIG: PunkRC Dig BEC: CC Bec Radio: Spektrum DX3R Servo: Hitec 7950 Motores: Ansmann 50T Baterias: 3S The only new parts on the electronis will be the motors and the servo. Everything else is second hand, and only tested on the bench without the motors... I hope everything works  But at least all the leds light up! (I like prety lights ) The stard of the build...  And this is how it stands at the moment:   Since this is my first build I went with delrin links. Like this I'm sure they are the same lenght The upper rear links would be better on the outside of the chassi but I get interference with the lower links... I will run it as it is and, probably, change the links in the future  More to come  Last edited by xkill; 12-06-2012 at 05:56 AM. |
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11-06-2011, 12:33 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: USA
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Nice start and good pictures.
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11-06-2011, 01:36 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: gibraltar
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How you gonna build it? rear torsion or four shocks? And yes it´s a bit time consuming to set it up,but once it´s done your´e happy,this chassis is awesome. I´ll follow your thread |
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11-06-2011, 04:12 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Where freedom is earned.
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Nice job! Way to go on the grinding. |
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11-06-2011, 04:49 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Gobles
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11-06-2011, 06:12 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: 07456 N. NJ USofA
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Nice looking build thus far. Hope you enjoy it. | |
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11-08-2011, 04:00 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Portugal
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I'm happy to anounce that I finished the rig! I mean... It works but these kind of things are never finished... I will be using the torsion on the front. I didn't cut the lower part of the chassis so I can change it to the rear if I want to try it out (but I don't think I will....) First off I didn't like the lower front links, so I made new ones.   After that I started the puzzle with the electronics...   To make it look better I will have to redo some wires but since I don't have much experience with that I will leave it as it is for now. The first tests:   And, once agains, the redcat got mugged...  Yestaday it stoped raining so I managed to instal the Hitec 7950 and take it for a shake down.    I ran it without the body to see How everything was going   Over all I'm very happy with it! There's some stuff I'll nead to upgrade, like the wheels, and I have to clock the front tubes. I'm also learning how to use the dig properlly since I dind't have a dig on the redcat... Speaking of which...  You're next!!!!  (My wife wants a pink crawler... )
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11-08-2011, 05:44 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: south caki laki again
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Nice build you may want to consider moving you body mounting posts to the top. They get stuck a lot when they are on the sides |
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11-09-2011, 12:55 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Woody point
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looks good man, i also had a rs10 as my first crawler,lasted for ages with only minor breakages,was alot of fun with the rear steer.
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11-11-2011, 02:26 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Silicon Valley
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11-11-2011, 07:13 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Fountain
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Agree on the Redcat stuff. good way to get addicted to the hobby. done minor mods on mine. Short wheelbase is going to be my next mod. 1/10 ish length on a 1/8 scale machine should be interesting.
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11-11-2011, 07:20 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Portugal
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But I just wanted to take it for a test drive so bad that i went with the easy option. Another thing to look at in the future (or maybe go body-less...) Quote:
 That's why I added the " " But nowadays this chassis is not the most common of choice. But i'm very happy with it, even if it scares me everytime I see it twist! I only manage to take outside yesterday but I have no pictures... It has been raining over here  | ||
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11-11-2011, 07:33 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Toronto Canada
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I've never really paid close attention to how much the torsion part of that chassis moves, that's crazy it would scare the hell out of me. Nice build so |
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01-12-2012, 04:28 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Portugal
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| Re: First Build: Bully Havoc
Santa was generous for the bully. He brought a used Lightweight axle for the rear, a set of 4 used (and abused...) lowboyz, and a tekin hotlink to setup the ESC. The rear tubes are being machined ;)   Poser shot  Recently I turned the front tubes to change the caster: I will have to check with a proper angle finder (that I dind't have at the time), to give you an exact number but I turned about 20-23º...  Servo mount:    I still have to do a new stearing. This was just temporary so i could test it out. |
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01-12-2012, 06:04 AM
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| RCC Addict  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oak Ridge, TN
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| Re: First Build: Bully Havoc
Nice looking rig.
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01-12-2012, 11:39 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Finland
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| Re: First Build: Bully Havoc
How much weight did you get from the front tubes?
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02-07-2012, 05:27 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Portugal
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| Re: First Build: Bully Havoc
Hi micro I really don't know how much I weight I lost on the front... Losing on the front was not a major priority, it was more of a clearence issue ;) |
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02-07-2012, 05:51 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Portugal
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| Re: First Build: Bully Havoc
Time for an update! This:  +  =  It may not take a lot of weight but sure is fun! Final weight  69, a very good number if you ask me! Waiting for the tubes...   Back together:   The steering is now like this:  I'm happy with the way the steering is working now. Maybe I will try to improve a bit more but it is good One of the last pictures with the body:  Now I'm working on the body-less:  It may not be the best looking rig there is but if it has the minimal size for competition is good for me Here's a video from this weekend Last edited by xkill; 02-07-2012 at 02:13 PM. |
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02-07-2012, 07:59 AM
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| RCC Addict  Join Date: May 2010 Location: Midwest
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| Re: First Build: Bully Havoc
Like you said "it may not be the best lookin" but, it sure does look like it means business. Very cool |
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