My Revo / E-Maxx conversion build.

[Desolas]

Hello,

I am new to crawling and am basically just getting started. I decided I wanted to build something inexpensive, and fun. I already had a Revo, which in Nitro form sucks for crawling so I decided to convert it to electric. In no way am I pioneer in converting Revo's to electric, but I have not seen many people on here or other forums with full purpose built Revo crawlers. Many are still bashers. I figured I'd post, say hi, introduce myself and show you what I've got going on here...

My conversion entailed finding a E-Maxx transmission which was sourced new on eBay. The installation was pretty straight forward, some minor cutting was required to fit the trans in the hole of the chassis, and some minor grinding was needed above the driveshafts to clearance the chassis.

Parts used for conversion:

• E-Maxx Transmission.
• (1) complete rear Revo driveshaft. (to connect the front drive.)
• Long Travel Rockers, modified shocks for more travel.
• LRP forward/reverse ESC.
• Team Brood IB4200 Stick Pack.
• Team Brood Short Antenna Mount.
• VXR 1000mAh LIPO Rx Pack.
• Team Brood Ti Based 55t Crawler Motor.
• Proline Moab XL Narrow Tires and Narrow Bead Locks.
• Old school RC10T body.

To install everything I stripped the Revo down, and either zip tied or glued down the electronics. Everything is pretty sold and isn't going anywhere. I locked the front/rear diffs with Enecon Supermetal (more industrial than JB Weld.) I could have gone with spools, but I have no intention of converting this back to a normal Revo so it kept cost down since I had the Supermetal on hand.

As far as crawling goes this thing is fun and it works really well. It is not as good as some of the super comp crawlers I have seen; but I have no intention of competing this was all for fun, something I can do that doesn't involve racing cars. I will shoot some video in the near future but it handles our rock crawling test course with ease, and it climbs the stairs of my townhouse. I plan on adding a second motor and changing the gearing (running a 15/72 combo right now which is too low.) With a couple of Brood 65T Checkpoints on there I think I will have more than enough grunt. As is it's good, but those tires take a lot of torque to get going once they get stuck in a hole.

I had to run Rx pack to give the servo enough juice, and I am also setting this up for rear steer. I have a complete rear steer rig setup for it, but the shortness of the wheelbase make the rear steer almost useless. When I stretch this out with the extended 3.3 chassis and extended arms I will start using the rear steer.

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This antenna mount is pretty trick. Instead of having you antenna all bunched up you coil it around this nice fiberglass mount.






-Wes

[Turblankas13]

wow this is impresive, i love the way it looks exspecialy that body, what is it?

[Desolas]

The body is an original RC10T body from back in the day. One of the guys I work with had it and let me use it...I like it because it's old school and looks kind of bronco/jeep/crawlerish.

[clod booster]

aswesome, now get it our on some rocks

[Crawln Coles]

That's pretty cool. I'm in the process of building an E-Revo for racing and a friend of mine has one too. We were just talking about How it would crawl. Prolly way better than the nitro (revo rocks project)!!!!!!!!

[Toph]

Welcome to the board. That looks like it would be a great crawler. Keep up the great work!

Krystopher

[xr100]

welcome welcome!!
that is a mighty fine crawler very good work
i may want to do the same to my t-maxx and get some tips on how you did that

[Kanzai]

Wow, i love that chassis!! Looks so neat! How does it go crawling if you don't mind me asking?

[Desolas]

It crawls really well. We have a rock course setup and it has no trouble on it at all. It can take lines that I've seen other trucks get stuck on, it's much better than most of the 2.2 crawlers I've seen; but not as good as some of the super crawlers I have seen. The wheel base sort of hampers it when it needs to get started on a large obstacle, but at the same time it also helps to keep it from getting hung up on stuff.

I will try to take some video this week and post it, I'm surprised on how well it crawls some stuff...we have a starting area that is a very steep, almost smooth surface and it can scoot right up it, I've never seen any other truck make it up that part of our course.

I need to do some work to it, I want to make some skid plates for the arms and other parts. I also need to add way more weight to the front wheels, I have almost none right now.

[balang_479]

Very nice, it looks very well done. I would love to see that vid.

[racin' ranger1]

looks sweet man, the tire wheel combo looks killer IMO on that truck

[Desolas]

New: I installed a couple of Team Brood 65 turn Checkpoint based motors today, even with it over geared all I can say is WOW the torque is insane. I am waiting for a couple of pinions from RC4WD so I can have this geared right but it looks like I will have ample power.

I ran them through my motormaster last night, 6600 rpm @ 7.0V ... can't wait to see what they do on the turbodyno and in the truck!

[naftausa]

can u post a pics of the 4ws system (rear)??

many thanks!!!!!!!!