1/2 breed.

[Double J]

OK so I've been working on this for the past 3 or 4 weeks for the last 10 minutes after I finish customers items (total of about 40 minutes so far)..

Anyway First the specs.

DA BULL Chassis of course.
RC4WD R2D tranny
RC4WD XVD's
RC4WD BL01N super narrow beadlocks
JPcustomrcs 90mm shocks
Holmes Hobbies Sidewinder ESC
Holmes Hobbies CC BEC
Wheels Not sure yet but I have some m3, badlands from RPP, some Losi Claws form TCS and some RC4WD Crazy crawler tires soon. (I smell a tire shoot out a coming)
Motor and Servo undetermind at the moment. I have a 65T lathe and a chicken butt servo still around though I may use till I can upgrade.

I'll be using a tower pro servo from JPcustomrcs for the dig.

Pics in a minute

[Double J]

XVD's installed.






4 links.

[FrankyRizzo]

XVD sounds like something you could catch in Tijuana.

[dieselfuel]

Why not run CVDs? From what I've heard those XVDs are junk.

[Stormin2u]

Hey Jj those link mounts look sturdy I like those on the TLT axles. Will you produce those for sale....

[Double J]

Franky-please don't tell my wife I was there.

Diesel - I've read and heard the same, but I have them and think these will hold up.. If they don't you'll know it.

Stormin2u - Thanks. I've considered it but with the TLT's not used as often I'll have to figure up the correct set up for AX-10 that can also be used on TLT's. These were custom out of 14 gage steel, bent and then rebent to fit right, they actually too the longes out of everything on the rig since my brake can't make "s" type bends had to do the second bend by hand with a vice.

more pics to come.

[Double J]

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!


Why did I call it the 1/2 Breed.

1/2 4 link
1/2 dampened/torsion.



Haven't taken tooo many pics I never can find a camera anymore.

[dieselfuel]

wow... very creative! and the torsion on the rear would be the ideal place for it. no more TT. nice work.

[LIKES2CRAWL]

I thought about the half-n-half a while back but never put it together, looking forward to hearing how it dose.

[Double J]

Originally Posted by dieselfuel

wow... very creative! and the torsion on the rear would be the ideal place for it. no more TT. nice work.

I do think that is theeee first complement I've ever received from you. oh Thanks


Likes2crawl - thanks

Well I need to get better pics for my website so I made a photobox for better pics. But there is only so much you can do with out a good camera (still get some fuzzy pics). but it's helped the pics some.

I'm waiting on my "super top secret" Foams to come in and another set of tires... So I figured I'd test out my 10 minute $0 photobox ..

[Double J]

Wellp. I received my sidewinder & BEC from HOLMES HOBBIES this weekend. Thanks for the quick ship JohnRobHolmes.
Spent 20 minutes looking for my castle link after get some other builds just about done.
Might take a little "me time" to get this rolling with a TP servo and 65t late with 14t pinion while I wait for a motor to try out, Crazy crawler tires and punisher shafts from RC4WD.

Time to start getting excited..

[Rckcrwlr]

What a great idea...torsion and link...cannot wait to see it run.

[Double J]

Thanks..

And to add to the List of cool shat..

some Titanium lower links, Titanium torsion rods and a teflon bushing for the R2D tranny from Rocksmith Engineering...

can't wait to get them in.










I had a pm asking why I had so many underlined words.. so just for you slower folks they are links to the product or website you can find them at

[Big Mike]

Now there's an interesting idea. Very creative thinking...

[Wrecker]

I like the half and half desing, I'm surious as to how it will perform. I would think it will do pretty good though.

Also, can get some info on what you used for the photobox? Thanks.

[Double J]

Thanks I'm hoping to have it running this weekend just wainting a some parts and a little time to spend on it. I'm swamped with other customers stuff that I'm trying to get out the door. Maybe by Sunday I'll take a short vid.

About the photobox.. I just added a little write up on how to do it in the tools and procedures section.
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showt...=1#post1064365

[Double J]

Well I received most my parts in.
So between 2:30 am and 3:30 am on Sunday morning after working on other builds.
Installed the Teflon pieces from Rocksmith engineering.
I installed the RC4WD punisher shafts and straight axle adapters. started to modify the disengage rod on the R2d so I could try an idea that would work with the large punisher shafts and ended up braking it. so now I now have the r2d replacement parts on their way..

for anyone that hasn't seen a Punisher shaft they are huge compaired to the pede yokes I'm use to.

*note: do not try to make small exact holes on a small rod at 3am, being a wake 22 hours.*

Not sure if I took pics, but if I did I'll update it. LOL.

[Double J]

told today I have more parts coming in.

[nitromtcrawler]

wow dj!! this rig looks awesome!! im loving the return of the torsions!!

i guess it will be three of us running damped torsion rigs!!
*me
*h3
*dj

wow the revolution is on its way!!

~Marcos~

[Double J]

Originally Posted by nitromtcrawler

wow dj!! this rig looks awesome!! im loving the return of the torsions!!

i guess it will be three of us running damped torsion rigs!!
*me
*h3
*dj

wow the revolution is on its way!!

~Marcos~

LOL thanks

Today should be D day for the titanium links and rod along with my nwtractech foams. I set up the sidewinder and hooked everything up so it's running now and time to tweek and tune.
ON the LHS list:
50, 60, 70 weight oils.
some new body posts.
a couple other things I can't think of.
Hoping to have my aluminum torsion blocks from my machinest today as well as some test chassis and new skids for da bull..

Hoping to have alot of the tweek/tune done by the end of next week.. just in time for it's 1st comp debue.

I have some pics I took on Wed that I was able to down load before my home internet went down, hoping to have the connection back on Sat so I can upload more pics as well as customers pics.