pimping "R2D2"

[RydeFab]

Originally Posted by Kev808

(singing)Honolulu city lights......
You guys rigs all looking good. Gotta getaway from the wife and kids, and fly there and check out one of your guys comp one day.


Especially check out the clubs...club femme nu that is :grin: & others

hrcc safety meetings, once a week at club femme nu.........bring alot of $1 bills , dtp gets all the vip treatment there . young version is the sargent at arms.

[DISTURBIN' tha PEACE]

Originally Posted by Kev808

(singing)Honolulu city lights......
You guys rigs all looking good. Gotta getaway from the wife and kids, and fly there and check out one of your guys comp one day.


Especially check out the clubs...club femme nu that is :grin: & others

Roja Dat! Femme NU!!! FTW!

[lunchbox]

Wow, I thought it looked good with the body on, but I even like it with the top of. Very nice looking rig.

[Kev808]

Originally Posted by o5tacoma

hrcc safety meetings, once a week at club femme nu.........bring alot of $1 bills , dtp gets all the vip treatment there . young version is the sargent at arms.

No problem, I always bring "baldhead rolls"(dollar bills) when
I go Oahu. As one must.

[RydeFab]

did a complete make over of "R2D2" for this upcoming season. gonna run this until i finish my other rig. running a stiffer backbone (thanks kila), r2 tranny with a chino dig, traded DTP my set of beadlocks for his (so he can use it on his Agent Fat Cat project) with Losi Rock Claws. holmes hobbies 10t cobalt puller motor (thanks again DTP) with mamba maxx with c.creations 10amp bec. got a hold of a tamiya subaru brat body, painted it pearl white with pearl blue stripe. took my yokomo "Blitz" decals from my drift car and decided to do something alittle different. hope you guys like it. these pics are about a month old and did alittle more changes to it. raised the backbone for a belly clearence of about 3 5/8", eliminated the front link for more steering and remounted the servo and battery slot. running a maxx amp 2s 3300 lipo. i'll post up new ones as soon as i take some pics. here's some old ones for now. thanks.

[Racer4Life]

That is looking really good. The dig set-up is interesting. Works good I am assuming?

[RydeFab]

Originally Posted by Racer4Life

That is looking really good. The dig set-up is interesting. Works good I am assuming?

it works like a charm . i first saw it on Chino's thread (i forgot which Chino though ). he did it on another type of tranny and he said it worked awesome. it takes alittle tuning to get it to work right but once it's adjusted right it works great. i used to have the "socket to ya " dig and it worked great but the socket part at times gets hung up on the lava rocks we have here. with this dig set-up everything is way up on the tranny, out of the way. and instead of 12 catch points (if you use a 12 point socket or wrench) i now have around 18 or so catch points for the dig to lock up. it is a little pricey to build it (or if you have bruiser tranny laying around) but it's worth it . thanks for the props guys .

[YoUnG_vErSiOn]

63......which means he's like 45 years old or something like that.

[Racer4Life]

Originally Posted by o5tacoma

it works like a charm . i first saw it on Chino's thread (i forgot which Chino though ). he did it on another type of tranny and he said it worked awesome. it takes alittle tuning to get it to work right but once it's adjusted right it works great. i used to have the "socket to ya " dig and it worked great but the socket part at times gets hung up on the lava rocks we have here. with this dig set-up everything is way up on the tranny, out of the way. and instead of 12 catch points (if you use a 12 point socket or wrench) i now have around 18 or so catch points for the dig to lock up. it is a little pricey to build it (or if you have bruiser tranny laying around) but it's worth it . thanks for the props guys .

Link to this Dig build up? Very interested!

[DISTURBIN' tha PEACE]

Originally Posted by Racer4Life

Link to this Dig build up? Very interested!

There is no build up, you gotta fiure it out yourself.

[mauromj]

Im really interested on how you did the dig as well.

[Xtant3150c]

Looking Good Ryde.

And Ah Hah I now know your secret linkless trick ;) hehehe

There is a clue to the dig setup in post #48

[ThinkTank]

Originally Posted by DISTURBIN' tha PEACE

There is no buid up, you gotta fiure it out yourself.

The search button is a bitch huh.

Originally Posted by o5tacoma

it is a little pricey to build it (or if you have bruiser tranny laying around) but it's worth it . thanks for the props guys .

Originally Posted by o5tacoma

now that the "fat cat" is out of the bag.............wait till you see the tranny . thanks again for the props sheldon, it's a pleasure working with you . now i have to get started on my "top secret" rig . shoots, see you at the "garage" later on .

Originally Posted by DISTURBIN' tha PEACE

It's a roller now. I used HL driveshafts w/a Jugg universal on one end, it's 6mm so it slides right on the maxx diff. Also, jugg springs in the shocks w/80wt oil, they seem alittle stiff but I'll test them out. I also have the shocks from my hustler to test with.

Originally Posted by o5tacoma

dtp isn't running an r2d.............it's a "frankenstein'd" original r2 tranny that's been "bruised" alittle . i've got a 10T cobalt in my rig with the same tranny set-up and it's holding up fine so far.

Originally Posted by DISTURBIN' tha PEACE

Well, basically it's a R2 w/a chino dig. You need to ruin a perfectly good $100 bruiser trans for this. I don't have any other pics of it. You can see some of it in previous posts. Probably not too good though. It's very finicky if it's not set-up & adjusted right. Sometimes it would'nt lock/unlock. But now I think I got the kinks out of it. Unlike the shaft type digs that use a sliding coupler or R2D's that will only engauge/disengauge @ 180*. This will go from 4WD to Fwd to dig in just about any 5th* of rotation.

Edit:

Originally Posted by o5tacoma

ahhhhhhhhhh, the infamous "search" button ..............too many clues left behind, too little amount of pics .



damn "photobucket thieves"..............they got into the "secret files" again. this time they stole the pics right out of my thread. gonna have to do a nation wide man hunt now .

Don't mean you state wide crackdown.

Maybe you should "upload" a few fake plans with self destruct mechanisms.
So is YV planning a black op or something?

Watching Cold War espionage specials on the history channel is starting to pay off.

[RydeFab]

Originally Posted by ThinkTank

The search button is a bitch huh.

ahhhhhhhhhh, the infamous "search" button ..............too many clues left behind, too little amount of pics .

damn "photobucket thieves"..............they got into the "secret files" again. this time they stole the pics right out of my thread. gonna have to do a nation wide man hunt now .

[DISTURBIN' tha PEACE]

Originally Posted by ThinkTank

The search button is a bitch huh.

Yeah, but there is little info & no build up of the dig. The person who came up with this gave little to no info on how to make it. Neither will we. Somethings we like to keep to ourselves.

[ThinkTank]

Originally Posted by DISTURBIN' tha PEACE

Yeah, but there is little info & no build up of the dig. The person who came up with this gave little to no info on how to make it. Neither will we. Somethings we like to keep to ourselves.

NP.
I knew want you meant on the figuring it out because of the little to nothing info on the dig system.
(Thanks for atleast pointing us in the right direction.)
I'm going to check out some Bruiser Tranny PDF files and get my magnifying glass.

[RydeFab]

i can be bought for a price .................let's see............a 5b, at least 5 tlt kits, 3 r2's (newer style), novak brushless systems (4.5,5.5, etc.), 3 hi-lux kits, 2 complete bruisers,.............shall i go on?

[chino63]

Originally Posted by o5tacoma

i can be bought for a price .................let's see............a 5b, at least 5 tlt kits, 3 r2's (newer style), novak brushless systems (4.5,5.5, etc.), 3 hi-lux kits, 2 complete bruisers,.............shall i go on?

Double that order, I want in too!

[ThinkTank]

Originally Posted by o5tacoma

i can be bought for a price .................let's see............a 5b, at least 5 tlt kits, 3 r2's (newer style), novak brushless systems (4.5,5.5, etc.), 3 hi-lux kits, 2 complete bruisers,.............shall i go on?

Would you like my liver and kidneys also?

Originally Posted by chino63

Double that order, I want in too!

I don't know , one of you guys welded a part of Badgers hustler upside down.
I'm not sure I trust your engineering skills. Just kidding.;)

Actually, its a ingenius system for a dig.
It's such a simple concept on paper.
To bad you gotta ruin the tranny.

I like it. You all get a .
Do you mind if I use an idea or two?