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05-04-2007, 10:25 AM
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| 20K Club   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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|  Harley0706 BMVii Build
Well for some reason I got bit by the comp crawler bug again and had to build one. For quite some time I have had mostly had scalers. The BMVs have been doing really well at our local comps so I figured for the price and ease of assembly why not use it. So I found a BMVii chasis from Giveereh here on the board. I called Kevin up at TCS and had him send some stiff out to me: Mashers Axial Beadlocks R2 Trans HPI Baja Bug Mamba 25 and he sent me a new brushless outrunner motor he is maybe going to sell. I ran to Wal-mart and picked up 10,000 .12g airsoft pellets for wheel weights. I got a new MX-3 radio from jeff, jwcustomwurks, who lives a few miles away from me. I decided to build this on sunday and started with $55 and a few parts. Just by trading and selling parts I had everything here to build it by thursday. Total retail build cost is right at $680 Specs: BMVii TLT Axles R2 Tranny Mamba 25 Brushless Outrunner MX-3 Radio 8t pinion Alum Yeah Racing Knuckles Hitec 645mg Pede shafts, picking up steel yokes sat Airsoft BB's filling tires 2/3 full Masher 2ks Axial Beadlocks Cheap Battery, picking um a 2/3a sat and having a custom pack made too. Excuse the 1 hour paint job, I was just anxious to get it on. I taped it out on my lunch break at work and then just painted like crazy when I got home. Pics:       I still need to tie off all my wires and do testing but I want to get my battery in before I set anything in stone. |
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05-04-2007, 10:29 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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Looks good, ad a wedge to the rear.  |
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05-04-2007, 10:36 AM
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| 20K Club Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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you got a 2x4 I can cut and wood screw to it? haha I loved the shadow project, only reason I picked the BMV I will work in a wedge as soon as I can find some suitable material. |
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05-04-2007, 10:39 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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Check out Draven's BM. I just used some aluminum L channel for the wedge on it. |
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05-04-2007, 11:31 AM
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| Quarry Creeper  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kansas City
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I like the colors man Whole rig looks good..can't wait to see it perform
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05-04-2007, 11:38 AM
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| 20K Club Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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Yeah I think the colors look real good, the local paint store had a few to pick from! Thanks for the paint, I will make sure to get you more! Josh |
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05-04-2007, 11:57 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tampa Bay Area
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love the colors!!! looks great
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05-04-2007, 12:33 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Fresno
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Very nice. Every time I see one of these BMVii builds I want to get another set of axles and start one of my own.
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05-04-2007, 08:54 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Cutting Comms
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Looks cool. Are you bringing it to the GTG tomorrow?
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05-04-2007, 09:01 PM
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| 20K Club Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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I hustled my arse off to have everything here, built, and running for this weekend so I could have something capable to bring. Neil (Freq E Tag) and I were on the phone and trading about 10 times this week, everytime I put up an add he seemed to have it. haha Neil - "Maybe you should just tell me what you want or need" |
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05-04-2007, 10:43 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: GUAM
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nice rig looks good
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05-04-2007, 10:51 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kansas City
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I think I just wet myself
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05-04-2007, 11:23 PM
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| 20K Club Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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Well I just took it outside for some minor testing. This motor has some crazy crazy crazy power. Which results in problems for me........................ate my first drive shaft. Came in and replaced it. Went back out..................ate my first axle shaft. Came in and replaced it. Went back out...................had a friggin blast. Uploading pictures now, they are night time pictures so you will have to excuse them! |
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05-04-2007, 11:37 PM
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| 20K Club Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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PICS!!!!! This is my favorite          |
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05-05-2007, 12:08 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Fresno
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Crap that looks great!
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05-05-2007, 12:10 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kansas City
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good pics man |
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05-05-2007, 12:50 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Pilgrim,Ky
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Great looking bug.Nice color choice
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05-05-2007, 08:04 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Near Pittsburgh, PA
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Great build...looks good! For some reason, I keep thinking about tearing apart my SW2 and building somehting like this. I think it is my curiosity to see just how well it performs. Is there a certain terrain that these excel at and also terrain that it doesn't do well on? Any info is appreciated! |
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05-05-2007, 08:17 AM
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| '08 2.2 National Champ  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UTRCRC
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Good to see my bmv going to good use |
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05-05-2007, 08:40 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson/Las Vegas, NV
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a guy here locally did that and the first time he crawled it the rear axle fell off the truck! it was pretty funny. i tried the torsion thing, wasnt impressed. | |
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