Da Blue'z Reborn BMVii - Lil Red Wagen
 

The story:

I bought this a month or so ago from Brand0 only to discover it was actually built by Dez! Had I known, I would have never bought it... I keed, I keed...

Anyway, the truck was set up as follows:

BMVii chassis
Tower Pro 995 servo
Novak XRS Speedo
Integy 55t Lathe
TQ3
Moabs on RPMs w/ Faux Beadlocks & Airsoft

But I wanted to take it up a notch.

The rebirth:

First a couple "before" shots...

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Next came the decisions:

Power - Mamba 25 with Outrunner (will be here this week)
Battery - 1300Mah Thunder Power
LiPo Safety - FMA LiPo Cutoff
Servo - Hitec HS985
Tranny - B4 Stealth w/ 62PYRO Spool
RCP - TLT CVD's front
RC4WD - Straight Axles rear
GMade Wheel Wideners
Wheels - Axial Black Beadlocks w/ Red Rings
Tires - Moabs w/ 8 oz in fronts plus airsoft over the rim on all 4

Some of the goodies:

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Some in progress shots:

Spool - Awesome quality part
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Old style straight axle adapters
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CVD's with Gmade Wideners. I had to drill out the widener to fit as well as add a longer M4 bolt to make them work.
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Stealth mounted. Also showing Jato shafts and hardened yokes. That little plate on the tranny helps hold everything straight.

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Front driveshaft angle - No binding here!

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Where I left off...

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Poser....

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More to come....

Looking good, wish you could have made our comp today!"thumbsup"

Me too, I just had to be here for a work thing in the AM or I probably would have.

Thanks for the compliment.... :)

I recieve my locker today from 62PYRO and they look great.

Looking Good "thumbsup" "thumbsup"

Sure is alot of these BMVii's here in KC.

Looks good Neal! When my CVD's get here I will have to do the same mod to my wideners I guess.

You going to keep the 80's paint? :D JK!

It will be nice when I can make some of these comps and such later in the year.

The m4 bolt I used was 16mm long perfect length "thumbsup" The stock bolt is 12mm long

Goodie goodie...
 

Got some goodies today.... Thanks Crawler Store. Man, these guys ship fast!

Got in the new brushless motor, Hitec 5645, Bug Body, etc.

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Also got my Mamba collection started. Its good to know people in the right places....

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As she stands now. Or should I say... rolls.

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More this weekend. Hopefully I can get her all finished, damn this job thing keeps getting in the way... lol.

Its .... alive ...... :)

Please welcome.... the "Lil Red Wagen"

Big thanks to:

muddauber7- Dig idea and a tip or two
Zorlac- General annoyance and support
Harley0706- Brushless profile and professional dog crawling
Dezfan- for building it right the first time...

Also thanks to RCP and Kevin @ TCS for the parts

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Looks great Neal. The dig looks amazingly clean, does it have a brake?

I like your LiPO case too, that looks really good.

Your right I wouldn't want to run that body either :D

:shock: Damn! frickin nice! that is the nicest lookin bug body I have seen yet! frickin awesome tlt too. I'm Thinking of selling ym linter and e-maxx and buying one and building it up. any pics of it out on the rocks yet? or is that a wait till the weekend deal? "thumbsup"

Thx Mr. Harley. No brake. I'll wait for the elusive R2D2. Plus with a boat load of drag brake, you really only need it in downhill turning situations and we don't have too many of those here so I'll wait it out. :)

I'm gonna run that paint, screw it, it ain't no shelf queen baby....

Thx for the compliments.

Rocks on Saturday if.... shhh... it... doesn't ... (R-word)... lol

sik!







Ride Red

smokin' paint dude! everyone's only allowed one shelf queen!
can't wait for you to tear it up!:lol:

DIG IT!

GOT BRAKE? I DO:twisted: ...

Looking sharp. Cant wait to see how it does tomorrow.

Paint turned out sweet! "thumbsup"

I swear I wish I could get my schedule adjusted so that I could come crawl w/ you guys!:x

You will be missed.

See if you can just "disappear" for like 4 hours or so... :-P

that paint is freaking awesome:shock::-P"thumbsup"
The whole rig looks good too.
Well done with the rebuild.
Shane

Now just run it :lol: :lol: