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08-14-2006, 06:28 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Where it's wet
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|   Sweet! Great looking rig. Will be a great to see it in person come September.
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08-14-2006, 06:40 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: GreenWood lake
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Thats one nice rig you have there
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08-16-2006, 09:35 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Tumwater
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DOH...can I drive that at the nationals? J/K I cant belive you let this truck OUT before the biggest comp yet! It gets my vote as the coolest comp rig ever. Chad- |
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08-16-2006, 11:09 AM
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| owner, Holmes Hobbies LLC   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Volt up! Gear down!
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he just wants to rattle everybody he is going up against. I am keeping mine under wraps till Nationals.
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08-18-2006, 01:19 AM
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| Quarry Creeper   Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The Dark Side
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08-18-2006, 11:39 PM
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08-26-2006, 07:12 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The Dark Side
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| Bling Bling
The chassis is working out GREAT !!! I built it with a 12" wheelbase, that's 1/2" shorter than before, to help shorten the turning radius. It's just too short on the vertical climbs and doesn't hold the front down. I had some scap carbon fiber kicking around and decided to fab up some sexy new chassis plates with the rear plate being 1/4" longer.  I also removed some excess weight from the plate mounts while they were off. I saved 3 grams with the longer carbon chassis plates, and 2 grams from each plate mount. Not only do they look cooler but what a difference on the rocks !!! |
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08-26-2006, 07:37 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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Brilliant! I only wish I had half of your fabbing skills. If you ever decide to market that crawler, I see the TVP chassis going the way of the dinosaur! |
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11-15-2006, 05:28 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The Dark Side
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| New Top for Buster
I'm really happy with the HPI Baja Bug body I've been running for the last year but it seems to on every other 2.2 I see. I saw someone at Nationals running a buggy body and I got to thinking...   It's from a Losi XX buggy. I used about a 110 % of the body. I dig the moon buggy look it gives Buster. |
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11-15-2006, 06:25 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement
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Thats what I call "thinking outside the box"
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11-29-2006, 06:15 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The Dark Side
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| New/Old Power Plant
I know everyone is going brushless, my Unlimited Clod is going to make the switch soon, but I have no major problems with a lathe motor in my 2.2 . I just don't like those 80's tech cans and endbells they come with. While checking out a new crawl spot, I stopped at the LHS and scored a nice used mod motor. These Swiss made V-style motors are TOP cans like most lathe motors so endbells and cans are interchangable. I swapped out the old 13x2 armature for a new 55x1 lathe and installed new brushes and soft springs. Built-in capacitors, BIG brushes, a LED when it's running, and it LOOKS HOT while it runs cool.  |
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11-29-2006, 06:29 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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That's pretty cool, we used to buy the rebuild-able aluminum end bell Mod motors and install a 540 armature in it for the endurance races at SRS raceway in Tucson or Tempe, don't remember which one it was.  I might try that for my Clod as I still use lathe motors in it!  |
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11-29-2006, 06:35 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The Dark Side
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| They're Cheap
I got this one for $25.00 @ SSR. The manager said he get's them all the time for $20.00-30.00 each, bushes and springs ran me $4.00/pair.
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11-29-2006, 06:48 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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Was it a particular brand? Trinity, epic, ect....?
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11-29-2006, 09:40 PM
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11-29-2006, 09:52 PM
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| Dirt Addict   Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Stumblin' thru the parking lot of an invisible 7-Eleven
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Nice.....your stuff always looks so bling. Jay |
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11-30-2006, 06:41 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Connecticut
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Nice job!
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03-03-2007, 06:06 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The Dark Side
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| Brushless and a New Transmission
Well I finally decided to jump on the brushless-bandwagon. The light weight and drag brake are proving to be too great of an advantage to pass on any longer. I found a sweet little brushless from GWS for their Slow Stick parkflyer. It retails for around $20.00-25.00, it's 1.8oz and 1020kv, perfect for a TLT. One problem though, it ate my transmission something a lathe motor never did. So in order to run the brushless I had to make a new tranny. The new AE RC10GT2 had a 4.09:1 trans, the perfect gear set for a crawler tranny.    |
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03-03-2007, 06:40 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: CoMo...Kickin it with Holmes Hobbies
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wow this is truly impressive, three tranny overhauls, you really know your stuff
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03-03-2007, 09:57 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tigard
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What shocks were you running that had the resevoirs? Thanks |
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