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Old 08-14-2006, 06:28 PM   #101
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Sweet! Great looking rig. Will be a great to see it in person come September.
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Old 08-14-2006, 06:40 PM   #102
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Thats one nice rig you have there
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Old 08-16-2006, 09:35 AM   #103
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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.

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Old 08-16-2006, 11:09 AM   #104
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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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Old 08-18-2006, 01:19 AM   #105
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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.

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he just wants to rattle everybody he is going up against. I am keeping mine under wraps till Nationals.
Thanks Chad, I'd let you drive it if I didn't think you have something wilder up your sleeve already !!

I guess it would have been smarter to post after the Nationals but I new this would be more fun !!!

Here's to Getting Rattled !!!
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Old 08-18-2006, 11:39 PM   #106
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Thanks Chad, I'd let you drive it if I didn't think you have something wilder up your sleeve already !!

Here's to Getting Rattled !!!
Thanks for rattling me. My trucks have been in moving boxes in pieces and I have not had the mental or financial wherewithall to do anything with them. That is until you reminded me we are going to see some sick a$$ trucks at the nationals and I have to come up with something new. I unpacked the piles of truck pieces and mocked up two trucks. The super is just what I have always run with some fresh parts and 1/2 inch longer wheel base, but the two point two is a whole lotta crazy packed into a small truck. I can not wait to see your pan chassis in action...get some good pics at the next comp.

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Old 08-26-2006, 07:12 PM   #107
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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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Old 08-26-2006, 07:37 PM   #108
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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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Old 11-15-2006, 05:28 PM   #109
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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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Old 11-15-2006, 06:25 PM   #110
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Thats what I call "thinking outside the box"
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Old 11-29-2006, 06:15 PM   #111
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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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Old 11-29-2006, 06:29 PM   #112
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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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Old 11-29-2006, 06:35 PM   #113
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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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Old 11-29-2006, 06:48 PM   #114
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Was it a particular brand? Trinity, epic, ect....?
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Old 11-29-2006, 09:40 PM   #115
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Was it a particular brand? Trinity, epic, ect....?
It's a Team Orion Revolution V2 mod motor, it uses a TOP can.
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Old 11-29-2006, 09:52 PM   #116
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Nice.....your stuff always looks so bling.
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Old 11-30-2006, 06:41 PM   #117
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Nice job!
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Old 03-03-2007, 06:06 PM   #118
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Default 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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Old 03-03-2007, 06:40 PM   #119
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wow this is truly impressive, three tranny overhauls, you really know your stuff
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Old 03-03-2007, 09:57 PM   #120
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What shocks were you running that had the resevoirs?

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