12-28-2004, 06:16 PM | #21 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The Gay NorthWest
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hey wheres mine ive been here as long as dirk... oops i mean pete, no patrick ya thats right J/P by the way who is sporting the gay pride paint job???? ryan |
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12-28-2004, 07:34 PM | #22 |
2006 2.2 National Champ Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Big Bear Lake
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Thanks again guys. I just want to say, I IN NO WAY THINK I STARTED THE SLAMMED BODY THING! I built this truck by reading my a** off, ON THIS SITE. That's why I thanked everyone in the begining off my post. I think that the shocks sticking up so high make it looked slammed more than it really is. AWESOME PICS GRIZZ. |
12-28-2004, 08:44 PM | #23 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The Gay NorthWest
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the slammed look isnt really about looks more then it is performance.... yes yes the body does hinder performance believe it or not.... it for one can get in the way of negotiating threw obstacles and it has a perdy good sized affect on the COG.... so having a low cut up bod is a performace issue as well as a looks cool issue... but id take performance over looks anyday, maybe thats just me tho ryan |
12-28-2004, 09:41 PM | #24 | |
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12-28-2004, 09:54 PM | #25 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: wasatch front
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gay pride is pinchflats
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12-28-2004, 10:38 PM | #26 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Grand Forks, ND
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which truck is that?
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12-28-2004, 11:17 PM | #27 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The Gay NorthWest
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the rainbow truck the rainbow is a symbol of gay pride therefore the name gay pride i knida thought it would be dave or somthing but guess not ryan |
12-29-2004, 04:08 AM | #28 |
2006 2.2 National Champ Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Big Bear Lake
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"NAKED" as promised. Another shot of battery tray, you can kinda see my tranny mount behind body mount. Made bracket that ties crossmember to gear shaft in tranny. Clocked GD-600 keeps motor just under top of frame rails. To lock out rear axle I machined delrin spacers that sit between axle housing and outer knuckle. |
12-29-2004, 12:26 PM | #29 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2004
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"I just want to say, I IN NO WAY THINK I STARTED THE SLAMMED BODY THING!" I was only giving you shiat!.....cause that's all I do good. |
12-29-2004, 01:01 PM | #30 | |
2006 2.2 National Champ Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Big Bear Lake
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I did, however perfect it. | |
12-30-2004, 10:59 AM | #31 |
20K Club Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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Does that rig have any torque steer?
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12-30-2004, 12:07 PM | #32 | |
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12-30-2004, 10:25 PM | #33 |
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Yeah sorry I meant torque twist. I am used to talking about real cars all day and torque twist is pretty damn rare in 1:1 cars.
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01-03-2005, 11:17 AM | #34 |
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Harley0706, I had a lot of torque steer and loading and unloading problems when I ran this set up on my TXT. I made some sway bars that helped alot. But what really makes this set up perform well is the low gearing that Bender is using. I think I saw a GD600 in there this past weekend. His crawler is one awesome shafty! I believe that you need very good low gearing to keep things under control with the savage shocks and I never used the ultra low gearing. |
01-03-2005, 12:16 PM | #35 | |
2006 2.2 National Champ Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Big Bear Lake
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I'm extremely happy w/ how it performed at raffle, for being my first run w/ anyone on this site. I think you had already left raffle WannaBe, I did make bonus line in second comp, first try, w/ ease. Then I rolled on top, probably one of the easiest sections. So I've got some tweaking to do as always. Either that or I need to learn how to drive. | |
01-03-2005, 12:21 PM | #36 |
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Last time I was at Jason's house, I made that climb very easily with my TXT based truck. A shafty has a much easier time with that obstical than a clod.
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01-03-2005, 12:39 PM | #37 | |
2006 2.2 National Champ Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Big Bear Lake
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Maybe some day Roctapus will get a set. | |
01-03-2005, 12:45 PM | #38 |
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how are you liking that futaba ESC? im thinkin about buying one soon.
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01-03-2005, 12:50 PM | #39 | ||
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Nope. This TXT! | ||
01-03-2005, 12:52 PM | #40 | |
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