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04-26-2009, 08:28 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rohnert Park
Posts: 178
|  lwarc's budget fj instascaler($200) I have been thinking about building a 1.9 scaler for some time now. The first thing I bought was the Newbright fj at target.com on sale for $42($50 after shipping). I liked the way the body looked and I knew that the body fits onto a cc01 chassis without much in the way of modifications. Then I found a NIB Pajero that had been purchased but not build. The box was opened but every thing was still on the trees so I picked that up for $135. The pictures tell the rest of the story... |
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04-26-2009, 08:33 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rohnert Park
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| The boxes  Here is the stuff I used - the New Bright FJ from Target.com and the Tamiya Pajero Metal Top kit. |
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04-26-2009, 08:36 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rohnert Park
Posts: 178
| Body Mods  I cut the four mount points on the inside of the body down by 1 inch. I also trimmed back the yellow plastic just inside of the front bumper so that it would slide down over the original mount. The dremmel tool came in very handy for this part. |
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04-26-2009, 08:42 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rohnert Park
Posts: 178
| Body with cc01 chassis  This is what it looks like with the body on. Future modifications will include working head and tail lights, black slotted hpi wheels with some rc4wd tires(not sure which ones yet) a better roof rack and a spare tire on the back and roof. So far this has been a very fun(and easy) project. |
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04-26-2009, 08:43 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rohnert Park
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|  Plenty of room for a spare tire... |
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04-26-2009, 11:10 PM
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| NBRCC   Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Cotati
Posts: 710
| Right on man  You will love the CC-01 |
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04-27-2009, 12:13 AM
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| I am a Liar!  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: santa monica
Posts: 3,557
| that body is a perfect fit on there! |
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04-27-2009, 11:38 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tuscaloosa
Posts: 755
| A great simple build. I would love to run up on a jero for $135. That is hard to beat. That is a nice clean looking rig you got there. |
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04-27-2009, 11:51 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Pittsburgh
Posts: 83
| I"m dying to get a jero. I almost have the wife talked into it because of the talk of it being discontinued. |
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04-28-2009, 10:25 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rohnert Park
Posts: 178
| Keep watching the For Sale section on RCCrawler - that is where I found it. Thanks for the positive feedback! |
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04-28-2009, 11:02 PM
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| Lifetime Gold Baby!   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: GA
Posts: 530
| how much was the fj and where did you buy yours? I want one of those yellow ones so badly. |
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04-28-2009, 11:03 PM
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| Lifetime Gold Baby! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: GA
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| oops... just saw the info I needed lol... my bad :( |
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04-29-2009, 11:49 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rohnert Park
Posts: 178
| Not a problem Kingcobra - here is a link: http://www.target.com/New-Bright-Con...ht%20fj&page=1 |
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04-30-2009, 11:24 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PA
Posts: 702
| Damn that's cheap and it looks amazing! Great work! And thanks for the link to the body. |
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05-06-2009, 10:48 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rohnert Park
Posts: 178
| My latest modification - some lights from yeahracing. $10 at tcscrawler.com  |
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05-06-2009, 10:50 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rohnert Park
Posts: 178
| Four head lights and two tail lights  |
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05-06-2009, 10:55 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rohnert Park
Posts: 178
| I used two of the light assemblies from the light bar along the roof. I had to dremmel out the existing head lights and drill the light buckets so the LED's would slide in. To secure the lights I used a hot glue gun - the Yeahracing lights are nice and then hook up to your receiver so you don't need a separate switch or battery.  Last edited by lwarc; 05-06-2009 at 11:12 PM. |
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05-06-2009, 11:01 PM
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| MadDogRC LLC   Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Petaluma
Posts: 1,588
| looks nice man, can't wait to see this thing out and about |
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05-06-2009, 11:09 PM
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| TEAM RCC  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Novato
Posts: 1,501
| Looks cool man keep it up. |
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05-07-2009, 01:19 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tuscaloosa
Posts: 755
| Lights look great! Get that stock Pajero bumper off of there. It will look and perform much better. |
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