Independent sus. Maxx Trail truck/crawler/basher

[Vitamin_J]

hey, i just bought myself a used EMaxx that i want to try and build a somewhat capable IS crawler out of. DONT TELL ME TO LOCK OUT THE AXLES, i have a clod for solid axle fun.

i just have a few questions:

1) What's the easiest way to get more travel out of the A-Arms?

2) What's the best way to narrow the chassis or should i make a custom TVP style chassis?

3) If i move the tranny forward, will a revo slider stretch from the tranny to the rear diff?

4) can i change the 1st and 2nd gear ratios individually, or is gearing all determined by the pinion/spur?


thanks

[ttrmike]

I might be able to answer #1 & 4. take a pic of how they are mounted and I can help you, and I think it depends of the pinion and the spur gears.

[Eclipse]

i think your able to change them indivisually, actually you CAN for sure and make yourself a custom chassis, narrowing the stock one wouldnt be worth it IMO. the a=arms u can possibly trim down to make a little more travel off of them but i would also have to see how they are mounted and is the maxx u have the wide maxx or the narrowed maxx?

hope this helped you some.
Ryan, The Maxx Dude!

[AdamF]

longer a-arms for more travel.

I'd also stretch it to gain some wheelbase. That's the major setback of a stock maxx.

[Eclipse]

adamf, how would u go about stretching the WB?

[AdamF]

Originally Posted by Eclipse

adamf, how would u go about stretching the WB?

Longer chassis

[Eclipse]

well yea......lol. what i mean was, do u know who sells a really nice emaxx chassis for crawling that is fairly cheap?

[Vitamin_J]

i think i'm gonna make a custom TVP chassis, move the tranny forward, and hopefully have a really low first gear, and a medium to high second gear for general bashing and whatnot.

also Moabs fo sho!

can someone give me the measurments on the "Wide-Maxx" set-up? mine measures 16" from the outside of the stock tires

[Eclipse]

http://www.traxxas.com/products/elec...axx_specs.htm#

[TwistedCreations]

Originally Posted by Vitamin_J

hey, i just bought myself a used EMaxx that i want to try and build a somewhat capable IS crawler out of. DONT TELL ME TO LOCK OUT THE AXLES, i have a clod for solid axle fun.

i just have a few questions:

1) What's the easiest way to get more travel out of the A-Arms?

you have to trim and cut some stuff out on the a-arms... PM Kevinlongisland and he can help ya

2) What's the best way to narrow the chassis or should i make a custom TVP style chassis?

custom chassis

3) If i move the tranny forward, will a revo slider stretch from the tranny to the rear diff?

depends, running revos with the trans in the center of the chassis- you will have a 16" WB...i have mine stretched to 17" and thats about it. yo may have to lengthen it


4) can i change the 1st and 2nd gear ratios individually, or is gearing all determined by the pinion/spur?

cant change the internal gears of the trans. gearing is all due from the pinion/spur/reduction unit

also, the wide version has 4 shock holes adj. on the lower a-arms. also the WMS-WMS is 13" (WMS= wheel mounting surface)

[TwistedCreations]

Originally Posted by Eclipse

i think your able to change them indivisually, actually you CAN for sure and make yourself a custom chassis, narrowing the stock one wouldnt be worth it IMO. the a=arms u can possibly trim down to make a little more travel off of them but i would also have to see how they are mounted and is the maxx u have the wide maxx or the narrowed maxx?

hope this helped you some.
Ryan, The Maxx Dude!

cmon now, if your the " maxx dude", you should know all these answers and not always be thinking

[Vitamin_J]

alright sweet. got all my questions answered!

custom chassis and forward-tranny with dual 55Ts and super rooster will be added shortly!

[BENDER]

Longer WB is definitely key to stop the wheelies, as cool as they are. I stretched the rear diff off the back and lowered the batteries. Here's a link to some more pics.
Pics of I-MAXX my basher/crawler.