Yet another cheapo Sport build
 

Here it is. My only other slow tiny truck is an EX Real so I needed something more capable, decent out of the box, and durable as I share it with my 4yo son.

Chinese 20kg servo, 1080, HH TM Sport 27t 550 can and RC4g radio that I use on my other stuff. Done some basic mods and upgrades like metal beadlocks, brass portal housings and trimming/tucking of the fenders. Oh and battery tray never got installed, run my pack on the side.

Just geared down to 11/45 as I plan on running it on 4s when my 880 arrives. Got a 14t pinion too, might use that if I don't like the top speed.

White plasti-dip.

Very, very capable and stout rig for the price!

Some pics:

https://i.ibb.co/19TPdTR/IMG-20200921-123240.jpg https://i.ibb.co/3ddLtL3/IMG-20200921-133354.jpg https://i.ibb.co/8s1p4LG/edf.jpg https://i.ibb.co/9qvPwKW/edf.jpg

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Nice setup! I love the white plastidip!


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Rear underdrive next on the list, should have the gears by Saturday...

Went for a crawl yesterday, the stock tires were a bit of a disappointment on slick mossy rock, gotta borrow some Hyraxes and/or PB RB for comparison! It was wet and pretty muddy around the rocks.

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Nice rig. Like the simplicity. Try the tire mod on the stock Canyons. You'll like it! All you need is a good pair of small diagonal cutters and some time.

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Good looking rig. It’s nice that a guy doesn’t need to blow a fortune to build a nicely performing crawler. Slight variants of that electrics setup has become pretty common in my crawler collection. It crawls beautifully!

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Thanks guys.

I wanted something that won't cost me 50 bucks in parts every 2 or 3 runs like my 6s Arrma does :D

I think the TRX4 really moved the market forward... my last kit was a Wraith Spawn, that thing needed just about everything upgraded. New rigs coming out lately are mostly good to go, metal links, good tires, metal gears, CVDs...

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880 arrived. Had some issues with jumpy startup and fwd/rev behavior but managed to find settings that work. Very nice on 4s, creeps like a... creep? And just enough wheelspeed.

Here's the layout, I run 2x2s so stuck the ESC up front.

https://i.ibb.co/z7CGbry/PSX-20201002-091705.jpg

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Video!

https://youtu.be/wkbREAdj6bE

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What a dumbass. After a couple of light runs with underdrive gears I felt like it should be pulling the front around more. Painted a dot on the tires and saw that the front barely spins faster.

Hmm.

Went to check my parts box. Yup, I changed only the ring gear and reinstalled the original pinion.

Five minutes and one facepalm later, UD is doing its work ��

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Scale shrooms!

https://i.ibb.co/1ZR3D65/dav.jpg

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That’s a cool pic!

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Thanks. Went hiking the other day, the trail turned out boring for RCing. So half way up I decided to stash the TRX4 in a tree and picked it up on the way back. :D
I came to a conclusion that trail running is boring. Gimme a good piece of rock and I can have fun for hours, but running on a forest path, meh.