Go Back   RCCrawler Forums > Scale Rigs Brand Specific Tech > Vaterra Scale Rock Crawlers > Vaterra Twin Hammers
Loading

Notices

Thread: subaru brat hammers

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 06-11-2013, 03:28 PM   #1
Pebble Pounder
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Oceanside Ca
Posts: 159
Default subaru brat hammers

so I made a Subaru brat twin hammers. It has cut Tamiya Brat body, with a bed and rear firewall. The body allowed me to move the battery to the front with the stock tray. It has the following mods:

AE2 esc (stock axial esc)
Brood Stump Humper motor
Hitek 7954 steer servo
front locker
stock steering servo performing shift duties
PittBull tires and RC4WD bead locks
castle BEC
3s lipo

The Crawlspace in Arvada, Co helped out with all the parts.






Last edited by iluvdrt; 06-11-2013 at 03:45 PM.
iluvdrt is offline   Reply With Quote
Sponsored Links
Old 06-11-2013, 03:43 PM   #2
Rock Stacker
 
Join Date: May 2013
Location: rock
Posts: 62
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

too cool.
donuts is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-11-2013, 06:05 PM   #3
Pebble Pounder
 
Join Date: May 2012
Location: California
Posts: 138
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

Huge Subaru fan here Brilliant idea and body !!!
Subytuner is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-11-2013, 06:11 PM   #4
Quarry Creeper
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Lunenburg
Posts: 349
Default

Great looking Hammers. Nice job!
Hobine is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-11-2013, 08:10 PM   #5
RCC Addict
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Razorback Haven
Posts: 1,620
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

Sweet ride! Way to think outside the box!
Tgreer is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-11-2013, 08:36 PM   #6
I wanna be Dave
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Fairfield ME
Posts: 3,886
Default

This thing is great! Twin hammers are ugly as sin out of the box but I love this.
Calderwood is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-11-2013, 09:15 PM   #7
Pebble Pounder
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Oceanside Ca
Posts: 159
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

Quote:
Originally Posted by Subytuner View Post
Huge Subaru fan here Brilliant idea and body !!!
Thanks everyone.

I am a huge Subaru nut too. I've been driving them for 17 years now, and even ran a Subaru performance shop in NC for awhile. I have always had a soft spot for the older ones, saw this body, and had to do something with it.
iluvdrt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-11-2013, 11:33 PM   #8
Quarry Creeper
 
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Temecula
Posts: 417
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

Totally awesome! Way to go!
snicklefritz is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-15-2013, 06:08 PM   #9
Pebble Pounder
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Oceanside Ca
Posts: 159
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

Well I ordered a GCM upright shock mount, and bought some proline shocks, radiator and exo rear light bar, new roof rack, and rear sway bar. Can't wait to get that stuff installed and see how she handles now. Plus I think the scale appearance of the GCM hoop shockmounts and proline shocks sticking out of the hood will look sweet!
iluvdrt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-15-2013, 06:53 PM   #10
I wanna be Dave
 
Big Mike's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Martinsburg WV
Posts: 2,781
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

Love it!

I'm a Brat fan as well, I used a Tamiya body for one of my first "scalers" 4-5 years back...
Big Mike is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-25-2013, 10:07 AM   #11
Quarry Creeper
 
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: SE PA
Posts: 453
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

best lookin TH I've seen. wonder if I could do something like this for a g6 car.
Gravebane525 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-25-2013, 01:43 PM   #12
Pebble Pounder
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Oceanside Ca
Posts: 159
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

I use mine for G6's. I've tried to do scale comps but the turning radius sucks and because the layout of the body it puts me into a class i can't really compete with. I still do the comps because they're fun, but this baby really shines in the G6 and terra X races.

I'm about to go brushless with it. MMP and Roc 412 3100kv should do the job!
iluvdrt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-29-2013, 02:42 PM   #13
Pebble Pounder
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Oceanside Ca
Posts: 159
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

Well it placed 4th in my local scale comp this weekend and 6th overall out of all the classes having 26 entries. In my class (1.9) I finished under 2 team drivers and the owner of the scale shop. Not bad for my 2nd comp
iluvdrt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-23-2013, 01:21 PM   #14
Pebble Pounder
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Oceanside Ca
Posts: 159
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

I got the GCM mount in and ordered a Derwood design steering kit. I also went with a HH torquemaster motor. Still going brushless, but not right now. Also, my front bumper grill on the brat broke off, so I'll need to fix that. I changed a few things around with the scale accessories and added a Dinky RC LED light bar too. I'll get some picks up soon. The rear sway bar and upright front shocks make it handle killer.
iluvdrt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-15-2014, 11:03 AM   #15
Pebble Pounder
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Oceanside Ca
Posts: 159
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

OK, so here are some more updates.

The brat body was painted again and I added some more scale items for points at comps. Here is how it looked while in comp mode.







All of that came to a stop after moving to SoCal from Denver. There weren't many places to crawl local to me and the brat body had survived 2 years of comps and G6's. I needed to do something else. So a complete tear down and rebuild is what I did.

It received the following:

new MMP
Hitec 7950TH for steering BEC set at 7.4v
Hitec 7954SH for tranny BEC set at 6.0v
Tekin ROC 412 was taken out and a Tekin Pro4 4x4 short course 4600KV installed
VP knuckles and castor blocks
Fast Freddy bearings
Axial lights/controller
Warn wireless winch controller for 12v action
new body panels
EXO rear light bar/radiator
front light bar
roof rack

And here is how it looks now:
iluvdrt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-15-2014, 11:08 AM   #16
Pebble Pounder
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Oceanside Ca
Posts: 159
Default Re: subaru brat hammers











electronics installed. I changed the ROC out for the Pro4 4x4 shortcourse but didnt get a pic.

iluvdrt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-15-2014, 11:16 AM   #17
Pebble Pounder
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Oceanside Ca
Posts: 159
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

Its maiden voyage will be today. Ive had such a hard time with this thing. Its like it is possessed. It just eats up motors, ESC's, servos like its cool. Its had 4 steering servos fry, 4 MMP's fry, 2 BEC's stop, a ROC 412 fry, and the receiver once. No one knows why. Think its all sorted out though. I ran 2 3s 1800 mah packs through it last night just bashing kind of in my back yard. Its going to hit the rocks today.

Also some things on order are 85mm King shocks for the front, new CI foams, and new front axles since mine are getting kind of worn out. Im also getting the VP trailing arms soon and 110mm King shocks for the rear.
iluvdrt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-15-2014, 02:47 PM   #18
Quarry Creeper
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: pot noodle mines wales uk
Posts: 309
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

great job ! lovin the tamiya brat !! big tamiya vintage fan here
biggamehunter is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-15-2014, 04:18 PM   #19
Pebble Pounder
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Oceanside Ca
Posts: 159
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

Me too. I am going to rebuild one on a SWB Axial SCX set up. That way I can use the whole truck instead of just the cab.
iluvdrt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-17-2014, 09:02 AM   #20
Rock Crawler
 
Pockets70's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Rancho Cucamonga
Posts: 665
Default Re: subaru brat hammers

That Suby body was awesome! Definitely have to see it reused again! Your TH looks great with the scaler parts!
Pockets70 is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply



subaru brat hammers - Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
subaru brat beater CM9000 1.9 Scale Rigs 1 10-07-2010 09:45 PM
Subaru Brat build sierradmax 1.9 Scale Rigs 7 12-11-2009 08:31 AM
subaru brat bod ???? 1mopar General Crawlers 3 05-05-2009 06:57 PM
subaru brumby/brat 1badduk Chit Chat 5 12-01-2007 08:29 PM
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



All times are GMT -6. The time now is 11:24 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Content Relevant URLs by vBSEO ©2011, Crawlability, Inc.
Copyright 2004-2014 RCCrawler.com