Vaterra twin hammers trophy truck build

[sporties470]

Early this year a very close family friend past away his name was Wayne and he was a offroad race car driver in Australia he was the first person to win the Finke desert race in a car which was back in the 90's and around 2011 him and another family friend did a deal which ended up that our family friend wayne got a full size truggy which had been in a crash and bent the frame so after that a bunch of caring friends of one another jumped in to help fix this truggy up itr ended up being a truphy truck my farther craig hodge built a small block 368 chevy which was a nascar platform and it made 620 HP . after a while i had a rc 1/8 truggy and i wanted to paint it the same as the trophy truck but that never happend until now .. i have my vaterra twin hammers and already have the body that i cut into single pannels to be more realistic im going to get a sticker wrap on the pannels soon but first i have to figure out how to mount the body .. so im going to post this build as it progresses and i hope youse all enjoy

[rustykaos]

Looking forward to seeing it.

[sporties470]

Originally Posted by rustykaos

Looking forward to seeing it.

Thanks man ill try get photos up soon

[sporties470]

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ao here is the first picture to start off the build

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ok so 2nd pic up ... gmade piggy back shocks all round .. front shocks are fairly smooth but the rears are no :/ my shafts well scrathed and the grip on the o rings :/ and i think my links arew bindind up so i will service those aswell . motor is a ezrun 4300 KV 9T brushless system .. jhust a chepo but better then stock and ESC is hobbywing is 80amp sct waterproof version .. so far so good

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ok so these are the GMADE piggy backs i painted then gunmeatasl grey and a mist of silver just to be diffrent to the frame and to look better than the black plastic
a added a eibach springs sticker just for scale appearance .

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FRame ok truck is painted gunmetal grey just like the 1:1 truck and i also painted the shock plate and hoops gunmetal grey to tie in the the frame

as you can see in the photo above one wheel doesnt look quite right hahah and thats because the stock steering race snapped at the end . and i orderd a hot racing steering rack for a replacement which i was waiting on for a few weeks

[sporties470]

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here is the snapped steering rack :(

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ok so here is the bonnet panel painted gloss black just as the 1:1 scale and just so yous know all pannels are from hpi mini trophy truck

sorry for bad lighting :/

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here is a better view of the bonnet looks flash as

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looking pretty tough !

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Top view of the bonnet .. and yous may think its way to wide or to narrow but it is really pretty dead on and ill prove that with a pic of the 1:1 if yous want

[sporties470]

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door pannel . i did make a mistake and cut iut a bit to short but i can allways glue a botttom piece back on cause i still have scraped of the body

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Rear quater pannel .. the evil pannel wich will be more of a pain to mount ahha

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obviously not how the pannels will sity ahah i had 1 hand to try get the pannels while i took the pic but its just a rough idea for you guys

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Roof pannel.. the easy one of them all

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i found it funny that as i was taking a pic of the snapped steering rack this came to my door step

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Opend this bad boy straight away just to take a pic ! it is really just beautiful

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its a bit of a pain in the ass that i cant put the steering rack in because of 2 rounded screews in the shock plate

[sporties470]

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this pic was taken at THe sporties 12 hour endurance race last month i was navigating but i have a black helmet on so you cant see me ahah it was a wild ride over this jump-corner ahha as yous can see. NO backing of before the jump

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WHIPPING DAT JUMP LIKE YO A MOTOCROSS MOFO ahahha

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the real trophy truck

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side view of real truck

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front view of real truck

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another front view

[rustykaos]

Looking good there. The panels are coming along nicely.

[eric113]

Please clean your camera lens, the more light... the better your pics will come out.

[ntruder]

nice build you have going. You might want to look into the Derwood Design Steering rack... it removes 99.9% of the steering slop and tightens up the front end... well worth replacing the plastic crap it came with.

[photon_trap]

Originally Posted by ntruder

nice build you have going. You might want to look into the Derwood Design Steering rack... it removes 99.9% of the steering slop and tightens up the front end... well worth replacing the plastic crap it came with.

and it can be adapted to a BMRC upright shock mount

[iacdmac]

Originally Posted by photon_trap

and it can be adapted to a BMRC upright shock mount

Or gcm mount in his case

[photon_trap]

Originally Posted by iacdmac

Or gcm mount in his case

oops, you are correct. I mis-saw it - ha

[sporties470]

thanks for the feed back everyone much appreciated im going to get longer screws to mount the body iun the next couple of days so when i get the parts i will continue the build . thanks
kieran

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Taking sample screws to my local nuts and bolts supplier

feel free to comment everyone

[rustykaos]

From memory most of the bolts are m2.5 so your local bolt supplier might not stock them. If not ebay is your friend for them.

[sporties470]

hmm yeah well i will have to sort somthing out haha'

sorry i havnt posted in a while ive been caught up with stuff but im going to continue the build by the end of this week hopefully

thanks guys motivates me to get off my ass and keep going with the build ahha

[Ballistic17]

This is a pretty cool build.

[Pockets70]

Lookin forward to seeing this one done. Great idea!

[Corrupt]

Love Trophy Trucks myself. Huge fan of the Baja races down in Baja Mexico. Take your truck there to run with the big boys and REALLY put it through it's paces

Or make a scale replica and be the envy of trophy truck fans out there

Either works.

-Corrupt

[sporties470]

as much as we would love to come race it at baja its alot of work and money :/ but thanks anyway