TownsendTdi
Quarry Creeper
I know I'm only 5 years too late, but I really got interested in minis earlier this year. I've been into micro rc's for a few years, and had a AX10 scorpion. The AX10 was too big for my rock piles around the house, and I don't compete, and prefer not to have to drive somewhere to play with my toys- I mountain bike too, which requires travel plus I drive a lot for work, so sold the AX10 and picked up a used MRC pro with a mongoose brushless system, rovers, and MIP driveshafts.
It came with some crazy 1" wheel wideners and a badly peeling vw body that wasn't mounted right. I bought a new beetle shell for it but hadn't painted it, so I was using it with an old trail trekker body- it was functional and didn't rub. I don't think anybody around me competes 1.9 anymore unless it's scale, so no worries on body length! Those damn wideners are stuck on so I rocked them, and put some taller flat irons on to match the width.
I had been deciding between the Dravpnir chassis and BWD LP2.0, but I picked up a used BWD wedge low pro on the classifieds with a few cool parts on it. (Thanks jenijohnk!) Came with a BWD motor plate and some huge knuckle weights. It also had a BWD servo plate with the battery protector- even though I have a huge selection of small lipos from my micros, I didn't have anything that fit it well. I wanted to center the servo anyway, so I whipped up a new servo plate. Ditched my stupid 645 for a shiny new 7954sh too! That 645 was weak even for a mini.
The mongoose esc can't really be de-cased so the only place it fit well was in the "windshield" of the cab. All of those brushless wires were dangerously close to the spur though, so I chopped the front half of a gear cover off and it does a good job of keeping my wires spur-free.
Put the rx on a diet.
Need to make some panels and a little wiring, hope to fire it up later today. This rig saved me a ton of time- I have a Traxxas pinion for o.d. and some mini late model shocks I was going to mod for the mini but this rig already has them! More time for other projects!
I still want those sexy Dravtech axles and chassis, but I'll get some practice not crashing so much on this guy first. 8)
It came with some crazy 1" wheel wideners and a badly peeling vw body that wasn't mounted right. I bought a new beetle shell for it but hadn't painted it, so I was using it with an old trail trekker body- it was functional and didn't rub. I don't think anybody around me competes 1.9 anymore unless it's scale, so no worries on body length! Those damn wideners are stuck on so I rocked them, and put some taller flat irons on to match the width.
I had been deciding between the Dravpnir chassis and BWD LP2.0, but I picked up a used BWD wedge low pro on the classifieds with a few cool parts on it. (Thanks jenijohnk!) Came with a BWD motor plate and some huge knuckle weights. It also had a BWD servo plate with the battery protector- even though I have a huge selection of small lipos from my micros, I didn't have anything that fit it well. I wanted to center the servo anyway, so I whipped up a new servo plate. Ditched my stupid 645 for a shiny new 7954sh too! That 645 was weak even for a mini.
The mongoose esc can't really be de-cased so the only place it fit well was in the "windshield" of the cab. All of those brushless wires were dangerously close to the spur though, so I chopped the front half of a gear cover off and it does a good job of keeping my wires spur-free.
Put the rx on a diet.
Need to make some panels and a little wiring, hope to fire it up later today. This rig saved me a ton of time- I have a Traxxas pinion for o.d. and some mini late model shocks I was going to mod for the mini but this rig already has them! More time for other projects!
I still want those sexy Dravtech axles and chassis, but I'll get some practice not crashing so much on this guy first. 8)
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