DallasRob
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I was going to post a question about body mods when I realized that I never did an intro post.
About a year and a half ago, for my 54th birthday (yes, I'm an old man), I bought myself my first RC car: a Slash Ultimate. It's primary use was to torment, I mean exercise, the dogs. They love chasing it away. Things were great for a while. I broke small things and it ran a bit hot in the grass, but all-in-all, it's a good toy and parts are very easy to find. That is until I got bored an put monster truck tires on it. Everything started breaking at that point. It got to the point I was fixing it more that using it and throwing some serious cash into it. When I put normal tires back on it, all was good again but I really did miss the wheelies. A true monster truck was in order. I wanted to build a flipper. There's just something about the standing backflip.
I did some research and liked the idea of building a kit so I decided to go with a MT410. My build:
Castle Monster X w/ 1515 Sensored 2200kv + Blink Bluetooth
Savox SV-1270tg
Tekno 25t alloy servo horn
Proline MX38 Badlands
T-Bone bumpers/ skid plate/mud guards (Go with the stunt rear and buy the extra wheels)
M2C Rear brace kit
M2C Alloy center diff
Traxxas transmitter/receiver (i had spares from the slash)
Dusty motors M+ cover (that one may be a bit too long)
SMC 6500mAh 4S
Robinson 15T Hardened pinion
44t Hardened spur
Some other bits and pieces
The thing is a beast and delivers back flips on demand so, for me, 4S is all I'll ever need. The tires balloon so much now that I can't imagine what 6S would do.
Nothing too out of the ordinary. I mounted the ESC in that position to avoid crossing the motor and battery wires. The harness wires tucked nicely under and looked clean. I added some wires to the esc battery connector to drive lights. I could have pulled the power from the receiver and the esc's bec but I think that isolating them is a better option. I managed to pack the receiver, blink module, light controller and traxxas temp and charge telemetry into the receiver box. It's a tight fit but keeps them out of harm's way. I do most of my runs at night so lights were a must. The controller is on channel 3 so a flip of a rocker switch on the transmitter turns on/off the lights.
I had a couple of baja bodies left over from the Slash monster tire days and I really like that look so was pleasantly surprised when those bodies fit.
That's what I'm shooting for. A Herbie the Love Bug look except with attitude.
I was going to post a question about body mods when I realized that I never did an intro post.
About a year and a half ago, for my 54th birthday (yes, I'm an old man), I bought myself my first RC car: a Slash Ultimate. It's primary use was to torment, I mean exercise, the dogs. They love chasing it away. Things were great for a while. I broke small things and it ran a bit hot in the grass, but all-in-all, it's a good toy and parts are very easy to find. That is until I got bored an put monster truck tires on it. Everything started breaking at that point. It got to the point I was fixing it more that using it and throwing some serious cash into it. When I put normal tires back on it, all was good again but I really did miss the wheelies. A true monster truck was in order. I wanted to build a flipper. There's just something about the standing backflip.
I did some research and liked the idea of building a kit so I decided to go with a MT410. My build:
Castle Monster X w/ 1515 Sensored 2200kv + Blink Bluetooth
Savox SV-1270tg
Tekno 25t alloy servo horn
Proline MX38 Badlands
T-Bone bumpers/ skid plate/mud guards (Go with the stunt rear and buy the extra wheels)
M2C Rear brace kit
M2C Alloy center diff
Traxxas transmitter/receiver (i had spares from the slash)
Dusty motors M+ cover (that one may be a bit too long)
SMC 6500mAh 4S
Robinson 15T Hardened pinion
44t Hardened spur
Some other bits and pieces
The thing is a beast and delivers back flips on demand so, for me, 4S is all I'll ever need. The tires balloon so much now that I can't imagine what 6S would do.
Nothing too out of the ordinary. I mounted the ESC in that position to avoid crossing the motor and battery wires. The harness wires tucked nicely under and looked clean. I added some wires to the esc battery connector to drive lights. I could have pulled the power from the receiver and the esc's bec but I think that isolating them is a better option. I managed to pack the receiver, blink module, light controller and traxxas temp and charge telemetry into the receiver box. It's a tight fit but keeps them out of harm's way. I do most of my runs at night so lights were a must. The controller is on channel 3 so a flip of a rocker switch on the transmitter turns on/off the lights.
I had a couple of baja bodies left over from the Slash monster tire days and I really like that look so was pleasantly surprised when those bodies fit.
That's what I'm shooting for. A Herbie the Love Bug look except with attitude.