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Maybe we have gone off the deep end... i wonder what everyones spreadsheets look like for the last 60 days

 

I can’t give away all my secrets!! I’m trynna be the champ!!

I just left there 30 mins ago.

We? No. You? Yes, 100%. Def no spead sheet. Might the parts list on my phone so I can see/research what I’ve got underneath this body. FWIW, it was a girls rig, and it’s some sort of pearl purple under the OD green.

 

I was there earlier today
looking for parts for my rally car

 

Just left, 1 rally car coming up!

 

Yep, new esc for the rally. @Silverspool is gonna try to be faster with his..... Rally car?

 

Rally cars and crawlers. Gotta love dirt sports

 

I’m good with short course truck and crawler lol.

 

Oh what the dick theres 700 trillion parts to assemble

 

build thread lol

 

Super glue + baking soda is the real deal folks. Put your glue, then sprinkle baking soda over it and pray you have it in the right spot. Axle tube seems repaired for now. Atleast she’s driveable. Thinking of going cvd shafts in replacment for the axle shafts.

 

The builds are some of the fun. I remember building touring cars in my living room. Parts all over the place. Sanding to get each part as smooth as possible. Trying to design a decent paint scheme. I may be in the market for a air brush. Never had one and would like to give a go at some decent paint/body work.

I think I have settled on the Xray T4. That thing is the tits, but mad $$.

 

I’ve also been thinking about an air brush. I enjoy coming up with a scheme painting the body just as much as I enjoy playing with them. Really sucks the $$$ that adds up doing new bodies bodies when you add paint and body cost into it. On that note, I have all the paint and stickers for my next SCT body, just need to purchase the actual body lol.

 

I have an air compressor.....

Also should be picking up a body soon.... @OneBrickThick

 

Lets find a place like this to crawl!!! Going to need some waterproofing though...
https://youtu.be/WWQSJc9lJvk?t=183

 

Saw a jconcepts ford raptor for 30 bucks at hobby town, might be my next body because cheap

 

You would get a Ford!!!

 

They way i represent on the track it might as well be a ford till i get better

 

Buy the ford and put the sticker kit I got on it!! #winning

 

Question for y’all addicts....since my axle tube is snapped, and I’m missing part of my universal axle shaft, what should I look for, as far as, upgraded “prebuilt” full axle vs replacing each part with something better? I think between axial plastic tube and universals I’m at around $75-80, so if I’m spending that much might as well spend a little more, right?? (After more searching, aluminum alloy whole assembly’s are around $50 on fleabay.)

My dad said he swapped to cv axles and hasn’t had any issues (broke 3 shafts on universals I think). Opinions on that?

Either way, I need to go to bed, buttttt I can’t/haven’t been able to crawl with it, how does it look as far as the parts list?

Metal Transmission

Front overdrive gears

Delrin 4 link

Brood intensity 35T motor

AE5 ESC

External Castle BEC

Light bar

Front/rear driving lights

Aluminum 1.9 beadlocks

RC4WD Super Swampers

Metal Steering Knuckles

Metal C Hubs

Front wheel weights

MIP steel driveshafts

Solar D772 Servo

23T J Metal Servo protector

87T spur gear

 

You can replace the plastic axle for $10.99 to get it back running.

I, too, have been looking at my options. Boom Racing sells their XRMod Phat Axles, but it increases your track width by 23mm. So, you would be mismatched front to back unless you get 2 axles. I might just modify my stock plastic axles and do the Narrow Xrmod, but have to buy individual parts. From everything I've read, you need to get the Beef Tubes, XR10 narrow universals and Wraith knuckles and c hubs. It's about $150 for all of that with all metal parts. You can get the stock plastic knuckles and c hubs to save a few bucks initially if you want. Then, you need to just do some slight dremeling to the inside of the plastic axle housing to fit the universal and everything else should bolt on.
The other metal axle options I've found don't increase steering angle, they just look more scale or have a removable diff cover. I'm not sure if you can dremel the metal axle housing like you can the plastic to fit the xr10 universals. Metal would be more durable, but may not slide across the rocks as easily as plastic.