BL CRT.5 race from this weekend at Barnstormers
 

Watch RCM Mike tear us up. lol. Very fun little trucks on the big track. Get a couple more guys on the track and it would be a real shootout. Tough little trucks and inexpensive to run. Currently I got just a feigao 12S on 3S 2500 pack and a sidewinder. Chris and Mike had 2S and an 8L and a medusa 50mm 4800(?) respectively IIRC.

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is that you talking about an exhuast? ACCUSED! if they converted that car he wouldnt have burned his finger :D

I assume Mike was running the RCM chassis? Was he running the R1PRO?

Looks like fun! I cant wait to finish my 2nd one!

Haha.. no I'm driving the purple/yellow car in 2nd place.
Tony from Crusin' with RC's in Ramsey, NJ was nice enough to take the vid. Lou is the announcer and is always saying something funny.

Mike had a RCM ext chassis and ext arms .5 there (nice btw) but no speed controller to run it on. He's just laying it w/ a bone stock .5. ESC.. I'm not certain, thought it was a MM, but god knows.

Sweet! Sorry I missed it. I got my crt.5 ready and everything! I'll be there next time though.

Bye:mdr:

Did you happen to ask when there coming out? Id love a set of them! :mdr:

I want to make a trip out there. Looks like fun!

Mike/ all of us were running ofna extended chassis - I was running an Ammo 2600 and 3s...

I'm waiting for my 8l to get from montreal to NJ...

I thought he said about anytime now. He could say for sure. He did the Big Bore shock conversion (w/ GTR shocks) as well on it and the nice thing was the longer arms allowed the upper shock mounts to be put into the normal holes instead of forcing them into the body mount holes.

Anyone should def make a trip. Its a heck of a lot of fun and no pressure racing.

ahh ha, I meant to ask you about that. How'd you like it?

That sounds awesome! I cant wait for those! I will for sure be buying some:lol:

Is he going to ano them black? If not, I sure will be:mdr:

Ammo 2600 was ok - but didn't have the instant kick I liked.

Soon - Mike was waiting on some custom front turnbuckles for steering arms IIRC. Really the only think needed was for mike to build towers and a front centre diff mount and all you'd need would be diffs cases and hubs :)

It ends up being jato sized.... The really neat feature was he offset the diff like on the 8T so that there is more room for the battery pack...

Sweet, never heard of the extended arms for the crt.5, anyone got a photo comparison

Yes does anyone have a photo comparison and a link if possable?

Sry, had I been thinking I would have snapped one on my cell. Hopefully Mike can throw some pics up soon. They look really great.

Thank you. I just got one off a guy on another forum and am excited to upgrade it. Are there any good upgrades durability wise?

Extended chassis - CNC hex's - I kept breaking my top plate so purchased a BCE one - Shocks (See thread in truggy section re Revo/Jato shocks for front and Buggy shocks for rear)

The servo saver is the remaining weak link - I moved my turnbuckles to inner holes and have had less of a problem since then...

There are a ton of CNC parts ofna sells, but they aren't cheap. Good thing is they generally aren't needed. The truck is pretty tough out of the box. The one upgrade I did get are the 7075 CNC chassis braces. I launched mine off a giant dirt hill bashing around one day and fragged the landing right on the wing. The plastic brace bent and so did the rear dogbone. Luckily nothing else was damaged. Nitrohouse has them cheapest for $30 or $35.

I don't like beating the crap out of my trucks, but it has taken a pretty good unintentional beating since I got it and almost nothing has broke. The only really weak spot is the servo saver, but I moved the ball studs to the inner ackerman hole (after Arct1ks advice) and so far so good.

Edit:

Oh yeah don't forget the big bore shock mod. The stock shocks are crappy and small. Go-Ride has a good thread of his mod in the truggy section w/ pics. That's only $30 or so as well. The extended chassis is standard now IIRC too.

I'm going to run revo shocks so my suspension should be good to race. I'll look into those chassis braces even though I am not planning on racing I want to keep the easily broken parts on hand with the lhs not having the parts for the .5 in stock.

Then get a set of arms, front hubs and bumpers to

Here is a picture of the extended arms from RCX:
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...X/DSC02161.jpg