Some BL Revo 3.3 Eye Candy (Pics of my Revo)...
 

For some reason, I decided to remove the overspray film and apply the decals & stickers to the clear body, and now I really like it clear, so I decided to take it outside for some "Night-Time in the Grass" shots of the truck! It will eventually get some paint, but I am going to run it like this for a while! Let me know if you would like to know what all is done to the truck, because the upgrade/modification list is EXTENSIVE!

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Wow,that right there is a sexy ass truck!--Josh

Thanks man, I really appreciate it!

Nice! Wat decals are those?

The blue tribal ones are XXXMAIN Internal Graphics...the Silver Carbon-Fiber on the lower rear rocker-panels is actually regular external dark carbon-fiber decals applied on the inside of the body so you can see the backside (adhesive side) of it...the dark carbon-fiber on the rear deck (bed) and rear upper side bed panels (roll-bar area) is regular dark carbon-fiber external decals. All the rest are just external stickers and decals from all of the various upgrades/parts on the truck.

The paint-scheme is going to be very simple...the areas in front of and below the blue tribal internal decal is going to fade from metallic charcoal gray in the very front to metallic silver back to the silver carbon-fiber internal decal. The areas behind and above the blue tribal internal decal is going to be pure white. The rear deck (bed), bed sides under the roll-bar, number-plates, and roll-bar are going to be pure black. The black will make the carbon-fiber external decals on the rear deck and deck sides *pop* and stand out nicely. And finally, the windows are going to be tinted...enough to be dark, but not so dark that you can't see through them. I think I am going to make them about as dark as 15% would be on a real 1:1 vehicle.

All paints used will be Faskolor, and sprayed through Master Airbrush Systems "G" and "S" series guns.

I'm really digging that body, I actually like it clear. I wouldn't even paint it! LOL What setup do you have? It looks a lot like mine.

I see a Vantage chassis, either tekno or rcm conversion and titanium underguard...what else? Nice truck!

Let's see, I will try to remember everything I have done to this thing so far...this thing started life as a Nitro Revo 2.5R, now it includes; Vantage Racing Extended Carbon-Fiber Chassis, Custom Carbon-Fiber parts that I made (battery tray, ESC tray, motor-mount support, motor-mount brace, Rx mount, accessory mount), Xtreme Racing Carbon-Fiber Rear Bulkhead Brace, Hardcore Racing Full-Length Titanium Skidplate, Lunsford Titanium Hinge-Pins, Lunsford Titanium Rocker Posts, Unlimited Engineering Titanium Pillow-Balls, Traxxas Titanium "Turnbuckle" Rear Tower Brace, Hot Racing Titanium Stub-Axles, Hot-Racing Titanium U-Joints in EVERY Axle & Driveshaft, Traxxas 7075-T6 "Tubes" Pushrods & Toe-Links, Traxxas Extended-Wheelbase Rear A-Arm Kit, Traxxas Hard-Anodized & Teflon-Coated GTR Shocks with Ti-Ni Shock Shafts & Traxxas Variable Damping System (VDS), Tekno Anti-Swaybar Kit, Stock Nitro Diffs, Nitro Transmission with Solid Center-Drive, Forward-Only Conversion, Locked in 2nd Gear, & No Brakes, Stock Traxxas Carriers, Axles, & Driveshafts, E-Revo Black-Chrome Bumpers, Pro-Line Badland MT Tires on Pro-Line Velocity 23mm ½" Off-Set Wheels, Dace Mfg. 7075-T6 23mm Hex-Adapters, JConcepts Wing-Stay & Illuzion Wing, Full Acer Racing Ceramic Bearing Kit, 50% Tony's Screws 12.9-Grade Steel Screws, 35% Lunsford Titanium Screws, 15% Full-Force Blue Aluminum Screws, Mike's RC-Monster Electric Revo Motor-Mount, Castle Creations Mamba Monster Max (MMM) ESC, Castle/Neu 2200kV Motor, 4S LiPo Batteries (two Zippy Flightmax 30C 4S 2650mAh Packs in Parallel [4S-14.8v @ 5300mAh & 159A] and one Turnigy 5.0 40C 4S 5000mAh 200A Pack, Tekno RC Battery Straps, TowerPro MG995 Steering Servo (208oz @ .13sec), Spektrum SR3000 2.4gHz DSM Rx, Spektrum DX3.0 DSM Tx, PROTOform HardDrive Revo 3.3 Body, and lots & lots of stickers!!!

I think that's it, but I may have missed one or two things!

Here are a few more naked pictures...

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sweet... does hardcore make a skidplate for the 3.3?

Yes they do/did...since my truck is a 3.3, and all I had was the HCR 2.5 length skid, I had to cut it into two pieces to make it fit. What sucks, though, is less than a week after I cut the 2.5 skid, I won a 3.3 skid that would have bolted right on, haha! Oh well. The 2.5 skid I am running is a silver 2.5mm version, which was the most common thickness...the 3.3 version I have is the ultra-rare 2mm version, and even more rare 2mm 3.3 version! So, because of that, I am not going to run it, since it is worth a mint NIP!

Welcome to the no-paint revolution! I don't paint my shells either, but not because I particularly like them that way, but because I wreck them too fast to spend that much time painting them. :lol:

Nice truck BTW

Looks great, almost exactly the same as mine, with a few differences. Quick Q: How do you like the tranny locked in 2nd without the mechanical brakes? did you ever have the mechanical brakes and how does it compare? (Also, what gearing do you have on it?) I'm trying to decide if I should switch my Tranny into second instead of the 2 speed.

Wow.. Nice Revo convert. Do you have a Item-No on that Harddrive body from PL? Want it on my E-Revo ;)

I absolutely love it! With the instant power and massive torque of brushless motors, 1st gear is literally useless, it's just so low and the BL motor spools up so fast, the transmission shifts in less than a second, and having the 2-speed intact seriously weakens the transmission. The torque of the BL motor IS your first gear, so the mechanical 1st gear in the transmission is not needed.

The mechanical brakes, to me, are just plain useless on any electric/brushless vehicle. The ESC & Motor are far more efficient as brakes, as well as being far more adjustable. Not to mention that mechanical brakes fade and wear out...ESC/Motor brakes NEVER fade and NEVER wear out, PERIOD!

Nope...as soon as I did the brushless conversion, the center-diff and both front & rear brakes went bye-bye!

There is no comparison...like I said, the ESC/Motor brakes are far more adjustable, NEVER fade, and NEVER wear out.

38T Mod1 Spur, 17T Mod1 Pinion, 14.8V, 0.25" Ballooning, 42.08MPH. Calculated using BrianG's Speed Calculator.

One of the best things you can do is lock the transmission into 2nd gear...it not only makes the transmission MUCH stronger and MORE durable, the parts you remove reduce rotating mass for faster acceleration and top-speed. Like I said, 1st gear is useless in a brushless setup, so you might as well go ahead and remove it now, and make your transmission stronger and more durable.

Unfortunately, PROTOform (Pro-Line) discontinued it, so it is getting very hard to find. I don't know the part number, because I no longer have the header-card from the bag the body came in, but it is just a PROTOform HardDrive body for the Revo 3.3.

Oh..
okay thanks alot.
Think i found it here http://shop.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&P=WR&I=LXTJB9 :)

But you can't buy it :( Look on ebay or amain. I alos like the hardirve too. Thanks for the help Chadworkz! Now here's my question for you. Right now I have the MMM 2650kv motor with Turnigy 4s 5000mah 40cs. Think I'll still be able to pop soime wheelies without the first gear? I was alrerady thinking about taking out the 2nd gear because I don't really like the mechanical brakes, the ESC sits way too high (I'm going to move it to where the Brake servo used to sit, and it will shave off some weight. Think my gearing off 16T pinion, 36T spur, and close ratio second gear will be a a good setup? Right now it goes about 45 m.p.h. as it sits.

Look at the stock status, it's discontinued, so you can not order it, and you can't back-order it, because they don't have any more at all.

First, get rid of that 2650kV and get the 2200kV...the 2650kV is a buggy motor, and does not do well in truck/truggy/monster truck applications...it can actually cause problems, like taking out the ESC. The 2200kV is a truggy motor, producing much more torque and power, and is exactly what you need in a truck/truggy/monster truck.

You DO NOT want to remove 2nd gear, you want to lock the transmission into 2nd gear and then remove the 1st gear components. 16/36 is decent gearing, but you really need to swap that motor for the 2200kV motor. I personally run standard-ratio, but you can run whatever you want...close, standard, wide, whatever (but I recommend standard).

Cool, I guess I'll try to sell that motor and get the 2200kv. I actually boguht this truck with, it wasn't my choice. Adn I ment remove the 1st gear, not 2nd.

Ah, sorry. Didnt see the status.
But I think i found it in UK.
http://www.cmldistribution.co.uk/cml...lleryImage=2#G

Or on Amain (If this fit from E/T-Maxx and Revo 2,5??) http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...dy-T-E-25-Maxx

Its out of stock on amain too, but CML do have it in stock- grab it quick!

The 2.5 version is much too short for a Revo 3.3, and waaaay too short for an E-Revo, so it won't fit at all.

Maybe my LHS have some Harddrive in stock. If not, i may use the PL Slipstream.
But I think the Harddrive looks so mean with all that scoops, and the headlights! :) hihi

Got some good interest in selling my 2650kv motor today. What do you think about this gearing? Wide 2nd gear, 36T spur, 17T pinion, 2200kv mtor, 4 cell lipo, and badlands tires? Top spped shoudl be about 45 m.p.h.

Well, I finally got around to painting my body...even though I have been bashing it clear for a while, and you can tell, too!

Anyway, here she is (I haven't tinted the windows yet because the Fastint sucks monkey balls, so I have to get a different tint)...

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Habba habba :surprised: nice work!!

Man now thats nice job Almost like the one I did LOL I dont have those skill yet nice awesome work:oh:

Sweet!

Thanks guys, I really appreciate it...I just wish I had done this when the body was new, heh! Now I have, I think, at least 5 more bodies to paint...one of them being really detailed!

Again, thanks for the awesome compliments everyone!

Nice Revo man!

That white with silver is the way I would like my scheme