Monster Mike's in RC Car Action!
 

Stopped by the LHS on Friday to pick up some Savage parts and saw on the magazine rack a special edition of RC Car Action on Electric and Brushless powa. Intrigued and with money burning a hole in my pocket, I picked up a copy and flipped through it later that night.

Was surprised to find a nice How to article later in the magazine written and staring none other then the Monster Mike himself! Awesome job man, good info in that article for brushless noobs like me! Check it out at your local magazine place and pick it up!


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Gonna pick this up tomorrow on my way to work for sure man! Great to see mike really doin well promoting the best electric parts in the buisness!--Josh

any chance of some pic of the actual article? might be worth a read and i cant get the mag here...

That would be breaking copyright law me thinks, so unless Mike say's otherwise, i'd better not.

Nice to see Mike get some more ink for all of his hard work.

What's the article on page 18 all about? It says on the cover "Traxxas 1/8th scale buggy".

Steve Slayden from Traxxas modified a Slash 4x4 into a buggy basically.

It's the first time I see a pic of Monster Mike. He looks very clean. Somehow I always thought he'd be a little more grungy looking. Like with some machining lubricant smeared on his cheeks and nose and aluminum shavings in his hair. He really looks like a nice guy :lol: :yes:

Not that surprising since they have almost the same footprint. :)

A lot of us have done just the opposite...modified buggies into trucks so I imagine that is was not that difficult to do

The special edition does have some very cool articles in it, the 100mph HPI Vorza was particularly impressive.

Looks like I was right about a year ago: http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/show...&postcount=170

haha that's cool!

Nice job Mike! :mdr:

Heath

Backslash as they're called...

http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...m2/chassis.jpg

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looking at the picutres above...the shocks are so small compared to the real 1/8 buggies. It looks like it would be very light...anyone know which motor that is?

Looks like the good old Castle 2200kv to me.

I think thats a 2650kv. Its a tad short on the can to be a 2200kv.

Does anyone know what receiverbox that is?
Is it the 3628 found on the current Stampede?
I could use a little more space in the area around the receiver with my Slash4x4, so this would be a great help.

That is it. Part #3628.

That receiver box set up is iffy. I ran it when I first put the MMM in the 4x4, I did not like that the servo wire was pushed up so close. If your not worried about keeping it waterproof, cough the MMM is not, than why worry about having the receiver hidden away in a waterproof container?

I agree here but this receiver box does provide a nice place to mount a receiver when using the MMM since it's footprint is much larger.

Why do you automatically think I installed a MMM? A 550 motor alone could be long enough to give you problems in that area.
I don't need/want a waterproof container. But I want a container of some kind.
If it is waterproof, what's the harm? Should keep the dust away as well...

But I think this is going a bit off topic now.

ya think

A bump for those who haven't seen it

Last bump for mikes sake

Another bump because....well..... Mike deserves it :yipi:

Why bump a thread that begins with pics you deleted?? This is my first time looking at this thread, and the first post only has "deleted from photobucket" pics.

So, umm, what are you bumping it for when we can't even see what you are talking about?:neutral:

Forgive me Zur....



http://retrodc.wordpress.com/files/2007/07/star.jpg

thats SIMPLE

the RX " Box " is a Plastic One !:rofl:

Thanks for re-upping the photo freeze:yes: