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07.18.2009, 01:02 PM

The inspiration:





(color-wise I mean...)

The end result:











Its a little more yellow-ish in real life, you can blame bad lighting for my pics. Its very close to the HSV yute' color in actual fact.

The wheel base is 99% perfect, if anything my GMaxx is a tad bit longer, maybe 1/2" or there abouts, but its a perfect fit for the wheel wells, no clearnace issues. The only problem I did have was the rear body posts. Since the shell is designed for an Erevo that has body posts closer together than the maxx does, the rears would have been sticking up through the ridges that run down the back of the cabin, which is no good as you can only see half of them & cant insert the body retaining clips. My solution was to remove the nubs the shell normally sits on, and replace them with some sling swivel studs screwed into the cross brace a little closer together. The pictures make alot more sense:





Very simple to do, and the end result is rather tastey I reckon.

That said, I like the new Revo3.3 body shell- proper pickup style rather than a quazi-pickup/racetruck mishmash...

EDIT: Just incase anyone says anything, I ran out of BYT stickers, otherwise they would have been included on the shell :)
   
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