I went around an installed a load of shims & washers to prevent the shocks from popping off in the event of a crash or bad landing.
The shocks had been 'upgraded' to oil filed items- not sure what the fronts are from, but the rears are a pair of E or T-maxx shocks- oh man, these things are horrible, no wonder we all upgrade to 1/8 buggy or truggy items. These were also a bit too long really compared to the stock shocks, so I opened them up and put some fuel tubing on the shaft to reduce their extended length- worked like a charm and it sits alot better now.
Motor, installed just fine with the stock 17t pinion and mounting screws.
Esc is tiny, I still need to make a little mounting plate for it to secure it inside the chassis properly.
The suspension is so basic compared to even a Rustler; one piece plastic arms & hingepins, caster and toe-in/out changes as you compress the suspension, plastic steering rods- its so wonderfully low-tech
Theres the new shell, havent decided on a paint scheme yet.
And there it is.
I upgraded all the plastic & bronze bushings to ABEC 9 bearings- only 10 bearings in the whole buggy. They feel much much smoother than the bushings that were coated in sticky black gunk and grit. Gotta programm the esc yet, gonna do that with the junk Acoms radio temporarily just to test it out and hope its got some kind of usable range for the time being- new speky rx will have to come next month, so too the lipos.
Left to do:
buy new speky rx
paint shell
esc mount
Make new steering control rod