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eovnu87435ds · 11:12 PM

Just starting this thread for the rustler roller I got from lincpimp recently, and its gonna be my truck for speed runs, bashing, and just general playing in the street.

So far this is my setup:
mod 1 gears from a revo (14/40 ratio)
Traxxas 2055 servo (stock emaxx)
Mamba Max with BEC disabled and 6.5mm bullets attached
Fiegao 8L Finned(well, not really anymore)
Protek 4s 20c 4000mAh lipo
Noname brand BEC from TrueRC
Spektrum SR3000 reciever
3 road rages and one road hawg for tires

yay pictures!

I had to eat a little bit out of my finned motor in order for it to fit in the tranny housing

And hopefully this little mod will save me lots of trouble... My upper chassis plate(the servo mount and bellcrank posts) kept breaking due to the tiny hollow plastic tubes... so I threaded 8/32 screws through the plastic, and then threded the plastic tubes back ontop of the screws and it all fits perfectly. hopefully they wont break right off anymore.

02.20.2009, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by eovnu87435ds

3 road rages and one road hawg for tires

will post pics asap

lol
and one road hawg tire.....

pics yes! video, even better
thats gonna be insane
my slash is nuts on 3s, i couldnt imagine 4s!

brushlessboy16 · 02.20.2009, 11:14 PM

U need to get some better rear tires...

those rear tires are horrible.. no grip what soever

the 50ft cartwheel was pretty funny yesterday tho.

02.20.2009, 11:16 PM

i think hes gonna have grip issues int he rear with any tires haha
nice truck! i bet its crazy

eovnu87435ds · 02.20.2009, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Dirtfreak15

lol
and one road hawg tire.....

pics yes! video, even better
thats gonna be insane
my slash is nuts on 3s, i couldnt imagine 4s!

yeah... According to linc he didnt even notice, but givin whats goin on for him at the moment, i dont blame him... And yes it IS insane... even with new road rages, the thing still peels out, and has on-demand wheelies. it goes so fast that when i lock the tires, this thing will just slide down the road. On a speedrun yesterday, i caught an edge, and cartwheeled the rustler end over end for more than 50 feet! If it survives the night i will try and get some video tomorrow

brushlessboy16 · 02.21.2009, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by brushlessboy16

U need to get some better rear tires...

those rear tires are horrible.. no grip what soever

the 50ft cartwheel was pretty funny yesterday tho.

said that..

not on demand wheelies- on demand wheelspin..

02.21.2009, 01:30 AM

yea defenatly get some video!!
i used to have a e-crt.5 with some off brand street tires and it would peel out all 4 tires on the street lol i think i had a 3300 on 3s lipo, crazy

cant wait for the video :)

eovnu87435ds · 03.03.2009, 11:36 AM

i have some video... its crap but i will put it up soon enough... During that video i found a little problem... My BEC sometimes shorts out, and I lose all control of everything for about 5 seconds... That happened while i was shooting, and the rustler drifted right into curb, and snapped the hub off of the front rim. oops... I did get some free tires yesterday... 4 premounted what look to be mashers, and 4 street tires that I need to glue to some rims i have. Pics will be up when I get home from school(photobucket is blocked in here)

03.03.2009, 11:58 AM

I have a similar setup for a Rustler, I would suggest 1/8th scale solid foams the only tire/wheel that wont balloon but they do lose traction in dusty conditions...my setup is in my sig

eovnu87435ds · **Video! Finally! -** 03.11.2009, 08:14 PM

Ok, well I found a nice day with daylight(finally) and so i took my rustler to the jumps down the street. I have 2 words for ya... zero traction! it was quite a challange to keep a straight line, even though it has been raining on and off all day. Here is the vid. As you can see, during the video, i almost made the same famous jump ben (brushlessboy16) did with his cen matrix.

Ben's CEN Matrix doing the jump I almost completed at 2:05 in the video

lincpimp · 03.12.2009, 12:11 AM

Still looking for that oddball tire... I have 6 boxes of tires... I may need to sell some of the others!!!

eovnu87435ds · 03.14.2009, 04:17 PM

linc if u give me all 6 boxes u are bound to include the right one!

Takedown · 03.14.2009, 11:31 PM

Go for a swami-bar. When I had my brushless pede's and rustler's it was by far the best investment I made on all of them. Made me feel 100 percent safe knowing my motors wouldnt get damaged from bashing. I used a custom bend swami-bar in my attemt to surpass 70mph. Theres a vid on youtube if you want to check it out. '60mph rustler'. I was only geared at 19/55 in that vid and it to much torque... After that vid was made I geared up a little and was able to reach 74.1mph before selling it.

Takedown · 03.14.2009, 11:34 PM

I could have geared up alot more but 5mm super high tooth pinions were to rediculously expensive...

eovnu87435ds · 03.27.2009, 12:23 AM

just a little update on the rustler... I've been doing some mods to my electrical system because of my pita BEC. The thing has died 3 times, catching fire the 3rd time, and yet i throw it on my desk, pick it up in a few days and it revives itself again! I think nothing will happen to it anymore because of my newest mod. the casing to my MM was cracked, so rather than risk it falling out during a run, I made my own case out of an old game boy advance game case, and was able to fit my BEC inside it, as well as mount a 25mm fan i stole out of my turnigy charger. this has been able to reduce the clutter of wires signifigantly in my setup. I was also wondering... is it possible to keep the signal wire on the MM, but move the power wires to the BEC, so that I only have the 1 plug going to my rx? Here are pics: