1/6 Losi Hummer (CC1717) Build

[brian015]

I don't think I mentioned this in this thread, but I built these shocks as I did on my other large scale vehicle (here) and put a thin lexan piece on the shock piston covering 10 of the 24 holes (imitating the traxxas variable damping kit - as originally suggested by mistercrash).




I really like the way this handles on the other truck and am going with 20wt oil all around to start with on this build. I found that this lighter weight oil gives the shocks good rebound with a heavy vehicle, with the lexan covering 10 of the holes allowing the shock to still have good damping when being compressed.

[BL_RV0]

Love the project man, awesome work!

[brian015]

Originally Posted by BL_RV0

Love the project man, awesome work!

Thank you.

Here's a little progress. I've been mounting battery trays and installing the front FG bumper that goes with the Hummer body - I still have a couple more support bars to install:



The wheels and tires I bought for this are 5b fronts - Black Desperados and Hostile MX hard compound (with taped pro-line foams). The 5b rears are too wide for what I wanted on this build - so I thought the fronts would be best. They recently came out with MX 5b front tires - which are supposedly the toughest tires around - I like how they look - here is a quick mock-up of one wheel/tire with the body in place: