XTM xlb 1/7 scale buggy build

[pinkpanda3310]

Thanks Cerberus. This fella just above me does awesome builds, check'em out. He's much more thorough.

[CerberusVI]

Thanks guys, I received my mount from mike yesterday. I'm at work or I would post up some pictures. I got the Cc Cc1520 mounted, I made an ESC mount with the left over nitro mounts, some lexan and a traxxas ESC hold down. Set up my radio and receiver, programmed the esc. Still gotta set end points and steering.

I'll be stopping at my lhs on the way home for a losi 8ight battery tray, pinion and possible a stampede radio box. May even be able to test run it tonight!

[CerberusVI]

Thursday i started by putting my mount in and mocking things up seeing what would work.





Friday i stopped at my LHS and got everything i needed and started mocking things up, I really wanted the chassis layout to be more of a traditional truggy style layout with the motor on the servo side, but it just didn't end up like that. I would have had to dremel the chassis a bunch in the already large 2 speed opening. So i opted to flip the mount and run the 1520, which ended up working out well!



This was my late Friday night test run, Its hard to read, but it came in @ 12lbs 15oz RTR. I didn't have time to setup my radio box yet so i slapped it together just so i could run it!
I tried running the Trencher X's but they ballooned really bad and also limited my steering sense they rubbed on the LST2 Shocks, They where fun and did lots of wheelies though! Some of these pictures didn't turn out as well as i hope, but here's one next to my next project a Losi Muggy. The XLB got quite dirty from the 2 thrashings I've given it!

After the 2nd test run and adjusting the preload way too much i ordered the RcRaven Dualrate springs, as the black ones where way too soft

[pinkpanda3310]

Just to see what would work ha? Given the state of that last pic... how did it work?

[CerberusVI]

Haha well the pictures with the radio box where from yesterday when I got that all situated and did a proper bashing. I have a video from yesterday when my buddy stopped by and I let him take xlb for spin. I'll try and get it up soon. But it went really well!

[CerberusVI]

here's a short video i shot before my buddy thought he blew up the diff, turned out to be a small stick in the wheel and cvd lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJHMYpZ9Qys

[pinkpanda3310]

Cool! Looks like it handles well.