Hot bodies 1/8 diffs

[MiRatlhed]

WOW dude your truck rocks. I love it. Very nicely done and the flames on that Top Kick are amazing. I think if you drop the mounts down a bit to just get the body to the edges of the chassis plate it would be perfect.

Otherwise that is show winning material right there, concourse winner for sure.

[Overdriven]

Originally Posted by MiRatlhed

I think if you drop the mounts down a bit to just get the body to the edges of the chassis plate it would be perfect.

I see you're like me and like not having a gap between the body and the chassis. I was going to say something, but it's my taste, maybe not his. I also noticed he'd have to space the Maxx bumpers out to clear the bumpers on the body, but he wouldn't be able to lower the body much just doing that. To really drop the body he'd also have to clearance (cut) the bodies around the bumper mounts in order to lower them. Can't blame him if he doesn't want to do that, especially to that sweet true fire body.

[cmac]

In order get it to drop I would have to cut the body. I think it kind of looks like it has a body lift. I spent too much on the custom paint to cut it. I might do that with the one I painted.

[Overdriven]

I know all to well the little idiosyncrasies of the Maxx trucks! I try to leave a little extra on the bottom of my Maxx bodies just because of that. It wouldn't make much difference in your case though, those TopKick bodies aren't very tall to begin with. Even with the body lowered as much as possible you might still have a gap. Either way, like I said before, it depends on your taste, and if you like it as is leave it. Congrats on a sweet build.

[cmac]

I think if I bought the topkick body that fits the savage it would have fit over the bumpers and I could have dropped it more. Mabey some day. I'm about to drop $400.00 more on Hitec brushless servos in the next few weeks if they ever come out. So the thought of dropping almost 200.00 on another body is not all that appealing. I think I have already spent enough on this. I think I will just drive this one for awhile, and leave well enough alone. Thanks for the compliments.

[JERRY2KONE]

Hell I would not even run that body and take the chance of damaging that beautiful body work. You should have a beater body for driving it around, and only use the one for show.

[cmac]

Yes Jerry,
The solid black body is my basher body, and the "True flame" will never be mounted on it when it is rolling.

[cmac]

Originally Posted by MiRatlhed

WOW dude your truck rocks. I love it. Very nicely done and the flames on that Top Kick are amazing. I think if you drop the mounts down a bit to just get the body to the edges of the chassis plate it would be perfect.

Otherwise that is show winning material right there, concourse winner for sure.

Thanks for the compliment.

I think my flm stuff should be here Monday because Fri I got a click n ship notification from them. It's only 500 miles and 2 days mail generally so on Monday I just may be building a truck that will be FLM'IfIed

[cmac]

Are you going to start a build thread?

Not sure but if I do it probably wouldn't be as elaborate and good as yours. If I want to even come as close as yours I'm going to have to pony up a lot more money. Are your rims aluminum ?? If so what brand if you can remember?

[cmac]

Go back to page 6 in this thread. If you go back to page 5 you will see why I had to go to 14 mm wheels.

[cmac]

Well, Traxxas ends soldered on, suspension set, and 10t gear mounted, gear mesh set, and now waiting on battery pack for the Futaba radio to charge. I will try the first shake down run this morning. I will let you know what happens. Once I get it all tuned I will take some video of it and post it to Youtube. I hope all goes well!!!

Nice and I hope all goes well to.....

[cmac]

I got to take it out and I'm having a problem with the truck pulling to the left. I have the wheels pointing dead straight. It seems that the servos don't want to center. They will center when I give the wheel a quick turn left or right a few times. That is fine when sitting still, but if I have to do that when the truck is up to speed that will = a crash!!!! I guess I'm going to have to wait till the Hitec 9380's are released:(. I will tell you guys it sounds really cool when running, much different than the stock brushless. It will pull the wheels off the ground at will. Even though it has all metal gears it is not as loud as my stock truck. I'm just afraid to bring this thing up to speed if it's going to act all squirley. Yes I did center the servos when mounting the steering linkage. I don't have another set of servos that I could use, and I don't want to buy something that I won't end up using later.If I adjust the trim when the servos truly center they will pull the side so I don't think that would be the solution. The servos are Hitec HS 5625's. Any thoughts guys?