My Race Revo

[coolhandcountry]

At least you can drive to see him. I wish it was that easy for me. I would be knocking on his and renes door one day. :)

[jollyjumper]

actually, i cant. my dad wouldnt trust me.

[Serum]

You are more than welcome here Leroy..

[jhautz]

I think DAF is going to try and make it to this years RCM Bash. What about you Rene?

[coolhandcountry]

I hope to be in better shape to make it this year myself. Kind of sucked last
year being wounded.

[jhautz]

Originally Posted by Dafni

Updates? Since those ancient pics? Hell yeah! Truck has got a MAJOR make-over!

Do you really want me to spill the beans here? :)

So far.... Not a single bean spilled????

[Dafni]

LOL No, the cat's still in the bag :)


But here's good news: I finally have my compressed air system running in my house. Complete with moisture trap, taps and valves in my hobby room. Now I will finally be able to get some bodies done.

The lack of worthy bodies kept me from putting the new rides on to the cat-walk :)
And yes, I realize you want to see them naked anyway, but bear with me. I want to have them completed.

JUST POST THE CAR!!!!!!!!!! lol

[suicideneil]

Just spent the last 3 hours reading through all your E-revo threads etc and assimilatiing all the detail and pictures; you got skills boy (understatement of the century). Any new pics of the truck? Though I find it hard to believe you could improve it any further.....

[Dafni]

Thank you for the kind words, Neil. No new pics at the moment, BUT: I got the okay from the Monster to post some! I will snap some new ones, and post some I took during the last rebuild too.
I hated not sharing it, but that's the thing about testing. And I haven't expected people to ask me for new pics either. Next time I should just build a new one :)

Anyway, pics will follow soon. But here's a list of the goodies. Most are custom made, the extension and "tranny" were done by Mike and me.

-custom extended rear plates, for 1/8 scale dimensions
-6mm Titanium pushrods and turnbuckles, homegrown
-1/8 scale diffs, 3 of them :)
-revo slipper, AKA Slipperential, with nice motor mount.
-rear sway bar, homegrown
-custom wing mounting plate
-flextek arms with custom bushings
-RD Racing axle carriers and 23mm hex-nuts

That's about it, I think. Stay tuned for pictures!

Daf

[Serum]

And i can promise you;

It will look STUNNING! it's not a vehicle.. It's a high tech precision Swiss instrument

[Dafni]

Thank you Rene! You only ever saw fragments, though. I hope you'll like the complete one just as much.

[Sylvester]

Damn daf! Sounds similar to some of my ideas! Is Mike gonna carry those homegrown 6mm pushrods/turnbuckles ?

[Dafni]

I never asked Mike about pushrods/turnbuckles, I made them here. No doubt he could do them, but I don't think there's a real market. People seem to be very happy with the currently available options, such as Lunsford, Traxxas or those CF ones.

[Dafni]

Okay, now for some pics. I made these during the last big rebuild, when most of the stuff was still new.
Please ignore things like the toe settings and the generall lack of dirt. :)

First some details:


The titanium rods and turnbuckles. When I still had the RD Logics knuckles.


The new RD Racing stuff.


The rear sway bar, note the extended plates too. (I had to put some extra stand-offs under them in the meantime)


The sexy motor mount. Gear mesh is set from below, nitro-style. The whole mount can slide from side to side.

Now some complete shots!







I will try to shoot some fresh pics too. The slipperential I tested held up fine so far, the diffs too. Along the way I bent two gorilla front skid plates, they are just weak by design. One is bent slightly, the other severe. Let's hope the new ones will be better.