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Had this delivered this morning from Appliance Electronics The plan is build it into a Ecto type truck, I absolutely love the look of the Matt Black RTR version, but not a fan of RTR electronics/wheels/tyres/lower spec parts and not being a kit 🤣🤣🤣 I’ve studied the differences between the kit and the Ecto and ordered the parts and body required, also I’ve ordered all the electronics off Aliexpress I’ve gone for the 6 channels ally wheel with foam version of the Radio So for now I’ll make a start on the kit and hopefully the Ecto parts will be with me by the end of the week, I’ve also ordered some beadlocks off Amazon, but I’ll keep them a surprise fir now 👍

Just Married!

Nice Nice Nice this is stunning, just a few pics and spot a couple of mods right away. More pics and maybe a running video at weekend if weather plays okay this has a full lighting system main headlights are super bright

That’s the body finished Im really happy with it, I did mess up the window stickers, so tinted them instead

Wheels and tyres arrived yesterday evening Im really happy with the look and the tyres, the paint finish on the wheels is terrible though, every one has a blemish or chip, I’ll repaint them at some point, luckily they were easiest set of beadlocks I’ve ever put together 😂 Ive also got another set of wheels that are a bit more bling but for now im happy with the steelies 👍

Finished the basic Element RC chassis build 👍

Launched it / crashed it / had to lug it back to the van 🤣

postie brought my long awaited RGT Pro runner truck have to say first impressions are extremely good, i have already added metal wheels with slightly larger tyres

Took the G Wagon for an evening crawl on Hunstanton beach earlier and watch the sunset. Got a couple of nice shots as well. My fingers are just getting their feeling back now, it's quite cold out.

Put the front end together lastnight

This 👍

Finally ran the Kagama which I think I got in November! Was a bit of a shake down to make sure all was well so only ran a single battery pack, but no issues and ran really well.

Took the AT4V for a crawl by my favourite river.

First time for a while I been out with my car. Been fighting the demons in my head this year and losing but made a effort to get out. (glad I did) Easterfield BMX track in Torquay

since the rc 10 is so expensive i went and bought a tamiya wild one instead :)

Bronco body for one my trx4s.

Driveshafts arrived Just need to set up the electrics and then she should be ready for a maiden run in the next few days 👍

Electric are in Im going to fit a RX box next the steering servo, that should keep everything nice and tidy 👍

After cracking my original shell after 10 minutes of ownership I thought it’s about time I got another. Had I have realised how expensive it can get I’d have just bought a pre painted one! I tried some more complicated designs with the masking tape but wasn’t happy with the way some was sticking on the curves. I’ve still ended up with some bleeding but I’m generally pretty happy with the result for a first attempt. The PS-16 blue looks awesome. Didn’t bother doing clear windows as I’m going to strengthen this one.

The parts for the Ecto conversion arrived this morning I didn’t calculate I needed a longer rear centre driveshaft, I hate rtr spec shafts anyway so ive ordered a pair of SSD ones 😂

Body arrived…

of to a good start, here is my Gatekeeper and still my all time favourite truck.....though the new RGT pro runner is a very close second

Finished off, well for now the Trx4m IR40 truck and gave it a little test on my very slippy in a lot of places crawler course. Looks fairly dry in the picture, but there's loads of moss and damp.

Hi, thought i would do my own little thread for my Traxxas Trx4m Chevy that i had for my last birthday. its been rebuilt ground up using various parts from various brands such as, Yeah Racing, Injora, Meus, Traxxas, Hobbywing and Spektrum. i have it to almost where i want it apart from the wheels, i will eventually get some with the injora brass adapter rings so i can keep the stock tyres so body wise, i quite like the chrome against the red but there was too much of it, so made some cuts to the front grill, i think it looks better so far and removed the roll bar although it wouldn’t take 5 mins to put it back. added a few choice stickers but there was still something missing, something I haven’t seen done before….. Yep, changed the suspension links again to some generic Chinese offerings which do offer more protection than the Injora counterparts but this do have a touch more slop in the ball/socket bits, not massive but more than the Injora ones. im sure at some point they will be better ones, when they do, I’ll probably end up swapping them out again lol. So, i was watching a film a little while back and in it was this light bulb moment of inspiration. (Can’t remember the film now for the life of me..) Using leftover bits and bobs to keep the cost down was key, with everything i needed came in at under £20 for the materials. now before i unleash the pics, there are flaws and imperfections all over it but i kinda lost a little enthusiasm when i needed some more plastic quadrant, i had some sharp cornered stuff but when i bought some more i realised it was a softer corner so looks worse for it. It has a full interior with a mini kitchen, bed above the cab, seating area with tv and toilet/shower. again threw some stickers at it to give it that older look. paint was a nightmare, originally planned on using Tamiya racing white as i felt this would work against the red nicely, but the nozzle on the can started spitting out paint and made a real mess, flattened it back off and went with a can of Tamiya white and ran out before i could finish. At this point i was considering just leaving it as is but my kids told me to get on with it and complete it so in the end i brush painted it with the little Tamiya jars the clear coated with Modge-Podge matte finish, it looks of but could have been much better…. So now just waiting for some nice weather for some outdoor shots, should look better.

Nearly finished the Injora IR40 truck. Looks pretty cool with the big 70mm tyres.

Fitted some brass parts to one of the trx4s. Portal weights and diff covers. Both injora and fit perfectly.

Cosmo is coming up to 2 years old, a few of the things he’s been up to 🤣🤣🤣

Took some Traxxas’ out for the first time this year. The Defender is insanely capable! With his Big Brother

postie delivered Harry today, once he has been in surgery to remove the legs he will take the driver seat in the new RGT pro runner Bronco

Ive been very quiet on the RC front. A genuine bit of RC fatigue, Ive not even been interested in catching up on forums or RC Youtubers, Traxxas have released a new Maxx Slash which is right up my street yet I havent pulled the trigger and I am unlikely too. Truth is, Id picked up most of the RCs I wanted (the Tamiya R34s, NSX, Supra and various Porsches) and I kinda felt Ive achieved everything with my RCs…. However, I had an Audi A4 on order at my local modelshop, and last week I did my usual eBay searches and made a purchase. Must be a sign as today as I was leaving for work, I got a parcelforce notification a parcel was out for delivery, and on my lunch break, I got a text saying my A4 was in at my local modelshop. So a double RC Day. Also picked up some paint etc Audi A4 TT-01E. Such an iconic shell IMO. Obviously a rere but itll be built as a shelfer so no problems. Now this is also a rere. I missed out on the original ReRe run, so had to pay over RRP, but I still got this for sub £200 all in which I think is acceptable. Its also on a TA03RS, quite a rare chassis that Ive never actually built. Of Course its the Porsche 911 GT1 Street. I do wonder if I could obtain some “race version” decals?

Hey there, long time no update from me, mainly due to being slightly more involved at the drift club now. Following the trend of my two other threads: and We have now the unreasonably priced Yokomo SD 2.0. I won't go into as much detail since i'm writing this after the car is already built (and around 70% there in terms of set up already), but i thought maybe someone is interested in what a slightly higher end kit looks like. Lets get straight into it, here's what i ordered. A Yokomo SD 2.0 (their newest kit, basically one step below their absolute high end), the "purple special edition". Together with a Scale Reflex Gorilla mounting system, and a rear ESC holder - both, of course, also in purple. I'll "reveal" how much i'm into this chassis at the end. Starting the build, it looks like this. Not particularly impressive. In fact, the one thing that struck me throughout the build is how, for the most part, "not special" it is. It just is very solidly cut/built - it's quality over gimmicks. Lets speed through this. A few steps later, you'll arrive at this point. I assembled gearbox and differential already, didn't take pictures since they were straightforward - the differential is a gear diff running 10000cst goop, and it's a four gear transmission (not as in four ratios, but four cogs, two idlers). You can set it up as a three gear transmission, too, but didn't fancy it. The difference is basically one idler added/removed, and it translates into different behaviours of the rear. On a very basic level, four gears promote the rear to squat down, three gears prevent squatting. There's no "better" variant, there's just preference, i personally like my car to squat because it makes it behave more like a real car. More on that in a bit. The transmission as can be seen is open, which is a bit weird, just added maintenance since i have to clean it out of dust every few runs, but here we are. I am currently running the standard gear differential, because i couldn't really get on with the centrifugal differential that i installed in the RDX - it made it harder to control, because i could never really tell when the diff was starting to lock. This is simpler, and while not as trick/competitive, for a sunday drifter like me, much easier to drive consistently. Slide rack installed. My first slide rack. Also the last slide rack i'll ever install. I found a tool, pictured above, that'll help with the "install" of the next one. I don't know if this is particular to this chassis since it's the only one i've ever built with a slide rack, but christ - it genuinely took me 45 minutes to get it situated proper, i.e. not binding and running smooth. Absolutely zero fun and easily the worst "piece" i've ever assembled in any RC. Drove me up the wall. Shock towers etc on, around this point it struck me what kind of gorgeous piece of kit this actually is. Very high quality on all parts. Not as nice to assemble as the plastic RDX, mainly due to the manual being rather old school and not being 100% obvious sometimes, but fitments were 110%. Which brings us to the shocks: These are Yokomo Big Bore shocks, for many people the first upgrade part they ever do on their drifter, regardless of which make. They're reasonably priced (around £80), they're decently pretty (and purple!), they work really well and i've sold them immediately. I basically just assembled them to put them on the rig for a picture, that's it lol. Of course i did build them like my own, with all O-Rings properly greased with 1UP etc. And finally: Not setup yet, also not on the final wheels, just attached what i had for the picture. The shocks look saggy because i didn't add the bladders (the guy who bought them wanted the shocks dry, didn't want to damage the bladders by dry-rubbing them inside the shock), but as i said, i've never driven on these shocks. The front body posts also weren't trimmed at this point, because i had a new shell in the making and hadn't taken measurements yet. It's a pretty rig, no doubt. Now, for electrics, i basically threw my RDX electrics at it, with a few tweaks, as can be seen here. Being an XD10 Pro ESC, D10 10.5t motor, Reve D RS-ST servo and Reve D Revox gyro, paired to my NB4. This is the first stage of setting it up, result being: Decent enough for the girls i am dating, so while i did adjust weight balance a little bit by shifting wires, it was nothing to write home about. You'll also notice that the stupendously expensive Overdose HG3 shocks are mounted to this, despite not being purple. Can't have it all. Now after doing all that, and getting a base line set up, of course i thought that a new motor was required, including a full rewire of the car, throwing everything off again - but the naked wires did annoy me, and the rear wire salad was too much for the shell to handle, so i gave "resoldering ESC side of motor wires" a go, with.. meh results. In my defence, the wires are actually not heat resistant (it's not silicone), so i couldn't do much there. Was my first try, in the future i'll get bloody wire that doesn't melt when you try to solder it (well, the sleeve anyway). The motor was changed to a 13.5t D10 (same motor, less RPM), this time in purple. Which is the current setup still. Now, the shell. It's a shell that i had for absolute ages, started building it either with the RDX or the RMX, can't remember - probably had it close to a year just sitting in the cupboard, finally got around to have it finished. And i absolutely love it. Kustom Kulture of course being the drift club, it's "our" livery. As it sits right there, with the shocks and electrics, it owes me around £1300 now. Which is completely moronic, it's more capable than i'll ever be, but you know.. that's how the hobby goes. I'm happy, can't put a price on that. At least that's what i 'm telling my wife, and myself at night. Lastly, here's how it drove last sunday. Keep in mind, first day with new wiring, motor and shell (which i only noticed afterwards, didn't sit proper, it's fixed now). Just look at how lovely and smooth it runs, as well as how amazing those shocks are. I do love it, i just don't think about the money i paid for it. Much. Thanks for reading: it's a shorter one than the others, but i "had to" build this kit within 6 hours, didn't leave much time to take detail pictures etc.

Took out my scx10. It's a good few years old now, bought it new. Was the trail honcho, now has a proline cliffhanger. Still going strong and fun to drive.

We’ve got a Lola too! And her son Benny in the front

SSD Driveshafts and a set of Beadlock wheels 👍

Radio gear arrived, still no sign of the driveshafts though 🤔 Gotta say I’m really impressed with the TX, certainly doesn’t come across as a £50 one 👍

Dumbo RC radio gear, gotta say first impressions are really good 👍

Quicrun Fusion looks like it’s out for delivery today, the radio is coming Monday, also I’ll be painting the body today 👍

Few things from aliexpress. Alloy steering from my slash 2wd vxl and hyper go 14210. New wheels for my slash 4x4. New bodies for my hyper 14210. A spare reciever for my dumbo rc ddf-350. Spare jx servo and some antenna tubes. Oh yeah a 7 port usb charger and leads for my bike lights (non rc but hey) They are my go to place atm as prices are unreal and all came in around 5 days.

Not the post man but had this dropped off to me at work 😊 Yet to have a proper look but the engine looks completely mint, I may have found one of the last Losi 5ives in original condition in existence! Even the controller looks unused.

A bit more drilling and the bolt is out, the wheel is not pretty but it will work.....for now so fitted to van

Big old motor and ESC 😁 ESC receiver cable could do with being an extra few inches to make it tidier. Will get some smaller black cable ties, the only ones i have are big and chunky, might even use black tape to hold the ESC cable to the cage. Surprised how smooth it actually runs.

Nearly finished the Injora IR40 truck. A bit of soldering and fit the driveshafts. I've used a injora defender carbon chassis, bronco / defender length links front and rear with a few mil of spacing. I'm going to get longer rears, they'll fit no problems. Looks pretty good. Need to solder a Traxxas Trx4m motor connector back on the motor to connect it to the injora esc.

Removing the chrome from the bumpers, mirrors, grill and roll bar on my Trx4. I did this on my Trx4m and it worked great. It's looking like some parts are black, so that's good and the rest will be getting painted black.

Well here is my first pro runner video, slap the headphones on and turn it up as its a real nice backing tune then at very end you hear what the truck sounds like, pleased with this video

Do I need it? No Did I want it? Yes 😆

Done a few bits to my Trx4 cherokee hard body build. Fitted roof rack, rock sliders, door handles, mirrors, bonnet vents and longer rear shaft for the wheel base increase . Trying to make my mind up about which wheels and tyres to use.

Front end mostly done, mix of Taylor RC front bulkhead and Bonehead RC top plate and front hinge pin holders. Will change the shock tower as well but not sure if I will go alloy or carbon fibre for that, will more than likely be alloy.

Trx4 Ford F150 high trail. I was thinking of getting the k10 but the Ford is very good looking, well I think so.

Going racing with a proper E-buggy again after a brief love affair with an Agama a319 nitro that ended in a dead Reds Scuderia race motor after a random conrod failure. I can't be arsed to buy another 400 quid race engine. Have ordered a Tekno EB48 2.1 and a Hobbywing ESC/Taurus motor to go in it. The buggy is on back order so I have dragged my old Ansmann X8E out of the lock up and gone through it like a ton of bricks so I have a test bed for the electronics whilst I'm sorting the new chassis. Jobs today have been: Bloody good clean/as much rust removal as possible All bearings lubed Diffs pulled, checked for condition, drained, cleaned and refilled with fresh oil set 10/7/5 respectively. Shocks stripped, seals greased and refilled. Radio box built up with my race radio, a trick steering servo out of the Agama and topped with a transponder. Found/fitted a mixed set of hexes/nuts cos I robbed the originals off it for something else over the years. New velcro straps. Royal mail tried to deliver the new power system for it Sat but both me and the missus were at work so will pick up tomorrow. Can't wait to get it out on the track again. Pics as it stands. It was/is very rusty. 😁😂