m4inbrain

I always run vented - it's all just a matter of aftercare. If i ran through water, it'll get full throttle after the run until no water comes out anymore, then you'll just store them in a reasonably warm place. Never had foam go bad. That being said: the obvious solution is to get away from foams and use anti-foams (that's the idea for my next build). I personally dislike running non-vented (or blocked) tyres, if the air can't go anywhere, they can't deform properly. Not much of an issue on the trail, but certainly in the rocks.

And with that, sold.

Make it £165+pp fees (have to say that), and i'll get a box ready.

Better and smoother bottom end torque even compared to sensored brushless systems, mainly. For me personally there's too many drawbacks (not friends with water, sand, dust/dirt, less efficient at higher RPM), but in a comp rig, it's probably the best system to use.

As the title suggests, here my mostly complete Trailfinder 2 roller for sale. Lets get pictures out of the way first. As one can see, without exaggeration, it's basically mint. It has maybe half an hour of total runtime, the two small marks on the pumpkins are the only marks it has (the fuel cell cover that's crooked in the picture has the bolt attached, just open from when i took out receiver etc). Lets get the bad bits out of the way first: it's mainly missing the two front body posts, and a few M3x8mm bolts (mainly to mount the shell), so i'll sell this as a project. For the good parts: it has a trailer hitch of unknown make (the idea was to run it with one of them Aliexpress wiremesh trailers) - but more importantly, it comes with an RC4WD Warn winch, as well as a choice of actually immaculate gearboxes - installed is a single speed gearbox (RC4WD), and it'll come with a second RC4WD gearbox (2speed) that never ran. Nothing wrong with either, i just preferred running a single speed gearbox over 2speed - included are both. There's also a motor, i want to say that this is the RC4WD kit motor, but i'm not 100% sure on that front. I'll leave it in either way. I do think the pictures speak for themselves, the rig genuinely is as new. I used it once outside the house for like half an hour, it has never seen water (not a single spec of rust on anything, including bolts). I am looking for £180 posted (fees on you), or picked up in south wales.

I personally would've added at least a swing arm reinforcement, there ought to be some chinese special at the right spacing. This is just going to happen again, it tore the pin out of the housing - a swing arm reinforcement would fix the two axle pins together, meaning you can't pull them out. Something like these. Just, of course, fitting. Or, like Gaz said, straight to an alloy bulkhead, if available. edit: not your fault, but them phillips screws giving me the itch. 😁

It does - sadly it kind of locks me into the Cliffhanger, but seeing how wide the Stance body is, probably not the worst thing. I'd go cab only if not (what feels like) 95% of all rigs out there were a proline comp wagon. In case you want to look for some inspiration, these are made by https://www.freqeskinz.com/ - they offer quite a bit for the Optic as well.

Good luck on that one, i'll be going "kitten" lol - body is gonna be sprayed 1980s brown, and then get wrapped (so the inevitable scratches/tears in the vinyl leave a rusty look). Bit heavier than i'd like, but i certainly wouldn't be able to spray the way those skins look.

Cheers, pretty sure i'll be ending up with a few of those too. What technique would that be?

Looks serious. I particularly like the "golden accent washers", for the lack of better term. Vanity-bling. 😁 .. i might steal that for the VRD build, albeit different colour scheme for the Dravtechs, mine are orange (and so are the wheels if i can bring myself to spend that kind of money for the Vanquish rims). Looking forward to seeing it develop. 👍

That post is four years old. I'd be rather surprised.

I'm good with a single set, the project after the VRD is going to be drift-related again, so if you want two sets, that's cool. I'll fire you a PM in the evening, sorting out the process, if that's okay - bit busy atm. 👍

Well, there's a few curveballs now. First, there is apparently an H10 kit in the works. RCDriver was at the Vegas trade show, someone spotted an H10 kit in the background, and the video was edited afterwards to cut that segment of the video. Here's the thread for that. https://www.rccrawler.com/forums/threads/optic-kit-coming.633621/ Further, i just got this message. So, a set is 4 inserts - if you want a set for a future build, i'd certainly be up for splitting postage.

Cheers, i'll watch the video when i have a hot minute later, quite curious. I didn't actually check whether or not Squid's shipping to the UK, that might be a wrench in the gearbox now. Gonna pop them a message to see if there's something i can sort out, that worked with drifted.nl (25 euros flat rate shipping, thought that was a bit moronic for the 4 screws i ordered lol). Otherwise, i guess i'll have to do some more research. The VRD Carbon comes with what looks like fishing weights for the front (cast iron, maybe?), i'll be giving those a go for now (the build is from scratch, my wallet is already smoking and i haven't even started proper ordering parts yet) - figuring that out is a problem for future me. Certainly gonna follow the build, i'm still in the "poach ideas and learn" phase when it comes to LCG/Comp setups. 👍

Cheers, well, the Dravtechs are basically TRA2660, so i'm reasonably familiar (or at least have an idea) - i would need to get some Knipex though. Was just easier to get them prebuilt. Tyres i do want to give Tusks a go as well (never tried JC rubber), with Squid'nserts - allegedly "the" go to insert for Tusks if you don't want to run foams. I do speak german, so i might peek at the BAMF stuff, but generally, the Squid'nserts are #1 on the list for now. Now, having never ran a full droop setup.. i suppose it's a bit of a subjective question, but am i wrong in thinking that even as a full droop rig, you want the shocks the other way around? Might not make much of a difference, but to me, in an LCG rig, it makes more sense to have the heavy part of the shock towards the bottom of the rig. At least, that's what i've been told. I have no experience with comp crawlers yet, it's just something that came up in a conversation in another forum, because i was trying to figure out why everyone (not everyone, but loads of people) mounts them upside down. What ratios are planned/in the gearbox? Or rather, how much overdrive are you going with? The VRD comes with 37% out of the box, (21 gearbox, rest front portals), i might actually underdrive the front portals to tone that down a notch. I don't feel comfortable running that much overdrive in a rig that'll drive on even ground every now and then (between obstacles, to the obstacles etc).