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  1. Hpi savages have been a huge part of my rc adventures for many many years. My first was a savage ss back in, uhh, 2007 i think. It was blue and lots of fun. That truck ended up having an LRP 28 which was a monster engine, as well as some fairly rare extended tvps. Heres Mini me enjoying my savage, 11 years old or so. I built the whole thing again several times, just cherrypicking the best parts from a used parts lot me and my dad got. It was a total hoot. This was the truck that really opened my eyes to big bore nitro rc. I have many great memories of it, especially sorting out the annoying half tank lean with a mid tank mod. And this was the new savage when i first got it. It was £80, the engine was seized solid (lied to by the ebayer) and the truck itself was in pretty poor condition. Haggled these proline mulchers off of the guy for free with the truck. Also scored this savage bod off of ebay cheap. Was actually pretty nicely painted, still have this shell somewhere. Got the truck fitted up with my trusty old k4.6 and yes, that is the original hotbodies side pipe. Lord that thing is loud, really hearing damage loud. Wasted no time in hitting the woods and getting dusty, this was such a cool moment for me to be reconnected with the platform that gave so much to me when i was younger. It also burnt me several times while trying to start it; happy memories. I really liked this bodyshell. This was the basher body, i didnt want to ruin that other nice one. Also these tyres had larger diamter, and made the truck a bit faster overall. It had a great attitude when jumping, weighed hardly anything and bounced around a lot. A proper, no bs nitro monster truck exactly how my old savage was, although not as powerful. This is from 2016. Destroyed a diff at that bash. Turned out that the previous owner had installed a bulletproof diff in the front and stock 43t in the rear! those were different ratios! Yikes. Then i converted it to an xl style wheelbase. With this beautiful tuned exhaust and aluminium shocks. Those proline tyres were really nice too, if a bit on the heavy side. It was really starting to come together. Then i had to paint up a new body. I love those OBS fords, the f150 is such a lovely truck. And tamiya PS-17 is a perfect colour. I miss that body, it didnt stay that way for long. It made its way to a few little meetups. Just like the old savage did. Irc tvps, proline badlands (FINALLY IN 3.8!) and a full rpm arm set were added. This would have been perfect to leave it as it was right here. I actually have all the parts to build this truck as it was right here. God i love a good dodge charger. Still have this body, all painted up and never ran it. Its drilled to fit the irc +6mm tvps but again i never used those either. Then the brushless conversion started. Irc big bore shocks added, they are so overkill its unreal. Alza chassis plates, more fast lane parts. I converted the transmission to flux spec, and got a 1717 from an X0-1 as well. That motor is nuts. Those battery boxes were rubbish, cheap chinese knockoffs. The mgm esc was expensive, but really to this day i dont think ive used a better esc. Its flawless, and gives a very usable stable power delivery. Not sure about the mp-jet connections; i need to use both hands and get a steady footing to pull those apart. Diff #2 bit the dust. A bulletproof one this time. My fault for not shimming it, although chinese diffs can be had for £20. Decent. The truck has enormous power. Never radar'd but id guess between 40-50mph on full tilt. It was basically the only rc i used at this point, and with good reason; it does everything i ever wanted it to. I run it on 5000mah zippy lipos, 6s and 40c but i get around 15-20 minutes out of a set. I think the mgm esc is pretty economical, or maybe i got lucky and accidently did everything correctly. Excuse the play button. (stolen from instagram again) but this thing rips literally! Tearing grass from the ground like my old lrp would never have done. Its amazing how brushless motors and escs have come on since when my old truck was a thing. Then my good friend @hamradioguy Fired up his printer and sorted me out some parts. The new servo tray, and battery boxes are excellent. We did 2 versions of the battery boxes to get the bracing more secure, as after the first run they split at the force point. But afterwards the truck has been run a good few times, and the battery boxes are rock steady. They sit closer in on the truck, and fit my zippy lipos perfectly. 3d printing is yet another amazing technology that has emerged since my first savage build, back then i think printers started at £40k and werent commercially available. Then i managed to find some turbo rare hotbodies super-tec aluminum hubs, coupled with some gpm aluminium hubs the whole setup becomes much more rigid. I managed to find the legitimate truggy style 17mm hexes for the truck as well but they took around 6 months. £10 delivered from ebay! what a score. I also added some fast lane aluminium arms, at this point the truck gets used for fast cruising/field wheelie machine so im really not worried about the potential for bending stuff. Although its seen some cartwheels and roll overs but still seems rigid and true. Then my friend Dylan from the US put the feelers out for some fast lane aluminium diff cases. These are (or were) rare as hens teeth. They were expensive and he wasted no time getting them to me. It took 6 months to find these, you may remember my searches on here. The savage facebook group actually got together and went to fast lane with a 100 strong orderbook to persuade them to re-machine a run of these diff cases. I believe the photos of my truck on there with these were a strong factor in that, ive been offered a fair amount of cash to sell them too 😁 Integy (ugh) rear hubs added. This is another rare part, getting a nice set of these. They seem to come with the hotbodies suspension conversion kit which is again super rare to see. Also i suspect they will get hammered so i wouldnt want a nice set on there. Its feeling pretty complete at this point. The diff cases are installed with @hamradioguy again coming to the rescue by literally ransacking his working hotbodies lightning for diffs, as the fast lane cases have a hybrid geometry to work with 1/8th buggy diffs. These were designed before the bulletproof diffs were a thing, i think around 10 years ago actually. When people started building super tough brushless savages. I also installed an alza centre diff kit, which mounts the motor in the middle and adds a centre diff to the truck; helping keep the front end down a bit as this thing was just a wheelie machine at this point. It also completes the look, and allows more room around the motor for cooling. Now we come to the present day, (well, 2019) When the truck had its last proper outing. It ran well but crazy fast because it is overgeared. The diameter of the motor doesnt allow for a smaller pinion due to everything touching everything else down there, so this is how itll stay for now. Theres no cogging, its just a lot faster than it was because of the hotbodies diffs having a different ratio. It popped a driveshaft out once under acceleration while turning left which allowed the driveshaft to ruin the cup and polish itself smooth. Thats all it took for it to then pop out and click on every single left turn made from then. I thought about lengthening the stock driveshafts but instead bought some chinesium cvds to do that with. After consulting @Candyman about a sleeve we came to the conclusion that a different driveshaft with slightly more length from a different manufacturer would be a better solution. So i got some arrma driveshafts from @Kukynas which should be a fair amount longer and still work. It does mean that ill have to convert the diff output cups to the smaller ball end as used on the savage 21, but the stock cups that come with the hotbodies diffs will work with that. Itll be an interesting frankenstein driveshaft combo but if it works it will solve the issue. The steering slop is another issue that needs solving. Also my zippies are starting to get a slight puff on, probably due to me over-discharging them a couple of times. Oops. So thats it for now, ill update the thread as and when, but what with the pandemic affecting the postal service it looks like it will be a fair while. Until then i can file out the wheel arches on the russian unbreakable bodyshell and get the truck prepared for running otherwise. Thanks for reading- NB.
  2. I have a hpi vorza that doesnt have enough grip. I am running on Hoons Dboots (s5) and i want to buy foams but i don't know which to buy can anyone help me?
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