The Build – Part 1 The chassis of the Team C TM4 features an aluminum plate with plastic sides. These help keep the chassis from flexing and also provide a flat surface for the body to stay against. It’s a …
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Part 4 of Project Jallopy and we’ve finished our build. It’s hard to imagine that just a few days ago, the car you see above was just a random pile of parts in a bin with no instruction manual for …
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We’re into Part 3 of Project RCD Jallopy and we’re going to wrap up the build portion of our custom creation and we’ll talk performance in Part 4. Things just seemed to fall together nicely at the end of the …
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Mark Himes of Red Arrow is a master of all things large scale. He has built some of the most unique HPI Baja and Losi 5IVE vehicles I have ever seen. He emailed me the other day with another project …
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It’s Part 2 time of the Project RCD Jallopy build and we’re going to find and build the rear end of the machine from our pile of extra parts. Transmission case, gears, bearings… everything seems to be here, lets get …
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We’re back at it, gathering up spare parts left behind from various Traxxas Slash builds and projects we’ve created over the years and now we’re going to free-style a build and see what we come up with. There are plenty …
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Tamiya is great for designing all sorts of interesting RC vehicles and keeping every format of our hobby fresh and interesting. The DT03 chassis is more geared for beginners in stock form, the cost is low and many design cues …
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The Traxxas Slash 4×4 and Stampede 4×4 are popular off-road machines to customize. Many opt to installed more powerful brushless systems with big power LiPo batteries to extend the fun factor, but this can also play havoc to drive-lines. To …
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Robinson Racing has a large offering of pinion gears, spur and slipper options for many of today’s popular vehicles. One popular gear upgrade is for the Stampede/ Slash 4×4 spur with slipper unit. The stock Traxxas gear is plastic so …
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Pro-Line pretty much shocked the RC community when they released the Pro-2 Short Course truck. This RC accessory giant made the leap into offering car kits and the Pro-2 is a pretty impressive machine for those who want the …
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Sometimes we to hit the workbench and just build, and during a recent build session, we built a custom Traxxas/ STRC Slash E-Buggy. Using key products from STRC, Traxxas and Pro-Line Racing, the buggy turned out to be a lot …
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Building A Scale Rock Crawler In the rock crawling industry there are two types of people, Toyota people and Jeep people. It seems to be a never ending battle and in some cases, the battle lines have been drawn in …
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The Build – Part 11 The final chapter to our Team Associated B44.3 has us assembling the wheels and tires and mounting the body and wing. The first step in the final step is to glue up your tires. You …
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The Build – Part 10 Time to install the electronics in our Team Associated B44.3 Buggy. Even though we’ll be using a single shorty LiPo instead of the optional saddle-pack setup, we need to attach the left side battery tray …
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The Build – Part 9 The Team Associated B44.3 comes with the super-plush V2 12mm Big Bore shocks. They’re easy to build and are top-notch at damping the buggy on just about any surface. One with the build. Our first …
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