RC10Talk - The Net's Largest Vintage R/C Community

Wow, that came out nice. Always cool when you build something up from basically nothing.

As stated above, a swap to 3S would give the speed you want. Keep in mind, it's still a clodbuster, and won't deal with hard hits well. You can get good performance out of one, but two things are mandatory: -You need to be (or get) really good at handling/driving it (to deal with the extra speed and...

I reinforced areas with shoe goo and drywall tape under the body to strengthen all the places that usually crack from abuse. I also added some foam bracing to support the body from the stress of lid-landings. I would eventually go on to put the stock battery cups back in place as I got some 3S hardc...

By 2018, I finally got around to putting a new body for the Super-Stocker.... about time since it had never had anything but a used one on it. Unknown body (I got in a parts-lot), I think it's a pro-line Tundra body for the t-maxx 2.5 if the writing on the bag it came in is to be believed. It came w...

The following year (2017) we got a new mechanic helping out with the clodbusters.... his name is Ratchet.

He's stealthy (or thinks he is anyways)

I think one of the biggest reasons I revived the Super-Stocker was because the "T2 Terminator" build I had done was proving to be not as good in the snow. It was heavier and the metal chassis and suspension would gather snow a lot faster. It's ironic because years earlier I had dismantled ...

I wasn't really happy with the way I had that CF bar attached, so I pounded some long hollow-ball swivels into the holes, and while it did work well, I weakened the layers of carbon fiber doing it, and that lead to failure. At that point I didn't care though, as I already had an idea for replacing i...

After a break-in running a 2S battery, I put both screws back into each of the "wings" on the ladder bars (I had previously removed one from each wing). Doing that seemed to make things better. 2S got boring pretty quickly, and I switched to 3S. That was a LOT more to my liking. Then I tri...

Then it was time for electronics! (it seemed to take forever to get to this point!) I went with a velineon esc (because it's what I had on hand at the time) and these will run brushed motors, so I got the soldering iron out and made up some y-harnesses. I used VXL motor wires on those old tamiya mot...

The next thing was, the anti-rotational brackets had to go. 016.JPG But how can this be!?!.... Ladder bars need this!... whatever shall I do!?!....... 5-link .... that's what I'm gonna' do! 007.JPG I took the stock steering linkage swivels, snapped the ends off, but left some material so they would ...

Some time in late 2013, I retired this truck for a while. By mid summer that same year I had built a race-clod and had started to lose interest in this one. One thing led to another and I ended up putting this trucks axles on the race-clod and the rest went into a box (with the other set of axles be...

As seen in the video below, what I did to fix the chassis slap, was to move the battery to the stock location. The problem was, I had to widen the slot, and change how the battery was held in. With that done, I proceeded to remove a LOT of chassis material and add bracing to make it all work. https:...

So there was an indoor R/C track nearby and I finally got over there to check it out. There was no class for me to run in, but I was allowed to run it during the practice time. Running on a single 3S lipo, it actually had okay speed for this (indoor clay) track, but my suspension was lacking big-tim...

Despite pretty-much finding the sweet-spot with the stock motors running 3S... the 4S speed-bug kept biting and I gave in. It had warmed up and the snow was gone (May of 20013). I'd have to take it apart because I had bent that axle inside again, and also replace the motors, but a lot of fun was had...

The durability on this build so far was amazing. Other than breaking an older wheel on the V-spikes and wearing out some motors, not a single original part had failed yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvTxINS8nbY&t=27s SvTxINS8nbY DSCN0972-4.jpg DSCN0972-6.jpg Oh... and here's the bent axle t...