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A hybrid between a truck, buggy and climber!!! :shock: That's a piece of ART!!! Keep us posted on the handling.
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I like how tough that buggy looks

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thanks guys 8)
i'm in the process of painting the gear cover to match. after painting one for the first time i now know why they are not painted more often...they are a bugger to tape up.

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i just got this out for a test drive today...and I will be adding weights to the front end!

The fog lights got tore off in the first 10 seconds from flipping over and I eventually got tired of putting the wing back on. It's supper fast and light; i cant wait to tape the gps to it to see how fast she goes. I'm thinking of protecting the top of the shock towers since the truggy spends a fair amount of time sliding on them.

i keep on having to take the gear cover off and placing the motor back to the right position to the spur gear too. That cuts into the fun time, so I think I will go get some lock tight and apply it to the motor screws.

in one word...FANTASTIC

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Kind of reminds me of those hill climb cars that go almost straight up a hillside with no problem. Cool car, I almost forgot to add that.
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Re: RC10T buggy thingy

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vintage AE wrote:i just got this out for a test drive today...
I remember seeing a fox with clodbuster tires in the readers ride section of an old RCCA; that was my favourie and inspiration for a long time. This reminded me of that image.

I moticied you didn't fix the servohorn in one of the early pics: hope you cleared that before your run?

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that would be a nice looking ride. the fox was the first real RC I have seen and with clod wheels on it would be unreal.

as to the servo horn :lol: NO....BUT was fixed very shortly after. it cam off when i flip it over for the first time and the lights flew 10 feet away.

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well...i liked my lights on the roof and don't like putting my wing back on every other minute so i made some wheelie skis from some left over gold pan chassis scraps kicking around. i don't know how they work yet because i'm waiting for the threadlock the completely set on the motor screws, but tomorrow i will let you know the results.
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at home electrics have to share track with 8th scalers and they rip the hell out of the track that rig would go great on the rough stuff. running a buggy is usually no fun. Getting around the track without flipping from the ruts is the usual goal for elecs. Im liking your build :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Oh no minds thinking again. I REALLY NEED TO FINISH A build INSTEAD OF STARTING ANOTHER I like this one :P :idea:

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the wheelie skies works amazing. No more screwing with the wing and the lights. I got some pretty long wheelies going too. check out this short video of testing her out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytAUBJZ5hpk

And this is what happened moments later :cry:
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I got that cvd straightened out and strapped a gps to it and got 71km/hr, which for all the americans is 44mph. Now that I've gotten a taste of brushless and Lipo I don't think I will be going back to brushed or NiCd again. It just seems rather slow and boring now. I ran my B4, brushed with a NiCd, after I ran my RC10T buggy and I thought that I could control it way to easy.

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That's pretty cool. Always like wheelies

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i see you'll be going through a lot more tires now :mrgreen:

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Re: RC10T buggy thingy

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ah yes. Those tires are completely bald now :D Does anyone know of any good tires for mainly road and a bit off-road? Can you even get 10T tires anymore or are they the same size as the T4 tires? Sorry, this is the first truck fro me so I don't know much about truck sizing.

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Re: RC10T buggy thingy

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I think they are the same size as the newer ones. The proline dirt hawgs are a good all around tire.

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