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Grocery Getter |
So ....I thought I would get this started up. After all I have been working on my NewBright A LOT. So far, I have all ready done a lot to it and as of right now, It dosen't even look like a new bright. So Here is what I have all ready done.
Long Drop shocks ,Built by me, Thanks To seand. I CUT the Chassie up a hole bunch.. 2 Speed 280 motors,(Installed but not on the truck yet) Waiting on a set of 70:1 From Good Old Flapding. Full hobby Grade Electronics Tazer15 esc( It's a cheap one) Traxxas Reciver Team losis "Micro-t" Controler JR Racing 270 Servo 3,300 Mah Venom Racing Battery Now..For the TOTAL SWEET-NESS That I just finished working on.. I noticed the more I learn about compitition grade Crawlers, Most of them have the body mounted by side mounts. I have been wanting to run my T-Maxx F-350 Body when BAM it finaly hit me.. Run a Side mount body. What A great Idea. So I went on a trip to the hard wear store got a few supplies and this is what I came up with..   ok...Now I bet your wondering what the truck looks like...Well First I took on one more small project..I Got a can of "Anodiezeing" Spray paint and painted the Bead lockers. Here is a sample of what I have been up to.. The truck has no Axles under it. The tires are just sitting there. But The Body is fully mounted and it works GREAT!!. So with out futher adue.. I give you my new "NewBright Ford F-350"   I will keep up dating this thread as I go along. My next plan is to get rid of the yellow on the chassie. I will paint it over in red. And I think I may make my Body mounts black .Not sure yet....So what do you guys think? This message has been edited. Last edited by: AirborneJordan, |
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Grocery Getter |
nice!
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Grocery Getter |
Truck looks pissa ABJ!....straight up respect from this Bostonian! Keep up the great work!
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Extreme Rockcrawler |
AJ YOUR WORK AMAZING.THIS LOOKS LIKE A 4--5 HUNDDRED DOLLER TRUCK. so clean. and the power to mach the looks. I LOVE IT.
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. ~Alexander Jodorowsky..... |
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Trail Lubber |
Wow, Nice job!! Looks like the big dollar rigs alright. And its going to out perform them too. Is there a thread on your long shock? I havent come up with succesful long throw design yet. I will keep trying though This message has been edited. Last edited by: j33p3r, |
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Rockcrawler |
Those body mounts look mighty familiar. I had ones just like them on my Wheely King:
 I've since replaced them with acrylic rods but they worked great when I had them!! Funny that you wrote how your NB really doesn't look like a NB anymore. Here's my Wheely King almost out of the box:  Here's what it looks like now. Can you see the difference?  Cheers, Sean P.s. glad the shocks worked out for you. ___________________________________________________________ "I'm just gonna keep on crawlin' now baby until the day I die, because I'm a crawlin' kingsnake baby, and I rules my den" John Lee Hooker |
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Grocery Getter |
Looking good Jordan. It reminds me off a real F-350 thats rolling around town here. It even had flames. Its HUGE!!!!. I`ll try to get a pic of it.
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Extreme Rockcrawler |
That looks hot! The ESC is going to be critical for maintaining crawling control with those motors and gears. The speed 280's have a good amount of power, but there is a very fine line between easing into the throttle to get over something, and overpowering the tires and just spinning. It takes a lot of practice and a very steady finger, but can be a good crawler.
As for competition, basically I think the axles are too wide for 2.2 scale. I have been thinking about making a tube frame and narrowing my axles to make it more of a 2.2 rig, just like you are doing. If I ever actually get to doing it I'll post up about it. Still too much work on my 1:1 race car to do right now. |
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Grocery Getter |
Once I run out of thinkgs to do on the NB I will think about up grading my ESC. It is ok But not Dead on. some times it had a delay going from FWD to REV. That bugs me but other than that my esc is ..OK.. I have been thinking of running that new ESC for the New E-Maxx you can run 2 7.2V battery's off of it.
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Grocery Getter |
woops . AJ this esc will run your rigg fine . you just need to go into setup and program the brake.
Tazer 15T Forward/Reverse ESC Key Features * High power, proportional FET control * High-frequency operation for smooth speed transitions * Thermal overload protection * Push-button programming * Prewired connectors Overview The Tazer 15T can handle a wide variety of motors from stock to 15-turn limited modifieds, Setup is push-button simple and it comes prewired with universal Tamiya and bullet connectors.  |
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Grocery Getter |
Airbornes 350 comes to life. This is one monsterous truck. To give you an idea as to how big it is...those tires are 49 inch SuperSwamper Iroks.....about 5 grand worth of rubber.
  
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Grocery Getter |
NICE !!! Now thats what I am talking about! My kinda truck.
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Grocery Getter |
A.R.C if you don't mind me asking..Where do you live..I just wondering where that truck lives?
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Grocery Getter |
I live in Kelowna B.C.
The truck is now for sale at a local dealership, they`re asking $65,000 
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Grocery Getter |
WOW...TO MUCH FOR ME !
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Grocery Getter |
OK Guys, I have been back to work on My F-350. It has turned out Awsomwe !! so the list of new mods on top of the other ones include
Gnauper's Speed 280's Flapdings 70:1 Gears And of course The 4Link Thanks to A.R.C. Showing us how it's done. Well I guess I will just let the Pictures do the talking. Here we go... Just waiting on the Build to start.  First I decided to use coat hanger.Just to get the right length for my real links  I also made up brackets to mount the links to.I used a small pice of Alu.and a dremmel tool and started hacking away.   This is what I used to make my links..    First I tryied to mount the Shocks here, I did not like it to much.  So I moved them down here,,They worked much better.  After lots of long hours of messing around I finaly finished up.   ALL most 9 3/4" Flex!  And the finished Prouduct..Well ALL MOST i still have some fine tunning that needs to be done.     And teh Finishing Touch!  \I will be posting up a new Video soon Just have to get it put togather. I hope you have enjoyed my pictures so far.! Let me know what you guys think! |
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Grocery Getter |
Thats awesome Jordan! Everyone needs a 350 that looks like that.
Glad my ideas helped you out. |
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Grocery Getter |
Thats an awesome job! I really like how you set up the links.
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Grocery Getter |
Well My New Bright Friends..It looks like I will have to back to the drawing table with my F-350. I was out doing some "Ice" crawling on the melting snow piles in my drive way. I was using a lot of the Speed the 350 has to get wheel spin in get over the snow.. when something "bad" happened...I broke my frame...
 I knew that this was going to be a weak spot,But I had no other choice seeing that I had to cut so much off from my last set up..O-Well.. Now it is time to build a new frame.Once again, I think I will do something like A.R.C and maby a cross of SeanD's wheely king. Well I will be starting this project soon, And will keep you guys updated with pictures. |
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Extreme Rockcrawler |
AJ this the very reason i changed my chassie to pimp cane the same thing happend to me
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. ~Alexander Jodorowsky..... |
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