Actually it has 4 servos! Steering, Overdrive (more power to the front), Dig (Locks rears to allow fronts to spin and turn very tight), and lastly a Winch!

It will also have lights front and rear, but I'm going to add other lights in the future. It's really nice quality, although I did hit a snag with the front axle. I'll make a new post for this car...

>>39393 A portal drive kit..interesting.

That's a lot of servo's, 1 for steering, 1 for select drive but the last one?

Noice!

>>39386 SWEET!!!!!

I've been wanting to get in to rock crawlers for so long :D

>>39378 to >>39383 Okay, wow, that looks fucking sick! You might need a different shell, though. One that isn't so holy ;)

I have a Tamiya dune buggy and the front wheel (steering rod) bent on a very tight corner cause it was some sort of plastic (ABS I think).
Even here metal rocks ;)

>>39384 A crawler? Do it. DO ITTTT!!

Who knows, but hopefully Santa brings me something cool for Christmas...

I still have lots of things to try out with this car, but I'm amazed at how well it's all working so far. Hopefully soon I get my office / hobby room fully operational and then I can start to really dial this car in and start having some real fun with it.

Thankfully the only real damaged was this bent rod, which I simply straightened. I suspect the little clip on the end of the pin had come off and the pin partially out when the car hit the log. Easy fix!

During testing a little booboo occurred and the front right corner of the car partially broke off. Rumour has it the person driving the car was trying to do a speed run on the wet grass and then skidded in to a log. I of course was nowhere near the car at the time so I can't comment! XD

Turns out this car is an exceptionally good lawnmower because it has far too much power Seriously it'll do 40mph! I had to program the transmitter to allow me to have throttle maps so I can slow it down for using it in the garden!!! It's literally fucking insane! XD

It took a while but I got all the internal layout figured out.

So anyway, I've finally got this care mostly up and running now with a new fancy controller.

The judge has awarded me all the money I should have had over the last 10 months, but it'll take weeks before I get it. Sadly the judge can not fine them or do anything else to them. I will have to make a formal complaint but I honestly don't expect anything good to come from it, maybe an apology! It's a shit system!

Well, congratulations to you, buddy!
Don't spend it all at once.

So, the judge berated the DWP and fined them? And do you get your money now or after you put the formal complaint in?

In my experience, a governments all want to do is fuck people over. Spend less on folks but more on trivial stuff. Like we have literally police at our open borders again to weed out illegal immigrants. They did find some illegal booze smugglers (more than 20 litres per person). Luckily our cabinet/government has fallen so no more Trumpian ideas. Hopefully people remember how terrible these people were, but I doubt it.

Shit I'm ranting again. That will be enough for today.

Have a great day!

I had my benefits tribunal, court, hearing yesterday, after 10 months of waiting and no money. It only took 15 minutes of confirming my information with the Judge for them to decide that I had been unfairly treated by the DWP (Department for Works & Pensions). The judge was not happy that the DWP had wasted everyone's time with this situation and suggested I make a formal complaint against them. I will be doing that soon. I will get all the money paid to me soon that I should have had over the last 10 months. Fuck the DWP!

That ESC holder is designed by me and 3D printed. I added the threaded brass inserts using my soldering iron.

There are some interesting resources in that link. I have been thinking about building a vacuum forming machine at some point. That's all for future me to figure out :D

>>39226 Wow, finally the winds turns in your favour! Hopefully it's a nice smell, lol.

>>39227 Is that a 3d-printed piece? Or store bought?

>>39228 Suweet!

>>38913 Are you still considering building a frame with 3d-printed panels?
https://all3dp.com/2/3d-printed-rc-body-3d-models/

ESC and Motor mounted

Custom ESC holder thingy

I'm using a Hobbywing EZRun Max8 G2S ESC and Hobbywing EZRun 4268SD Motor.

In the last couple of weeks a lot has changed, and by the end of the month I'll know how things will be going forward.

I'm finally free of owning my parents old house. This means I can claim benefits again, although I'm still waiting for an appeal for my existing claim, which I just learned will be in a couple of weeks. The new claim is a backup for if my appeal fails, it's just the way things are done here!?!

Having sold my parents home has also meant I can reclaim the extra tax I had to pay when I bought my home. You have to pay it if you technically own more than one home, but can claim it back within 3 years if you sell the other property. This has provided me a few thousand so I can finally afford to start work on my property. Yay! And bizarrely I also just got a small inheritance of a couple of thousand from my dads cousin who passed away a couple of years ago with no children so it went to my dad and his sisters, and there for to me and my brother and sister. Noice!

It also means I can finish off this project!!!

You don't need to send me any money, I'll be fine. Just going through a really shitty time, but it'll work out eventually.

The housing market is super weird currently. Cheaper housing like my house would sell quickly and easily, but more expensive property like my parents house are just sitting on the market for a long time. I think the people who can afford more expensive houses aren't moving as they are worried about investments and shit like that with stock markets all over the place since covid. Something will happen one day!?!

Damn dude, that's fucked up. If I hadn't just forwarded my savings into my cycle I would've send you some cash. Next month is the earliest I can do.
So I take it your parents house still isn't sold? So there's no housing crysis in your country?

It isn't! No money XD

I'm currently 6 months in to fighting the government over my right to benefits. They claim I have too much money, I don't though. This is all related to my share of my parents old house. It's a fucking mess and I'm really sick of it! I have a solicitor working on it, but they are fucking useless too! Meanwhile I'm only surviving with help from my brother. Fuck me I guess :/

And, how's this project doing?

To quote Michael: "Slow and steady, T, slow and steady" ;)

It's slow going at the moment. I'm currently designing how I want the batteries, ESC and radio receiver to fit in the car.

Show us an update pic

The shocks are rebuilt now and seem to be in perfect working condition. I'm designing holders for the battery and ESC currently. It's a bit complicated trying to get it to fit and make use of existing mounting holes in the chassis, but I'm making progress. The official battery and ESC holder wasn't going to work as the space for the ESC is too small for the ESC I'll be using.

That's one of the things I'm considering.

Maybe build a tiny tube frame and 3d-print body panels?

>>38910 It doesn't go any speed as it doesn't have a motor yet. Not sure when I'll have the spare cash for that part of the project.

I would need a much larger printer to print a body for this car, but I do want to to something with the body like patching up the holes for the nitro fuel tank and engine or maybe building something from scratch.

Very cool little buggy. How fast does it go now?
You could print a different cover in PETG. Maybe even build a camera on it :D

Steering servo and radio box fitted.

Front shocks and anti roll bar fitted

The new rear drive shafts just turned up and they fit great but annoyingly they have been slightly redesigned over the years and my existing dogbone shafts are too long to work with it. The new one is on the left and the old one is on the right. So it's back to eBay to get new dogbone shafts!?! XD

Shocks and anti roll bar has been fitted too. I'm waiting on some new protective rubber boots that go over the shock shafts to protect them from mud and stones :)

This is a picture of the car when I got it next to my Kyosho Turbo Optima (right) for scale.
You can't easily tell from this photo, but the shock towers are bent, the chassis is slightly twisted among numerous other little problems.

The body on the car is not the original but it is an Inferno body from a RTR version, the chassis however is from a race kit version of the car so has some extra bits that the RTR version didn't.

The shocks had me confused for a while. They are actually for a race version of the Losi 8ight 2.0, the Losi made competitor to the Kyosho Inferno. Thankfully they fit the car perfectly and are extremely good shocks.

It's been fun stripping the car down completely and fixing all the problems.

So far with this project I've replaced and upgraded the front and rear differentials as one was seriously worn out and the other was actually for a different car, although at least compatible. I was able to get 2 complete new diffs for pretty good money, cheaper than buying the individual gears that had worn.

I also ordered a few other parts from Hong Kong, it's much cheaper, for the electric conversion and to replace a few bits that I could see were worn out.

I found a problem with the rear drive shafts where the pin hole for the wheel hub has worn too much making the rear wheels wobble! I found some parts on ebay so I'll wait for them to turn up.

Chassis sides fitted

Steering linkage fitted

Front and rear control arms fitted