My GMAXX Weighs in at ...
 

9lbs 6.5ozs witout the batteries and lid.

I finally got a scale today and was able to weigh my gmaxx.

wow thats light! Congratulations, those gorillamaxx parts are so light. I mean to make your truck lighter than stock, all aluminum, and some select heavy parts, those G-maxx parts are truley lightweight. Thats soo cool! The GA bulkheads and 8 integy shock weigh a ton! yet you still got the weight under stock. If you install a VBS towerless system with aluminum skids (weighs maybe a gram more than stock), and 4 bigbores (or racer x), you will have yet a even more durable truck that would really cut your weight...but still, that is very light!

The bulkless system requires a modified skidplate for the rear if you want the extended G-maxx (front skid won't work with the UE bulkless sytem). I modified a g-maxx skidplate on mine (one of my g-maxxes has the VBS system).

so it would basically need a front skidplate without the curve in the back of the truck. How did you make the skid plate? If it is aluminum, if i put the skid in the vice, it would permenatly bend the skid straight right? Would it still fit though?

The VBS uses it's own skid plate. The front and rear on the VBS don't have the same screw pattern, either. The g-maxx ext. uses a stock front skid length for the rear to achieve the extra length. In order to have the chassis extension on the g-maxx AND the VBS, you have to mimis the VBS screw pattern on a front skid plate, and then remove some material of the sides so the suspension arms clear.

My bulks are ACNCM.

opps, sorry thought they were GA, but as far as i know they still weigh the same.

Anyways, yes, the vbs incorperates 4 M5 screws on the front 4 screws. So i would basically have to purchase the special gmaxx extension skidplate (basically a front skid but with no curve right?) and then drill out some m5 holes?

Netman,
I was looking at a set of those bulks tonight trying to decide which ones I am going to get. Obviously you felt those superior to anything else out there or else you wouldnt have bought them?
How do they compare to others?
Where did you get them and how much?
Thanks
John

That is what I used. The G-maxx extension plate needs to be drilled to match the screw holes in the VBS (none of them line up), and then the sides need to be trimmed to clear the suspension arms (VBS has built in anti squat, which effects the a-arm clearance).

The only reason I went with ACNCM is price. If I was getting them today I would go with FLM. They make some really nice products. When I got them I didnt know about the FLM line.

Mine weighs about 13-14 lbs with 18 matched Cells and the 5.5 oz F350 extended with the wing.

Do you have a link to FLM?

http://www.fastlanemachine.com/

We stock most all of the FastLane machine parts on this site.

here is the link to the RC-Monster FastLane store.

http://www.rc-monster.com/fastlane.php