Hot Bodies D8 CORR Truck

Well look what arrived at my door step today


Will start the build on Sunday after our AFL ( Aussie football ) grand final parties .

Will be running the following

Tekin R1 Pro - 35v 2200 uf cap attached
RCM custom one peice tray so i can use both my Zippy and PQ 5S batteries
RCM Lightning Stadium motor mount and stock Stadium center diff mount which both fit the D8 centre diff and chassis , attached to the mount will be a Medusa 36 - 60 1600kv motor , and tying it together will be a King Headz alloy center diff top plate

Lastly for now the cosmetics

Proline Hardcorr body and Knuckles tires in M2
Ofna Stadium wheels which will be stripped of the chrome and dyed black
Slash front bumper
Emaxx rear skid plate
RPM emaxx silver rear bumper which will be attached to the D8 wing mounts

nice! good to see this build!

[magman]

Nice, look forward to seeing it finished!

[jnev]

Looks like you're ready to get building. Looking forward to the progress and build pictures of it.

[TDC57]

All right! I get to finally see one built.. POST.POST.POST..

my friend just got a D8 and we are racing in marry vill so we will se how it does...... O and he also has a losi and he said when the mbx6 and the mp9 comes out he will get thoes and just drive all 4 of them lol

Well finally got it started

This time unlike my X2 conversion i started straight off with the center diff , motor mount and servo tray etc . Next will be the battery tray .

Chose this route as that's the parts that need modding to get them to fit , so the rest of the buggy will be the standard build and should go smoothly without having to take things apart .

First couple pics are off the center diff and motor mount .
Thanks to Ty the HB team driver who test fitted the truggies center diff mounts to the D8 for me before the buggy was released to make sure they fit as you can only get a brushless motor mount for the truggy .

So in went the RCM motor mount and truggy front center diff mount . The diff fits perfect and tying them together is a Kingheadz alloy Lightining center diff top plate , no modding needed .
The only thing i changed from the box set up was going to 7000wt oil in the center diff instead of 4000wt as we know the torque of the brushless motor usualy requires this from the get go.

Next came out the trusty dremel . I cut the battery / servo tray behind were the normal hump battery pack would go as i decided to use this battery box for my receiver .

To get it to fit though i had to cut part of the rear left side of it for clearance of the motor pinion gear and to allow for gear mesh .

You can see were i cut if in the pic , then all that was left to do was attach the steering servo and put a couple of notches in the battery box lid to allow for the receiver antenna and future esc wiring to go through.
The steering servo lead just feeds at the bottom of the box as there was already a hole there.

That's it for now , lipo tray being fitted tomorrow .

A little more progress with the battery tray , front end and slash bumper fitted today .

So far about three hours into with only the rear end and shocks to go

Easiest kit i have ever built apart from some modding for the conversion .
Just trimmed the body roughly up front for now so i could get the bumper in the right spot , and the wheelbase is spot on .

Here is a close up of how i fitted the slash bumper , which actually turned out very easy and i hope the rear bumper works out this easily.

I just shaped the skid plate part of the slash bumper like the bumper in the D8 kit and installed it like the stock one sandwiched in between the front diff housing and chassis.
Then the support for the bumper fell perfectly on a spot on the front diff housing which has quite a thick bit of a flat surface area to it , so i just screwed the support straight to this part of the diff housing .

That's it for now

Im really liking this idea

Any way I can mount some 12mm hex rims. I really want to run the proline bead locks, and the new tires they have for the slash!

Looks great

Originally Posted by BlackedOutREVO

Im really liking this idea

Any way I can mount some 12mm hex rims. I really want to run the proline bead locks, and the new tires they have for the slash!

Looks great

I don't know ?
Like the idea of beadlocks though , wonder if there are 12mm adapters .

Might have to wait for the AE corr truck wheels whenever that is released .

[satttheman]

very nice conversion looks hott

Originally Posted by satttheman

very nice conversion looks hott

Thanks for the compliment .

Got the idea from another guy on this forum who converted i think his xray , can't seem to find his thread though .
Anyway he got the brain thinking