Homemade Brushless Baja 5B style Buggy

[v8hatch]

Originally Posted by _paralyzed_

Wow man!! That thing is awesome!! Why haven't you come to Rc-Monster sooner?

Great build I love it!

Thanks mate, I'm not sure why but i'm here now.....lol

Originally Posted by Overdriven

Building it yourself tends to have that effect, gotta love that feeling. My rebuilds and minor customization just isn't cutting it for me right now. I think it's time for me too build my own monster truck based 5b buggy, I've been admiring everyone else's long enough. Although I do still have the 5t body from my failed stretch chassis Revo, descisions descisions.

You should do one made, it's very rewarding. I think i have seen your stretched revo on youtube in a car park going over a small jump, it looked like the counter lever suspension setup isn't up the size of 5th scale.

Originally Posted by Byte

+1

IMO your Baja looks much more cooler than a real one! Great job! You might want to replace the stock shock for a aluminium one, Losi (and other companys) have got nice anodized shocksfor LST/muggys.

Thanks mate, yes i am going to get aluminium diff cases, shocks and the front tower as well.

Originally Posted by Dj_Sparky

What shock tower is that? And I'm guessing the bulkheads are losi muggy?

Very nice work.

Yeah the bulkheads are muggy and i think from memory the rear tower is a LST

Originally Posted by magman

very nice indeed. I have always wanted to do a 5th scale conversion using a truggy as a base...been thinking about it for 3 yrs... I may have to rekindle the idea.

Do it man do it, you will love it more than any other RC you have ever had.

[Overdriven]

Originally Posted by v8hatch

You should do one made, it's very rewarding. I think i have seen your stretched revo on youtube in a car park going over a small jump, it looked like the counter lever suspension setup isn't up the size of 5th scale.

Yea I need to do another build. That revo wasn't mine, never did get any vids of it. But the results were very similar. Even with the stiffest springs and sway bars it couldn't support or control its weight very well. And it was under 14lbs rtr. Needed to be a little wider too, and the 5t body kinda limited that. Think I'll see if my LHS will trade me the brand new 5t body for a 5b body set and cage, then find me a roller to build. Thanks for sharing your build dude!

[v8hatch]

Just for some fun i thought i would put some brake lights on the under side of the wing.