Project drift truck

[pinkpanda3310]

I don't know if this is a good idea or if it will even work as I plan it too.

Last year I saw these trucks around at department stores and thought the body looked half cool. They are of course toy grade and I wasn't going to pay $150 to just have the body. I looked around briefly but didn't find any 2nd hand ones F/S.

A person I know, not a friend, not a relative, just a person I know through others dropped one off asking me to fix it. I had fixed his mates TRX Bandit a couple times and now he brought the only rc he's ever owned. I couldn't believe he actually thought it was really cool when it was running!? This guy is in his early 20's he's not a kid. Anyway it was a simple case of dead batteries. I fixed it 6 months ago or more, he's never been back for it.

Running my lst out the front of my house lately I've busted the front shock tower again. Honestly I try not to do anything silly but when it flips the bitumen is unforgiving. I salvaged parts from 2 towers, straightened them and used them. The remnants are in the pic (all bent/broken)


So I make the decision to use the truck sitting in my garage doing nothing. Actually my kids used it a bit but not for some months now. I remove the body and quickly discover it's not going to sit on the lst nicely at all because of the high shock tower at the rear (remember it's a ute/pick up meaning the back of the body is low). Over at rctech I'm looking around for a suitable chassis, I was thinking buggy when I found a muggy that used to be in my possession. It sold just before I asked about it. He had other cars in his thread. The dm-1 would've been ideal but I'm being a cheap arse as usual so bought the nexx8. It came with upgraded shock towers and chassis braces which is the main things to upgrade on this car as I have read.

Did some research on the centre driveshaft lengths and how long the wheel base is and what I need to extend it to (to fit body). I worked out I can leave the front half of the chassis alone and just extend from behind the CD with an XTM 182mm dogbone. I used the same dogbone in the lst build.

Being cheap arse as I said I bought a leopard 4092. I mainly got that because I thought the body is really heavy so I'm going to need a lot of torque to get/keep the wheels spinning. I just hope the nexx8 drive train is up to the task. Speaking of which I got a ofna torsen diff which I'm considering using in the build, just not sure if it goes rear or centre.

Another cheap arse buy was the 6s fuze esc. I'm half regretting that already because of the manual programming, should've gone with castle

In my looking around I find a few scalers have been using these bodies. I think there was a different version of it available too.