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That’s why I got away from airplanes.

So the servo is a Reefs 444 and was in a couple different rigs. I put it in the first rig and it was ok but I remember wanting to upgrade. And I moved it to my G shot. It seemed It was like totally weak so I replaced it. When I built the Toyota it was a “good servo I had “ but I noticed it was...

Went out to the comp today. Finished dead last . Not sure what happened besides I fell off a rock and my body came off. I put it back on but it fell off again and I missed a bunch of gates. My servo went south but that was not really a problem because I made all but one date the second time...

O ya, this thing is ready for the comp this weekend. Drove over the corse and it’s very predictable and smooth .plenty of wheel speed without to much torque. I am going to run it just like it is.

This is going to crawl. Now I need to explore the effect of tires. These are very soft with very soft foam. I’m going to start testing portal vs straight axle after the rain stops.

I gotta a set of links from Hard.Core RC stainless steel hiclearance links for the AR45. I just love the way the AR45 packs down. All the links just collapse and everything goes all the way down to the frame very smoothly. I set thinks up with an old pair of axial shocks. I remove the springs...

Got the front axle set up. I had to drill a new hole to lower the pan hard mount. (This metal is super tough). That allowed the axle to move all the way up. This is better for the CG and this allows the shocks to mount more vertical and still give full articulation. They also move through the...

They are machined from 7075 aluminum. Not cast. I suspect they will be OK. First the pinion bearing are are oversize. Next they are one piece. So lighter and much less erector set construction. My old axles are all screwed together cast parts.

O snap. Went to my favorite hobby shop to look at axle options. And of corse monkeys love shiny.

While I’m driving and getting to know the portal axle rig I want to mess around with the straight axle rig. I have a busted Capra axle set I can use parts from and was thinking about converting from the AR44 to AR45. The ground clearance is better with pumpkin on the left side. I would need to...

Today I was just fooling around with the portal axle rig. I have not driven it for a couple weeks while I have been running the straight axle rig. I immediately notice how much smoother the portal rig is. It just seems to drive over everything. Its faster also, like it just smooths out the...

So far I have spent about two weeks driving the straight axle rig. Hard body or not the rig works, and does just about everything. Couple ridiculous things it has trouble with but for the most part it’s great. I drove it and made some minor adjustments as I drove it. I also changed the power to...

Took the purple nerpel out to the big rocks and installed some patina. Actually the rig did fantastic. It actually did much better than I expected and even though I slammed the body hard a couple times the only damage was some paint chips.

Thanks for the kind words. I think the next thing to do is add gates and a timer and count reverse and rollover. I want to start a competition between each rig as I build them or make changes. But the corse is just for tuning. The big rocks are the real test.

Here is a run on the portal rig. Eddie does a couple photo bombs. The portals did great . The rig is surprisingly settled. The rock on the end is called the moon rock. It looks simple but if you rush it you can fall off easy . The gravel at the base gets displaced so it’s just one point to do a...

I have a clip for the hat mount but I am easily distracted like ..SQUIRREL!!!!..

I got this chest mount to hold the go pro. I guess it’s a dork cam. Anyhow I can’t figure any better way to film and drive at the same time. This is a quick test that took an hour because I just kept doing stupid stuff with the camera like photo rather than video or pointing at my hands. I have...

They have some awesome stuff. My biggest fear is they are moving to a location across the street from a race track called Hawkeye Downs. They do R/C top speed trials on the track. The guy in the hobby’s shop has a Felony that went 120 mph. I can’t even look at it.

If round one was the build than the straight axle was easy to set up. Just more options with links and shock length. But the portals once set up and AR45 had the differential on the left side. The trans output is also on the left side so the driveshaft is straight and the movement of the axle is...

Since I broke the front axle on my G Shot I swapped the front brass portal boxes and over drive gears. This is a big plus one for the portals. It only takes six screws to swap from rock crawling over drive to woods running gearing. Adds more forward weight also.