New E Revo

[HPIguy]

Well, new to me anyway, I picked this up from Nitrobuzzard. I heard the UPS stop at the house (he didn't come up the ice covered driveway for some reason, wuss ) so I hiked down to the road to meet him. It's the 1/10 E Revo brushless edition. I've been wanting one for a while, but just wasn't willing to spend that kind of money to see if it was for me or not. I have a couple small things on the way for it, and a couple of bigger things planned for it, but other than that it will stay mostly stock unless something breaks. It already has the upgraded anodized GTR shocks, and what appears to be MIP CVD drives at all four corners. I'll post up mods as they're done, first things first is a good tear down to check the diffs, and rewire the ESC so I can run a single pack when I let my nephew drive it.

I got the matching set now

It's bigger than I thought it'd be, iPhone 4 for scale

 

[HPIguy]

Making some progress on the tear down. I'm now on hold for a couple of days, as I don't have both of the diff fluids that I want to use so I'm going to have to order some.

 

[HPIguy]

My VDP kit showed up so I installed that tonight. Pretty damn cool how it works, it's basically like a mid valve a good motorcycle setup has, but for RC. It holds the truck up in the mid stroke and prevents the sagging of the stocker under acceleration, and packing under repeated hits, but opens freely on the rebound side. You can reverse it for onroad as well.

Front
#2 piston
60wt oil
orange springs

Rear
#2 piston
70wt oil
tan springs

We'll see how that works and go from there

All cleaned up and done

 

[Rolex]

It's bigger than I thought it'd be, iPhone 4 for scale

Using the Revo, I now know how large your iPhone is. Thanks.

 

[HPIguy]

I have no need to drag a phablet around all day.

 

[HPIguy]

Got some more work done tonight

I pulled the trans, cleaned & lubed all the bearings, lubed the internals with red 'n tacky, put it all back together and installed my 54T spur gear.

I tore both diffs down, happy to report everything looks good. Cleaned & lubed all the bearings, cleaned all the internals and rebuilt with 30K rear and 50K front.

It's getting there...

 

[HPIguy]

Well I got pretty much finished for now tonight

Got the ESC wiring redone

Got all the electronics re-installed, then moved on to getting the servo horns at 90, and the steering rack as mechanically straight as I could get it before resorting to trim. All the while making sure the servos weren't fighting each other.

Installed my RPM bumpers F&R

They're calling for snow here tomorrow and Saturday, I'm ready for it.

 

[tmaxxfreek]

I picked up a brushless system for my Summit!!! we need to get these 2 trucks together....lol

 

[HPIguy]

I picked up a brushless system for my Summit!!! we need to get these 2 trucks together....lol

I didn't know you had a Summit, how do you like it? Yeah man, we gotta get together this year for sure, since I was such a slacker last year and never made it out.

 

[tmaxxfreek]

I like it, its has the dewalt 14.4 on it its a torque monster, but i think i wanna put the Tekin system in it.

 

[HPIguy]

^^That's a good lookin' rig

 

[tmaxxfreek]

Thanks buddy, had to cover the crazy blue paint. little tape and some flat black done the trick.

 

[HPIguy]

^^LOL

Got some new goodies for the ERBE, and did some more work to it.

I did the velcro body mount setup

Proline Badlands (my favorite bash tire), Proline Desperado 1/2 offset rims, a new wing, and some wheelie bar tires that I found a use for.

I taped the tires with Gorilla tape first to help prevent ballooning

All done, the new wheels give it a nice wide stance. I'm anxious to drive it now and see how much of a difference it made.

 

[tmaxxfreek]

REVO PORN!!!!!!^^^^^ Thats SEXY!!!! Unfortunately i think I'm gonna have to sell my Summit, the teking rx8 and t8 and possibly my Losi TC

 

[HPIguy]

Thanks buddy, it's getting a proper bashing tomorrow in the snow. Hate to hear you're going to have to let that stuff go man.

 

[tmaxxfreek]

me too, my 1:1 needs a new clutch