Hey everyone, I'm slowly getting through all my cars, and showing them on here(have about 10) and figured I’d show my second nitro and and the car I’ve put the most money into
This truck was bought by my grandpa in 2006, it’s the 3.3 4909 model, which is actually pretty rare, they weren't made for very long before Traxxas changed to the 4907 with the longer wheel base and no reverse. These were made for probably a year or 2, if you want to know if you have one, a good pointer is the wheels and tires, body(if you still have the stock one) and if you have opti drive or the gray trans with reverse, as it’s highly unlikely someone swapped a 3.3 trans with the reverse conversion into a short wheelbase 2.5. Also the driveshafts are 3.3 sized in the shorter chassis
He blew it up pretty quickly after getting it(runaway) and got the big bore shock kit and rpm a arms for just the front..? He didn’t put the big bores on the rear though, and he put a rb tm523 engine in it, pretty good engine, hard to tune though.
It sat for many years, and in 2018 I got my hands on it and started work on it, got it working good, changed servos pretty quickly after, had my dad tune it because I didn’t know how to tune at the time(he’s by far the best tuner I’ve ever seen, he’s literally magic with these engines)
I put a lot of stupid poop on it that I ended up taking off, rpm bumpers, truggy wheels, etc
At some point I put rear rpm an arms on, and a rear tower as well. I installed the big bores on the rear, which in the obsession of the ride height of this truck, removed shortly after because I couldn’t tune them right in the rear, the fronts retained them though
Radio box wise I have a spectrum receiver with a dx4s radio, I removed the opti drive electronics out of the optidrive box and put it back in because I like how it looks, also installed a duratrax fail safe, again just for looks…
Did a lot of different mods to this truck, it’s been through a lot of different stages, it’s had a 3.3, the rb 523, the 2.5, a Losi 3.4, and now another 3.3. Tried some other tires, but I really like the talons.
Couple different body’s, but in the end the body on apparence of this truck is totally stock
Current mod list is
-Traxxas resonator pipe, drilled out
-big bores in just the front
-integy blue springs all around
-cheapo servos
-hump pack with custom switch
-bigger air filter
Optidrive box striped of electronics and reinstalled
- optidrive sensor removed
Dx4s radio
Aluminum axles
Rear and front rpm a arms
Rear rpm tower
And more I’m forgetting
Pretty much just stuff that is weak in these trucks in my experience, and tuned to how I like it, I love this truck, it’s caused a lot of frustration but I got it pretty good now, and I good beat the crap out of it and it would survive no problems
The first pics are the most recent
Very long read but I’ve put a lot of more into this truck, so there’s alot to talk about
This truck was bought by my grandpa in 2006, it’s the 3.3 4909 model, which is actually pretty rare, they weren't made for very long before Traxxas changed to the 4907 with the longer wheel base and no reverse. These were made for probably a year or 2, if you want to know if you have one, a good pointer is the wheels and tires, body(if you still have the stock one) and if you have opti drive or the gray trans with reverse, as it’s highly unlikely someone swapped a 3.3 trans with the reverse conversion into a short wheelbase 2.5. Also the driveshafts are 3.3 sized in the shorter chassis
He blew it up pretty quickly after getting it(runaway) and got the big bore shock kit and rpm a arms for just the front..? He didn’t put the big bores on the rear though, and he put a rb tm523 engine in it, pretty good engine, hard to tune though.
It sat for many years, and in 2018 I got my hands on it and started work on it, got it working good, changed servos pretty quickly after, had my dad tune it because I didn’t know how to tune at the time(he’s by far the best tuner I’ve ever seen, he’s literally magic with these engines)
I put a lot of stupid poop on it that I ended up taking off, rpm bumpers, truggy wheels, etc
At some point I put rear rpm an arms on, and a rear tower as well. I installed the big bores on the rear, which in the obsession of the ride height of this truck, removed shortly after because I couldn’t tune them right in the rear, the fronts retained them though
Radio box wise I have a spectrum receiver with a dx4s radio, I removed the opti drive electronics out of the optidrive box and put it back in because I like how it looks, also installed a duratrax fail safe, again just for looks…
Did a lot of different mods to this truck, it’s been through a lot of different stages, it’s had a 3.3, the rb 523, the 2.5, a Losi 3.4, and now another 3.3. Tried some other tires, but I really like the talons.
Couple different body’s, but in the end the body on apparence of this truck is totally stock
Current mod list is
-Traxxas resonator pipe, drilled out
-big bores in just the front
-integy blue springs all around
-cheapo servos
-hump pack with custom switch
-bigger air filter
Optidrive box striped of electronics and reinstalled
- optidrive sensor removed
Dx4s radio
Aluminum axles
Rear and front rpm a arms
Rear rpm tower
And more I’m forgetting
Pretty much just stuff that is weak in these trucks in my experience, and tuned to how I like it, I love this truck, it’s caused a lot of frustration but I got it pretty good now, and I good beat the crap out of it and it would survive no problems
The first pics are the most recent
Very long read but I’ve put a lot of more into this truck, so there’s alot to talk about
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