R/C car thread!

[barryf1fan]

@Venom800tt not sure if I ever shared this, but here is my FCX24 - love this little truck.

Got the McCue extended rear links and extended Gladiator driveshaft. a few more upgrades as well.

Put the metal portal gears in and haven't looked back, this is probably the best climbing truck I have overall. I call it "Blue Billy"... as in goat. Billy Goat. LOL!!

 

[Venom800tt]

Just finished my new crawler, an Axial SCX-10 Pro with an original SCX-10.1 Trail Honco body from my first crawler:

 

[barryf1fan]

Looks great! Are those Pro_Line Trencher tires?? How you like'em?

 

[Venom800tt]

Looks great! Are those Pro_Line Trencher tires?? How you like'em?

Thanks!
Haven't really gotten to do a serious test with it, been way too rainy out here. Hopefully next weekend is good enough to test it on the rocks.

 

[05XR8]

Didn’t know this existed.

 

[Zychotic1]

took a road trip this weekend up to the Monster Truck Hall Of Fame museum for the first ever Midwest Nationals...
my whole team made it to the round of 8 (out of nearly 70 trucks)
and I brought home our host's pick award in the show-n-shine

 

[SPhilli911]

Just want to say that I am totally new to the RC hobby as of this week, I know pretty much nothing but I am super excited to learn things and dive into it.

I had some off-the-shelf Toys R Us RC cars as a kid, but that is as far as it got. Having so many hobbies already I always kinda brushed RC off as a money pit I should avoid. But somehow my brother and I got talking about it and each of us grabbed ready to go RC off-roaders: the Traxxas TRX-4M, a small 1/18 scale entry level car. Mine with the Ford Bronco body and my brother got a Land Rover Defender version.

I took it out in the snow and it's surprisingly capable and more fun than I care to admit. My yard is very hilly and I was climbing pretty easily!

Already ordered a bunch of parts/spare parts and tools to get more into modifying the thing including a light kit.

 

[Venom800tt]

RC is a dangerous path where much fun can be had
And here are some more recent pics of both additions and existing stuff:
Kyosho Mini Z Buggy brushless:


And with my older brushed one:


Kyosho Fazer MKII:


And after putting a 3S battery in it:


Mini Z 4x4:


Was messing with my old modified HPI Micro RS4 recently:


And finally added lights to my RC4WD/JDModel Overland 6x6:

 

[imported_rik19]

Ai generated rc action pic.. thought this looked cool..

 

[Joey D]

So I have a Tayima TA-04R chassis that is in need of repair, but I've been having a hard time finding parts, and when I do, they're in Japan, incredibly expensive, with really pricey shipping options. It doesn't seem worth it to find it, even though I like the car and have had it for 20 years. My son wants to get into R/C car and I'm more than happy to oblige because I can use the excuse with my wife that "it's a father and son bonding thing". I'm not sure I want to start with a car though since they're fast and my son will have a hard time controlling it, so I'm leaning towards rock crawlers.

After looking around, I found this:

It's a Team Associated Enduro Trailrunner, it's ready to run, and more importantly, looks like the 4Runner. I'm not crazy about it being ready to run since building an R/C car is half the fun, but I can deal with it. I guess my question is, has anyone actually used this chassis? Also, what else should I be looking at? My budget is around $500 and I'd, ideally, like to have a 4Runner body. I don't know if there are 4Runner bodies out there, but I know Proline makes a few different Toyotas.

The good thing is, a hobby shop specializing in R/C vehicles just opened up down the street from my house (which is weird because I live in the middle of no where). They stock Traxxas, Tekno, Team Associated, Kyosho, and Mugen Seiki. I want to buy the vehicle from them since I want to support the business. They also have a crawler course and a road track (both indoor and outdoor) that you can use for free if you buy the vehicle from them. Since they're so close, I suspect I'll be there frequently with my son.

 

[Venom800tt]

The Enduro Trailrunner (and the similar Knightrunner) are a bit more trail truck than hard core rock crawler than the normal Enduro line. This is due to the IFS system, though the revised system in some of the other trucks is better. I do want to get a Knightrunner to make it into a more scale truck sometime though...
Also got this:

 

[Joey D]

So the hobby shop ended up being able to get Axial vehicles, so I went with an SCX10 III. The first thing that's going to go is the Jeep body. I have a Hilux body that I need to get painted and trimmed, but it will be much better with a Toyota body on it instead of a Jeep. Unfortunately, while the truck itself came in the batteries did not (they should be in today) so I could play around with it last night.

Other than the body, I'm going to swap over the tires and wheels at some point too. I'm sure they're fine, but BFG and Method both have RC parts and I'm keen on both of those over Nitto and KMC. Other than that though, I'll probably add some brass parts at some point too to get the center of gravity lower, but for the time being my son and I are just going to run it how it is out of the box.

 

[ND4SPD]

Recently got into rc drifting at my local track. Got a Sakura D5 Lite which basically uses Tamiya M chassis sized bodies between 210 and 239mm depending on the configuration. I wanted to run the weirdest body for a drift car so I took a Tamiya 2CV rally body and and weathered it to look as ratty and rusty as possible.

Does pretty well and it's hilarious to see on track. 😅

 

[coryclifford]

Tamiya M chassis is one of the greatest things ever. I don’t know why. It just is.

 

[SPhilli911]

Took my new 1/10 Fiesta rally car to a baseball field to thrash it around in the dirt and had an absolute blast, seriously fun thing this is. The car effortlessly slides around and kicks up dirt.

I am still new to the RC world but I wonder why the inside is completely exposed like this to collect dirt all over the components? Why not have wheel liner or something to minimize the dirt getting in? I would imagine that the abrasive dirt getting on or in the driveshaft like that while spinning isn't going to be good over time.

 

[coryclifford]

Well, since Traxxas, just hose it off.
Tamiya and many others have under trays.

Traxxas is great. Jump it. Have fun. Hose it off. Do it again.

 

[SPhilli911]

Well, since Traxxas, just hose it off.
Tamiya and many others have under trays.

Traxxas is great. Jump it. Have fun. Hose it off. Do it again.

Definitely, just wondering that if there were a way to cover it up it would be a lot easier to clean and keep in good shape. Not a big deal or anything, I am just thinking out loud, like I said I am new to the hobby and I want to maintain it properly.

 

[ND4SPD]

Recently sold my TRX4 sport builders kit because I wanted something a little more capable on the trail. Someone I know was offloading their Redcat Ascent Fusion for pretty cheap so I snagged it off him. Also picked up an Element Zuul 2 body as I wasn't the biggest fan of the stock Ascent body. And since I'm not a fan of pristine looking rigs I decided to weather the truck and here's the end results.

It's bit of a placeholder body for now. I'm probably gonna eventually get the proline comp wagon body for this eventually.

 

[Joey D]

So I'm in the process of building out my SCX to look like my old Tacoma. I found a set of SSD wheels that matched the TRD beadlocks and got a set of BFG KO2's from Axial. I know the white lettering won't stay, but it'll make for some good pictures once I get everything all set.

 

[barryf1fan]

Got some LEDs installed on the little Capra... rock lights, LED strip in the cab and on the rear.

TRX4M Ford F-150

Got some goodies coming for this one...


And my new TRX4 High Trail K-5 Blazer

 

[Joey D]

It's been a long time since I've painted a body so it's not perfect, but here's the Tacoma:

And my old truck that I'm trying to replicate

 

[Venom800tt]

Decided to get a new SCX24, this time the updated Power Wagon (which was on sale):




Probably not gonna mod this much, unlike the original release SCX24 Jeep I had before lol
Probably gonna do more mini crawler stuff seeing as it is too hot outside to do 1/10 crawling...

 

[Joey D]

The SXC24 is awesome. The one I got my son is fantastic and we build crawler courses out of Lego along with anything else we can find in the living room and spend hours trying to crawl over it. I like my SCX10, but part of me wishes I'd just gotten a couple of SCX24s for the same price.

 

[Joey D]

And the body is on the truck with the bumper. I'm really happy how close it is to my old Tacoma.

I still need to do some suspension work since I got Treal shock mounts but only the fronts have come in. The rears should be here tomorrow maybe. I also need to figure out how to hook up the LED lights. I understanding the wiring but not how to keep them in the light buckets. I also want to find a set of rock sliders that work better than the plastic ones that came with the chassis.

 

[Joey D]

Got the lights hooked up:

I ordered a bunch of stuff for the SCX24 too so I'm excited to get that going as well.

 

[RCKakashi14]

Oops. Wrong thread.

 

[Joey D]

The HiApocoLux is nearly finished. I tried a pinless mount but I don't like it so I'm going back to pins. The body started as something nice but the spray paint nozzle exploded when I was painting and ruined the paint job. As I was trying to figure out how to fix it, something fell off the shelf and damaged it. I eventually just gave up and figured I would make it look ratty. I had a set of Injora white wheels that I hit with some model paint to make them look rusty then with the body I went to town with the paint and the reamer. It feels very Toyota like with all the rust.

 

[barryf1fan]

Love it!!

 

[CommanderBond]

I know I'm going to age myself, but this is the very first kit I had back when I was about 14. I freaking LOVED this thing...

 

[Venom800tt]

The HiApocoLux is nearly finished. I tried a pinless mount but I don't like it so I'm going back to pins. The body started as something nice but the spray paint nozzle exploded when I was painting and ruined the paint job. As I was trying to figure out how to fix it, something fell off the shelf and damaged it. I eventually just gave up and figured I would make it look ratty. I had a set of Injora white wheels that I hit with some model paint to make them look rusty then with the body I went to town with the paint and the reamer. It feels very Toyota like with all the rust.

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If I saw a real truck with that much car cancer I would question a lot of things... mainly why hasn't it collapsed into a black hole of rust 🤣

Also something followed me home today, barely fit in the Miata...




And with a 1/10 for reference: