gascapkevin
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This started life as a pretty bone stock Traxxas TRX4M Defender.
I had fun with it in it's stock form for about a year, but I kept seeing more hardcore builds and my creative juices started flowing. I made a build sheet and slowly started ordering parts when they went on sale. I tried to keep it budget friendly, so I'm still rocking the stock motor and transmission, stock axle housings and links.
Soon I had a pretty big pile of parts in a cardboard box and it was time to assemble
Stock Chassis after a year of abuse
That new new
Those are just about the only pics I took during the build. I started off trying to document the build process but working on 1/18th scale RC drives me crazy lol, everything is so small. So I put the phone down and just built it.
Finally out in the light
I actually just finished mounting the body today, haven't even put it through its paces yet. But I am excited to start crawling and experimenting. I've never run a crawler with no springs before so we will have to see how it performs
Here's the parts list in case anyone is curious
Parts List
DBRC Gila Monster Chassis (super cool small business out of Yuma)
Injora 53 mm shocks
Injora lay down servo mount for stock axle
Injora bearing kit to replace all the bushings
Injora Brass Diff cover for front axle
Injora metal gears (stock gearing for now)
Injora +2 metal axle shafts
Injora brass wheel hubs
Injora IR40 Body
LGRP Black Label Tires
LGRP White Cyclone wheels
I had fun with it in it's stock form for about a year, but I kept seeing more hardcore builds and my creative juices started flowing. I made a build sheet and slowly started ordering parts when they went on sale. I tried to keep it budget friendly, so I'm still rocking the stock motor and transmission, stock axle housings and links.
Soon I had a pretty big pile of parts in a cardboard box and it was time to assemble
Stock Chassis after a year of abuse
That new new
Those are just about the only pics I took during the build. I started off trying to document the build process but working on 1/18th scale RC drives me crazy lol, everything is so small. So I put the phone down and just built it.
Finally out in the light
I actually just finished mounting the body today, haven't even put it through its paces yet. But I am excited to start crawling and experimenting. I've never run a crawler with no springs before so we will have to see how it performs
Here's the parts list in case anyone is curious
Parts List
DBRC Gila Monster Chassis (super cool small business out of Yuma)
Injora 53 mm shocks
Injora lay down servo mount for stock axle
Injora bearing kit to replace all the bushings
Injora Brass Diff cover for front axle
Injora metal gears (stock gearing for now)
Injora +2 metal axle shafts
Injora brass wheel hubs
Injora IR40 Body
LGRP Black Label Tires
LGRP White Cyclone wheels
