Zippos Customs Losi Crawlers

[zippo855]

only thing im not liking is the fact that you need 8 aa's to charge it. granted it comes with all the batteries needed, but its still the principal of it. I was going to get the black one, but it was black body black beadlocks, this one has blue body blue beadlocks. lol. i'll probly get a black body for it eventually though. and suprisingly this thing is rather heavy for as small as it is.
on a positive note the tx only takes 4 batteries.

well here she is, picked it up today, let pics speak for itself.

[winner]

ok im officaly jeolous XD

lol thanks for the early x-mas preasent? lol plz?

[Donziikid]

Beat me to it...

Can't wait until mine shows up..

What are you plans? Keep it a crawler or use if for some scale stuff?

Cheers,
Kyle.

[bosco72]

Is it fast cause i would like to lower it and put the micro highroller tires and body on it

[GearHeadV8]

Its a crawler. Its not fast like a micro t at all it is somewhat speedy.

I want one so badly lol. Luckyzz

[zippo855]

ok managed to snap a few videos, its amzing how tall of things this will climb. the game box it just went right up on. and it trys taller things as well, main thing is keeping traction and making sure your not steep enough it topples over.

[GearHeadV8]

lookin good. I really want one for christmas lol. If you are finding that you need more weight in the tires you can pop them off and use solder wrapped around the rims for weight.

Can you get comparison pics next to a xmod car and truck

[zippo855]

well grabbed some pics as far as size comparison and heres what i got, same length as the hummer, smaller than my other 2 crawlers, titan and 4 runner, and then smaller than my titan snow truck of course.

[zippo855]

[xmodzracer]

An idea you can use if you want. I disassembled my charger and soldered in one of those plugs you see on the cheap rc cars and hollowed out the battery compartment. once i reassembled it I stuck a 9.6 rc car battery in it and thats why i use to charge the micro. It lasts about 10-15 charges but my 9.6 batts are going bad.

[Stampedekid]

Looks great Zippo. Any plans to go scaler like I and many others have? You won't regret it Also get that sucker set up in droop, it will really improve performance and help on those steeper climbs!

[zippo855]

Originally Posted by xmodzracer

An idea you can use if you want. I disassembled my charger and soldered in one of those plugs you see on the cheap rc cars and hollowed out the battery compartment. once i reassembled it I stuck a 9.6 rc car battery in it and thats why i use to charge the micro. It lasts about 10-15 charges but my 9.6 batts are going bad.

ill keep that in mind, thanks for the idea

Originally Posted by Stampedekid

Looks great Zippo. Any plans to go scaler like I and many others have? You won't regret it Also get that sucker set up in droop, it will really improve performance and help on those steeper climbs!

this one will probly stay stock style crawler, but i do plan on getting another on sometime and make it a scaler.

well i picked this up yesterday, its a fixer upper but so far ive got most things figured out what needs replaced, just need to pull the trans apart and see whats up with the output power to the rear.



list of needs
rx (have an associated sc10 spare receiver) need to install
shock as one is broke where it mounts to chassis, had to order in a set
no power at rear wheels whenever you put a load on it. as in any load. still need to investigate.

[mycrors4]

ooo ive always loved the mini crawler.. any palns on it? (maybe an L trail conversion from tsc? and turn it into a scaler?)

[zippo855]

Originally Posted by mycrors4

ooo ive always loved the mini crawler.. any palns on it? (maybe an L trail conversion from tsc? and turn it into a scaler?)

only plans that i had been thinking of was get it running first, then get some better tires. lol.


ok so the only advantage to being on the road all day long is being able to stop at some of the local hobby shops when im in other cities. makes it to where i can keep my stuff running and pay less and not have the hassle of my local hobby shop.

so my goal tonight was to get the mini rock crawler running, and tomorrow night get the mgt.
so up first had to replace the shock, then the stock servo seemed kinda crap, or the guy that had this before just abused it. lol could be either. and then of course i had to find some way to control this.

so for the shocks i went back with the stock ones, cheap easy, blah blah blah. then the control part. i found my spare sc10 receiver that i had picked up a while back, and installed that with some double sided sticky, ran some antenna tubes and shrink taped a lot of it in place. lol. and then zip ties became my best friend. ha

and then the servo. well id been reading get the mg645. and i asked the hobby shop about it and they confirmed, yes itll work, double sided sticky tape and good to go. since its a 1/10 scale servo. well the double sided sticky tape didnt hold it on its own, so after some tape again i zip tied it. seems to be holding up until i can get an adjustable setpoint remote....
this servo has 7.7kg a cm. so it has no problem turning the wheels.

so heres some pics. enjoy

[Bananabrain]

Looking good, need to get a vid of it running.

[zippo855]

Originally Posted by Bananabrain

Looking good, need to get a vid of it running.

thanks im hoping tomorrow ill have some time,, if nothing else i managed to get a 3 day weekend for the holiday next weekend. but i have to work tomorrow to turn some more work out.


well heres some comparison shots.




and i noticed that there was some spacers on the shocks, so i figured id remove them to give it a little more droop until i can get some different springs

stock shocks w/ spacers


stock shocks w/o spacers

as you can see, just removing those spacers gives you a 3/8" or so drop.

[zippo855]

well im going to be taking a good portion of the fleet out over the weekend starting with this one here in a bit. so i was testing it out chasing the dog and climbed the edge of the cabinet. i didn't realize these had so much articulation





expect a whole bunch of videos taken throughout the weekend.

[zippo855]

ok so heres a few vids. i wanted to shoot more but my camera person kinda gave up after the first run so i had to shoot a few myself.

ok so heres a few vids. i wanted to shoot more but my camera person kinda gave up after the first run so i had to shoot a few myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY6p_B9DQUc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqlfbzRMDvE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9XG7yyoqiA