Zippos Customs nitros

[stang_racer]

lol nice rally tires. also go to a pull start. with the hpi's roto starts, they like to eat up one way bearings trust me. i speak from experience lol

[zippo855]

Originally Posted by stang_racer

lol nice rally tires. also go to a pull start. with the hpi's roto starts, they like to eat up one way bearings trust me. i speak from experience lol

i actually went away from the roto start because the gear split in 2 pieces....
some alternatives to the pull start are ok, but not all.

took the rs4 out last night, and the tmaxx. forgot the camera but the rs4 drifted really nice, and the tmaxx is back in action, almost anyway lol. i got the new diff built and lubed, and i tell you what, these revo tires hook up better than my other tires on pavement, concrete, and the tennis court. i finally toasted my spur gear ive been limping along, lol. ot a spare one, somewhere....
but i did manage to score another one. a friend of mine was talking about his nitro truck and he said he had offered it to a guy for 50 bucks. i was like 50 bucks? whats wrong with it? he said it needs new diffs, and i want to get back into electric instead. i said well i wouldda gave you 50 bucks for it. so between when we left my house and we got to where we ran them, he picked his up and brought it there. and needless to say, i have another team associated nitro mgt 3.0 heres some pics
heres how it sits








and the better of the 2 diffs.......

[TheB1GDude]

wow that diff got eaten alive... good score though!

[mycrors4]

*jaw drops*
great, now i cant talk,
on topic,
those diff's look like they've been eaten by a dog...
Gratz on the nice deal, the m-mgt is a really fun car, specially when brushless

[Donziikid]

For $50 it seems like a nice platform to build off of.

Any plans beyond stock or are you just looking to rebuild it to stock form?

Cheers,
Kyle.

[zippo855]

Originally Posted by TheB1GDude

wow that diff got eaten alive... good score though!

yeah the diffs didnt seem to hold up that well. lol

Originally Posted by mycrors4

*jaw drops*
great, now i cant talk,
on topic,
those diff's look like they've been eaten by a dog...
Gratz on the nice deal, the m-mgt is a really fun car, specially when brushless

brushless is nice, but i prefer nitro. and thanks

Originally Posted by Donziikid

For $50 it seems like a nice platform to build off of.

Any plans beyond stock or are you just looking to rebuild it to stock form?

Cheers,
Kyle.

probly just back to stock. i wanted to see if they had steel diffs, but i havent been able to find a while lot of aftermarket parts with the exception of some alloy.


well before i post vids, who wants to see how this happened?

[zippo855]

bout :20 secs in


and the crappy part was it was right after landing the back flip.

so as you can tell me and a few friends went out and ran em today. the tmaxx took a hell of a beating, broke the front shock tower, and upon replacing that i decided to go ahead and relube the front diff, i found out i also stripped out my throttle servo, lol. time to get a new one of those, or at least gears. in one of the videos attempting the back flip i actually hit it just right and got it to do a couple back flips, didnt land on its feet, but o well. still looked good.
also took out the sc8 and the buggy. didnt get any vids of the buggy running but i did drag race my friends 1:16 brushless revo , and it was neck and neck, pretty much came down to who had the better launch.

[zippo855]

alright finally got the diffs in, found some on ebay decently priced, that were whole assemblies with housing and all. and got some at the lhs that were just the diffs for the same price. so now i have a spare set. got the new roll bar installed and then took a tally of what all needs replaced now.
total invested so far
50 bucks initial investment
diff housing assemblies x2 off ebay 42
diffs at lhs x2 40
roll bar piece 6 bucks
so total i have about 140 invested. so i cant complain as it would run if i took it out now.

but what i need to get are the front and rear bumpers and mounts, new gas tank, and one body mount. and i need to figure out something to hold the fuel line up off the spur gears as that's how its supposed to be ran.........
ok enough talk here's some pics

[Donziikid]

That's how the fuel lines are plumbed stock?! Seems a little.. wrong?.. on Associated's part, doesn't it?

[zippo855]

Originally Posted by Donziikid

That's how the fuel lines are plumbed stock?! Seems a little.. wrong?.. on Associated's part, doesn't it?

that is how they are ran stock. and yeah seems a little off, ill be coming up with something permanent but for now im just going to route them over the filter.

well i decided to pick this one up, ive been talking to this guy for a while about it. finally got the price worked down a little.
heres my first 1/8 monster truck aka hpi savage
it needs a motor, or well most of a motor. and can you guys tell me why? air filters good, wasnt ran too lean, was pretty well maintained. i'll show some pics and see if someone can answer it first thing i noticed when i saw this was something thats missing, and thats what caused the motor failure





spare parts that came with it, BONUS!




new shocks and springs all the way around




current body post raiser for the body, a little (lot) of play in this so i will figure something out to sturdy up.







and i picked this up a little while back and havent posted any pics yet. but the tmaxx body is getting a little well beat up and possibly beyond repair of keeping it on the tmaxx.







and the body thats probly not going to be ran on this, but is going to be made for this. i am going to be looking around for a nice thick sturdy body

what is it?

[mycrors4]

i can tell u the engine is missing the back plate LOL
was it the one way bearing that was missing?

is that the original honcho body?!?!?

[kungpow420]

I don't blame you for not wanting to run that body it is pretty rare.

[TheB1GDude]

Nice Savage dude! Can't believe you got another nitro truck so quickly

[zippo855]

Originally Posted by mycrors4

i can tell u the engine is missing the back plate LOL
was it the one way bearing that was missing?

is that the original honcho body?!?!?

lol, had nothing to do with the engine itself causing this failure, and its a power wagon body

Originally Posted by kungpow420

I don't blame you for not wanting to run that body it is pretty rare.

yeah i was talking with them at the lhs and their like, well i can take 25% off because its discontinued. and i was like alright ill take it. then when i got home i was looking at it more and was like, well i think im going to paint this baby up for looks, dont want it to looke like the tmaxx body does. lol

Originally Posted by TheB1GDude

Nice Savage dude! Can't believe you got another nitro truck so quickly

thanks man, just coming across all sorts of deals.

and i cant believe no one picked up on the problem.

ok i fixed the problem, and let this be a lesson to anyone running nitros. whenever you put a new body on a nitro it needs some sort of cent hole to keep the engine cool. other wise, like in this case, it can basically create a heat box and overheat. what appears to have happened here was the engine overheated, pin came loose from the crank and fell out as it was running shoving the rod through the bottom of the block.
the head is slightly discolored in spots as well which indicates high heat.
the guy that originally bought this from my friend, said it was running great until he put this body on, and thats when it happened.
and word of advice, DO NO USE AN EXACTO KNIFE TO TRY CUTTING THE WINDSHIELD VENT HOLE OUT. hence the tape now on my finger............

alright i may have made it a little bit bigger than necessary, but the next step up engine is going in here, and i dont want any heat issues as kansas tends to get hot anyway.


and for an added measure i made a small rear window vent to force air out of the shell better as its basically set up for a big heat box.


and when i was done cutting with the dremel i decided to give it a bath

[zippo855]

maybe this will generate a few more comments

well the motor should be here this week for the savage, yay!!!! thanks stu. so in the mean time this has been a deal in the making for about 4 or 5 months now. and we finally got it finalised and i walked away with all this. well not in one trip to the truck, but its home now. lol



yummy alloy



spare rpm body mounts. and 2 ez start boxes. which i just had to buy one of last week......


traxxas tq3, and the "official traxxas" battery charger




not sure of the exact sizes of these hexes, but they are huge, i'll snag some pics later if anyone wants to see them. but bead lock rims with "hub caps"


and whats under the hub caps


the 4 stock tires, and a little shot of the tread on these massive mammoths, o yeah the body, the guy ran less than a quart of nitro through it the whole time he had it



some metal axles and camber gauge


all 8 shocks are adjustable alloy, and you have rpm a arms all round


and heres what the "wide axle, big hex conversion kit" does to the stance versus a stock tmaxx


and heres what the extended chassis looks like on the newer versus older tmaxx


i'm thinking this bad boy is going on the old tmaxx to try to save the body a little


and the stock parts, and a spare chassis that needs slightly straightened. (ran without chassis rails once)

[TheB1GDude]

OMG!!!! That thing is so ridiculously bad a$$ man I can not wait to see a video of it!

Enjoy that monster you deserve it after all the hard work you put into getting it

[mycrors4]

hmmm

those look to be 4.0's basicly 4 inch wheels (they are generally used on 1/5th scale's such as a baja 5b/5t or a rc4wd killer crawler), as a regular 1/10th scale stadium truck is a 2.2(aka 2.2 inch wheels), but dont confuse that with the more recent (2006 to present day)traxxas rims, cause those are 2.8's(non-ROAR approved)

anyways, that looks SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!

im sure its gonna be a blast driving those

[zippo855]

Originally Posted by TheB1GDude

OMG!!!! That thing is so ridiculously bad a$$ man I can not wait to see a video of it!

Enjoy that monster you deserve it after all the hard work you put into getting it

thanks man, didnt get a chacne to run it this weekend. need to tighten up the wheels and apparently a 23 mm socket is not very common. between 3 tool trucks, 2 parts stores and sears no one carries one. so i have one on order.

Originally Posted by mycrors4

hmmm

those look to be 4.0's basicly 4 inch wheels (they are generally used on 1/5th scale's such as a baja 5b/5t or a rc4wd killer crawler), as a regular 1/10th scale stadium truck is a 2.2(aka 2.2 inch wheels), but dont confuse that with the more recent (2006 to present day)traxxas rims, cause those are 2.8's(non-ROAR approved)

anyways, that looks SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!

im sure its gonna be a blast driving those

yeah they are a little bigger than the 3.8s that come stock on the tmaxx. and thanks, it appears to be a beast. hopefully next weekend get to test run it.

well my camera person kinda bailed on me this weekend, and as usual ran outta time to get much run time in. did take the fleet out today, but only gotta play for about an hour then for another hour or so after the wife got home. heres some pics of the new motor and shell on the savage


here's the fleet


and the savage with the k4.6 and cs10 body
me and this paint had several issues. lets just say i wont be using it to paint lexan again.




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[TheB1GDude]

Is that the 1/8 buggy in the back?? It looks so small now!

Otherwise looking good, which one is your favorite to drive?

[zippo855]

yep thats the 1/8 buggy, and i still gotta say the funnest is the first tmaxx i got. can bash the heck outta it.

well, its been a while since i updated this thread, got rid of a few and gained some more. have 4 tmaxxes again, after selling one off. sold the sc8 and savage off.

heres the newest pics

this one is the newest one of them

classic chassis converted completely to 3.3 setup

this one has seen a bunch o changes.
dynamite big block chassis with a 454 losi motor, steel cvds / drive shafts, took the rpm off the one shelf queen and put it on here. then took the 2.5 trans off the beater tmaxx to complete this bad boy. and most recently installed the 2nd gear clutch ive had forever that needed replaced. and finally installed the new tires / rims




this one i got as a roller a long time ago, finally been working on it. and all i need now is the get a steering servo and she will be up and running. has a 3.3 sitting on a classic chassis with a FOC trans conversion.


the other maxx is currently under construction. taking the 2.5 w/ 3.3 conversion beater i had and putting it on the longer 3.3 chassis so no pics right now.

and finally got around to replacing the fuel tank in the buggy. since the seal shot craps on the old lid, and wasnt fixable.