gonna need a bigger garage...

[bondo]

i've been talking about jumping scales for a couple years now and finally got serious about it this year....now my only problem is i'm finding that i'm addicted..

i broke down and bought a slash awhile ago(pics soon),went through two titans within a month both water broke in,said fock it and bought a trinity speed gem 19t.
ZOOM!!!.........or so i thought....
a week later i get offered a 2.5 Revo for $100 :cry2: :gun3: then :cry2: some more!!
i talked my freind scot into buying the Revo and letting me take care of it since he knows jack about mechanicals
we've been burnin' that ***** up solid for a week now,an E-Z start,a glow plug and a spur gear have ate it.


don't let the crappy pics fool ya, that shell is thrashed in all the wrong places.
so, out of boredome and instead of watching paint dry,i stripped the old paint off with some acetone and shot the underside with black,shot the topside with dupli-color adhesion promoter,base black and added some tiger stripes.

now it's a GRR..Revo
this truck was bought about two years ago by a 15 yr old and was his first R/C ever wich IMO is a bit of overkill for an immature novice.
i'd say i'm pretty proficient when it comes to R/C and understanding internal combustion and it's expensive and labor intensive even for me,luckily for me,i'm getting reimbursed for the monees put into the Revo.
when i got it from the kid he told me very little about it,basically he told me that it's been sitting for almost two years because he ran it straight out of the box and thought he fouled the glow plug.
looking at it and first impression was that he read enough of the manual to get it cranked,filled it and ran it full bore without the shell because the head was pretty banged up and after that he must've thrown the shell into a low powered wood chipper because that thing barely hangs on.
now,for what it's worth, my last experience with nitro was about 15 years ago when my dad had an old nameless clone that we used to tool around the backyard,regardless,i got this piece up and running like a champ the next day.
now the only problem is i gotta buy another nitro so i can keep driving when my slash dies...
i'm like a 5 year old in front of a petshop window when mines dead and scots still pulling 10' vertical air....plus the nitro is such a beast....

i also picked up a stampede for a steal.
this one is going to my son for his B-day.
hopefully it'll teach him a bit of resposibility and give him something to have fun with at the same time.

i got just about everything i need to get it up and running,just need the gear cover and to put in the work to get it together.

well,i've got(what's turning out to be) nightly fixin's.
gotta solder two arials on,re-wire/clip two batts and chargers,nilla rig a shell to stay on,fashion a makeshift set screw for a pinion gear,clean air filters,break-in/lube a motor,clean/lube another motor,and charge a fook ton of baterries.....


cheers,