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We've watched Part II about a million times together and always discuss someone doing a replica of that truck. I'm stoked to see it in person!

THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 4:21 pm We've watched Part II about a million times together and always discuss someone doing a replica of that truck. I'm stoked to see it in person!

Sheeeit, we gonna fire that bitch up too...F!

Got eyes on this Saturday. It's a dream come true up close. Realizes a long time dream! Runs decent too, if you're into actually running R/C cars... I just like to look.

Lol, that was a nice easy 38mph lap on 10%, went back today with a new clutch and 30% and got it up to 41 mph on two full tanks of reliability!

Bruisers are not meant to go 40+mph , great stuff looked very cool

Tested this today....this is how we ran it, didn't want to crash the Black body or scratch the rims...but we never did crash it, but came close twice
Here are the results, it's got alot more speed in it but the tires pizza out real bad at this speed and it gets really scary...but nowhere near top speed, but it's as fast as we want to go with it...that was running 10% nitro...it has so much power...truck ran perfect and never broke down
Came home and put some 50% in it and retuned...just ran it for small length, it was ridiculous how much torque it had...put the 10% back in and put the tune back...big difference where needles need to be between those fuels

The old speed run trick to stop tires ballooning is to use fishing line wound around the tread , it's far from perfect but I reckon you'd break the 50mph

Dadio wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:20 pm The old speed run trick to stop tires ballooning is to use fishing line wound around the tread , it's far from perfect but I reckon you'd break the 50mph

Never heard of that...great idea!...when Thumbs comes down for fest we will give it a go!...like to hit 55mph then we can retire it!

coxbros1 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:45 pm

Dadio wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:20 pm The old speed run trick to stop tires ballooning is to use fishing line wound around the tread , it's far from perfect but I reckon you'd break the 50mph

Never heard of that...great idea!...when Thumbs comes down for fest we will give it a go!...like to hit 55mph then we can retire it!

Video or it's fake news

Dadio wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 6:02 pm

coxbros1 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:45 pm

Dadio wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:20 pm The old speed run trick to stop tires ballooning is to use fishing line wound around the tread , it's far from perfect but I reckon you'd break the 50mph

Never heard of that...great idea!...when Thumbs comes down for fest we will give it a go!...like to hit 55mph then we can retire it!

Video or it's fake news

I agree!..we don't don't do the youtube thing so thumbs will video at next fest then post it...he is having trouble getting permission to come tho and keeps blowing us off...sux...maybe we can figure out how to do youtube before then...seems very complicated...I figure the truck will run 60+ by the time he comes....got some ideas

Got it cleaned up after today's thrashing....it was tank after tank, pass after pass...she held up well...just love this truck...prolly my favorite rc

Great build, and I really respect that you actually drive it!

Such a cool and unique build! I cringed when I saw the first video of the speed test. Glad it stayed on its tires!

I remember seeing someone from RCCaraction building nitro crawler type truck that was pretty cool as well. Hard to tell in your pictures, but are you running power to the front axle as well or is it just a rear wheel drive?

SFC K wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 2:27 pm Hard to tell in your pictures, but are you running power to the front axle as well or is it just a rear wheel drive?

Thanks for the kind words!...its full time 4wd!

Tommorrow ...55mph!