electrified Inferno-dx with Dahm's truck body
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electrified Inferno-dx with Dahm's truck body
To celebrate my return to the site as a poster: some pics of my latest creation.
Kind of a side project that started with a miss-purchase on e-bay "those parts really looked like 1/10 in the pics"
On the out-side:
Dahm's original body to give the Inferno a stadium truck look. Little did they know a bout the wave of truggies that'd follow in the next decades.
My own rattle-can and tape paintscheme with some new window lines for a different look.
New wheels and modern rubber on 17mm hexes. (The Inferno-DX had nice-looking yellow spoke wheels, but was till using the 19mm hex design from the Burns.
Mixture of Parma, Dahm's and Kyosho decals
To come: a replacement for the bent spoiler mounts
On the in-side:
Home cut, drilled, countersunk and bent alu chassis
Glas-fiber reinforced plastic rails and front topdeck to add more rigidity
Slightly larger and a tad thicker shocks from Yokomo, with the original kyosho springs
Central slipper (no diff)
1/10 electronics set-up: using what I have and hoping to be allowed into the 4wd short-couse class at the club.
The servo is purpose-bought but will fit a 1/10 fine should I loose interest
Easy to convert to double shorties if a higher voltage set-up should some day become my thing. (Or parallel wired for longer run-times...)
Kind of a side project that started with a miss-purchase on e-bay "those parts really looked like 1/10 in the pics"
On the out-side:
Dahm's original body to give the Inferno a stadium truck look. Little did they know a bout the wave of truggies that'd follow in the next decades.
My own rattle-can and tape paintscheme with some new window lines for a different look.
New wheels and modern rubber on 17mm hexes. (The Inferno-DX had nice-looking yellow spoke wheels, but was till using the 19mm hex design from the Burns.
Mixture of Parma, Dahm's and Kyosho decals
To come: a replacement for the bent spoiler mounts
On the in-side:
Home cut, drilled, countersunk and bent alu chassis
Glas-fiber reinforced plastic rails and front topdeck to add more rigidity
Slightly larger and a tad thicker shocks from Yokomo, with the original kyosho springs
Central slipper (no diff)
1/10 electronics set-up: using what I have and hoping to be allowed into the 4wd short-couse class at the club.
The servo is purpose-bought but will fit a 1/10 fine should I loose interest
Easy to convert to double shorties if a higher voltage set-up should some day become my thing. (Or parallel wired for longer run-times...)
Re: electrified Inferno-dx with Dahm's truck body
Looks great. Love the body. Welcome back.
I'm not like them, but I can pretend...
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Re: electrified Inferno-dx with Dahm's truck body
Nice paint on that body, welcome back! I dig that you "colored outside the lines" and did your own thing with the windows.
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Re: electrified Inferno-dx with Dahm's truck body
Thanks guys.
I ran it at the track today and even though it didn't go much faster than my mabuchi powered ultima, it put a big grin on my face.
The slipper wasn't properly set or came loose a bit, as did 2 screws and one tire. All easy enough to fix for next time.
Some one had a scale with him and we weighed the car fully ready to run: 3kg exactly. More than twice the ultima... that kind of explains the speed.
Still I'm impressed with the 540sized quad pole brushless combo from Viper. No way I could have pulled it off with my older gear.
I ran it at the track today and even though it didn't go much faster than my mabuchi powered ultima, it put a big grin on my face.
The slipper wasn't properly set or came loose a bit, as did 2 screws and one tire. All easy enough to fix for next time.
Some one had a scale with him and we weighed the car fully ready to run: 3kg exactly. More than twice the ultima... that kind of explains the speed.
Still I'm impressed with the 540sized quad pole brushless combo from Viper. No way I could have pulled it off with my older gear.
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Re: electrified Inferno-dx with Dahm's truck body
Welcome back Erik....glad to see you here again!!!
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