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Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:04 pm
by therigliveson
What is your plan for powering this beast? Keep up the good work!
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:33 pm
by Steve71
Going to be running a Castle 1/5 system which is the Castle XL esc and 800kv brushless motor on 8s. That system really moves this type of truck extremely well. Bari Musawwir (Driver of the real MT Zombie) has that system in his 1/5 truck and it's just insanely powerful. Actually a bit scary to see how fast it pushes the nearly 45lb truck. Defiantly not something you want to hit yourself in the leg with thats for sure
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:34 pm
by Steve71
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:34 pm
by coxbros1
coming along m
nicely.....very very nice!
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:59 pm
by Steve71
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:54 am
by Dadio
Its hard to keep it in scale in my mind from pictures ! that Dog Bone for the prop shaft is nearly as thick as the suspension links and looking at the picture of the one of the links in your hand ...... its huge ! Are you building a garage for it ?
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:21 am
by Steve71
Yeah pictures just don't really convey the size of it that's for sure. It's funny when parts come in the mail for it. I see some of the stuff online in pics and think I know how big they are, then they come and it's almost comical how much bigger they are than I expected. I sure wish I had a garage. My RC area is in my basement, so once this is done I'm gonna have to lug it up & down the stairs to run it
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:29 am
by Dadio
Ha HA ! put a winch on it so it can climb the stairs for itself
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 11:47 pm
by Steve71
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2020 8:09 am
by Pyxster
That's a crazy project.
Can I borrow it when it's done? I have the neighbor's free-range cat that I'd like to, uh, "deal with".
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:55 am
by Steve71
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:30 pm
by Steve71
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:43 pm
by R Cane
Dayam!
A lot of good work going on there.
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 2:28 am
by Dadio
This must be eating time ! its looking monstrous !
Re: 1/5 scale monster truck project
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 11:21 am
by Steve71
Yeah it definitely chews up a lot of time. I didn't keep track, but if I had to guess, I'd say so far I've got somewhere around 200+ hrs into it to this point. But I think I enjoy the building just as much as I enjoy the running so it's all good