RC Bashers

Pics from my last outing at the beach...
















Great Planes S-600 19t Motor
Traxxas Waterproof XL5
Traxxas Waterproof Servo (better of the two they offer)
Traxxas T-Maxx/Long Half Shafts
Stock Receiver (in balloon), uses Traxxas TQ2 Radio
Robinson Racing 24t Pinion, Stock Spur
CKRC Aluminum Trans Gears
CKRC Axle Steering Kit
Kimbrough Servo Saver
RC4WD Straight Axle Adapter
RC4WD Aluminum C-Hubs
RC4WD Extended Wheelbase Kit
STRC Diff Locker (rear)
STRC Knuckles
HPI Crawler Kit (lower link mounts, body post adapters)
Imex 2.2 Swamp Dawgs
CR-01 Stock Beadlocks
Stiffer springs for rear from unknown vehicle
Homemade mod to lower top shock mount location (raises chassis)

...I spent way more on upgrades than I did for the truck brand new with shipping.
It's got tons of torque but it's top end is lacking a bit. It's not really meant to go fast but a little more speed would be nice.


Here are all my WK videos since I started filming it...

First rainy day outing (wasn't waterproofed yet but all elecs were mounted high):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1q1_Mp ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNtWHJrn ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxdVi24U ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZdYr03K ... annel_page

When it was sort of a crawler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrp3R-8L ... annel_page

Upgraded motor/esc, 24t pinion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIVmXs8b ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu25GR1x ... annel_page

Beach Day (pics posted above):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtcf_bs ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suobPZ33 ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyIPFHrX ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2r4xcIo ... annel_page

Rainy Day (vid also posted below):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKew3Ii3 ... annel_page

Sweet rig man, had intentions of buying one of these back when but decided against it crawling just isnt my thing

I kinda had it set up for crawling but it just never really worked very well. Right now it's set up as a mud and water scale-ish trail truck. It's possible to turn a WK into a crawler, but you'd be better off just buying a crawler (which is why I got an AX10). The WK's center of gravity is too high and the chassis just doesn't really work for crawling. The way the shocks are mounted they don't articulate very well. When my WK was a "crawler" it was pretty stiff.

It was a blasty-blast when it was stock. It's a fun little basher. I'll probably get a second WK at some point and only do few necessary upgrades to make it really fun and leave it's size alone. But there are a few RC's I want firsts of, never mind finishing up the ones I already have.

It poured today and I was tired of trying to beat Savage's high scores, forums were slow and I generally had nothing to do... so I got the WK out n got it dirty. I didn't get any action shots or video cuz I can't really record and drive with a TQ radio. There wasn't anyone around to make them video, plus I just wanted to enjoy myself. I use a TRX radio cuz I have a waterproof TRX servo and the HPI radio wouldn't make it turn the wheels as far.

The people who bought the empty house across the street from me are putting up a big garage so now there's this nice big patch of dirt. Well, since I live in FL and it's just cheap filler "dirt", it's mostly sand and seashells. They put a new little culvert pipe and driveway over the ditch using the filler dirt so I had fun driving up the sides of it (which is where all the dirt came from). I drove in, out and through the flooded ditches. The truck flipped over a few times and I had to sorta climb in and flip back over. I slipped once cuz the side of it was a little steep and the ground fell away but I managed to not fall into the water too bad. Good thing I was wearing Dr Martens or my feet would've been soaked. There were a couple deep spots but it was mostly just deep enough to submerge the 2.2 Swamp Dawgs (which I love btw). The tires worked pretty well for what I put it through today, I don't think many tires would have done any better on this truck. Plus the Swamp Dawgs are an awesome looking scale tire and look really good with the F-650 body.

I did get some after pics, but I drove through some puddles walking back to my house so some of it came off and the wheels/tires got cleaned.
After I took pics I hosed it down, squeezed the water out of the tires as best I could. The foams looked a little junky last time I took 'em out so I'm not really worried them. Plus there's a lot of little screws to take out and the screws aren't the right ones for the wheel (or even the same length). They're kinda stressing the spots where they screw into the wheel (can see little white spots in first pic on the front drivers-side wheel). They're fine for now but I'll probably need a new set down the road, maybe try to find some with a metal ring (and definitely get the proper screws).

Anyway... on to the pics:

Very kool scaler pics. Nice rig you got there as well.Always liked the vids you posted as well.Another reason I want something to do that as well. Hey you could use one of the waterproof motor covers at TGN. I am looking at one for my scaler crawler. l8r,w.

http://www.teamgonads.com/rccars/Outerw ... -2529.html

Mmm sand
Link is busted wrench

Fixed it for ya all. Sorry bout day.w.

It poured again today and knocked out my power for like an hour.
I remembered I had charged some packs last night so I threw one in the WK and played in the puddles til the power came back.

This time I got some video...

[youtube]lKew3Ii3ZDo[/youtube]

It's not as exciting as the other day and wasn't easy to film driving with a TQ radio one-handed.

I hear ya on the driving and filming. I'm tempted to get a 4channel stick radio, put steering and throttle both on the single stick. That would leave the other hand free to film. Though it would be like driving an Atari 2600.

It'd be sweet to be able to mount a camera to the radio.

Get a hardhat and mount it to that, haha. Hmm, bet an old hat from the mines would work, replace the light with a camera mount.

I think the radio mount idea is better cuz you're holding it in front of you anyway and you could keep an eye on the viewfinder and make sure the vehicle is in fram.

Helmet cam would get a lot of shots of your radio, or your shoes, haha.

I played with some different pinions I have for my Rustler and Slash (same pitch) a little while ago trying to get some more speed. 24t is the smallest that will fit without modding the motor mount plate. I'm not entire sure but I think it's got a 31t pinion on it now and it's a big step up. It'll still climb my wall but at first it looks like it doesn't have the torque but then it goes. I think the other pinion I tried was a 28t. It was a little faster but not quite what I was hoping for but I'm sure the torque was still there.

I still haven't given the 31t a proper off-road testing to see how much the torque suffers. A 29t or 30t might be best since it'll have a little more torque than the 31t.

spliff very cool r/c man love it great video also ..

Thx. It's like my only RC that I can call "finished".

I just posted links to all my WK vids in the first post... and here's a link to my youtube page - http://www.youtube.com/user/spliffnwesson
There's a couple random vids of my friend but it's mostly RC.

Great lookin' truck spliff ,..I must admit,Im partial to fords

Hell yeah!... Ford FTW