Ideas for a four wheel drive Slash
 

Ideas for a four wheel drive Slash.
Traxxas is ether waiting to bring this out later or they totally missed the mark.
I want an electric 1/10 scale 4X4 short-course Truck. The real ones have a 4X4 class don't they?
So lets say we start with a Slash body and see what this brain trust can do.
Is there a light weight, reasonably priced buggy that would fit? "Not the Revo". Had a Revo, great truck but not a simple light weight short-course Truck.
Or how about cutting a new chassis from fiber glass and installing buggy components?
Who has some ideas?

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I'd like to see any kind of brand name 1/10 single motor basher style truck.

Recomend me some diffs that can stand up to brushless/3s Lipo and Masker 2000's and I probably can build it from there, depending on motivation levels.

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Btw; Traxxas does make the Slayer and just introduced the Mini Slash as well.

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The Slayer is nitro and the mini is not 1/10 scale.
I enjoy racing the Slash but a 4X4 with a brushless setup of the same truck would be fun.

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A simple tub chassis, single battery, shaft driven 4wd, rear/mid motor, stadium truck style vehicle would be nice.

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buy a E-Revo, buy Slayer arms, shafts, turnbuckles, and pushrods, and bumpers, and there ya go, 4wd electric slash/slayer.

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A tub chassis or two levels of fiberglass or aluminum.
Single battery, single motor with mid engine design.
Light and fast.
Yes, this is what i,m talking about.

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thats too heavy. i have thought about it, but i rather wait until that day comes. The best was the HPI MT2 electric. 4wd, never again did I see a light weight 4wd.

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buy a slayer sell nitro engine and then by electric conversion kit. I think hot bodies still has a 10th scale 4wd st but it also would have to be strecthed and converted to electric. Or you could go all out and build it like a crawler, but get a hpi mt2 front independent suspension and get a solid rear axle and ad a swing arm type suspension. Then get a rustler transmisison run some drivlines to front and rear. Good luck on chassis design and the rest of the peices. I've wanted to do this but never went for it.

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E slayer. NUFF SAID. look on ebay for a roller and you're set. there was one guy who made one a put it up on youtube it's stupid fast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ_vhkh-Toc

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thats monster status though. 1/8, You have to use 4s lipos and all that. I just want to use 2s lipo. Lightweight 4wd truck.

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That's getting super specific with the 1/10 size, 4wd, and lightweight. I guess best bet is to create something on your own. Or if you want an official 4wd Slash 1/10, as in stock from Traxxas, they'd have to decide to make one. But I would imagine if they did that now, some Slash drivers(there are a LOT of them already) will be like, "what!?!? I coulda waited and got that??" If they do it, it will be a while. Same reason why I would never get an E-Revo, knowing that the Brushless edition is available. Unless I wanted to put a different brushless system in it.

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You could use a Wheely King axle for the rear. Its beefy and uses the same diffs as the MT2 so you dont have to worry about different diff ratios.

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I think if you want this truck on 2 cell lipo it will surely have big heat issues, guess that's the reason no manufacturer makes them like that. The slayer with a good kv Mamba max will do the trick. I know it's not 1/10 and not light but 4 Mashers 2k will burn you motors like matches.

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How about something like this?

http://www.raidentech.com/1scexsublepe.html

Could it be mod to fit?

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good call on the diff ratio I didnt think of that

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This is what I was looking for.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...%3D4%26ps%3D56

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that ebay ad is one awsome truck!!!
the breakaway fenders are a very nice touch.
the use of dark impack tranny is nice. traxxas doesnt have a tranny that could do the job better and be as light.
i would buy that truck in a heartbeat if i had the cash.

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that is awsome. Perfect example. I wonder if the a-arms are from the dark impact. I wish i had the know how to do that. I have a b44 I wonder if the same type of thing could be done?