gotta love a well set up racing clod!!!
08-18-2006, 10:27 PM
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gotta love a well set up racing clod!!!
i just picked up a nice clodbuster. it has a bennett racing 4 link aluminum chassis,aluminum pil shocks,bearings,orion 13x2 motors, novak superduty xr esc, and i am running 2 - 6 cell packs. this thing is fast!!!! i have driven e-maxx's with 6 cell packs before but this is amazing for a big truck. i will post some pics tomorrow afternoon after i get a nice battery holding set-up.(so far they are just taped in place but i have only run one set of packs through em).
i took it off my rear patio about a 15" drop and not even a bounce! also crawled up the front side 12". very cool so far. anyone else have a fast clod? i see a lot of crawlers but nothing but e-maxxes on the faster side of things.
i took it off my rear patio about a 15" drop and not even a bounce! also crawled up the front side 12". very cool so far. anyone else have a fast clod? i see a lot of crawlers but nothing but e-maxxes on the faster side of things.
08-18-2006, 10:59 PM
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RE: gotta love a well set up racing clod!!!
They aren't really made for speed. Most people get 65 or 55 turn lathe motors, and get the smallest pinions they can, and then crawl it. But since you don't seem to want to do that, they aren't made for speed
08-18-2006, 11:45 PM
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RE: gotta love a well set up racing clod!!!
you may think that but a nice chassis goes a long way. i would guess it weighs 7.5 lbs now. i plan on going to the po tomorrow and having them weigh it. i realize with the solid axles it will never be a racing machine but my first clod was slow and bulky 15 years ago and this is a complete contradiction to that one. i would guess that one topped out at 12 mph and this one is just over 30
08-19-2006, 03:21 PM
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RE: gotta love a well set up racing clod!!!
If you're running 12 cells in series you're going to be going through a lot of brushes. Those motors are not made to handle that kind of voltage, but it sure looks cool while they last.
08-19-2006, 03:36 PM
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RE: gotta love a well set up racing clod!!!
after a few weeks when these motors are shot i am going up to 550 motors. these just came with it. it is fast though!
08-20-2006, 06:47 PM
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RE: gotta love a well set up racing clod!!!
Will be looking forward to some action pics! I've too been only aware of rock-crawling Clods. I think once I saw an article of the Ripper chassis in RCCA doing a speed run, and I thought that was amazing.
08-20-2006, 08:33 PM
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RE: gotta love a well set up racing clod!!!
i'll be on the sidelines for a few days. broke a right front steering knuckle today off a really sweet jump. just landed right on the front wheel and cartwheeled a few times.
08-20-2006, 08:35 PM
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RE: gotta love a well set up racing clod!!!
This is why they were thought to be meant only for crawling. A sweet jump for a crawler, is falling off a rock, onto the shell 
08-21-2006, 04:47 PM
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RE: gotta love a well set up racing clod!!!
what, the pics or the truck. if you mean the pics every time i try to post directly they limit the file size and i hate having to resize every pic so i put em on photodump and directly link them at full size.
08-21-2006, 05:52 PM
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RE: gotta love a well set up racing clod!!!
this chassis looks like it will make a good crawler so onece i burn up these 540's on 12 cells i may get some lathe motors and some extra steering parts to make them crawlers
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RE: gotta love a well set up racing clod!!!
Allison, delet ur pics, and quote the message where I posted the smaller versions of ur pics. then copy the links from my message, and post them where u had ur pics. THat way 56k people can look in this thread, and the thread doesn't have those huge pics
