rclynx

I'm either into just plain beautiful paint jobs with all the details or a black to dark blue with flames in natural colors, white, yellow, orange, red................getting harder to do an original sceme with flames but still possible

I want to come up with some way to do a clean set up with different body mounts.............maybe in the next life, I never seem to have time to finish the projects I have already started........LOL

How the heck you hit a red light man?? sorry to hear that but drive to fast in Germany isn't possible I don't think people from the states would never make it driving in Europe. There not responsible enough drivers. I used to love it when one of my fellow countrymen got a little bump from a car thinking they have the right away. The absolute funniest thing there is in Germany ( an asian in a rental car, Mercedes ) no offense meant

RCUSEE

hehe, mayne its as simple as it can be... i saw the yellow light... shifted back in 3rd to still get it and exactly when i hit the white line it went red ... and just because im dead lucky they also had a laser next to the ample... which means its like 2in1 :/ will cost me about 150€... if im lucky, and god knows i am []

Oddball91

Well, took my motor apart, checked some things like people said...put it back together and it was no longer locked up. I went to go start it up after and after pulling it a few times it locked up again. Not sure what it is now.

rclynx

People here won't know what your talking about, but thats OK / I do...........LOL we only have play cameras here LOL


You should try a little detail on one of yout next paint jobs its really a good feeling to accomplish just a little something hard to do I like to put stripes and things like that when I'm sitting at the telly or doing accounting at my PC. Breaks up the work .

rclynx

If you take it apart again just remove the pull start and one way bearing first and see if it turns over [&o]

superstocktx

I bought a clear body for the x-cell and did my own custom paint job, it was kind of a quickie(about 2.5 hours total) so here it is

And it now has graphite rear a-arms

RCUSEE

nice[8D]

rclynx

Great job on the paint man do you have the aluminum rear hubs to go with those arms [link=http://www.xtm-dealer.com/Rear%20Suspension.html]149194[/link] its probably the weakest link in the X-cellerator [:-]

RCUSEE

i just premounted some stuff to mount the body... here are some pics [8D]

RCUSEE

one more

edit: make sure you fully enlarge em, otherwise they wont look that nice

rclynx

RCUSEE that looks sweet. I love the way you made the venting air holes. Did you use a template? You get that Tsais rear exhaust? If you did please let me know which one if it mounts well.

Hey suns going to be out up Berlin way soon, better get it together and make some vidios soon............LOL

Keep going its looking good my friend

RCUSEE

i used my new body reamer for that, and thx

no its not a rear exhaust... its a normal side one and i have it laying around here since 3weeks... with the right parts you can also mount it to the back but the weightbalance wouldnt be all that or you might have to change the humpposition... because the 18tz would drive the car crazy thats why i will order 16, 18, 20 clutchgears to test which one works best


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jup the weather down here is superb and im thinking about taking my g4 out by tomorrow... i just need to build me a new receiverhump and cant find my tools for it[:@]

rclynx

Just be careful not to run your slipper to tight, it will rip up the gear box and if you have some time on the gear box be sure and tighten up the rear end bearings. The box is plenty strong it just can't handle the catching on the ground at full throttle............but almost all of the models are like that. I'll tell you what I'm not an electric type of guy but the new RAGE is a blast.............I've been beating up one of those fast little buggers 2 or 3 times a day for over a weak and nothing wrong with it yet...........Its great for small areas and a hell of a 4x4................good luck, I'm out waiting on the side to see you X-c monster running

RCUSEE

yea, at the start of rc i didnt even know how to setup a slippergear(i didnt even know what its good for[:-]) but im pretty trained at that now... and i will also buy a aluminium diffgear, because the stock one is pretty weak, so far i ripped one because i had the slippergear setted up way too tight

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LX2871&P=7
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LX2870&P=7

and i will also buy these two, because my stock ones are pretty abused already

superstocktx

Thanks for the comment on the paint, I was thinking of buying another body, paint it and then sell it.

Have not bought those alum hubs yet, factory ones still on there plus I bought a set and then won a set on ebay(came with drive shafts i needed) This truck does go thru drive shafts, they are so weak, they give before the hub does[]

rclynx

they break because of the plastic hubs.................they bind like hell under torque [X(] and that puts a lot of wear on the CVD's ............I have one with the same CVD's and well over 10 gallons of fuel and every fool under the sun driving it............so I'll gaurentee the Aluminum hubs help at least a little [&o]

superstocktx

Here's the new tires and rims I got today..... You cant tell by the pics, but they are blue chrome

superstocktx

OK, I will try the alum. hubs and sell the spares I have. The guy at the hobby store will like that(buying more parts). this hobby is killin me, I spent $107.00 today, $67.00 the other day, but its to fun!!!!!

RCUSEE

no offence .... but im not feeling those

superstocktx

thats cool.....i was just lookin for a little bling bling for the street.

how long before yours is up and running?

RCUSEE

end of march... got my money today, placed my order at tower. the package should be here around end of march but because of the customs it might take longer

i hope ill get the hpi baja bug body to fit with the traxxas bodymounts... already have a nice paint scheme for it and with the 2.2" badlands it should look crazy

Oddball91

Can a Toki .18 Theaded Crank 3 Port Engine w/PS fit in an xcellerator?

rclynx

thought those were airplane engines ?????????[:@]

RCUSEE

nope they make surface engines, too and basically every .18 should fit

superstocktx

Cool!!!! To bad we all cant get together with are x-cell's and race, that would be sweet

what traxxas body mounts are u using? nitro sport?