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BJoe

Finally had a chance to really beat on the car after putting the 2 pole VXL I had put in the all Graphite 4-Tec that I shelved due to rarity. The J71 took a beating and I had to set the TMS to 50% to keep it from wanting to go sideways all the time and since I was out with a former co-worker and a couple former co-workers of his (he's changing careers next week) and had an absolute blast between bashing this, my temporarily repaired E-Revo, and the Stampede I've had for 20 years now.



BTW, those rocks were ones I dug out of the chassis on lunch today

BJoe

Had this thing shelved for the last few years, broke a servo some time after the last post and kinda tinkered with it here and there and had a few annoying issues to deal with, plus a couple minor mods, then linked it to the Tx for my Drag Slash to try the trans brake feature on this. I ended up shimming the diffs to loosed them a bit, which was an issue from day one that was also causing the car to run hot, fixed both problems, then swapped the front chassis brace and servo I broke in 2019. Now it’s running like I thought it always should have!
https://youtube.com/shorts/LmRb6BiGWaE?feature=share

BJoe

Decided to rebody the car after that bashing session Saturday, dug up a HPI Viper GTS-R body that had residue from a failed masking attempt about 15 years ago that was collecting dust, so I dug it up, cleaned it up, and mounted it, fanned up my own wing since the one that came with it had gone AWAL.




I then shot it in the classic Viper Metallic Blue and Pearl White with some Pactra paint I had laying around.


I had intended to wrap the whole wing in the carbon fiber decal, but the XXX Main sheet I had was too narrow to go tip to tip on the horizontal operation, so I just wrapped the side plates and may just shoot the other part in silver later on or maybe even try that shelf liner trick again on it so it’s paint instead of vinyl………and like everything else in this rebody, I should still have the supplies laying around for that too!




And yes, that is 2 Barris Batmobiles and a Chrysler Concord in the background there

BJoe

Decided to redo the wing and try and give it a scale-ish forged carbon finish. I still have some experimenting to do with my method on that, including different paint.

BJoe

And I have now added a 3rd 4-Tec to the fleet……



I’ll get pics of this with my full graphite 1st Gen E4T and the now Viper bodied 4-Tec 2.0 once I get home.

BJoe

Lined up the 4-Tecs for pics when I got home with the 3.0!

Listed in order is my original Electric 4-Tec with the seemingly unobtainium Traxxas Graphite Chassis Kit and Nitro 4-Tex steering and diffs, Big Bore shocks and a very well used HPI Plymouth Cuda AAR body, then my 2.0 with an old pre-waterproof 2pole VXL system, Big Bore shocks that came off a Nitro 4-Tec I had and a vintage HPI Viper GTS-R body and Savox shorty Servo, followed by the completely new and yet to be run 3.0 Hot Rod!






Probably going to clean up the E4T and put an old Trinity Monster Stock I have laying around in it and then use the XL5 out of the 2.0 for an ESC and the radio out of the 3.0. I plan on swapping in a TQi w/TSM Rx to the 3.0 when I swap the VXL into it. Since that Cuda body is thrashed, I’ll probably need something else and will probably stick with something American for the body……..anybody still make a Stratus body that actually looks like a Stratus any more?

BJoe

Picked up some Supra rolling stock and a TSM Tx for the 3.0 build, will need to order the Body, lights, and steel toe links for the 3.0 build



Then I discovered that the Supra wheels are the same width front to back, just different offsets!


Might be interesting to get 2 full sets and see o how it drives narrow front/wide rear vs narrow front and back vs wide front and back!

This is the width of the tires for a comparison


And just lined up with the openings,

think it should look good once I get the new body and go fenderless with it