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Hoss81

I am still fairly new to the crawler scene, a buddy of mine purchased a TRX4 for me last october as a birthday gift, and that sort of threw me right into it.

I've made some modifications to my TRX4 and have found that it's slow enough that my 3 yr old son enjoys driving it. So much so, that I was finding I never got to drive it.

As a result I decided to buy a Redcat Gen8 PACK kit. I had wheels/tires/electronics sitting around that would work for the time being. So the only cost up front was the Gen8 kit (On sale for $149 on redcats website) and a body ($50-60 depending)

Here is what I went with
Radio: Trusty old Futaba 4PLS - This is nice because I can dial down the end points so my son can't go too fast
ESC: LRP SC1200 - Had this laying around from my old SC10 4x4, it still works but I hadn't used it in a few yrs
Motor: GoolRC 3000kv 540 size motor
Body: Pro-line Power Wagon in Black armor Tough Color black
wheels/tires - 1.9" Axial Maxxis Trepadors
Servo: The stock TRX4 servo that I had replaced on my TRX4

This is where we started. The truck worked pretty good, but lacked some down low torque and because of the design of the body combined with where the electronics were mounted, the body had to sit much higher on the truck than I had liked.