Little Clod Project

[Jay73]

Thought you might like to see my little clod project that I'm undertaking, not much left of the original clod now just the axles and chevy shell. Am trying to keep it as monster truck looking as possible.

ESP Zilla chassis

Custom shock mounts

Losi Competition Crawler Alloy shocks

& still a massive shopping list and loads of work still to do.

[kaiser]

nice, i always liked the classic look of the zilla2.

a set of wheel wideners will do it some good. i run 1" wideners from crawford performance, for a total of 2" wider then stock. really helps give the truck a "planted" feel. no more roll overs.

what kind of electronics do you have planned?

[Jay73]

already got the wideners ordered from CPE

going for axle mounted servos, might even flip the hubs for yet for behind axle steering, not made my mind up yet. thats my next task to fabricate and sort.

I aren't locking the RWS as I want to keep the monster truckness of it..

Got an mtroniks super e-trucker no limit esc which will run 14.4V on e-maxx 550's so I'm sure it'll cope with whatever I got planned motor wise.

I am going 14.4v for sure - mostly for runtime, not sure about which motors yet, cant make my mind up completely dont want a crawler but dont need something to quick, as my bashing spot is woodland with a tarmac driveway through it..

[kaiser]

BTA steering is awesome, i'm running cpe's.

[Jay73]

Is there a benefit of bta steering with steering sharpness or is it just a case of it keeps the front link out of the damage zone if your not running bumpers.. I aren't going to be fitting chassis bumpers only the body ones

[kaiser]

it just looks cleaner and it's protected.

you can increase the steering by removing the stops ontop of the hubs/knuckles and by removing some material from the back side of the hub.

there's a thread on clodtalk about it.

are you a member of clodtalk? you should be if you're not.

[Jay73]

Haven't done that mod yet but had got it in the back of my mind to do. just been looking bta on my setup Am going to get the hubs flipped to see what sort of room I got to play with it's looking tight at the minute with the lower links. No am only on this forum don't get a lot of time to be updating forums and I never know when I can grab an hour here and there to work on projects. Have got 1:1 22ft speedboat that I'm restoring too, that tends to come first lol. Clods a bit of a winter project !

[commiedoor]

i just bought this beauty from a forum member of ebay .. coming to australia from cananda . i'll will be blinging it up a bit but thats about it i think . its my second clod , the first is orignal except for body , 4 100mm oil filled shocks , twin motor esc , 1 '' wideners , axle mounted steering servo and blocking the rws , home made front bash plate , wheely bars and light system .