Newbie with Mildly modded Clod

[voicey]

Hey everyone, I recently regained a long lost interest in rc, having retrieved a box from my parents attic containing my old clod buster and monster beetle. The clod was always the kit i wanted as a kid and I mnanaged to buy one id built for display whilst working at Beatties back in the 90's. By the time it was stuffed in the loft the original body was trashed, steering broke, msc burned out, kinda lucky i didnt trash it. Anyway after watching a vid of 80's monster trucks and then linking to various clod vids on youtube i had to get it working again, but I always found the original clod slightly dissapointing in its slowness and ocean liner with a blind captain spec steering.

So After stripping, cleaning, fitting bearings the mods so far carried out are:

hpi firebolt 15t motors,

traaxas evx2 esc, jumped to run a single 3s lipo,

4 traxxas emaxx shocks (soft oil),

cpe axle mounted steering front and rear.

plastic chassis tub cut to greatly increase suspension travel,

Air holes enlarged in wheels.

Metal anti rotation brackets.

The body is a nos parma bigfoot 4 body. must have watched the bigfoot video I had so many times as a kid. I have a couple of basher bodies, as this thing is silly fast for a mostly stock clod, hard to control but so much fun over a total stocker, although at any great speed I realise why people just lock the rear steer.... but rear steer is a must on an 80's monster, and looks cool.. especially now it works as it should with 2 servos

Im considering 4 linking it.. but I don't think I would gain much more articulation with the stock chassis tub, so I've decided to leave this as a fun retro and aquire axles wheels and tyres to build a nice handling race clod from scratch, I already have a kyosho snakebite body for it

I now seem addicted again as Ive cracked on with rebuilding the MB and also purchased a rere lunchbox again with some mild modifications. I may get a kit that handles well one day but ive a soft spot for 80's monsters that like to fall over a lot

[speedy_w_beans]

Nice truck! Parma shells are great for bashing about instead of killing a hard body...

[voicey]

Yes Ive already ruined my lunchbox's shell lol lightweight lexan seems to help with lowering the clods centre of gravity too

[backtomyroots]

Yes Ive already ruined my lunchbox's shell lol lightweight lexan seems to help with lowering the clods centre of gravity too

You're in luck:

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXNAV1&P=ML

Parma lexan shell for the Lunchbox !

That Clod is fantastic, looks completely retro with some decent upgrades.

[voicey]

Already ordered one haha and a replacement hard body for the shelf Its hard to decide which brings more smiles, the clod or the lunchy

[mongoose1983]

That's a very nice Big Foot!

[Klausen]

Great looking Clod.