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pimpsmurf
02-26-2006, 02:32 PM
Well, not really. But it does have a new body

http://bitpimps.lixlink.com/pages/phpGallery/albums/userpics/10099/H8%20Crawler.JPG

That's Florescent Racing yellow blended (with Q-Tips) into Metalic Blue and the old outlaw black/sprint white parma paint masks. Shined up with the seriously sweet Honda brand spray cleaner & polish.

But what is under the shell, you ask?

http://bitpimps.lixlink.com/pages/phpGallery/albums/userpics/10099/normal_H8%20%26%20Sally.JPG

Oh yeah, That's my new found love the Airtronics M8 w/ Spektrum 2.4ghz DSM. Notice the tiny little antenna and it's placement. The OFNA alloy antenna mounts are fantastic!

Now I just need to spend some time drilling and countersinking 2 new holes for the RPM servo mounting posts so I can ditch the silly servo tape.

So, am I hot or not? :D

-JNY

mat3833
02-26-2006, 04:10 PM
pimpy you are sexay!! lol i like te mini antenna, the spectrum is god!! too bad my MX3 cant use it...

Matt

bermbuster
02-26-2006, 05:24 PM
I took your lead and turned my buggy and my sons truggy into (onto) crawlers........ :cool:

mOOsE
02-26-2006, 06:25 PM
Hehe. I see you bought a couple of those walmart crawlers....how are they? I know they are crappy toy-rc's but they seem to have shown up on several other forums too.

pimpsmurf
02-26-2006, 06:50 PM
berm, sweet! haha

I've heard good things about those crawlers. We are still trying to rig a 3 cell lipo into one, but finding money for enough 20c lipos to cover the current of that SLA is a pain!

-JNY

bermbuster
02-26-2006, 11:20 PM
they are so much fun for $35. You can keep em stock, modify them. They come with a nicad battery and charger. The only drawback.....they have 4 different channels(selectable) and they all intefere with one another....so you gotta play one at a time.....

pimpsmurf
02-27-2006, 12:25 PM
OH! I was talking about the bigger ones with the SLA battery. Right on.

-JNY

rustler08
02-27-2006, 03:23 PM
I got one of the smaller 1/18 ones too. It is a blast. I'm going to extend the stock links, and cut the stock tires. It Kinda sucks at crawling stock because, where I live, the rocks are as big as my LST!! It needs hobby grade electronics for rock crawling, because the stock electronics are non-propo, which sucks when it comes to crawling.

BTW bermster, If you make the rear shocks vertical you will get insane articulation. I get almost 5 inches with it stock besides the vertical shocks!! If I took the body off, I would get more articulation. Look in the picture to see what I mean by vertical shocks

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mOOsE
02-28-2006, 12:50 AM
http://bitpimps.lixlink.com/pages/phpGallery/albums/userpics/10099/normal_H8%20%26%20Sally.JPG
-JNY
you pimp, where did you get that alloy top-deck?