Corban_White
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- Location
- Payson, AZ
Well, I posted a pic in the "what did you work on today" thread, but @jsudar said I need to post a build thread and revive this sub forum, since it hasn't been posted in for over 2 years. So here goes.
Backstory: About 8-10 years ago (around the time most of you were loosing interest in RC crawlers and getting excited about drones
) I picked up a Wraith. I had a bunch of fun with it but wanted it to go fast and crawl. So I spent a bunch of money and put a really nice sensored brushless system in it and a 2 speed transmission. Then it was awesome. Crawled better and would go really fast. But it was hard to control at speed. Super fun with paddles at the dunes though! And it now went fast enough that it broke parts a lot. I also had a Traxxas Summit with a Tekin R8 setup that was awesome everywhere so the wraith kind of just sat with some broken parts. Eventually they both did. Then, about 2 years ago, my 9yo son was asking about the cars, wondering why we never used them. I told him they were both broken but I had the parts, just needed time and motivation to fix them. He asked what he could do so I found a youtube video, sat him down with my ipad, some tools and parts and left. He had to ask for help a couple times, but a short time later everything was up and running again! And so an RC mechanic was born.
Now I had a mechanic and a buddy to drive with so they started getting a lot more use. We would take them camping, build jumps out of snow in the front yard, he would drool over cool cars and upgrade parts in the catalogs, etc. Then last spring we were camping outside Goblin Valley and had an absolute blast crawling on the rocks.
It was then that I decided this could be even more fun if both our trucks were the same, or at least the same size and suspension type.
Then we were camping with @benjy and his family (he also has a Wraith) and we ended up setting up a course with (pine)cones and I was hooked.
Came home and listed the Summit and a 1/16 Revo I had picked up on KSL. Then I found a modded wraith on KSL for $200 so I grabbed it for my son. It had a steel chassis, super slow 80t motor, longer shocks that made it really tippy and some other stuff but he was so excited! He got right to work and painted the body panels and attaching the super expo murder spork @jsudar gave him!
My wraith was starting to show some wear so I was looking at getting a new one to swap my drivetrain into but they sell out pretty quick every time they come in stock. Then I found a screaming deal on an almost stock one with super low hours on KSL so I grabbed it and swapped my parts. No pics there. I also grabbed a pack of mini cones from Amazon so we could set up a "real" course. So now we have 2 pretty decent Wraiths and a bunch of spare parts. My son got a 55t motor and a sweet little scale winch for Christmas so he was super excited. Then over new years we were down in StG and did some crawling at sand hollow, pioneer park and a park across the street from @benjy's house, where my son was getting a little frustrated because his rig was too top heavy and too low on torque. Which brings us to the build portion of the build thread.
Backstory: About 8-10 years ago (around the time most of you were loosing interest in RC crawlers and getting excited about drones
) I picked up a Wraith. I had a bunch of fun with it but wanted it to go fast and crawl. So I spent a bunch of money and put a really nice sensored brushless system in it and a 2 speed transmission. Then it was awesome. Crawled better and would go really fast. But it was hard to control at speed. Super fun with paddles at the dunes though! And it now went fast enough that it broke parts a lot. I also had a Traxxas Summit with a Tekin R8 setup that was awesome everywhere so the wraith kind of just sat with some broken parts. Eventually they both did. Then, about 2 years ago, my 9yo son was asking about the cars, wondering why we never used them. I told him they were both broken but I had the parts, just needed time and motivation to fix them. He asked what he could do so I found a youtube video, sat him down with my ipad, some tools and parts and left. He had to ask for help a couple times, but a short time later everything was up and running again! And so an RC mechanic was born. Now I had a mechanic and a buddy to drive with so they started getting a lot more use. We would take them camping, build jumps out of snow in the front yard, he would drool over cool cars and upgrade parts in the catalogs, etc. Then last spring we were camping outside Goblin Valley and had an absolute blast crawling on the rocks.
It was then that I decided this could be even more fun if both our trucks were the same, or at least the same size and suspension type.
Then we were camping with @benjy and his family (he also has a Wraith) and we ended up setting up a course with (pine)cones and I was hooked.
Came home and listed the Summit and a 1/16 Revo I had picked up on KSL. Then I found a modded wraith on KSL for $200 so I grabbed it for my son. It had a steel chassis, super slow 80t motor, longer shocks that made it really tippy and some other stuff but he was so excited! He got right to work and painted the body panels and attaching the super expo murder spork @jsudar gave him!
My wraith was starting to show some wear so I was looking at getting a new one to swap my drivetrain into but they sell out pretty quick every time they come in stock. Then I found a screaming deal on an almost stock one with super low hours on KSL so I grabbed it and swapped my parts. No pics there. I also grabbed a pack of mini cones from Amazon so we could set up a "real" course
. So now we have 2 pretty decent Wraiths and a bunch of spare parts. My son got a 55t motor and a sweet little scale winch for Christmas so he was super excited. Then over new years we were down in StG and did some crawling at sand hollow, pioneer park and a park across the street from @benjy's house, where my son was getting a little frustrated because his rig was too top heavy and too low on torque. Which brings us to the build portion of the build thread.
