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and here is a pick of the completed car. hope you like it.

Very nice Charger! So is that chassis 190mm or 200 wide? I want to try something like that with either the Cuda or Charger, I was wondering about the wheelbase, it had to be extended 2"? what was the original wheelbase on the TL01? sorry for all the questions, but this is a project I am really interested in!

Questions are good.

Nothing RC related but I had to share!
Sean's soccer coach got in a bit of trouble last week, using "inappropriate language" in front of the kids and was kicked out of the league. He asked me to fill in as coach (assisitant) or the guys wouldn't get a chance to be in the big tournament. So I did. Coached last Saturday (the new head coach was out of town). We won. That made us winners in our Under 10 division, and put us in the cup. We played three games this weekend. The last two in 95 degree heat. We won two and took home the Commissioner's Cup!!!! I am floating on air. I am also wiped out from the ehat. Way too much sun. Thank goodness the soccer season is over!!!!!!

Did ya at least wear cool sunglasses so you could have that Raccoon look? There were alot of raccoon looking guys at the bike rally!:p

Well, I had shades but I also had to wear my coach's cap so the face came out unburned. My neck though.....

Very nice Charger! So is that chassis 190mm or 200 wide? I want to try something like that with either the Cuda or Charger, I was wondering about the wheelbase, it had to be extended 2"? what was the original wheelbase on the TL01? sorry for all the questions, but this is a project I am really interested in!

the tl-01 had a 10 1/4 inch wheel base and had to have the 2 inches added. it is not a 190 or 200 mm body.. it is the hpi savage/maxx body. and i like it when people ask questions. i would have answered sooner but no notice their was a reply. thought you guys didn't like it! :)

got a chance to run it, it drives kinda nice and seems to track better then stock. but very dukes of hazzard feeling when you drive it :D i didn't take a lot of pics durong the build. had a few to many projects on the bench to get done.

chris congrates on the soccer win.
we are all league sported out. but emilee nad i still work on her pitching and scott is foaming at hee mouth to shoot some hops again.

best wishes to everyone

Thanks Peter, is it between 190 & 200 or wider/narrower? I've got my HPI RS4 chassis that I rallified & was thinking of a Charger or Cuda body for it. But its at 200mm & Narrowing it wouldn't be a big deal, but it would be very difficult to lengthen the chassis on it!

You said your buddy was thinking of flaring the front fenders with a heat gun for steering clearance, so it must be narrow in front but was the TL01 190 or 200 wide? I know the PT cruiser body I stuck on my Maxx for a few races was 200mm so I was thinking HPI's Cuda & Charger would be 200 as well.

the body is closer to 190(and the tl-01 is a 190 chassis) i believe. but what happens is it tucks under as the body comes down. and the heat gun did work. he reshaped it but it went back to the original shape. and the wheel wells are flat on the top and not rounded.

Thanks again. I guess I'll just have to buy a cuda body and try it out. Worst case scenario is I would mount it on my Maxx, not a big fan of car bodies on monster trucks though.

Thanks again. I guess I'll just have to buy a cuda body and try it out. Worst case scenario is I would mount it on my Maxx, not a big fan of car bodies on monster trucks though.

you have to post pics if you try it. the hood on the cuda has a nicer non blower motor option. and mounts in better as well. i almost picked up the cuda the other day. but i am wanting the new proline moab 2.2s witch shoul dbe out anytime now.

Will do Pics if I do it. No blower for me, I like the regular hood better.

Hey all! Just stopped by to say hello. I have been busy selling off my goodies on other forums. It is pretty scary how much I have brought back in. So far about $500 with another $300 pending. It would be great if I could rationalize respending that cash but it isn't going to happen. Not at once that is. :p

Sean has also decided to join the band wagon and wants me to sell off his Pede. I haven't cleaned it up yet but if there is any interest before I post it around the other forums:

I can sell it several way from rolling chassis to RTR. Hop-ups are full RPM carriers and bearings, steel outdrives, aluminum idler, M2K rear tires, Mashers up front.A number of bodies that have all seen better days, Hitec servo (probably a 625 but I haven't checked), Rooster ESC, Futaba low end AM radio and receiver (or a JR Python in new condition) and a Chameleon 2 motor, freshly tuned, of course.

I am thinking part it out for the chassis/ESC/radio but I will entertain offers!

Hope all are well!

doing okay, how much for it as a roller with esc?

still need to ohave one runing pede since i gutted the rusty and pede for the tlts :(

hey!

Would you go $80 shipped? It is in great shape mechanically but worn around the edges. I can send you photos if you are interested.

hey!

Would you go $80 shipped? It is in great shape mechanically but worn around the edges. I can send you photos if you are interested.

as long as it's all their and that is with the rooster right?
i trust you :D i can paypal or send you a money order(no fees that way) if you want. peter.ronbeck@comcast.net


but on the RC front i have built a new motek panther pro m-18 chassis kit. but still haven't had the bench time to tear the pro4 apart to check for damage after a wreck at practice. i went dead in the middle of back streight, and got T-boned by another racer. broke my batt in two. but was able to fix it and run some more. but the car felt off.

Paypal works fine for me. (charris@ll.mit.edu) Yes, the Pede is all there (well, except for a bit of the tranny housing that was cut out for a cooling fin...). This was Sean's Pede and althought I have my own Pede this one has always held together better. The rooster is actually very new. fresh from a rebuild at Novak. maybe 5-6 packs through it. Sean pretty much gave up on trucks quite a while back hence the sale...

i will send it out monday evening after my check comes :D

Damn! caught snoozin! I'd have bought it in a heartbeat. Where's that corner I can cry in? :confused:

Wait guys, we could have a bidding war!!! Not. Sorry Tom.

Damn! caught snoozin! I'd have bought it in a heartbeat. Where's that corner I can cry in? :confused:

if i end up not runnig it i will offer it up back here. but think it will go over huge with the kids. and more bullet prof then the evaders. witch i ran today and had fun with it!

chris money sent.

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Peter, money received. I will get that boxed and out to you asap. My car is in the shop at the moment making shipping a bit more of a hassle. Nothing that $900 wont cure though :cry: I look at it as a couple/few car payments which I am not making by driving this old wreck. I suspect it will drive quite a bit better now! For those bucks, one would hope so.

that is a big bill. hope it runs okay. no hurries and worries chris. get your full size ride taken care of. just let me know when your sending it.

i dont know what it is. if i am startig feel better/on track or what. but i have just been loving all my rc toys. i have run everything but the parts evader in the last week. my mini giant is my fav right now. was getting as much air off the little jump i made out front. not the same distance but good air all the same. and it lands smooth with the 3racing shocks.


hope everyone is good and doing well. with or without the rc's ;)

I've been ignoring my R/C's a little lately, I did run a couple packs thru the Pede over the 4th, but that's about it. There's the series race this weekend but I don't think I'm gonna go, gonna go up north instead. probably take the Pede along for S & G.

Got my credit app in for a new 1:1 truck.... an '05 F-150 4x4 supercab. We'll see if my credit is good enough now. Should be, but I'll almost feel better if I get turned down strange as that may seem. Haven't had a payment on a car in 4 years (just my motorcycle) so I'm a little aprehensive about it. But having a new vehicle would be very nice. Then I can sell my Suburban. Whoever buys that will probably get one hell of a deal with all the work & $$ I've put into it. New Motor, Trans, Rear end, brakes, exhaust, Damn thing is pretty much new under the skin.

Peter, wanted to get it out today but it seems that Sean had not done quite as good a cleaning job as I had hoped. So, a bit more scurbbing and it should go out tomorrow. Friday at the latest. More of that 'handling' fee I will be charging him...

Thanks for asking but no, the car isn't running better. Different but not better. It will have to go back and have them look it over again. *sigh*

tom good luck on the truck(kind of ;))
everytimne i take my '92 devill ein for service they try to talk me into a a new deville or escalade. and i say if you can match my current payments i'll do it. but i plan to have my car for a very long time.


chris no prob, as long as it not a buffalo chip :D
thanks

Got approved for the truck. Gonna pick it up tonight. 1st brand new vehicle I've obtained since 1980 (not counting the motorcycle). Newest 4 wheeled vehicle I've owned is the 94 Concorde I still have that I bought in 98.

Cool! enjoy it. Nothing quite like that new car smell right? Drive fast, take risks!!! ;)

congrats on the new ride!

you need to post a pic of it, before it gets it's first door ding. and watch out in parking lots.

later guys :D

Peter,

Pede is Washington bound, USPS Priority.

Peter,

Pede is Washington bound, USPS Priority.

thanks chris will let everyone when i get. getting ready to rip the rx.servo out of the evader to get it running :D
and i can go and put my rooster back in scott's truck.
penguin chassised tlt w/proto-type tranny parts.

Hi all, I'm new here. I have an Elec Stampede that I bought about 5 years ago. I bought the assembled version. About a year ago I put in some better wheel and transmission bearings (same size, not sure what kind, though) and they helped it roll a lot smoother. I've been reading some of the posts about upgrades and I have a couple questions that I'd appreciate if someone could help me with:

I think I'd like to go with a 17-turn motor. I want something faster than the stock 20-turn one. I take it that with a faster turning motor, my top end speed will increase, but I'll lose a little torque - is this correct? I don't mind losing a little torque, I'm not driving it over anything too rough, just dirt and ramps. When I looked into 17-turn motors online, all of them say "double" or "double modified motor"... what does that mean? And with this faster motor, will I have to upgrade my transmission or change the gearing? I plan on putting in an aluminum idler gear and lubing it up like mentioned. I don't know much about these cars, but I'm getting excited about the promise of simple upgrades and more fun!

Double would be the wind of the motor. Lower the wind the more torque. A good motor like a Speed Gems Extreme 17x2 would me alot more torque. What you said is correct but the Stinger has no torque so any motor will be a upgrade for torque and speed. It should be geared 15/87, and if you have good sticky rubber and good batts like GP's, Sanyo's, or IB's you will wheelie with ease.

markjfun@hotmail.com, welcome tot he pede monster truck forums.

dabomb has you headed in the right direction. but when it comes to 17x2(or double) that means more then one peice of wire is wraped aound the amature of the motor. but for a good range of speed, acceleration, and run tiume a 17-19 motor is going to be your best bet.

The stock servo just would not hold up for me. After installing a metal geared servo the problem never returned. Money well spent.

chris it came today!

and thanks for the 2 bodies. i thought your paint loked good on the web the h1 sut is sick! :D

going to pull the rx out of mini giant and fire it up. will rebuild the shocks later(or maybe switch to B-bores).

thanks again!
-peter:D-

Glad it made it so quick! Yeah, the Hummer lid was fun to paint. I highly recommend that you figure a way to reinforce it at the rar body holes as that is a major weakness. We couldn't get the bloody thing to stay on even with multiple donuts. Of course, that was with Sean's driving... :p

had some fun running it already! i grabed the rx out of the evader(going to have to order 2 new rx's or a new radio with one....) but i blew out the rear right and spun the road hawg tire off the pede rear rims! was a bit slower then my evader but it has a 17x2 in whil ei droped the element in the pede.

when it cools off i think i am going to install the extra set of big bores, and decide on rims and tires. and change up the evader St for my friend to drive when he comes down.

nicest day of the summer so far! almost 90 and not very humid out either. going to grab dinner witht he family and have good cigar my wife bought me the other day and relax on the back pourch.

well later all!

Sounds like fun! I haven't done much other than sell off my stock for quite some time. We have a big vacation coming up in a couple weeks and if there is room in the car I might toss the Pede in just for yucks.

have to say, I have gotten about $800 out of my "toys" so far. Lots more I could sell but I down to what is either not worth selling (old batts, etc) or not worth selling because of the fun factor. I mean, why sell the Pede or the XXXT when I can keep it around for free?

The mountain bike let me down tonight. Afte spending over a grand on the car last week I was seriously bummed when the suspension gave up the ghost on a ride this evening. I bailed on the ride and limped on out of the woods. Hopefully I can fix it but now I have a big bad bug to get a new bike. Well, not new, just less old. This one has a 9 yr old frame!!! That is ancient from a mtb point of view. Still make them the same way but that is a lot of abuse! Found an '01 of the model above mine. I am hoping to give it a test ride tomorrow if nobody has bought it before me. :cry: Having banked so much from the cars I figure I can swing this without too much marital grief. Especially if I can sell the old one! Heck, if I could sell that old wreck of a Pede to Peter, I can sell anything!!!! (kidding of course Peter, you actually got a heck of a deal as you probably know!)

i guess the other day the neighbor dusted off his very new and used pede and was using the kicker ramp i throw up in my froint yard. i happen to be at the track then.... but it's cool. i have the jump setup to go from the yard to the street. the lip is 10-14inches high. having a fun learnmign to correct in the air.

i thrrew my tamiya heat sink on and first run off the ramp i landed on it! lol.. it was kinda S shaped and not C shaped. i re bent it and threw it back on the crawler. going to get a big fin eagle mount this weekend, i think.

bu t i do have Q?
were is the info for the front pede conversion listed? i remeber a site having a how too on it. but i think i lost the link in a pc re-boot. some time ago.

and what is th emotor and gearing of choice? i am running a 19tx2 element, and 17/87 gearing. run time seems good, but looking for a good combo of run time and speed fun. maybe barrowing a novak Bl for a bit. :D

chris hope the gremlins start picking on someone else for a while. goo dluck with the bike hunt.

:) The hunt ended quickly! I got over to see the bike and picked it up on the spot. The bike isn't the be-all and end-all but it is a great frame to start with. Between my old one and this one I should come out way ahead! The selelr was great too. I worked too late to get cash from the bank but had a cashier's check made out to myself form my credit union. he was willing to accept that counter-signed over to him. I was still $150 short. He told me to just get it too him in the next week! I was shocked. Happened that he was going out to dinner a couple miles from my house last night so I met him at the door and paid him in full within an hour of getting the bike. He didn't seem to least bit surprised I didn't mess with him. I guess I have an honest face or something.

Now I have some work to do swapping things between the two bikes! AND, of course the bearings which failed on the old one arrived at the bike shop yesterday. Just one day late to save the ride (but hopefully not too late to save the frame).

well got home from diner and the neighbor had his pede out usin gth ejump i had in my yard. i busted out my beast and had some fun. he picked up a chamelon2 pro motor today and was loving the speed. i went to throw his batt on my charger and i burnt myself on the esc fin!. his gear mesh was way to tight.

blew out the motor re-lubed it and reset the mesh. longer run tiems and bit faster as well. think he will be a regular runner this summer. he was talking about getting a new lid as well.

well after attempting a few back flips i broke the front body posts :D and truely trashed the chevy truck body it came with. unless i come up with a new way to mount my bodies. i went tot he lhs to look for a new body but they had nothing that i like short of maxx bodies. did size up the hpi el camino. length was a nice fit, but wanted some more chassis coverage.

i went with a eagle model snap on heat sink. a cool goldish yellow one. only covers a third of the motor can. but has a cool look and and i can notch the tranny case some more to protect ti from my bad landings. think i am going to try stock emaxx red springs ont he rear to firm it up as well.

well later all!

I have thought about roll cages inn the past and always figured that the lid would do the job. But in the case of back flips maybe a metal rollcage IS what is needed. Oh well. Parts is parts. :p

it was well worth it!

i say that now becouse i have a tub of spares right now ;)

but think i have come up with a cheap wide pede conversion. will just use the extra rear arms i have, but i will drill new holes for the C-hubs to mount to. should make the truck equal width fron and back.

hello all, just bought myself a E-stampede and I have my TC3 IMFAR 8T double and 8T speed control I was thinking about putting into the stampede. I do have a 19T esc and double wound chamelon if the 8 T is too much. My question is will the 8 turn be ok for this thing? or just wheelie central? Also I am looking into maybe some mud or wet material driving, is this a bad thing for the electronics? Are there any enclosures I could use to protect the speed control? But the thing gets super hot, maybe rig a small PC fan to it?Thanks for your help, and sorry about all the rambling!
JW

i would go with the 19t. but that is me. the pede is a very heavy rig. but i am sure the other more Sr memebrs will give you better reasoning. and welcome!

i had to tear into the pede tranny, i seem to have bent the screws in the tranny case and the alloy iddle gear stripped the diff gear! lol. but of course the lhs is out of the parts. so not only is my pro4 down but so is my pede :( hope the parts come in tomarrow.

Yeah, I'd stick with the 19 turn too. ALOT less maintenance and more run time, easier on all parts.

Will I see a big performance difference between the 2? I know the 8T double engine is alot faster in my TC3... but overall performance might not be worth it, I guess in a truck I want low end tourque? But thats all in gearing, so would you all recommend buying a set of better bearings real quick?

you can run the 8t in your pede and decide your self. but pedes run hot! and we all know heat kills motors fast.