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Slash 4×4 Crawler (Part 2) Width

July 15, 2019 by justin 4 Comments

Suspension Arms

The arms are going to be the single biggest difference maker when it comes to overall width. As part of my research I gathered a list of several Slash-compatible arms and their lengths. If you’ve got more arm lengths to add to that list, please comment below.

Bandit arms are 67mm wide, while the stock Slash 4×4 arms are 92mm. Just by making this switch we’re going to remove 50mm of overall width, bringing it from 296mm wide to potentially 246mm – less than the goal of 249mm. So we have some width we can add if need be.

Here you can see two sets of Bandit arms compared to the original Brushed 4×4 Slash arms:

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Filed Under: Cars, Electric Off-Road Tagged With: crawler, SCT, short course truck, Slash, Slash 4x4, Traxxas

Slash 4×4 Crawler (Part 1) Introduction

July 1, 2019 by justin 1 Comment

Can a Slash 4×4 transform into a trail-worthy RC crawler? I don’t think this is a new question, in fact Ultimate RC did something very similar with a Stampede 4×4 almost 10 years ago.

I took some of the cues from that build and wondered if we couldn’t do it even better. I don’t intend to keep it track worthy like Jang’s Chimera, but can we make it truly trail worthy?

Goal: Independent suspension trail-worthy truck

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Filed Under: Cars, Electric Off-Road Tagged With: crawler, Pro-Line, SCT, short course truck, Slash, Slash 4x4, Traxxas

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