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Monster Truck Madness – All Over the Road
Good day my four wheel loving friends. I come to you with a smorgasbord of random MT related topics this week. That new CEN Racing Ford F450 sure seems to be making a big splash this week, doesn’t it? Jeremy, our resident scaling fanatic, will probably be touching on it in Friday’s Everybody’s Scalin’ so I won’t steal his thunder, but [...]
Laying Rubber – Picking Out a Body
Hey all, back again with another check-in on my Traxxas Bandit drag car conversion project. This fella has been progressing quite slowly, but I’ve actually enjoyed it that way, as I use it as a quick fill-in between working on my race monster trucks. So today we are going to talk about the body I picked…or should I say bodies? Let [...]
- 9/8/2020
- 3:54 pm
- No Prep Drag Racing
Traxxas - By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness - JConcepts Silent Speed 17T Motor Spo…
Brushless motors have been the defacto thing in r/c racing and bashing ever since the technology started to become affordable in the mid to late aughts. The combination of high speed with minimal maintenance sure made it seem like brushed motors were destined to become a thing of radio control’s past, relegated to budget minded ready-to-run vehicles only. A funny thing [...]
- 9/1/2020
- 5:06 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness / Laying Rubber – Bang the Blower
Big shout out to fellow Squid Jeremy, our in-house scale expert, for building a beautiful BIGFOOT #8 replica complete with a scale driver. Check out his column on it! So for this week it’s gonna be my first (and probably not the last) dual column where I’m going to combine Monster Truck Madness and Laying Rubber into one. I didn’t know [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Return of the Monster Mailbag
Hey everyone, I have several questions I’ve been sitting on this week, so let’s get to it. I see a lot of people replicating real life monster trucks, both ones from the old days and new ones, yet I don’t see any licensed decals out there. Is it all paint? How do you guys do it? Steve M. from Huntsville, AL Steve, the [...]
Laying Rubber – Dropping the Bandit Ride Height on the Cheap
Hey all, I’m back to discuss my Traxxas Bandit VXL Drag Car project! We are close to getting it on track. To see how I got to this point, check out the archive here. Before I pick and mount the drag car body, the last thing that needs to happen is to drop the ride height. As the car sits out of [...]
- 8/13/2020
- 1:48 pm
- No Prep Drag Racing
Traxxas - By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Whole Lotta Stuff Goin’ On
I’ve spent the last month or two primarily in Clod Buster town, and with both of those projects finally “finished” (they never are finished), I am coming up for air and will cover a few big news items that are going on in the r/c monster truck world.Traxxas just yesterday announced the Traxxas Hoss 4×4 VXL. While my knowledge of [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Regulators, Roll Out
This is the continuation of last week’s post detailing the build of my JConcepts Regulator Clod Buster. You can find that link RIGHT HERE. With a full event day in the bag, here are some post-run impressions of the Regulator from myself as well as my buddies that also debuted their own. That would be Jeremy (Taurus), Josh (BIGFOOT #4) and [...]
- 8/4/2020
- 2:38 pm
- JConcepts
Monster Truck Madness - By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – JConcepts Regulator Build
Alright folks, after several weeks of saying I was going to talk about it, I’m finally ready to discuss the JConcepts Regulator Chassis Conversion kit, designed for the Tamiya Clod Buster. To the solid axle r/c monster truck fan, this release is a really big deal. Sure, the Clod chassis aftermarket has always been active with various modified chassis and performance [...]
- 7/28/2020
- 4:02 pm
- Featured Posts
JConcepts
Monster Truck Madness - By: Doug
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Laying Rubber - CONVERTING A TRAXXAS BANDIT TO AN LCG SLASH …
Hey folks, back with another update on converting my Traxxas Bandit VXL to a no prep drag car. You can click here to see previous entries in the series to catch-up. Today, we are finally putting power to it! Most of what I’m discussing today is pretty easy to follow, so unlike the last few articles there won’t be a ton of [...]
- 7/23/2020
- 3:33 pm
- No Prep Drag Racing
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness - RC4WD Jumps Into the Solid Axle Aren…
Boy, the r/c monster truck news keeps coming fast and furious as of late, doesn’t it? I can’t seem to catch up! I had meant to talk about my JConcepts Regulator Clod build, but thanks to RC4WD dropping some major news it’s gonna have to slide to next week. And yes, sorry I keep bumping that off, but given I [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Introducing Rotten Ol’ Apple
Hey all, I’m back this week with a *gasp* finished project! Forgive me for going out of order here as this week I meant to originally discuss how to replace the stock four wheel steering system on a stock Clod Buster with something that actual works like it should, but after building Rotten Ol’ Apple (the truck that was to [...]
- 7/14/2020
- 5:04 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Much Needed Distraction
Hey folks, the column is going to be super short this week as I am dealing with a family situation. I haven’t missed a weekly MTM post since starting it a few years back though, so I’d rather make a short one versus not one at all! The picture above is what is currently awaiting me on my build bench. A [...]
Laying Rubber - CONVERTING A TRAXXAS BANDIT TO AN LCG SLASH…
Last time on Laying Rubber we discussed how to mate the rear end of a Traxxas Bandit buggy with a Traxxas Slash LCG chassis. Today, let’s talk about the front end.You can start by taking the front suspension assembly off of the Bandit chassis. It’s held on by 3 screws. #gallery-9 { margin: auto; } #gallery-9 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-9 img { border: [...]
- 7/6/2020
- 3:00 pm
- No Prep Drag Racing
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness - Goodbye to the Cub Report, Wild Spec…
Before gettin’ goin’ here, a hearty goodbye and thanks to Cubby who on Monday posted his last Cub Report (well, at least his last weekly edition of it!). I remember many moons ago that I started to regularly visit BSRC due to Cubby’s weekly column that was full of ranting, speculation and hobby news. It was during one of those posts [...]
- 6/30/2020
- 6:21 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
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