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Monster Truck Madness / Laying Rubber – Buncha new Tires
Hey all, sorry for the late column this week. Gonna be another two-fer as I combine the MTM and LR topics into one. This week I wanted to talk about tires, as there have been some big releases in both the monster truck and drag racing worlds as of late. Let’s start with drag racing. Wide tires are coming to no prep [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Skimming Across the Top
The other day after our monthly monster truck racing event, my buddy Aaron Janes decided he would try a stunt that we’ve joked about all summer- sending a solid axle monster truck across the pond that sits next to our racing surface. Naturally, we had to get it on camera! A little about the truck that’s used- his “Hellion” bodied truck [...]
- 9/23/2020
- 4:36 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
RC Monster Truck - By: Doug
Review – 1/10 Amp Crush 2WD Monster Truck Brushed RTR
The folks at ECX and Horizon Hobby have been releasing out all sorts of r/c vehicles geared towards beginners or budget-minded hobbyists over the last couple of years, and the 1/10 Amp Crush is their latest entry in the always popular ready-to-run (RTR) 2wd monster truck segment of the hobby. How did it fare after extensive testing? Read-on to find [...]
- 9/18/2020
- 3:10 pm
- Car & Truck Reviews
ECX - By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Hauling a Monster Truck
The CEN Racing Ford F450 SD scaler is definitely the hottest topic as of late in r/c land, and this week we are gonna discuss it here as well a bit! So last week I mentioned that I’d like to see how this truck looks in scale next to a Tamiya Clod Buster or Axial SMT10. Our own Jeremy, who if [...]
- 9/16/2020
- 8:37 pm
- CEN
Monster Truck Madness - By: Doug
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 [...]
