Strawb's G-made R1 Rock Buggy

Got me a pretty package yesterday ......

this will be my first crawler ..... influenced by chardiboi's mean lookin LNC .....

i'll be building it part by part while waiting for my Novak Goat 3s 18.5T Ballistic Combo ...

the package



Top of the Box



Bottom of the Box




Packaging is first class .... Opening the Box

whoa!!!!

I built the shocks last night ...... I assembled them in sprung specs ..... but after doing a little more research .... im thinking of switching to droop set up ....



the G-transitions shocks are very well built ..... damper compression is consistent .....

and they look really cool ....




this is the stock skid plate where the links are attached too .....





i wanted some hop up parts for this one but since i'm on a budget now from the xevo project and this one .... i decided to do some custom work ...

i did a few cutting mods here and there so that I have my links in board ..... reason for which ..... so that the links wont get caught in rocks .... percentage of them getting caught when on the outside is higher ...... damaged rig .... damaged play time ....
so keep em in-board .....



the gaps i put in the skid boards is where the links will be mounted on ....

more to come ....


thanks for lookin

WOW! thats cool

i like the shocks set i looks real

im excited to see the finish product


Congratz Strawb

oooooh thats gonna make chardi jealous!

good luck on the build strawb!

Nice one stwbs i really like it
I cant stop drooling need a lot of napkin here he heh heh.
If you dont mind can I take measurement of the chassis for my next project.

wow.. another crawler in the group. slowly but surely they are picking up speed

crawling anyone?

tomriv wrote:

Nice one stwbs i really like it
I cant stop drooling need a lot of napkin here he heh heh.
If you dont mind can I take measurement of the chassis for my next project.

no problem ...... dimensions are for you to take anytime

Thanks Strawb

paul@play wrote:

oooooh thats gonna make chardi jealous!

good luck on the build strawb!

and jealous he sure is..

peace chard..


@allen, really nice.. we appreciate you guys documenting the build(s). It's so hard to pause to take pictures when you are on the mindset of finishing the build before the wife wakes up..

Hi,
You should definitley change the shocks to droop, my CR01 works much better sat low over the axles and with the GMade portal axles yours will have more than enough ground clearance even with droop.

Duane.

laNcELot wrote:

@allen, really nice.. we appreciate you guys documenting the build(s). It's so hard to pause to take pictures when you are on the mindset of finishing the build before the wife wakes up..

dont worry lance... tomorrow strawb will take it to the office and build it there


very nice kit you have allen, cant wait to see it tackle the rocks.


more, more, more...

this one sure looks tough!
but i guess not tough enough..
when the mrs discovers the real price of this bad boy

me? jealous? . . . naaah. . . .














dead envious is the right word. . .

sick looking rig indeed. . . hope it can crawl with my jack one of these days . . .

had decent work put in last night .......

the material used for the axles seem the business ...... it feels like it can take some real beating .....

the stainless axle cover has a very nice touch to the whole axle as well ....














assembled the transmission and mounted it on my modded skid plate ..... the cuts i made on the skid plate like i sadi will accomodate the links .... instead of havin them outside the chassis ..










this is how the modded skid plate looks after i assembled and installed the links ...... i have to say this made me pretty happy as it fit really well and the triangulation of the links had better angles ....

view from the bottom






tuber frame ....




tuber .... axles ... tranny .... links all together ......







i'll be waiting for my HB Rovers before i start installing them on the beadlock rims ....

there's just a lot of screws to beadlock that i dont wanna remove and install again ....


thanks for lookin

great build strawb.. are you waiting for B15?

i want to see it in action along with all the crawlers here in uae

has my goat arrived papi?

the white dot HB Rovers have arrived ......







just waiting to pick up my Novak Goat Combo tonight and the R1 will be ready to crawl

some updates ...... goat 3s esc and Novak 18.5 Ballistic Crawler installed .....

did some painting ......

i put the Gmade stock tires first while waiting for some lead weights for the rims ....

thanks for looking






with the panels on ....

nice. . . . .

now its coming to life!

its really nice to see a crawler here in dubdrift... me getting one in time

update:

i finally found myself some lead weights from a local balancing shop here in alain ....

i put 160grams on each front rim and 60grams on each for the rear before installing the white dot rovers ....




i reconfigured the wiring for the esc and the motor ...... shortened the wires and relocated the goat esc to the rear of the rig ....




installed a JR DS8411 ultra torque digital servo .......

i fabricated myself a front mounted battery tray .... space is fitted to receive a 11.1V 3s lipo ..... found myself velcros to hold the batteries as well ...







some pics .....

have you tired it outdoor strawb?

looks like its ready to crawl big time!

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww

ive tried it outside but not on solid rock yet .....

i wanna get my hands on some 11.1v 3s lipo batts first .....

the 2s batts i have are too big