Back to this build. I pulled out the clod and all its pieces and it was in some real shambles. after some assembly i was able to take some starter pics to the build Now the Clod Bug was ignited due to super awesome Dadic sending me some stellar Christmas presents, and informing me about what the clod has become over the years as far as modding and possibilities. Here is what he sent to get me going.
- ESC, Receiver, Controller
- Heavy duty servo, HPI Fireball motors
I set out on the install of the guts. Ordered a shiny new Plastic electronics tray and fixed up the broken shock with left over parts Well she was all up and running again. She was alive!! I threw a 3s Lipo in there... ok last time I ran this thing it was on NiCds and stock motors.... I have never seen this thing fly so fast as when I first ran it with the 3s Lipo. I thought I was going to melt the gears. Anyways after the initial shock was over I set out on the interwebs to find as much info as I could on what was available for the Clod. Thus leading me here. What a great site for info by the way! I think I spent somewhere around 30-40 hours of research on Parts available, different configs, how parts will and won't work together, other peoples builds etc...
I settled on these parts below (I'll try and dig to figure out where I got them if interested... mostly Ebay, Integy CPE and maybe RC4WD)
First and foremost I had to get rid of the stock steering.. It down right sucks unless you are going for an all stock Clod. Way to much slop. On Axle was the best option as it opened up many doors to further mods. No longer constrained by a set wheelbase to make the stock steering work... I like options
. I also knew links were in the future as I had always wanted them as a kid, and now had the means.
