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Notorious
Ain't she purty? Not for long! Did a once over, pulled the 652 servo out, good spare for my Granite and plopped in an Amazon 35 kg HD servo. Came with a metal servo arm that clamps down laterally along with the traditional installation screw. Those big wheels SNAP where I put them.
My tx came with a bad steering trim but thankfully I had a spare tx ready to go and HH took care of me in a week. Installed a surpass hobby dual fan. It came with a y adapter but it's trash so I bought a 5 pack off Amazon (lotta amazon) and now I have spares and some for future projects.
I placed a 2x2in 1/4 inch foam square underneath the motor. Super snug should cushion it from jumps at least till it melts. 10 runs in so far so good tho
Took a few packs to get used to the truck then maxxed the punch and installed a 14 tooth Pinion. Got the non D shaped one by mistake. Red loctite on the set screw so far it's holding nice. It's a straight savage.
Easy doubles probably try some triples soon, climbs trees, occasional standing backflips when the batteries are fresh. Popping back from Lid slides are a breeze with this thing and the real steel coming through makes em even more fun.
I have a park in walking distance with a little skate park on it. There's two 2 foot wide DEEP "potholes"(sink holes?) in the field. Hit one while I had my foot to the floor board and she SMASHED into that hole 4 front flips and a 15 foot cartwheel later my front bumper was GONE. Screw snapped clean off at the hinge pin cover. Did it's job though no damage to the arms or anything else.
I still opted to upgrade to the Outcast EXB bumper. I like the spring loops I think they should be standard and the EXB bumper is also way beefier all around.
The actual bumper was still ok I wish it fit so I had a spare. Might take a Dremel to it to make it fit if I get bored. I was able to peel the Notorious plate decal off and put it on the new bumper.
It sticks out a little further than stock too, idk whether I like that or don't but it is way better design all around.
The chassis slap was scraping the rear so I slapped a rpm rear skid plate on there. Thought the mudguards on the Sledge we're cool so I slapped them on too makes clean up alot easier. Theres only 1 screw that lines up with the rpm ones so I cranked it on tight and then in the other screw hole that is there I screwed it in 3/4 creating a shelf for the mudguards to rest on.
Put it to the test too jumping the berm next to the play ground. Committed to a backflip that I had no chance on and turned the top bumper into a shovel. No damage very impressed.
A couple days ago it was cold but I ran anyway in the yard I got a couple flywheels ramps
To do small jumps and singles with.
2nd time I landed on my ass I snapped the wing mount clean off. It's cold and it's survived alot of tumbling so no complaints. Plus where it broke all the bracing is still in tact which was awesome I could keep running. Gonna try boiling the replacement see if I can get it a little more flexible.
I did one last lazy jump before calling a day and hit it wrong. It was almost upside down I should have mashed brake for a front flip but I tried to spin it back around with throttle and lawn darted it. Broke a shock shaft where it threads in.
Jennys was sold out so I ordered just the shafts off Amain.
For giggles and poop I took a ruler to the back of the Granite's ZD shocks. Almost same length so in a pinch I could rob Peter to pay Paul if I wanted.
Today I took my son and his Voltage went out with my uncle and his Maxx for some ramp bashing and general screwing around at the park. Lots of ramp jumps and flips, lid landings , lawn darting and cartwheels we suck
The Granite broke my last CVD snapped the metal Axel clean off again. Smoked his Maxx in a drag race tho. Too much POWER. Peeled out around the ballfield and watched the rear wheel roll away.
So temporarily the rear zd shocks went on the front of the Noto and we finished out the day. Maxx collided with the backstop pole and busted a steering block while we were racing and that was the day.
Some ripping around the skate park before I left. Smashed the rail on the quarter pipe a couple times trying to jump it but all the Noto got today was some rear body mounts knocked loose and I lost a body clip at some point
On a 14 tooth with the dual fans even ripping full throttle on grass for long distances she stayed nice and cool, cool enough for the finger test in fact didn't even have to break out the temp gun.
Diffs are still going strong, and other than I need some better tire glue, everything has held up great. Breakages I have had so far were 100% driving related and other than the bumper took multiple of the same driving errors before the break occurred. Really impressive rig even in non-EXB configuration.
How she looks right now
Lucked out on Jennys tonight scored A pair of front shocks so I'll have spares should I need them even though I got shafts coming for the one I broke.
I'm no Rich Duperbash but in my opinion The Notorious lives up to
Don't just bash, Blast
Notorious
Ain't she purty? Not for long! Did a once over, pulled the 652 servo out, good spare for my Granite and plopped in an Amazon 35 kg HD servo. Came with a metal servo arm that clamps down laterally along with the traditional installation screw. Those big wheels SNAP where I put them.
My tx came with a bad steering trim but thankfully I had a spare tx ready to go and HH took care of me in a week. Installed a surpass hobby dual fan. It came with a y adapter but it's trash so I bought a 5 pack off Amazon (lotta amazon) and now I have spares and some for future projects.
I placed a 2x2in 1/4 inch foam square underneath the motor. Super snug should cushion it from jumps at least till it melts. 10 runs in so far so good tho
Took a few packs to get used to the truck then maxxed the punch and installed a 14 tooth Pinion. Got the non D shaped one by mistake. Red loctite on the set screw so far it's holding nice. It's a straight savage.
Easy doubles probably try some triples soon, climbs trees, occasional standing backflips when the batteries are fresh. Popping back from Lid slides are a breeze with this thing and the real steel coming through makes em even more fun.
I have a park in walking distance with a little skate park on it. There's two 2 foot wide DEEP "potholes"(sink holes?) in the field. Hit one while I had my foot to the floor board and she SMASHED into that hole 4 front flips and a 15 foot cartwheel later my front bumper was GONE. Screw snapped clean off at the hinge pin cover. Did it's job though no damage to the arms or anything else.
I still opted to upgrade to the Outcast EXB bumper. I like the spring loops I think they should be standard and the EXB bumper is also way beefier all around.
The actual bumper was still ok I wish it fit so I had a spare. Might take a Dremel to it to make it fit if I get bored. I was able to peel the Notorious plate decal off and put it on the new bumper.
It sticks out a little further than stock too, idk whether I like that or don't but it is way better design all around.
The chassis slap was scraping the rear so I slapped a rpm rear skid plate on there. Thought the mudguards on the Sledge we're cool so I slapped them on too makes clean up alot easier. Theres only 1 screw that lines up with the rpm ones so I cranked it on tight and then in the other screw hole that is there I screwed it in 3/4 creating a shelf for the mudguards to rest on.
Put it to the test too jumping the berm next to the play ground. Committed to a backflip that I had no chance on and turned the top bumper into a shovel. No damage very impressed.
A couple days ago it was cold but I ran anyway in the yard I got a couple flywheels ramps
To do small jumps and singles with.
2nd time I landed on my ass I snapped the wing mount clean off. It's cold and it's survived alot of tumbling so no complaints. Plus where it broke all the bracing is still in tact which was awesome I could keep running. Gonna try boiling the replacement see if I can get it a little more flexible.
I did one last lazy jump before calling a day and hit it wrong. It was almost upside down I should have mashed brake for a front flip but I tried to spin it back around with throttle and lawn darted it. Broke a shock shaft where it threads in.
Jennys was sold out so I ordered just the shafts off Amain.
For giggles and poop I took a ruler to the back of the Granite's ZD shocks. Almost same length so in a pinch I could rob Peter to pay Paul if I wanted.
Today I took my son and his Voltage went out with my uncle and his Maxx for some ramp bashing and general screwing around at the park. Lots of ramp jumps and flips, lid landings , lawn darting and cartwheels we suck
The Granite broke my last CVD snapped the metal Axel clean off again. Smoked his Maxx in a drag race tho. Too much POWER. Peeled out around the ballfield and watched the rear wheel roll away.
So temporarily the rear zd shocks went on the front of the Noto and we finished out the day. Maxx collided with the backstop pole and busted a steering block while we were racing and that was the day.
Some ripping around the skate park before I left. Smashed the rail on the quarter pipe a couple times trying to jump it but all the Noto got today was some rear body mounts knocked loose and I lost a body clip at some point
On a 14 tooth with the dual fans even ripping full throttle on grass for long distances she stayed nice and cool, cool enough for the finger test in fact didn't even have to break out the temp gun.
Diffs are still going strong, and other than I need some better tire glue, everything has held up great. Breakages I have had so far were 100% driving related and other than the bumper took multiple of the same driving errors before the break occurred. Really impressive rig even in non-EXB configuration.
How she looks right now
Lucked out on Jennys tonight scored A pair of front shocks so I'll have spares should I need them even though I got shafts coming for the one I broke.
I'm no Rich Duperbash but in my opinion The Notorious lives up to
Don't just bash, Blast
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