I_Am_Doug
Hold thy mead. I am on the cusp of making history.
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Welcome to what I have affectionately named Project Aurora. Why Aurora? I could offer some really existential or fancy reason but, I painted the body with this purple/green Tamiya pearl coat and it looked like an Aurora to me. Super deep. Here's a pic of Aurora around mid-build before one of my test runs:
As I am sure most of you have already learned the lesson that Ready to Run is just plain marketing. Sure, you can charge a couple packs and rip this thing but, after the first throttle pull, that part of your soul that loves RC will realize there is SO MUCH MORE potential for this platform. At that moment, your wallet makes your back pocket tingle and your wife starts to wonder why you stare at a truck so lovingly.
I'd like to break this thread up into several posts outlining each upgrade path I took as well and the success and pitfalls I found along the way. Aurora is almost fully complete however, I have a few minor touch-up points to contend with so, a final pretty post pic is coming soon. I hope you enjoy this thread as much as I did building this truck. It has been a dream of mine since I was a teenage boy too many moons ago to own and run a truly bad as$$ RC car. I think I succeeded, I hope you agree.
Alright, lets get to it.
I ordered a fresh new Kraton 8s EXB RTR from Horizon directly in December of 2023. It was a warm-ish winter here in the North East US so, I charged a few packs and decided to have a little test run in my back yard. As I started to get used to it, I got a little too giddy and ended my run early with this:
Giddy middle aged men, RC cars, and garden fence posts don't mix. Welcome to the gateway crash. Looks like I will need to brush up on my suspension skills. Lets talk suspension in the next post....
As I am sure most of you have already learned the lesson that Ready to Run is just plain marketing. Sure, you can charge a couple packs and rip this thing but, after the first throttle pull, that part of your soul that loves RC will realize there is SO MUCH MORE potential for this platform. At that moment, your wallet makes your back pocket tingle and your wife starts to wonder why you stare at a truck so lovingly.
I'd like to break this thread up into several posts outlining each upgrade path I took as well and the success and pitfalls I found along the way. Aurora is almost fully complete however, I have a few minor touch-up points to contend with so, a final pretty post pic is coming soon. I hope you enjoy this thread as much as I did building this truck. It has been a dream of mine since I was a teenage boy too many moons ago to own and run a truly bad as$$ RC car. I think I succeeded, I hope you agree.
Alright, lets get to it.
I ordered a fresh new Kraton 8s EXB RTR from Horizon directly in December of 2023. It was a warm-ish winter here in the North East US so, I charged a few packs and decided to have a little test run in my back yard. As I started to get used to it, I got a little too giddy and ended my run early with this:
Giddy middle aged men, RC cars, and garden fence posts don't mix. Welcome to the gateway crash. Looks like I will need to brush up on my suspension skills. Lets talk suspension in the next post....