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redrustbucket · Post by **redrustbucket** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:56 pm

thanks to clint for artic mod idea
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthre ... post266079

Maxximum Attack · Post by **Maxximum Attack** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:46 pm

It ain't pimpin' but that shit is OFF THA HOOK!!
Post up those pics here man. That car is sweet.

And a motorised Winch??? sweet. How do you control it? a 3ch controller?

A-class stuff

frizzen · Post by **frizzen** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:29 pm

A motorized winch is very pimpin! What's your winch controlled by? Love that gear reduction, what ratio is that? How do the quad tires compare grip with the available ZZ-M ones? How's the steering torque, it looks like it'd be amazing.

What is the "Arctic Mod"?

How about some more body pics?!? Really dig the Exo-cage.

***POST THE PICS ON THIS FORUM TOO***

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:44 pm

frizzen wrote:What is the "Arctic Mod"?

I finally figured that one out myself. "Artic"ulation mod.

That's totally sweet. I dig the overall package.

Post by **CaboWabo** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:03 pm

Welp, I understood the "Artic" shortened reference...

And I'm with SuperFly in that, I dig the overall package.

And I'm also with the others, post them pics up in here.

Great job homeboy.

redrustbucket · Post by **redrustbucket** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:07 am

redrustbucket · Post by **redrustbucket** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:10 am

thanks for the positive feedback

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:55 am

awesome rides!

i love all the rollbar stuff you got goin on

redrustbucket · Post by **redrustbucket** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:29 am

Maxximum Attack wrote:And a motorised Winch??? sweet. How do you control it? a 3ch controller?

Winch spools in when you drive forward. It's run through a switch to turn it on or off. I like the 3 channel idea though. Could also use some gear reduction. I had it set up to spool out under power as well but it tended to tangle too much.

Maxximum Attack · Post by **Maxximum Attack** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:25 am

I GOT IT!!!!

you can have the winch motor put in parallel with the drive motor, both with switches. You will have 2 swictches mounted outside the car. to work the winch just switch off the drive motor and now your controller turns into a 3ch controller

. You can now use forward and reverse to move the winch.

Then when your friend is out of the mud, you can flip the two switches and drive away

You can get 2 switches off some scrap ZZMTs.

Somehow I had a more complecated idea when I began typing...

redrustbucket · Post by **redrustbucket** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 11:36 am

Maxximum Attack wrote:I GOT IT!!!!

you can have the winch motor put in parallel with the drive motor, both with switches. You will have 2 swictches mounted outside the car. to work the winch just switch off the drive motor and now your controller turns into a 3ch controller

sweet idea

ynad · Post by **ynad** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:01 pm

very cool

redrustbucket · Post by **redrustbucket** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:25 pm

frizzen wrote: Love that gear reduction, what ratio is that? How do the quad tires compare grip with the available ZZ-M ones? How's the steering torque, it looks like it'd be amazing.

I dunno what the final reduction is.

Teeth on gears are as follows :

6t pinion off of stock steering mtr
32t outer drive gear
8t inner drive gear
32t odg
8t idg
32t odg
8t idg
42t final drive gear

If anyone knows how to calculate this I would love to figure it out.

Quad tires are waaayyy better than available zzmt tires. The all terrain style tires seemed to work the best for rockcrawling but they can't touch the quad tires added clearance and knobby grips. I used front tires off of two 1/18th scale Polaris quads at Wal-mart on the white 40 and fronts off of a Honda(??) on the blue one. They fit perfectly over the stock wheels if you slide them on till they touch the inner bead. I cut the inner bead off of another set of wheels, flipped it around slid it into the outside of the tire and glued it for beadlocks. The ties on the VW are siped (cut) and mounted on narrowed rims. I like these b/c they look more scale but the quad tires smoke them in the rocks as well.

Steering torque is very good even with lead in front wheels and way oversized tires. It could probably use a reduction gear or two as well for the gnarlier cracks I crawl with it but it's a huge improvement over stock and a fairly simple mod.

chilli_mp138 · Post by **chilli_mp138** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:42 pm

Awww, come on, frizzen--tell him he can find a gear ratio calculator on my ZZ website. Please?

chilli--at the big wrong turn in Indiana

redrustbucket · Post by **redrustbucket** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:34 pm

chilli_mp138 wrote: gear ratio calculator on my ZZ website

link???

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