Super Slick Monster Truck
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Super Slick Monster Truck
No, not the 1:43 scale one. The 1:25 scale one!
Last night, hue35 and I invited Dogbreath Racing (Chuck) from minizracer.com and his friend Ric to race Mini-Zs at our track. Anyway, he brought this MZM-sized truck that was a modded Super Slick, and it was pretty impressive. $20 at ToysRUs, plus a $20 iWaver board, and he had a fully-propo, 4WD monster truck. He had also performed a suspension travel mod that gave it almost a full 90? of articulation. You can check it out here.
Last night, hue35 and I invited Dogbreath Racing (Chuck) from minizracer.com and his friend Ric to race Mini-Zs at our track. Anyway, he brought this MZM-sized truck that was a modded Super Slick, and it was pretty impressive. $20 at ToysRUs, plus a $20 iWaver board, and he had a fully-propo, 4WD monster truck. He had also performed a suspension travel mod that gave it almost a full 90? of articulation. You can check it out here.
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Re: Super Slick Monster Truck
I saw that, that thing looks insane!SuperFly wrote:No, not the 1:43 scale one. The 1:25 scale one!
Last night, hue35 and I invited Dogbreath Racing (Chuck) from minizracer.com and his friend Ric to race Mini-Zs at our track. Anyway, he brought this MZM-sized truck that was a modded Super Slick, and it was pretty impressive. $20 at ToysRUs, plus a $20 iWaver board, and he had a fully-propo, 4WD monster truck. He had also performed a suspension travel mod that gave it almost a full 90? of articulation. You can check it out here.
Must of been cool to see it in person.
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These trucks kick ass, and they are only $20!!!
Her's a little thread about them. There's a couple of good threads at R7R too.
http://bitpimps.lixlink.com/pages/phpFo ... php?t=6709
It took people a little while to catch on to these trucks, I don't know why?
For $40, you get a RTR, the F-150 body with lights, Hummer body, 2 more sets of tires and rims, 2 more motors, extra shocks. I think its really cool that they come stock with nyloks.
Her's a little thread about them. There's a couple of good threads at R7R too.
http://bitpimps.lixlink.com/pages/phpFo ... php?t=6709
It took people a little while to catch on to these trucks, I don't know why?
For $40, you get a RTR, the F-150 body with lights, Hummer body, 2 more sets of tires and rims, 2 more motors, extra shocks. I think its really cool that they come stock with nyloks.
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I think I may be getting myself one of these. I never got into 1:28 because it's so hard to find a place to drive 'em and because the only ones which could handle outdoor terrain (Mini-Z monster) were outrageously expensive.
iWaver needs to make a proportional version of this. They'd sell millions.
Out of sheer curiousity, what kind of motor do they use?
iWaver needs to make a proportional version of this. They'd sell millions.
Out of sheer curiousity, what kind of motor do they use?
Lithiums are great!
Triple the speed...
four times the duration....
And they explode if you crash them too hard!
GWS 4 EVR
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Triple the speed...
four times the duration....
And they explode if you crash them too hard!
GWS 4 EVR
-my future car's bumper vanity plate
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Iwaver does make a version of the mini-z monster it goes under the name firelap 4.0Cheesehead wrote:I think I may be getting myself one of these. I never got into 1:28 because it's so hard to find a place to drive 'em and because the only ones which could handle outdoor terrain (Mini-Z monster) were outrageously expensive.
iWaver needs to make a proportional version of this. They'd sell millions.
Out of sheer curiousity, what kind of motor do they use?
Rcmart has them for 40$+shipping
They are quite nice and the propo is very good and smooth, i have owned both a mini-z monster and a firelap 04 there is only a slight decrease in performance control wise.
Firelaps and mini-z monsters use a 130 size motor.
I think the superslick motor is slightly bigger.
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I'm not sure, but it's big. Bigger than a mini-z or xmod motor. An important point DBR made was that you don't want that truck to go fast. The chassis is toy-grade plastic, and if you go fast something will break that's not replaceable. It's really much better suited to being a crawler. He had the diffs locked up, and the gearing was pretty low. I'd guess it travelled as fast as a stock bit with a 3.8 motor. The back end could get almost perpendicular to the front end at the extreme range of travel.Cheesehead wrote:Out of sheer curiousity, what kind of motor do they use?
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You know, with a few aftermarket parts, these could become the Mini-Z killer.
Iwaver and TRU should get together on this one; for 60$ or so, they could produce a bigger, better, 4-wheel-drive version of the Mini-Z monster that would become vastly more popular than the AWD Mini-Z could ever hope to.
Iwaver and TRU should get together on this one; for 60$ or so, they could produce a bigger, better, 4-wheel-drive version of the Mini-Z monster that would become vastly more popular than the AWD Mini-Z could ever hope to.
Lithiums are great!
Triple the speed...
four times the duration....
And they explode if you crash them too hard!
GWS 4 EVR
-my future car's bumper vanity plate
Triple the speed...
four times the duration....
And they explode if you crash them too hard!
GWS 4 EVR
-my future car's bumper vanity plate
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pimpsmurf wrote:iwaver makes a 24th monster truck. It's called the Firelap 4.0, and was on ebay for $40 with $15 HK shipping.
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The difference with these is, they're 4wd!Tuner1989 wrote:Iwaver does make a version of the mini-z monster it goes under the name firelap 4.0Cheesehead wrote:I think I may be getting myself one of these. I never got into 1:28 because it's so hard to find a place to drive 'em and because the only ones which could handle outdoor terrain (Mini-Z monster) were outrageously expensive.
iWaver needs to make a proportional version of this. They'd sell millions.
Out of sheer curiousity, what kind of motor do they use?
Rcmart has them for 40$+shipping
They are quite nice and the propo is very good and smooth, i have owned both a mini-z monster and a firelap 04 there is only a slight decrease in performance control wise.
Firelaps and mini-z monsters use a 130 size motor.
I think the superslick motor is slightly bigger.
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Crap hue, how could i forget that! Yeah that would make a difference lol.hue35 wrote:pimpsmurf wrote:iwaver makes a 24th monster truck. It's called the Firelap 4.0, and was on ebay for $40 with $15 HK shipping.
-JNYThe difference with these is, they're 4wd!Tuner1989 wrote:Iwaver does make a version of the mini-z monster it goes under the name firelap 4.0Cheesehead wrote:I think I may be getting myself one of these. I never got into 1:28 because it's so hard to find a place to drive 'em and because the only ones which could handle outdoor terrain (Mini-Z monster) were outrageously expensive.
iWaver needs to make a proportional version of this. They'd sell millions.
Out of sheer curiousity, what kind of motor do they use?
Rcmart has them for 40$+shipping
They are quite nice and the propo is very good and smooth, i have owned both a mini-z monster and a firelap 04 there is only a slight decrease in performance control wise.
Firelaps and mini-z monsters use a 130 size motor.
I think the superslick motor is slightly bigger.
Good catch there.
Yep these little beasts are 4wd like hue said, that completely slipped my mind.