Super Slick Monster Truck

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No, not the 1:43 scale one. The 1:25 scale one! :-o

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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SuperFly wrote:No, not the 1:43 scale one. The 1:25 scale one! :-o

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.
I saw that, that thing looks insane!

Must of been cool to see it in person.
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These trucks kick ass, and they are only $20!!! :-D

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?
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Triple the speed...
four times the duration....
And they explode if you crash them too hard!
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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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Cheesehead 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?
Iwaver does make a version of the mini-z monster it goes under the name firelap 4.0

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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Cheesehead wrote:Out of sheer curiousity, what kind of motor do they use?
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.
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, well then, I know what I am picking up next time I hit Toys R Me. Hmm, wonder if I can order on the net? Will look and see.
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Here is the size comparison of a 130 motor and the ssmt motor.

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I have to go out and get a few more of these monsters.
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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.
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And they explode if you crash them too hard!
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evoraptor wrote:Here is the size comparison of a 130 motor and the ssmt motor.

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I have to go out and get a few more of these monsters.
wow! :eek: getta loada that motor!
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Post by hue35 »

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.

-JNY
Tuner1989 wrote:
Cheesehead 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?
Iwaver does make a version of the mini-z monster it goes under the name firelap 4.0

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.
The difference with these is, they're 4wd!
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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.

-JNY
Tuner1989 wrote:
Cheesehead 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?
Iwaver does make a version of the mini-z monster it goes under the name firelap 4.0

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.
The difference with these is, they're 4wd!
Crap hue, how could i forget that! Yeah that would make a difference lol.

Good catch there.

Yep these little beasts are 4wd like hue said, that completely slipped my mind. :?
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