What did you do to your Merv today?

[Cwt622]

I looked at buying one

[ajcar]

i stripped the rear diff the other day. tired of waiting for parts so i put front diff in rear, and drove it.

[GULLY]

well I broke a wheel off my mini slash

[tatsuvw]

I opened mine, fried one battery (separate issue) and drove it for the first time and gave it some good road rash from flipping over

[korn0307]

Installed new rockers, shock sox, shimmed my rear diff, and dyed my chassis black!

I was thinking bout making a thread like this but wasnt sure bout how popular it would be. Should also include what parts you ordered for your merv!

[devildog88]

Just looked at the hundreds of pieces it is in and sighed...

Now I'm sorta working on it...more like hacking up a perfectly good chassis o_O

[korn0307]

Why are you hacking up a chassis!?

[devildog88]

Moving my ESC into the battery compartment, doing it really weird, so hopefully its never been done...lol

[korn0307]

So your only going to be able to run 1 battery now? Wont that kill run times?

[ajcar]

Moving my ESC into the battery compartment, doing it really weird, so hopefully its never been done...lol

seen it done already. but its a good idea

[devildog88]

I've only ran 1 battery in the past so it wont bother me, plus the way im setting it up I will still have the option to mount the ESC stock ways and run 2 if I want. FTW

[devildog88]

seen it done already. but its a good idea

I know, but I've never seen it the way I'm doing it

[korn0307]

I just attempted to straighten my wheels out on my merv but im cockeyed so i need to invest in one of the RPM gauges.

[erx4x4]

got a new body filled shocks with 60wt custom paint took it all apart and cleaned waiting for traxxas to open in the am to guide me thru servo end point setup[IMG][/IMG]

[mike-susieq1]

ran my merv in the grass while being cut and learn i was about to overheat my motor and flipped over about 1/4 mile away. looks like i will be needing knuckles soon as i got so much wobble.

[well spoken waffles]

just remembered i still had one and am now ordering a new set of rpm a arms for it. was considering buying a mini grave digger, just to see how 2wd on this style of car works out.

anybody know how front wheel drive works out on the rally?

[SimbaDC650]

trying to fix my big block still not catching right with the gears, not the rear diff because its shimmed and not the front who knows!

[GULLY]

front wheel drive would be like a car I suppose, if you ever drove a front wheel drive car, they handle great once you get used to them..

did you check your gearbox? if not the gearbox then it's probably your slipper clutch

[SimbaDC650]

hobby store peeps all agreed it was the rear diff so who knows.

[KillerRevo]

I didn't do anything to mine except run it around the house.

[korn0307]

Im about to go out looking for a nice place to bash a little

[GULLY]

should have taken the cameraaa!

[korn0307]

I bashed through 2 sets of batteries in seires instead of parallel by accident

And i may or may not of just bought a BB for my merv

[krallopian]

Two sets of batteries, flipped it 10 times, jumped a bunch, cleaned it off, dried it up and wd40'd it. Sitting on the table beside me dying to go out again! TOO COLD

[GaiginRC]

Installed a HR front bulkhead. Very easy install. The only hang up was needing to replace the 3x10 screws with 3x8. While I was at it I replaced the two stock bushings in the servo save with BBs.

[korn0307]

I just bought 2 SPC 2500Mah 2S lipos for the BB i bought today.

[GULLY]

hahah, right on korn !!

[korn0307]

Haha im waiting on 7 packages in the mail!

Package 1= HPI mesh wheels, purple springs, GH rear knuckles
Package 2= 4600Kv SV2 system, 60K diff oil, traxxas motor plate
Package 3= Bluebird 390 servo
Package 4= 2 SPC 2500Mah lipos
Package 5= Traxxas brushed motor mount
Package 6= Proline Speed hawgs
Package 7= Traxxas brushed motor gear cover.

[GULLY]

nice.. that's gunna be a killer whip

[korn0307]

Haha thanks! Im happy knowing that its pretty much a finished project. If i break drive shafts then ill get CVDs but other than that i think itll be a good basher lol.

[Cwt622]

Erx4x4 that merv looks sick!

[Cwt622]

Keep em coming? WHAT ELSE have you done to your merv that your proud of?

[korn0307]

I did some research on lipos today so i dont blow my MERV up with its new BB and lipos once i get them.

[Petertje60]

I parked mine against a curb with a respectable speed. Servo horn came lose which caused loss of steering. Damage was only a rod end. I am sure a stock one woundnt have survived that blow without breaking a bulkhead at least. Alu bulks and body mounts are proven to be useful.

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[korn0307]

I was thinking about aluminum bulk heads but i wasnt sure if they would make my merv too heavy.

[devildog88]

Keep em coming? WHAT ELSE have you done to your merv that your proud of?

Proud I got it put back together after it sitting completely tore down for months...NOT proud that as soon as i put power to it my ESC went *poof*

I guess I gave it too much credit that it was a freak and lasted so long...ftl.

Time to upgrade now, SV2 here I come

[korn0307]

Haha order the SV2!! I took the dive and got one yesterday lol.

[Petertje60]

I was thinking about aluminum bulk heads but i wasnt sure if they would make my merv too heavy.

All the alu definately makes it more heavy, but I dont mind a lot because I use it on pavement most of the time and the big block has enough power to get it to nice speeds. If I was a basher, I wouldnt do it.

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[korn0307]

I bash and do some high speed runs. So im gonna run stock till they start giving me problems.

[tatsuvw]

Suffered my first broken part today, broke a rear toe link. $6 a LHS and I will be back on the road