Nice, so the crappy front tires helped you too, lol. It makes sense. 90% of the setup is tires. You can wrench till the cows come home, but you cant overcome the wrong tires. I should have realized that months ago. Would have saved me some money and headache.

No you got it right hubs are the same. Just carbon fiber flipped.

I rebuilt my eBay purchased 4x4 and shimmed the diffs using shims from some B4 gear diffs. It's got an RS Pro and a X12 8.5t in for now to see how it does just for a laugh.
I've put lighter fluids in the shocks so I can experiment with swapping them on to my FT.
Be interested to see how long the massively worn diffs last. If chucked a load of shock limiters on and I'm gluing up some stock tyres as they seem to work so well on our track.
All good fun.

well im back from Connecticut. the 2012 Short Course Nationals at R/C Madness on August 3-5 was alot of fun.i had an issue with my esc all weekend that i didnt get figured out till after my main. one of the techs was there from castle creations and he got me back on track. ven though i did bad i still had a great time. met some cool people and got a nice sun burn ! mother nature even gave us a show on sunday. i have more pics i will share.

hey is anyone using mips bypass valves ? do ya have any set up advice ?

i am glad to see that my post hilped so may i didnt exspeck that with the bald tires for me it is calibers all around

You runnin the calibers outdoor? If so, the blockades are the best I've found for outdoor.
Calibers indoor? Never would have thought

Most that I've heard running those are using the stock suggestion in the faster rebound configuration (on their site). Fine tune from there.

Hey Craig, Where is the location of that track?. Looks pretty good

Hey guys, has anyone heard of taking the belt drive off of this truck and making it a 2wd sc? I am asking because I have this truck, but they are only running 2wd at my local track and I don't have the coin to drop on a new vehicle.

Here is how I did mine. Fabricated my hub extenders out of 7075 aluminum where the link would be inline with the inner hole on the stock rear carrier (ALA BK). 12MM ballstud inner hole on the tower with 6.5MM shims under it. Works Great!!
Mark

i will give them a try if thy have a set at the track

Exeter. We are lucky to have two tracks in Exeter (one indoor), an offroad in Visalia, an asphalt parking lot in Visalia, and at least four others within an hours drive.

It's in our buddy's backyard..surface is HOOKED UP! drivers stand is a C container with a wheelchair ramp, AMB system..if your ever in the central valley drop me a line..track can be opened for practice, and theres an indoor track about 5 miles away..

Don't.

a) Too heavy
b) COG is too high
c) Even if you remove all the gears, outdrives, and CVDs from the front to lighten it, you're just making the weight distribution even worse.

If you want to race, and you can't get enough 4x4s together to get your track to introduce the class, then buy an SC10. You can find them for cheap enough. I got mine as an RTR minus the radio for $100 with virtually no wear. I took that same truck to a TQ with a 3rd place finish at this last weekend's Novarossi Challenge, with the only chassis upgrade being hexes on all 4 corners and the lipo battery strap. Electronics were swapped out for LRP Sphere and x-12 8.5.