Pic below (aside from wheelbase issue, the wheels are 'all wrong' and the body needs slightly lowered): The wheelbase of the shell is obviously too long but that will be sorted by some combo of trailing arms and home made bracketry. The front body posts line up perfectly and the wheels sit really nicely inside the fenders. I went ahead and plunked its shell on top of my Element Enduro chassis and, guess what? It fits! Well, sort of. It looks epic and drives like a dream (if your dream includes ridiculous oversteer and limited traction). Well, after a really long delay, I got back on this idea.īasically I went out and bought a KORP and built that. Of course, I could just wait until August and buy the Rampage Pro kit, accept RWD and MOA and be done with it but, where's the fun in that? I guess best would be to measure bearing to bearing. Centre eye to centre eye length of the Kyosho Rampage. Centre eye to centre eye length of the twin hammers trailing arms.ģ. Centre eye to centre eye length of the gatekeeper trailing arms.Ģ. So, parts might not be interchangable.Īll that said, it would be incredibly helpful to know the following:ġ. It also looks like I've underestimated the differences between the gatekeeper's trailing arm setup and the approach I was thinking to take. Probably not much in it TBF but I also reckon the trailrunner wheels might work better than the gatekeeer ones. Hi, thanks for all the advice and offers of assistance.Īs to starting out with the gatekeeper vs the trailrunner, I think it will cost less to convert the trailrunner to trailing arm than to convert the gatekeeper to IFS. I'm far from an expert when it comes to custom builds but I can take some additional pictures for you or try to advise you on some of the mods/adjustments I made. It also requires some chassis modification, your choice of divorced transmission and a long drive shaft. It'll fit "standard" crawler axles but you'll need a good amount of offset (I don't have a number off the top of my head) in the rear to match the front and get the right fit under the fenders. The outlaw makes a good platform for a pre-runner/trophy truck but needs some work if you want to make a more scale looking rig. The ExtremeRC trailing arm kit are some quality bits but due to the way the trailing arms and upper links mount, you won't be able to stretch wheel base to fit the Kyosho body without installing longer links/arms. Increasing the travel as much as I did will eliminate the the FWD, with out modifying the differential/drive cups/half shafts, the half shaft aren't long enough. I'm not quite confident enough in the mods I did to be able to walk through it, bit I can try to answer any questions you have about it. In stock form, the element IFS doesn't have enough travel for a pre-runner build(IMO). Add a decent 10T (5 slot) or so motor and away I go.Īnyone got any advice/thoughts on this idea?Īs someone who is working on an element pre-trail runner (and a non-MOA 2WD Kyosho Outlaw), I can think of a few things. I could then mod the extreme rc conversion kit (or fab my own) to fit the wheelbase. I'm 99% sure the body/cage could be made to fit the enduro chassis (there's a few examples of people using the AR44 axle on the rear of the Kyosho truck so it seems to fit crawler axle widths). Attempt to somehow mount the body onto the chassis and come up with some means to extend the wheelbase out to 13" to accomodate the Kyosho bodyīasically, I've always liked the look of the Kyosho but am not too mad for the 2WD, MOA drivetrain. Buy a Kyosho Rampage Outlaw body and cage ( )ĥ. Basically something like the really nice kit here ( )Ĥ. Since Element did not, for some reason, released the Ecto instead of an IFS/Trailing arm truck, looks like I'll need ot build one myself.ģ.
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