Strada XT restoration

I got my XT Evo Brushless from Ebay today for £31.

The complete box had the following..

2010 Brushless Strada XT EVO

• Bent Front and rear Shock mounts
• Bent Shocks
• Bent Dogbones
• Bent rear Diff
• Cracked front chassis
• Broken Front Bumper
• 2 Smashed Body shells.

Not so great I hear you say .. but actually not to bad once you read the next list.

Also in the box

• Brand new Rear lower arms
• Brand new Front shock tower
• Brand new front bumper
• Brand new Dogbone 
• Brand new front C-Hub
• Brand new rear Hubs
• Several used but in good condition spares
• Lipo Charger 
• 2 x 3000 Lipo 6s batteries 
• 4 x Wheels Used.
• 2 x Wheels brand new

So ... the spares alone would cost £35 approx to buy.. the charger is about £30 and the batteries if good are £30 ... re-sale so far £95

What am I going to do now then?...well... I'm gonna use all the new spares and I already have a set of silver alloy CNC machined shock towers and I have a set of alloy machines shocks. I have also just ordered the following.

• Silver Alloy Front Gearbox mount  
• Silver Alloy Rear Gearbox mount
• Silver Alloy Steering set
• Silver allow C-Hubs
• New Chassis
• New Dogbones
• New front lower arms
• New Rear Gearbox

All of that has cost £60

These parts will give me a pretty good XT with some nice hop-up's. I'm going to finish it off with a low cost HPI brushed motor and ESC for £30 and a nice new shell that I will spray up for a cost of £15.

Total parts cost £105. If I did not go alloy it would have been only the cost of the gear box, Chassis, Body and electrics, about £50 but I wanna make this new truck look and run as good as my other Strada's so it's well worth the extra spend.

I'm going to test the charger and the batteries and sell them, hopefully will make at least £30 and I'm selling the brand new pair of wheels for £10 so when all is added up and using parts I already have  I'm only spending about £30 to rebuild this XT ... not bad at all.

I'll post some pics and a video soon.

Street run

Had a great street run today with the XB Evo .. did some grass running too along the side of the road. The grass is just that little to long to be honest but the XB did great. I'm really happy with how it was running, really wish I had a track near me as I think I have a great club car here. Was running a little warm but I think that's due to the grass.

Was great fun as always and My neighbors kids came out to watch so I'm going to get a a truggy set up for them to try soon :)

Maverick RC has a facebook page...

Excellent news Mav fans.. there is now an official facebook page

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They are running a comp atm for a iON giveaway so go give them a like.

Full family shot..

Here is the full HPI Maverick Line up..

Front row, Left to Right

Maverick Strada XB Gold. My main buggy, Alloy Shock Towers and front C-Hubs updates, Gmade 85mm big bore shocks all HPI internals ESC, Servo and Saturn 20T motor.

iON XB Buggy with MT wheels. I've also updated the C-Hubs with the brand new Gold Alloy parts which are excellent.

Maverick Strada XB Classic, Blue anodized Shock towers and I have a set of new shocks ready to go on. All HPI Internals once again, ESC, Servo and 20T Saturn. This Strada was a £28 Ebay find that I've restored and it runs like a dream now.

Back Row, Left to Right

E-Firestorm, has Edit Alloy parts everywhere :)

Jumpshot. The brand new 2wd monster truck from HPI.. it's amazing!

Wheely King. The mad as a box of frogs monster... love this thing.

And at the Back, last but not least ... The Maverick Scout.

Looking fine!

Two XB's almost ready to chew dirt ...

My Gold based buggy is now almost tuned in. I've actually just tonight ordered some amazing Gmade 85mm shocks. I have Gmade shocks on my Tamiya Stadium Blitzer and they are amazing so I decided to splash out the £60 to cover all 4corners of my XB Gold.

The current Grey alloy shocks on the Gold will go onto the XB Blue.

I'm also stocking parts now to hop up an XB Silver!!! ... I'll have 3 XB's soon yay!!

New Tyre sets are all on order too...