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
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.
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