My RC Commander Build

[Matt]

(EDIT: CLICK HERE to Jump to finished pictures )

Had to throw this in its own thread....

Some basic "must knows"

1) I got the body from a cheap Dickie RC Commander

2) Mounted the body on a 1/18th Losi Crawler

3) The Losi was previously owned by a guy who did competitive crawler comps.... this is important because of how he has the suspension setup. There aren't any springs in the front so I need to get new coilovers for the front to level out the ride height.

4) I want to get some bigger tires!

5) I did this in 3-4 hours (including 2 home depot runs)... so it's not exactly up to some RC enthusiasts "standards". Spare me


Build Pictures:

First had to mount my main brackets:







Next was to mount my cross brace:

[Matt]

Ok, now time install the "sliders"... AKA body mounts







Reorganized the electronics:



Had about 5 different body attachment methods worked out..... decided to try this for simplicity and to keep it cleaner:

[Matt]

Playing around...

[stites-xk]

Thats pretty awesome man!

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[Matt]

Pretty sure these are the tires im going to get... or maybe a bit bigger.

This is a good comparison to the stock tire size. I think they'll fit perfectly! (worst case i can always raise the body

[Matt]

These are the wheels I just ordered:




..... See a similarity?




And the tires as shown in the last picture...

[Sal-XK]

That is crazy! Looks good though.

[Matt]

Lol thanks. About to play outside for a bit and its coming to Rausch Creek With me tomorrow!

[NeilSmith]

[Matt]

I saw that... lol that's what motivated me. He built that on a micro-crawler and extended his wheelbase to make it work. Mines built on the bigger version (mini-crawler) so it wont look as much like a scaled since the standard frame is already bigger. But I'm good with that because 2" lifted commanders are getting boring so at least my RC will have some monster meats!!