My MT Build Almost Finished

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I am just about finished with my Rampage MT build. I thought I would share some of my upgrades and mods I did. I noticed a lot of people here went with a dual steering servo upgrade, so I decided to come up with my version. Decided the stock roll cage was useless, so I new I would have to make a new one of those. I made some custom shock towers so I could have a rear exit exhaust and a buggy body that could go through the front shock tower so it didn’t need to be cut. I also installed an alloy gear carrier, alloy center diff support, Ramtech C&D gears, alloy front chassis support, front CVD’s, and the Rampage upgrade kit. I didn’t do anything with the shocks, I will deal with those when or if I break them. Now all I need to do is test a few pipes and get the new MCD truck body when it becomes available.


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Here are some more pics of the dual steering servo. View attachment 680 View attachment 681 View attachment 682 View attachment 683 View attachment 684











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[mooman007uk]

Nice mounts dude. Several different types been fabbed up now...good to see.


Do your centre diff mounts have a sloppy bearing fit?

 

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Thanks Moo. Yep, both the center diff mount and the gear carrier had some slop in it. It was very minimal, but it sure wasn’t a tight fit. I wrapped some tape on the outside of the bearings which helped with the fit.


I am going to post some more pics of the custom shock towers and roll cage next.

 

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Here are some pics of my shock towers. View attachment 685 View attachment 686 View attachment 687 View attachment 688 View attachment 689











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Here is the last set of pics, these are of the roll cage. View attachment 690 View attachment 691 View attachment 692 View attachment 693 View attachment 694











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[Gas Jocky]

Hey that's looking really good! Are those Hpi sfl-mg2 servos, you will have some powerful steering! Keep up the excellent work!

 

[speedyd]

very nice truck, i love the polished chassis!

 

[Ron E]

great build, nice fab work also... very good looking mt.

 

[C.B.]

thats looking real good

 

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Thanks guys for all your kind words. Gas Jocky, I got the servos off eBay and was told they were HPI servos, but I am not sure. They are all metal gears, including the final gear and are suppose to have 310oz at .16 sec.

 

[mooman007uk]

did you use 4130 for your cage? looking real good.

 

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No, I don’t have 4130 so I ended up using some 5/16in rod. I had some let over from the roll cage I made for my Titan. My Titan’s roll cage has held up really well, so I figured why mess with a good thing. Here is the roll cage I made for my Titan. View attachment 698 View attachment 699 View attachment 700







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[kryptonite]

wow. this coming along great. i love all the custom fab work you did for the dual steering set-up. what pipe is that you are running?

 

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Thanks kryptonite. The pipe is actually two pipes in one. It is a Samba Marder pipe with a short header form a Samba MCD Rally pipe. It is like the one Samba released for the HPI Baja, which I have read didn’t perform all that well. I will hopefully get a chance to try it this weekend.

 

[kryptonite]

i think the pipe looks great. makes up for its lack of performance. i remember those pipes. they arent bad, kinda good really. but not as good as a snail pipe with a larger chamber.. im running an X-can just couse i like the look. whats the next plan with that rig?

 

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Not much left to do, I want to make an alloy battery box and get the new MCD MT body once they are available. After I run it I might try another pipe, depending on how well the Samba performs. But like you said, it does look good. I do have an X-Can on the way so if the Samba doesn’t work out I will probably give it a try. Are you happy with the performance of the X-Can?

 

[kryptonite]

ive had an X-can before and i liked it. pretty loud and a little better low end. i havent tried my new X-can on the ramp yet. just got it mounted the other day. i don't remember if your running a headkit or not? i found the X-can is better with more noticable power increase on the 23 verse the 28.5. only noticed a small power increase on the 28.5

 

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I was able to try out the Rampage MT for the first time this past weekend. I don’t particularly care for the stock body so I ran an FS Truggy body I had used on my Titan. Unfortunately it isn’t the best quality which is a shame because it fit nice and I think looked really good. The Truck did rather well for its first time out. The pipe performed okay, it sounded good and even though it was fairly protected I managed to ding it all up. I put the roll cage to the test and it performed excellent, really helped stiffen up the chassis. The shocks were the only thing I didn’t touch and that was a mistake. I lost the shock oil in two shocks and the c-clips failed in the other two. Shocks aren’t my favorite things to work on, but I have no choice but to fix them now. Overall I am pleased with the truck so far.


Enjoy the video and just past the 3min mark you will she I almost take out my wife. Her reflexes must be getting better, she hasn’t gotten hit I a while.

 

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Here are some pics with the Truggy body. I think it looks real good on the Rampage, to bad the quality isn’t there. View attachment 807 View attachment 808 View attachment 809 View attachment 810









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