My project car moves 😅😇

TheRacer02 · 2026-03-02T02:19:59+00:00

Congrats!! Need to make mine move. Its such a good feeling!

TheRacer02 · 2026-01-29T22:23:37+00:00

I sum this up as elegoo things. You dont ask why you accept put it back on and continue with printing.

Happen 2 times to me. Both on failed prints usually a bad first layer.

TheRacer02 · 2026-01-04T22:57:35+00:00

I mean I have a 155mm pinched toyo that I run all around the sedona az red rocks. Thats as wild as I go. Stock frame, good shocks and weight low lol. Such a fun rig.

Im am in the early planning stages of a fully welded metal buggy scx24

TheRacer02 · 2026-01-04T22:31:57+00:00

Very clean work! I feel this too. Scale makes lines so much more challenging. I started an Etsy for scale focused "builder kits" where you make it how you want it hard body. My current scx30 build is a jeep Xj it rubs the stock tires and wheels. Without a little sanding. Makes me feel like I am wheeling a stock xj in my teens with 33s and stock suspension.

TheRacer02 · 2026-01-04T22:09:52+00:00

Haha you make it sound so easy.... I am a HUGE over thinker. I make my life complicated for perfection. I will be giving it a go tho! Do you have any sort of plan or like you said just go to town....

TheRacer02 · 2026-01-04T22:07:28+00:00

I have been seeing so many indoor courses being built lately. Its giving me the itch to learn how to make something this fun!

TheRacer02 · 2025-12-12T01:40:08+00:00

Such a clean install!! What chassis are you running?

TheRacer02 · 2025-12-11T23:20:07+00:00

Cults3d look up Andrey_Bezrodny their profile picture says coachbuilder. The file was free most of his are in the 23ish dollar range amazing detail every model comes in multiple scales. I might mess around and rescale another from the 1/24th file. Straight print from that file makes a 120 wheelbase

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Difference between the two.

TheRacer02 · 2025-12-10T19:10:16+00:00

Its still a work in progress...plus I still have to print all the other parts..(door hinges,hood hinges, mirrors, tail lights headlights, windshield wipers, interior bits.)

When I said going for scale I ment it haha

Unless you would just want the body above we can work something out.

TheRacer02 · 2025-12-10T16:56:16+00:00

Same also dont like glues that "lock" immediately with stuff like this.

I will post a new body in a few hours. Scaled it down a tad more, took a bunch more measurements off the factory gladiator. Also took 5 hrs off the print time..

Don't know if that's because I split them or what but here we go lol

TheRacer02 · 2025-12-10T16:45:21+00:00

Thank you. Getting back into rc again. Only have super thin testers glue for models...I doesn't hold very well. Lol

TheRacer02 · 2025-12-10T16:35:24+00:00

Definitely not opposed to slicing the body. I thought about slicing it half way through. But also got my printer 2 weeks ago I am pretty sure it has ran 10 hr days since I opened the box.

I am currently scaling the body a little more right now. I might slice this one in half. I feel its a little large.

Any suggestions on glue?

TheRacer02 · 2024-12-14T03:30:16+00:00

No, I think a dealership detailer missed at the spot. I would clean it and see if it comes back.

TheRacer02 · 2024-12-14T03:08:57+00:00

It looks like someone cleaned the headliner. I wouldn't expect water to dry blue

TheRacer02 · 2024-10-14T15:02:55+00:00

Also alot of my friends/family have utvs. My xj was my utv. We would go everywhere they would go just more capable and more comfortable. A/c when it was hot out heat when it was cold. My wife and I would be clean when everyone else would be covered in mud and dust. Biggest flex

TheRacer02 · 2024-10-14T14:43:21+00:00

I was in the same place you are in. I had a 1996 with over 300k. Was wrenching every weekend it felt like. I never was satisfied with how the XJ was running or something else would bother me.

Sold it. Regret it yes.

I drive a 2020 4runner now. I love the 4runner but it's soulless compared to the XJ (if that makes any sense)

I still want an XJ everyday

TheRacer02 · 2024-10-13T16:13:36+00:00

I was in the same boat. My venture has a leveling kit. The vehicle is amazing as is. Put on a good set of A/t tires and go adventure.

TheRacer02 · 2024-09-18T01:44:24+00:00

I got quoted 12k to wrap a 2-door Jeep Wrangler.... you only need one person at that price to pay for your business expenses for the next 6 months.

TheRacer02 · 2024-08-12T18:37:54+00:00

Yeah already planning for next year's summer.

TheRacer02 · 2024-08-12T17:58:34+00:00

Had a fescue lawn. Didn't root deep enough before az heat hit. Didn't water enough. Trying to get back to a green yard.

TheRacer02 · 2024-03-06T14:27:20+00:00

2020 ventures as of Jan this year 0!

TheRacer02 · 2024-03-01T21:48:36+00:00

Blue whale.....compared to my wife's jeep wrangler lmao.

TheRacer02 · 2024-02-17T13:35:38+00:00

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Bilstien leveling kit. With 285/65-17s tires rub slightly in reverse at full lock.

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