2014 - Traxxas Mini E-Revo
back to Fyrstormer's Garage This one's been a long time coming. When I first got into RC and I was researching my first vehicle purchase, the Mini E-Revo was one of the vehicles that appealed most to me. In retrospect, years before when I was just reading RC magazines but wasn't rich enough to buy anything, the full-size E-Revo looked cool to me back then too. There's something about the "monster-truggy" layout that looks perfectly optimized for hard corners at high speeds, while still having enough suspension clearance to avoid smashing to bits when it runs over a crack in the pavement. However, after reading horror story after horror story about the MERV, I decided to get something else -- a Losi Mini Desert Truck -- instead. A year and a half later, and after lots of evenings spent reading, I finally felt ready to take on the challenge of building a MERV that wouldn't suck. This is what I came up with. Most of the horror stories I read cente...
