Wow wow wow. I am a radio control fiend, and four years I have been preaching to anyone that would listen about the benefits of using scale RC concepts in full scale. Thank you thank you thank you for finally doing this. Not only is that a ridiculously sanitary build, your impeccable thought process and perfect delivery of the reasoning behind everything is exactly the way virtually everything should be communicated. Thank you for sharing your passion, your craftsmanship, and your magic. Some might say over engineered and over the top (more than likely out of jealousy, I would think), I would simply say to them “hey… this is your new goal to beat. If you can do better at a better price, have at it. Bring your evidence!“
i recommend you watch some videos from the builder kibbetech, i was underwhelmed when he took the body off of this truck. kibbetech trucks are more puspose built and look amazing, this truck is nice af, but i dont see a hyper truck
No kidding! In all seriousness, you heard the truth. There's a lot of debate on the validity of their lawsuits but that's what they do. Even sued HBO Max over the Max name lol
Yeah man so true. Traxxas got the idea from F1 cars with the push-rod setup they initially advertised it that way in the early 2000s....who knows if they still include where they got the idea though lol.
Wow...what a car. Just look at the packaging. What a package. The steering wheel is packaged perfectly. The battery package is packaged just how I like my packages.
Some cool ideas going on here, but with all the tech and forethought put in how you guys going to rock with the lower control arm bolts exposed like that? Could have easily made your mounts with the bolts going horizontally instead and not having mounting hardware dangling, especially on main suspension mounts. At the very least, cover them shits with skidplate haha
I like how R.C. builds helped with design. Cheap way to work thru design faults. I wonder if they load the R.C. cars with weight to find stress points. The concern with building a race truck with such tight construction is if you bend or break something it could be difficult to fix out there and one bend could impact another part. That being said, every part looked very strong. He did say you have to compromise though.
Exactly. Made in 1997. And the chassis/roll cage looks exactly like a Bulldog with the biddy off. Typical US exceptionalism "it's the best", "it's the first" etc. Nope. Bowler have been building these sorts of vehicles for 30 years.....at least he accepted the body looks like a 90.
@@leangrypoulet7523 Okay? This still has more power, a more sophisticated chassis and higher performance suspension. He never said this was the first, but he does make the credible claim that this is the best currently available.
@@kermitthefragg Yeah, the first truck in this performance class, which is arguably true. Not the first truck in this style or for this purpose. Comprehension is more than sounding out the words with your mommy’s help
@@leangrypoulet7523Bowler wildcat was front engine, this is mid engine. The wildcat used a solid axel and a suspension taken from a discovery, this is entirely bespoke and way more sophisticated. Nothing about this truck shares anything in common with the wildcat at all besides the defender headlights. It's like comparing a Raptor to a Hillux, what a joke. This even uses a carbon body while the wildcat was typical fiberglass. They have nothing in common.
What an absolutely phenomenal beast! I can't help but subscribe to watch the future content. For once the yt robot did not disappoint me throwing this into my suggested feed! Fire me up!
The funhaver trucks are astronomically more stout. The rc type packaging is a bit of gimmick there’s a lot better ifs systems. Those lower control arms would get ripped to shreads at hammers. Simple tube an arms? Cmon. They had access to plasma and better I’m sure.
I sincerely thought I was looking at a new remote control car. I spent all night looking forward to the video. This is still cool I guess tho. Beautiful “truck”
I'm a fan of this being multipurpose built. Sure you could have a dedicated rock crawler or dedicated trophy truck but I'd much rather have this. I think sales of this would go to the moon if an "upscale" interior and a rear hatch/truck bed functional storage area were available (men could justify the purchase to their spouses with a nice interior and storage, right?)
Very few of this level of engineering and forethought, however. The fit, finish, and overall engineering here is pretty top-notch. A lot of those “turnkey“ trophy trucks good, but still off the shelf components.
@reneschmidt9367 this would get eaten alive by most 2wd trophy trucks. The bell crank shock mounting has a cool ingenious factor, but is no way conducive to a winning race truck. Way too much stuff going on, look at the rear with the shocks and what not above the engine, how hard is it to work on? Or the front with the shocks basically mounted to the front bumper....both horrible ideas for a race truck.
Race it in Baja or any south western state races and you’ll see everything that needs to be changed. For starters the chasis is hitting the ground once that tire squish happens. Race UTVs keep more ground clearance for that reason and they weigh less than half of this. Self clearancing hardware on low points, combined with heims for load bearing components. It looks cool but the fine details builders with a lot more race experience will tear this apart but won’t say anything to not negatively impact their image. Even safety is a huge concern when racing here since that is a wide opening in the sides; in off-road racing it’s not a crazy scenario to have a wheel from another car that crashed go flying, that wheel will kill the driver or navigator with that wide opening. For the speeds that thing is capable of you’re gonna end up adding weight just improving suspension components and end up at a similar weight as leading trophy trucks are while likely not being as safe.
I always wondered if you could use rc style parts on a real truck. Anxious to see how those billet bulkheads act when it hits something real hard. In the rx world, I break those a lot depending on how it’s designed. So cool guys, amazing truck!
@@reneschmidt9367 I’ve noticed that sometimes if the an arms are too beefy they can destroy the bulkhead when hitting stuff. His seem like they might be the weak point which is good, it’s gonna be sick to see this thing in action! Cheers mate!
I see a few blatant things I really do not like. 1. Your tie rod control arms are weak. With a truck of that performance and intent, those will snap. 2. Your "nodes" are very very impractical for use/maintaining. The frame of the node itself is incredibly expensive and hard to machine requiring many different setups or a laege multi-axis system. If your aluminum mounting threads strip, your aluminum control arm points shear, or anything damages that node, you cannot repair it easily. You have to get an entirely new node, which I imagine is tens of thousands of dollars looking at your pricing for the truck itself. RC cars can get away with it because it's small scale. Race cars can get away with it because it's light, and ideally the node design (commonly used in F1 and Prototype transaxles) is only subjected to forces that do not equal bouncing off rocks, logs, and impacts from jumps. 3. Mouting a steel bumper to your aluminum differential case I also see is a major weak point. Any rear impact from almost any direction has a high potential to damage that aluminum chassis node. I have no idea why you chose to do that, and I do not think that was a smart engineering decision. Most everything else I see, I like. The 1/4" plates under the door are good. Suspension design and interchangeably is very good. 4 wheel steering is very good capability. I don't know where that mindset went when you decided to make bespoke differential cases, and then mount your rear bumper to it. When trophy trucks want to pass you, they rear end you to let you know. This truck could get rear ended, and then the differential case shatters or cracks, ending your week and leaving you stranded in the desert or rocks. That's very dangerous.
@@billhicksmcgee1181 forgive my ignorance, but don’t portal axles simply increase your ground clearance and have nothing to do with the actual suspension arm travel distance?
@reneschmidt9367 take a look at the latest awd race vehicles, ultra 4 and trophy truck here in the states. Before the use of portal spindles in this application it was pretty tough to achieve 18 inches of front travel with steering. Mainly due to cv angle. The portal decreased a good bit of angle on the front CVS and now I believe those vehicles can swing maybe 22 inches or so. I didn't catch the track width of this hyper vehicle, but imo to get 30 inches of travel with steering it would be pretty dang wide, awd trophy truck is pushing 96 inches wide...
@@billhicksmcgee1181 looking at it in the one clip they show at full compression and where the wheel hubs sit compared to It's full extension it's definitely got 30 inches of travel but that seems like the absolute max bottomed out so it's probably more like 28 inches
@nathan584 working travel mashing the bumps vs pics in the shop on jackstands haha look at the angle on those inner CVS at full extension...they'll definitely be limiting back once they go out and test.
It's beautiful but the Mercedes 6x6 Brabus and then the Carbon edition are already hypertrucks both in price amd capability but well done to you guys and hats off regardless, just tone down the "first" accolades
Wild, i like it, obviously their intended customers are rich dudes that can't tell that its not a restored landrover, he had to say it twice lol. Like the iphone of throphie trucks. About a cool 2 million please
This is definitely not the first build like this at all. Been doing this stuff since the 90s. MCD1 just did a mid engine Land Rover super truck. Awd mason trucks, etc have been doing this stuff for years as well.
Wow wow wow. I am a radio control fiend, and four years I have been preaching to anyone that would listen about the benefits of using scale RC concepts in full scale.
Thank you thank you thank you for finally doing this. Not only is that a ridiculously sanitary build, your impeccable thought process and perfect delivery of the reasoning behind everything is exactly the way virtually everything should be communicated.
Thank you for sharing your passion, your craftsmanship, and your magic. Some might say over engineered and over the top (more than likely out of jealousy, I would think), I would simply say to them “hey… this is your new goal to beat. If you can do better at a better price, have at it. Bring your evidence!“
I think most r/c exposed kids have at one point thought, "just scale up my R/C cars...why wouldn't it work?"
i recommend you watch some videos from the builder kibbetech, i was underwhelmed when he took the body off of this truck. kibbetech trucks are more puspose built and look amazing, this truck is nice af, but i dont see a hyper truck
Thing is rc cars are modeled off of actual cars, like baja/trophy trucks and crosskarts and the like,
@@victorledesma1083 Kibbe's trophy trucks are gnarly.
@@kyal1068the body is, but they usually have different suspension designs. Push rod is rare to find in trophy trucks.
This thing is an absolute work of art
How inebriated were you when you made this comment? 🤣
Traxxas like to sue when u use their ideas.. so I heard. But hey this is an amazing build very well designed. Awesome job
No kidding! In all seriousness, you heard the truth. There's a lot of debate on the validity of their lawsuits but that's what they do. Even sued HBO Max over the Max name lol
Well cantilever double wishbone suspension was not a Traxxas original idea so they have literally zero ground to walk on in that area
Yeah man so true. Traxxas got the idea from F1 cars with the push-rod setup they initially advertised it that way in the early 2000s....who knows if they still include where they got the idea though lol.
@@nathan584didn't stop them from Suing Arrma and nearly putting them out of business.
@@vsci79 no way bruh
Wow...what a car. Just look at the packaging. What a package. The steering wheel is packaged perfectly. The battery package is packaged just how I like my packages.
You just really like packages, packaging, and package accessories huh? I mean, no judgement.
@@PlaySAthis man is Package crazy
@@EQ541 aka he's a packer..
We heard you like packages, so we put a package in your package.
That is amazing. I would love to see more on the engineering of this thing
It's cool design, curious if it could compete at Ultra4. Hammers is the test.
Dude the second i saw that i thought about the Revo, then you said it was inspired by it. Looks stunning!!
TAKE MY MONEY! In all seriousness, amazing truck. If I had the means, I'd have one ordered. Incredible rig my friend.
Go to his website and look at the price. Absurd. Half the price is for paying his CA taxes, LOL.
Some cool ideas going on here, but with all the tech and forethought put in how you guys going to rock with the lower control arm bolts exposed like that? Could have easily made your mounts with the bolts going horizontally instead and not having mounting hardware dangling, especially on main suspension mounts. At the very least, cover them shits with skidplate haha
I want to see more details of the hinged wheel flares!
Such a beautiful maschine.
Engendering on its highest level.
Well done.
I like how R.C. builds helped with design. Cheap way to work thru design faults. I wonder if they load the R.C. cars with weight to find stress points.
The concern with building a race truck with such tight construction is if you bend or break something it could be difficult to fix out there and one bend could impact another part. That being said, every part looked very strong. He did say you have to compromise though.
I’ve been waiting for someone to do this. Legit build. Love the suspension innovation here.
Stunning. I really thought it was just an RC car. Wow!
Please do keep us posted as you get a chance to do some testing and racing with that thing. Can't wait to see it get beat on.
That's really cool, and you presented it incredibly well. Great production value, audio leveling, music choice, and intelligent content presentation.
What’s powering this so called “ hyper truck “ ? Wish you woulda spoke more on that portion . Looks wild . See how well it performs and holds up .
Brushless electric I would hope. Anything else would be a significant downgrade over RC.
My guess is some kind of LS motor
@@466rudy6 lol
That’s a work of art
Beautifully crafted. 100% Hyper Truck
With the body it’s looks like an RC truck! :]
Great work everyone - absolutely gorgeous - that is some achievement.
I'd take one!
Looks like an original bowler wildcat.
Exactly. Made in 1997. And the chassis/roll cage looks exactly like a Bulldog with the biddy off. Typical US exceptionalism "it's the best", "it's the first" etc. Nope. Bowler have been building these sorts of vehicles for 30 years.....at least he accepted the body looks like a 90.
@@leangrypoulet7523 Okay? This still has more power, a more sophisticated chassis and higher performance suspension. He never said this was the first, but he does make the credible claim that this is the best currently available.
@brandonb6164 might wanna read that video title again champ.
@@kermitthefragg Yeah, the first truck in this performance class, which is arguably true. Not the first truck in this style or for this purpose.
Comprehension is more than sounding out the words with your mommy’s help
@@leangrypoulet7523Bowler wildcat was front engine, this is mid engine. The wildcat used a solid axel and a suspension taken from a discovery, this is entirely bespoke and way more sophisticated. Nothing about this truck shares anything in common with the wildcat at all besides the defender headlights. It's like comparing a Raptor to a Hillux, what a joke. This even uses a carbon body while the wildcat was typical fiberglass. They have nothing in common.
looks very nice. Love the work!
What an absolutely phenomenal beast! I can't help but subscribe to watch the future content. For once the yt robot did not disappoint me throwing this into my suggested feed! Fire me up!
What a dream machine, well done, best of luck with sales!
Pretty excited to hear about this!
dude this is insane, love it!
beautiful work.
"The reason for the divorced transfer case, is because we want the truck to have something in common with every man that buys it"
Holy Cow!!!!! That’s my dream Hyper Vehicle now. Was an Egg before by a long ways. Nothing else was remotely close to an Egg in my opinion.
Super cool, looks like a PreRunner-ified Land Rover Defender :)
It's beautiful, it's incredible, it's a car.
Perfect daily driver.
Looks like the fun haver bronco, nice work, bring it to hammers and play with similar cars. Wicked ride!
The funhaver trucks are astronomically more stout. The rc type packaging is a bit of gimmick there’s a lot better ifs systems. Those lower control arms would get ripped to shreads at hammers. Simple tube an arms? Cmon. They had access to plasma and better I’m sure.
This would have been even more gnarly if you added 74 Weld portals
lol is the guy having a conversation with the truck or the camera ? He never look back 😂
It’s beautiful and super functional 🤔🪚🛠️❤️
How have this not more then 141 views
Looks awesome btw
I am sharing this in a bunch of RC groups
Ah, so someone finally built a hypertruck.
one day i will own something like that truck. beautiful work!
Need to see this in action
this and the grenadier have made 2024 a great year for old british boxy suvs
Except one of them is a very well built butt-ugly clone of a Defender.
I alway say rc cars are engineering marbles and now you see it used as a engineering influence
Really can't wait to see it in action.
Man look at those billet knuckles
"The world's first"
The LM002:
More of a slayer than revo. Cool AF
Would love to see more my man! Dream truck!
Mind boggling work!
🇦🇺🤜🏼🤛🏼😎☮️🍀
cant wait for the trucks videos
Nicely Done
I sincerely thought I was looking at a new remote control car. I spent all night looking forward to the video. This is still cool I guess tho. Beautiful “truck”
I'm a fan of this being multipurpose built. Sure you could have a dedicated rock crawler or dedicated trophy truck but I'd much rather have this. I think sales of this would go to the moon if an "upscale" interior and a rear hatch/truck bed functional storage area were available (men could justify the purchase to their spouses with a nice interior and storage, right?)
The revo is cool but it would be so much better with directly mounted shocks
wow beautiful made. seriously you see the high quality en design. Exterior i personally think needs a bit less retro style.
If money would not be a question I would jump in and drive it full throttle diagonally from Brisbaine to Perth.
Looks excellent for getting groceries
Look at that wide boy
You should see what they’re doing in the USA with AWD trophy trucks and ultra4 cars.
Wonder how quick those front arms will snap
This is what everyone should be freaking out over and want over those ugly cyber trucks. This thing is absolutely badass and beautiful.
Can't wait to see this thing fly down the desert.
In before Traxxas files a lawsuit, that's the main thing they're good at 🤣
"worlds first hyper truck" ... conveniently forgets Bowler.
Steward raceworks are the king of luxury hyper trucks for the desert
Youve been able to buy turn key trophy trucks for a while now. Cool truck still
Very few of this level of engineering and forethought, however. The fit, finish, and overall engineering here is pretty top-notch. A lot of those “turnkey“ trophy trucks good, but still off the shelf components.
@@reneschmidt9367 off what shelf? The same one he picked those kings off of lol
@reneschmidt9367 this would get eaten alive by most 2wd trophy trucks. The bell crank shock mounting has a cool ingenious factor, but is no way conducive to a winning race truck. Way too much stuff going on, look at the rear with the shocks and what not above the engine, how hard is it to work on? Or the front with the shocks basically mounted to the front bumper....both horrible ideas for a race truck.
This is a very cool Truck. But far from the first "hypertruck" build. A little insulting to claim so.
@@Dasman5624 they are marketing themselves to people who Don't know that lol
Race it in Baja or any south western state races and you’ll see everything that needs to be changed. For starters the chasis is hitting the ground once that tire squish happens. Race UTVs keep more ground clearance for that reason and they weigh less than half of this. Self clearancing hardware on low points, combined with heims for load bearing components. It looks cool but the fine details builders with a lot more race experience will tear this apart but won’t say anything to not negatively impact their image. Even safety is a huge concern when racing here since that is a wide opening in the sides; in off-road racing it’s not a crazy scenario to have a wheel from another car that crashed go flying, that wheel will kill the driver or navigator with that wide opening.
For the speeds that thing is capable of you’re gonna end up adding weight just improving suspension components and end up at a similar weight as leading trophy trucks are while likely not being as safe.
Awesome vehicle
How much to buy one? This thing is beautiful, very innovative thinking and clearly so much time and engineering has going into it.
Beautiful truck
65 gallons of fuel!? Yes please! Well done with that.
I always wondered if you could use rc style parts on a real truck. Anxious to see how those billet bulkheads act when it hits something real hard. In the rx world, I break those a lot depending on how it’s designed. So cool guys, amazing truck!
I’m also an RC fiend, and it’s an interesting question. If they have chased the force properly, it should be able to soak all that up. We shall see!
@@reneschmidt9367 I’ve noticed that sometimes if the an arms are too beefy they can destroy the bulkhead when hitting stuff. His seem like they might be the weak point which is good, it’s gonna be sick to see this thing in action! Cheers mate!
I've never seen any truck in general use a push-rod (cantilever) type setup for the suspension!
Baja trucks can have rear cantilever suspension
the fact that it is regeistered for the street is bonkers
**ckin A !!! This is awesome! Can I design the next chasse?
*Chassis* for fucks sake can't even spell it let alone design it.
Man I want to see this thing rip some trails and jumps.... get it out on the amateur rally tracks!!
Front suspension is just .... PORN !!!
I see a few blatant things I really do not like.
1. Your tie rod control arms are weak. With a truck of that performance and intent, those will snap.
2. Your "nodes" are very very impractical for use/maintaining. The frame of the node itself is incredibly expensive and hard to machine requiring many different setups or a laege multi-axis system. If your aluminum mounting threads strip, your aluminum control arm points shear, or anything damages that node, you cannot repair it easily. You have to get an entirely new node, which I imagine is tens of thousands of dollars looking at your pricing for the truck itself. RC cars can get away with it because it's small scale. Race cars can get away with it because it's light, and ideally the node design (commonly used in F1 and Prototype transaxles) is only subjected to forces that do not equal bouncing off rocks, logs, and impacts from jumps.
3. Mouting a steel bumper to your aluminum differential case I also see is a major weak point. Any rear impact from almost any direction has a high potential to damage that aluminum chassis node. I have no idea why you chose to do that, and I do not think that was a smart engineering decision.
Most everything else I see, I like. The 1/4" plates under the door are good. Suspension design and interchangeably is very good. 4 wheel steering is very good capability. I don't know where that mindset went when you decided to make bespoke differential cases, and then mount your rear bumper to it. When trophy trucks want to pass you, they rear end you to let you know. This truck could get rear ended, and then the differential case shatters or cracks, ending your week and leaving you stranded in the desert or rocks. That's very dangerous.
I have never seen a more alien vehicle than that…
Can you do this in a 4 seat version, oh and I need cup holders…
Looks amazing but I see some issues that they’ll run into when it really gets beat on.
I’m curious… What are you seeing as the soft spot? My 1/16 mini ERevo machines can take more beating than anything I own!
I wanna hear that thing drive
No videos of it being used yet?
I want to build crazy shit like have all my own tools just no shop live in mass anyone build stuff and need a fab or a wrencher im here
Pure love! Never cried so hard to such engineering and design commitment! I really cried, bloody heavens…
Do you have to compromise handling caratistics to get that much travel with the front end.
I'd like to see it in the Dakar
Can't wait to see this thing get a proper shake down
I second that, claiming 30 inch travel without the use of portals. Regardless, it should smash haha
@@billhicksmcgee1181 forgive my ignorance, but don’t portal axles simply increase your ground clearance and have nothing to do with the actual suspension arm travel distance?
@reneschmidt9367 take a look at the latest awd race vehicles, ultra 4 and trophy truck here in the states. Before the use of portal spindles in this application it was pretty tough to achieve 18 inches of front travel with steering. Mainly due to cv angle. The portal decreased a good bit of angle on the front CVS and now I believe those vehicles can swing maybe 22 inches or so. I didn't catch the track width of this hyper vehicle, but imo to get 30 inches of travel with steering it would be pretty dang wide, awd trophy truck is pushing 96 inches wide...
@@billhicksmcgee1181 looking at it in the one clip they show at full compression and where the wheel hubs sit compared to It's full extension it's definitely got 30 inches of travel but that seems like the absolute max bottomed out so it's probably more like 28 inches
@nathan584 working travel mashing the bumps vs pics in the shop on jackstands haha look at the angle on those inner CVS at full extension...they'll definitely be limiting back once they go out and test.
Impressive !!!
You mean a trophy truck 😅😂
😮true scale revo 🤯
It's beautiful but the Mercedes 6x6 Brabus and then the Carbon edition are already hypertrucks both in price amd capability but well done to you guys and hats off regardless, just tone down the "first" accolades
Wild, i like it, obviously their intended customers are rich dudes that can't tell that its not a restored landrover, he had to say it twice lol. Like the iphone of throphie trucks. About a cool 2 million please
Pretty fun
yeah boiiiii!
Looks like Speed utv here
I wonder what it costs to buy over a ton of aluminum in the form of a couple huge blocks?
This is definitely not the first build like this at all. Been doing this stuff since the 90s. MCD1 just did a mid engine Land Rover super truck. Awd mason trucks, etc have been doing this stuff for years as well.
Love that its based on an RC, but needs 4WS
It has 4WS, watch the first minute again.
It *does* have 4WS. Poof! Your wish has been granted.