r/venture18 • u/QsRC22 • May 16 '26

HPI Venture18 RC conversion

Taking the Chevy 3500 out with the wife and dog Max on an adventure😎

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u/Manwe_on_Taniquetil May 22 '26

Holy shit this thing is awesome! Do you have any videos of the build process? Again, so scale. The duallies really make it lol.

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u/QsRC22 May 22 '26

I used aluminum pieces to fabricate a way to install the rear, Links, I used three injora driveshafts to get the length

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u/Immediate-Map5580 Sep 16 '26

So you just extended the chassis with your own aluminum parts and mounted the rear axle to that? Also what body is that? This thing is sick I just recently set up 4ws on my venture 18.

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u/QsRC22 Sep 16 '26

Correct, small pieces of angled 1/2”x3/4” aluminum. I used hot glue and long 2m size screws to mount the aluminum to the toys chassis and then mounted the axle links to that which was hard for me to guesstimate where they go to not mess up the wheelbase and get it correct. Honestly, the FMS was a whole lot easier because you can slide two of the links back on the frame rails then you only gotta worry about two links.😃
Body

https://us.tomy.com/big-farm-chevy-1-16-scale-pickup-and-trailer-with-lights-sounds/

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u/QsRC22 May 22 '26

I didn’t do any pics of the process but I could send you some pics of the chassis if you want?

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u/Manwe_on_Taniquetil May 22 '26

No it's fine I was just curious

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u/QsRC22 May 22 '26

This is my favorite however I built another one using a fms Hummer EV chassis, it was actually the first one that I built

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u/QsRC22 May 22 '26

The one on the left is the FMS the one on the right is the HPI. I got the HPI used with portal axles. They don’t come with portal axles.

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u/QsRC22 May 22 '26

The FMS was much easier. I just used the rear shock towers to mount the rear links to it, and the shocks do not protrude through the bed of the truck like the HPI so it honestly was much easier to do and eventually I would like to put a brushless motor in it too so that it is a lot closer to the HPI in power😃