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The Dylan Project: My old Grasshopper rebuild 11 years 4 months ago #15370

I have this little old Grasshopper sitting around and it is time for it to go to the next generation. ;) So for Christmas I'm going to be giving it to my nephew Dylan. A passing of the torch. However I just can't give him a basic kit. That's not like me. :whistle:

Here is the breakdown of the Grasshopper to work with :evil: :

Hornet rear shock upgrade
Tamiya 540 motor with 18T pinion gear
CRP HD Steering links
CRP Bearing kit
CRP Front shock kit
2 sets of Grasshopper wheels
Pair of stock tires for Hornet (rear)
Pair of Proline Waffle tires (front) well used
Set of Proline nobbie tires (front and rear)
Pair of Sand Blaster Tires and brat wheels (rear) well used
Front suspension arms for the Grasshopper 2 (on their way)

Well that's the car part. Still sorting out what speed control to use but prob going to slap in a Tamiya ESC. Seems the safest for a youngster and less maintenance than a mechanical one. Going to the 3rd shock mod on the rear end using the grasshopper front spring setup and an LED light setup cause you know kids love lights, well so do I. Want to make up some custom decals for it too. By the way if anyone has some nice good resolution scans of the Grasshopper decals I would be grateful for them. I think a driver is in order too. I have seen some awesome painted ones here and I think I could go that route.

I'll be posting up some pics as soon as I upload them to a photo sharing site. As of right now I have just torn down the little hopper and getting ready to give it a good cleaning. I did clean up the wheels a bit and sanded the rough edges of them so the look pretty nice so far. Going to paint them tomorrow during the day. Need to strip the paint off the body and fix some cracks. Nothing major. I will update as I go along to show the progress.

Pics to follow. B)

Shawn
Current Project: The Dylan Project Grasshopper

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Re: The Dylan Project: My old Grasshopper rebuild 11 years 4 months ago #15373

Very promising, cool mods. And a pretty awesome gift! :)

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Re: The Dylan Project: My old Grasshopper rebuild 11 years 4 months ago #15400

I'm in the same boat with Grasshopper decals/scan. Haven't found any decent resolution scans yet & have been toying with the idea of buying a body+decal package, just can't afford it at the mo!

If I actually buy it, I'll try to remember to do you a decent scan of the decals, OR if you find something before then, could you send me one? Ta!

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Re: The Dylan Project: My old Grasshopper rebuild 11 years 4 months ago #15401

@Edou: Well yea I'm the fun Uncle! I wish my Uncle was into these things when I was a kid. ;) I have candy, cookies, soda, and cars. :woohoo:

@eddrick: If I can't find some I will be fixing them up in Illustrator and they would be clean because they would be vector graphics vs what I would do in Photoshop. :blink: Might take some time but I think it may be the best way as I was going to customize them for my project anyway but I will post up here when/if I find some along with my custom ones. Saw the decal set in the "Decal" section of the Database so I may start there as a base for the custom ones. Scale will be fun though but I can deal with that. It will just be a pain but doable. B)
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Re: The Dylan Project: My old Grasshopper rebuild 11 years 4 months ago #15405

I can help you out with the scans. I have the Grasshopper in three colour schemes at a reasonable resolution.
Just pm me your e-mail adress (eddrick's I already have)...

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Re: The Dylan Project: My old Grasshopper rebuild 11 years 4 months ago #15406

Edou you are awesome! Just sent you a PM. Thanks again and I will try to find the manual for you.
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Re: The Dylan Project: My old Grasshopper rebuild 11 years 4 months ago #15407

Already mailed. :y:

Eddrick, I thought I had your e-mail adress but it doesn't look like it after all.
If you'd also like the scans to be sent, let me know what it is...

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Re: The Dylan Project: My old Grasshopper rebuild 11 years 4 months ago #15412

Thank you so much! These are great. Took a look at them and I can seriously do some good work with these. Going to put them through Illustrator next week to set up my custom set.

Thanks again Edou! :)
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Re: The Dylan Project: My old Grasshopper rebuild 11 years 4 months ago #15413

On another note, I have some pics of the Grasshopper.

The Hopper as I pulled it from the box it was stashed in:




You can see the Hornet rear shock upgrade..


The CRP Front Shock Upgrade:


The Pro-Line Knobbies:


Tamiya 540 Motor:


CRP Parts:


So this is what I have to work with. Currently just painted one set of wheels in a gloss black. Still figuring out the overall color scheme but the black wheels should look good. Going to get the chassis in some cleaner (dishsoap and hot water) and polish up the shocks. Pics to follow as I get the parts done.
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Re: The Dylan Project: My old Grasshopper rebuild 11 years 4 months ago #15414

Glad the scans are useful. :)

Very nicely modded Hopper already, great starting point.
I'm planning to rerebuild one (my first car from '86) and a basher to modify as much as possible too...
Would love to do the CRP FX-10 front suspension conversion some time.

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