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This CAT CT680 has been reworked from the ground up; being fitted with a diesel electric hybrid engine as well as being rebuilt for offroading.<\/p>\n
Tweaks:
\nEngines have been replaced with a single custom diesel electric engine, sporting 250k torque with good fuel efficiency, but at the cost of some fragility. New engine sounds.
\nGearboxes have been replaced with two custom boxes, styled for the diesel electric hybrid conversion. More uniform fuel consumption across gears (as a hybrid would be).
\nSuspension has been overhauled \u2013 front suspension optimized, rear rockers have dramatically increased flex angle and mass, increased suspension HP. Note: the base model CAT has unique rear suspension versus other trucks; any attempts to give it raised suspension make certain parts clip. It appears to be only a visual issue, but I opted to rework it rather than give it a glitchy looking lift kit. Do not comment asking for a lift kit, please.
\nWheels entirely reworked \u2013 new options including mud tires, larger tires, wheel and axle placement tweaked for stability, and a custom high-friction set.
\nDiff lock always on
\nTruck is almost 3x heavier (the CAT was very light to begin with) \u2013 diesel electrics tend to be heavy owing to the batteries and power systems onboard
\nCenter of mass lowered
\nWinches can operate off of hybrid batteries (i.e. all winches are autonomous)
\nNew paint jobs
\nOther various small tweaks<\/p>\n
The CAT CT680 has been one of my favorite trucks visually, but obviously its performance is lackluster. Through modding this I discovered that a big reason why is that special rear suspension, which, though theoretically could be very versatile, was implemented in a somewhat limiting way. I did my best to improve the truck in a lore friendly way which is consistent with the general balance of M181 and JBE trucks. Special thanks to MaxMike181 for helping me get started.<\/p>\n
Upcoming:
\nThis mod was mostly completed before the phase 3 drop, so it\u2019s missing the phase 3 addons \u2013 these will be included in an upcoming release.
\nI am learning how to draw my own tires \u2013 when I have a set complete, these will visually replace the custom Black Labs tires already in the mod.
\nPoghrim has expressed willingness to loan some of his excellent tire models to this truck \u2013 keep an eye out for the addition of powerful Pogtires.
\nMore Black Labs tweaked trucks<\/p>\n
Authors: Saelem_Black<\/p>\n
This CAT CT680 has been reworked from the ground up; being fitted with a diesel electric hybrid engine as well as being rebuilt for offroading. Tweaks: Engines have been replaced with a single custom diesel electric engine, sporting 250k torque with good fuel efficiency, but at the cost of some fragility. New engine sounds. Gearboxes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[528],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snow-trucks"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taimods.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taimods.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taimods.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taimods.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taimods.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taimods.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taimods.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taimods.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taimods.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taimods.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}