Scale Chevy K10 Chassis Build, Clod Body
 

Hi, new to the group but have been playing with crawlers for about a year.
Decided i wanted to build a scale K10 chassis to go under a Clod Buster body.
I found a drawing online, scaled it to fit the Clod body wheelbase and plasmer cut a test chassis

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Once i was happy with the design i started to make it out of 1/2" box section.
I cut and welded it till it was the right shape, normalised it in a kiln overnight, cut it in half then ground it flat.

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Next i cut and kinked the chassis to the right shape and added some cross members and leaf spring mounts

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Mocked up the drive train and now testing some motor mount ideas.

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It looks really good! Keep postin!

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Cheers

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Shock mounts installedhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...50fbe1f5b0.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ab4e396ec9.jpg

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Tried a couple of wheel designshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...51ad119244.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...141f3874b1.jpg

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Thought I'd have a quick go at making a stainless steel bumper. Not bad for an hour's work. Now I'll take my time and make the propper one.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ae522f9f44.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...cf3fb2c753.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a74258ce91.jpg

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I like the 5 slot wheels, reminds me of the trucks I saw when I was growing up, leaf suspension with coilless shocks looks good too. I especially like that rear crossmember where the shocks bolt to "thumbsup"

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I second the 5 slot wheels, definitely go perfect with a squarebody Chevy [emoji1690]

Are you going to keep or remove the intake on the hood? IMO, I think taking it off would look better.


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Thanks bud.

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Yea going to remove the intake. This is just a mock up body. Planning to get a new shell to delete the intake and lower the bed floor as it's too high. Guessing it was to accommodate the clodbuster chassis.

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ahh okay.

You have some great equipment to work with, which will make this a very cool rig!

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Cheers. Yea I work at a University so have lots of equipment at my disposal. The wheels and motor mount will eventually be 3D sintered in aluminium once the designs are finalised [emoji869]

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Finally finalised the design for the motor/servo mount. Thought I'd add a sump to it [emoji38]. Now to print it in allyhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0037722e63.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...414ac43744.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...860c0daffa.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ee128a8906.jpg

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Great project so far man! I vote slot mags also.

Funny deal with the slot mags is I have like 5 sets IRL in 4,5 & 6 lug and from 13x5.5" to 15x10" and have had more years ago that I sold here and there but I have one set that I've never had that I seem to miss out on every few years, 8x6.5" bolt pattern in 16.5x9.75 or 16.5x12" I either dont have the money when they pop up forsale or I have the money and search for weeks never to find a set. I'm currently in the former situation where I have started seeing few sets but no $$. I think I might have to end up buying a set for RC just to pacify myself lol. Sorry if I missed it but whats info on the ones you got there? Like home printed job or send away for them type of deal?

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Gotta love some stotmags. These are ones I drew up and 3d printed.

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Didn't like the shallow bed on the clod body so made a new one.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0d0b9db5d4.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...d081d85a1b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f5ca505512.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...12dac28534.jpg

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Started working on a cab floor for the electricshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e81e5f9a8d.jpg

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