The original idea was to run the battery sideways under the cowl, but I decided to put bracing in the way, and I'm fond of the look since you can see it now, so I had to make it work, I bought 4 batteries to use for this rig.

Thanks Jason, I think this is on its way to being my new favorite rig. I am trying to test myself with this one.

PM sent man, thanks "thumbsup"

I've got 4 extra of the small lights. Let me know if you need me to send some.

I got your 2 on the way to you."thumbsup"

Thanks chris, I should be ok, but I will keep you in mind if I end up needing more
Thanks man

Well the Hack-a-lac got voted into the 2010 Montana TTC event, and I am STOKED

thank you guys for all of your votes, I am glad I am building this rig beefy now, it's gonna need it :shock:

This looks great. I hope you kill with that 4s in the TTC."thumbsup"

tick tock tick tock
2 weeks to go.........:mrgreen:

:mrgreen:

Don't encourage him, then he's just a better chance at beating all of us :ror:

Rig looks great. Two weeks is plenty of time! Who among us haven't built up rigs from scratch in less time than that?

I'm still kicking the idea of starting a 1.9 rig :ror:

You haven't seen him drive yet have you.......:flipoff::ror:

Hey now I'm taking it serious this year!






I haven't practiced a bit! :ror:

Beat me to it. :lmao:

Sounds like something to see :shock::ror:

Me too, just waiting for my XJ body to arrive. All under the pretense that it's for my son (which it is, but Dad's got to test and tune it first ;-)).

OK, so I got a bit more progress today.

-Finished the winch servo mount
-Cut out and replaced the brow and center bars in the roof.
-made new side panels
-got the light bar made and installed.

Some things to note.

I ended up going with the flat panels due to the factory ones not cooperating, I think what I came up with still achieves the look I was going for. In fact I like it better.

I am a lot happier with the roof now.

MIG welding on 2.5mm nuts is a royal PITA

I am not sold on the light bar, I am going to leave it for a few days, But right now I want to cut it off and just go with hidden rock lights for my front lights.

I need to get the interior worked out, and make a fuel cell to hide the RX and ESC. Then it is ready to blow apart for paint and final assembly. I have less than 2 weeks now before I load my truck for the trip to Montana. It's go time

http://i1148.photobucket.com/albums/...c/DSC07191.jpg

http://i1148.photobucket.com/albums/...c/DSC07196.jpg

http://i1148.photobucket.com/albums/...c/DSC07197.jpg

http://i1148.photobucket.com/albums/...c/DSC07198.jpg

http://i1148.photobucket.com/albums/...c/DSC07203.jpg

that's all for today.

Looking good Andy "thumbsup"

Very nice"thumbsup"

Agree...I think it looks pretty cool!

I think it looks pretty clean. I would leave the lighter on and get er done.