Walker Evans Indy

[JeremyH]

Stang posted this up for sale for a good price and I snagged it up.
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/1-9-s...dy-s-10-a.html

This will be a scale-ish build. I doubt it will be allowed in any of the classes, but I'll have fun driving it anyway.

It showed up about like this:


I quickly tore apart the diffs and "installed" an old school locker:


Then installed some TC4 shock towers with MRC shocks, Traxxas CVDs, locked out the rear knuckles, mocked up a trans and motor and installed some new Axial Trepadors:





And the body:



As it sits, it has 2.25" diff clearance and 3.75" center chassis clearance. I plan to get another rear shock tower installed on the front to stand the shocks up a bit more and I'd like to find some longer rod ends to make the shocks a tad longer.

[finishline]

Very interested to see how this progresses, I was following Stangs build. Really liking the mean stance.

[leowrc]

hi
it's great!!

[Peli]

Originally Posted by finishline

Very interested to see how this progresses, I was following Stangs build. Really liking the mean stance.

Same,this rig is really different to the usual,was disappointed to see it go on the backburner.Glad its back

[Drail]

cool i luv one off stuff

do work man looken grate. Drail

[JeremyH]

Originally Posted by finishline

Very interested to see how this progresses, I was following Stangs build. Really liking the mean stance.

Originally Posted by Peli

Same,this rig is really different to the usual,was disappointed to see it go on the backburner.Glad its back

Thanks! I do plan to raise the front end up a bit. It sits too low with that narrower shock tower, but the LHS only had one of the rears.

Originally Posted by leowrc

hi
it's great!!

Originally Posted by Drail

cool i luv one off stuff

do work man looken grate. Drail

Thanks guys! Yeah, I dig the one off chassis he made for this as well.

[STANG KILLA SS]

wow Jeremy you made quick work out of that!
wish you would have told me about those shock towers, i probly would have kept it
that is one SERIOUSLY beefy tranny for that rig the driveshaft slots were designed with stock axial tranny outputs and junfac shafts in mind. those longer outputs may not line up with the DS slots?
looks like you already upgraded to CVDs
any plans for a front to rear chassis brace? or simple bolt on inner cage?
i was never sure how much abuse 1/4" delrin could take.
love the tires!
did you decide to run the revo arms or the slash arms?
but honestly im just glad to see it going to a good home and getting some progress made on it.

[boosted4lyf]

Yo! That shizz is dope dawg! Hard to tell, but what body is that? Looks like an s10 or Sonoma?

[JeremyH]

Originally Posted by STANG KILLA SS

wow Jeremy you made quick work out of that!
wish you would have told me about those shock towers, i probly would have kept it
that is one SERIOUSLY beefy tranny for that rig the driveshaft slots were designed with stock axial tranny outputs and junfac shafts in mind. those longer outputs may not line up with the DS slots?
looks like you already upgraded to CVDs
any plans for a front to rear chassis brace? or simple bolt on inner cage?
i was never sure how much abuse 1/4" delrin could take.
love the tires!
did you decide to run the revo arms or the slash arms?
but honestly im just glad to see it going to a good home and getting some progress made on it.

Yeah, that trans is just for mockup. I am going to pull the tranny from my wraith and install it in this truck (the tranny pictured above is going in the wraith). It should be back to the similar length outputs as stock.
It is running the MiniRevo arms and the MiniRevo Traxxas CVDs.
I hadnt thought of a brace, but I had thought about a cage....we'll see about that.
And yeah, those shock towers jumped out at me when I was looking through the LHS's shelves. The guy said they hadn't sold any of those in years...
My next challenge is the steering setup, but I have some ideas for that one.

Originally Posted by boosted4lyf

Yo! That shizz is dope dawg! Hard to tell, but what body is that? Looks like an s10 or Sonoma?

Thanks man! Yep, that's a dragster S10 body.

[Difuser]

Get some square stock to build chassis rails to add the stiffness down the length. It would also make a good foundation to build the cage off of. It would also keep this legal for any scale class. I almost jumped on this when it was listed.

[JeremyH]

Originally Posted by Difuser

It would also keep this legal for any scale class.

So two rails running down the length of the chassis would make this truck fit into the scale rules? Even though they have nothing to do with the suspension?

[STANG KILLA SS]

Originally Posted by JeremyH

So two rails running down the length of the chassis would make this truck fit into the scale rules? Even though they have nothing to do with the suspension?

maybe take some 1/4" square stock and bend it up like chassis rails and simply bolt it to the vertical edge of the delrin chassis(drill and tap)? you could mount the shocks to it too.(get rid of shocks towers) then the suspension(shocks) would be bolted to the rails, and the delrin would be a (giant) skid like any other scaler. id probly consider it legal then plus youd have a great place to start welding a inner cage too.

[JeremyH]

That's a good idea!

So do you guys that build chassis rails typically cut slits in the square stock to be able to bend it, or just muscle through and hope it doesn't wrinkle?

[STANG KILLA SS]

solid 1/4" would be the easiest. but super heavy
with the thin wall thats gonna be on 1/4" hollow square tubing, your probly gonna be forced to slit/pie them and bend and re-weld/braze.

[finishline]

Originally Posted by STANG KILLA SS

maybe take some 1/4" square stock and bend it up like chassis rails and simply bolt it to the vertical edge of the delrin chassis(drill and tap)? you could mount the shocks to it too.(get rid of shocks towers) then the suspension(shocks) would be bolted to the rails, and the delrin would be a (giant) skid like any other scaler. id probly consider it legal then plus youd have a great place to start welding a inner cage too.

Great idea!

[finishline]

So what's planned for the steering? That was my prob with mine.

[JeremyH]

To not have a crap ton of bump steer, it will probably have to be a canti setup...

[rangercat23]

Jeremy, if you wanna cut and bend some sq tube I can weld it for ya.

[JeremyH]

Awesome Chuck! I might take you up on the offer...

[Matias del Rio]

Nice project.... really out of the box
How are you planning to make the steering work?