1.9 Bomber portal axled truggymabob

[Bulldog]

This is what you build when you have too many spare parts and too much chlorine in the gene pool!


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[bbrigg]

Very nice. Are these 1:1 portals? It would be nice to get some ratio portals to help with torque twist.

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[Thloftus]

Beautiful! How do you like the portals? That’s some major axle beauty, Lol! It looks like the cage is silver in sone of the photos, but maybe that’s just the lighting? Would look awesome. I also like your winch mount; much simpler than the servo winch I installed on my Bomber. Did you use a custom plate bolted to the front bumper? The pickup top is a great fit - after some chopping? Which body did you start with?

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[Bulldog]

Originally Posted by bbrigg

Very nice. Are these 1:1 portals? It would be nice to get some ratio portals to help with torque twist.

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There are ratios in the reduction. Torque twist is almost eliminated.


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[Bulldog]

Originally Posted by Thloftus

Beautiful! How do you like the portals? That’s some major axle beauty, Lol! It looks like the cage is silver in sone of the photos, but maybe that’s just the lighting? Would look awesome. I also like your winch mount; much simpler than the servo winch I installed on my Bomber. Did you use a custom plate bolted to the front bumper?


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Thanks! The cage is painted silver. There are a TON of little hacks to make all this work together!!! The winch is mounted on washers down to the front plate...bit a lot of trimming had to happen to clear the servo. Custom link lengths and twin hammers trailing arms. The vp portals are just axle
Porn. Overdrive front. More testing and details later.


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[Thloftus]

Originally Posted by Bulldog

Thanks! The cage is painted silver. There are a TON of little hacks to make all this work together!!! The winch is mounted on washers down to the front plate...bit a lot of trimming had to happen to clear the servo. Custom link lengths and twin hammers trailing arms. The vp portals are just axle
Porn. Overdrive front. More testing and details later.


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I can believe there’s a lot of hacks, especially in the front! Nice solution for mounting the winch! The VP portals are sweet regardless, even if only for the porn value, Lol! I admire your willingness to drive them, I’d probably be terrified of scratches. The pickup top is a great fit - after some chopping? Which body did you start with? Did you have to do anything special to get paint to stick to the cage?

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[Bulldog]

Originally Posted by Thloftus

I can believe there’s a lot of hacks, especially in the front! Nice solution for mounting the winch! The VP portals are sweet regardless, even if only for the porn value, Lol! I admire your willingness to drive them, I’d probably be terrified of scratches. The pickup top is a great fit - after some chopping? Which body did you start with? Did you have to do anything special to get paint to stick to the cage?

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After years of building, I've finally arrived at this conclusion: Plan the build, execute, take pretty pictures and either drive it or sell it. I'm keeping this one and put some miles on it. It can take a tumble and I won't be sad. The body is a proline f350. As for paint...nothing but dishwashing detergent and a light scrub, then one of the rattle cans that's Paint and primer in one and says for plastics. Nothing fancy. It sticks, but nothing is going to be bullet proof. Even powdercoated tube is going to get mangled when you roll.

[Bulldog]

How to get Malaria in Virginia!!!


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[angrchair]

I love this, makes me envious, shoulda built my Bomber with Portals.
I painted my bomber cage with Rustoleum X2 aluminum color paint, works great.




What rear trailing arms are you using, your wheel base seems shorter, may just be because of the 1.9's.

[Bulldog]

Originally Posted by angrchair

I love this, makes me envious, shoulda built my Bomber with Portals.
I painted my bomber cage with Rustoleum X2 aluminum color paint, works great.




What rear trailing arms are you using, your wheel base seems shorter, may just be because of the 1.9's.

Nice rig! I used twin hammers trailing arms and custom uppers. I also used custom front lengths...that I think were closer to 10.2 front links. I did a lot of monkeying. I think wheelbase is a hair over 13...maybe 13 1/8. The only thing I wan to change is clearancing my wheels a little to use smaller hubs and suck the wheels in a little. I think I could manage to shave a quarter or more. We'll see.

[angrchair]

Originally Posted by Bulldog

Nice rig! I used twin hammers trailing arms and custom uppers. I also used custom front lengths...that I think were closer to 10.2 front links. I did a lot of monkeying. I think wheelbase is a hair over 13...maybe 13 1/8. The only thing I wan to change is clearancing my wheels a little to use smaller hubs and suck the wheels in a little. I think I could manage to shave a quarter or more. We'll see.

I was thinking of converting to twin hammers length in the rear too, but I decided to just build a scx10.2 based truggy. Waiting on the chassis builder to deliver and I will start a 1.9 build thread.

How do you feel about the COG with portal axles? I'm torn over VP portals or just beef tubbing some ar44's with brass knuckles weights.

[Bulldog]

I’d say drive someone’s trx and see if you like the portals. My bronco is insane with tons of brass. I also use wheel weights. If you’re just crawling or creeping, you don’t know that they’re there.


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