FJ Cheater

[Etype R]

I built a sportsman rig last year, and it worked great. I was able to pull lines with it that I couldnt with my stockish XR10. But I only ever used it during comps, most of the time it sat on the shelf. And most of the sportsman rigs in our club are simple budget rigs, making it a little to easy with my rig.

We added a 1.9 scale comp class this year, using the same basic rules as sportsman. Body coverage restrictions, frame requirements, and max tire height. Its been a lot of fun, so I decided to make my 2.2 Sportsman rig into a scaler as well.

Keeping the XR10 mod with long beef tubes, and parallel upper links.

Here is where it sits now. I didnt take any pictures while I was building it.











And a couple pictures from when I first got it running on my test pile behind the garage.







I need to redo the roof panel, and make a new dash panel. After that I might build a partial interior with seats.

[swezy207]

Love the disc golf basket in your yard, I want one...






... Oh, and the rig looks killer!

[Etype R]

Ran it for a few hours today with our local club. Was having a blast driving it around for a few hours, then I pushed it a little to hard against a ledge and stripped the stock plastic idler gear in the trans. Time to order steel gears...

Crammed a 4000mah pack into it last night, for todays trail run.



Here are a few pics I took of the FJ today.









You can also see the firewall/dash panel I added in the last shot.

[minnesotamudder]

that thing looked good on sunday
what upper link mounts are you using to get them parallel?

We hopefully will have our 2.2 trail rig ready for duluth

[Etype R]

Using a link mount on the rear axle from level 3 racing, got it from RPP. It was cheap, and it looked like it would give me the link geometry that I wanted. It seems to be working great so far.



Also made some new upper links the other night, rear drive line angle was a little to steep before.



The front upper link mount I made, servo mount is built into the truss. I angled the servo to provide a flatter servo horn.





And a few shots on the rock pile behind the garage, I got a new camera and wanted to test it out.





I took a video as well, but I need to download some software to compress it before I try to upload to youtube. I'll see if I can get something to upload this weekend.

[Highmark]

That's an awesome looking rig, looks dialed

[Etype R]

I started working on a new front bib/grill.



The first template didn't quite work out, I needed to move the lights inboard to clear the tube work. And I also had to clearance the edge for the tires. After drawing up a new template, this is the new bib.





I am trying to decide if I want to weld the bib to the tube work, or bolt it on. It is cut from 16 gauge steel. The grill will most likely be styrene.

[Etype R]

Finished the grill, decided to keep it all steel.



Its a little crooked, need to open up the mounting holes on the backside and tweak it.

[JokersWild]

Looks awesome. I had a fj toober with hand made pannels for a while. Built by local member, but I'm hard on rigs and I beat too hard...... Sitting in box now awaiting some love or to be bronzed! Reminds me of that rig

[Etype R]

Laid down some paint today, and started on a floor pan.





Can't decide if I want to leave the panels raw, or paint them white.

[XSRCdesign]

Pretty nice build, simple yet a lot of fab going on here. Keep it up

[doublej]

Clean simple and to the point - I like it!