Carvers Blackjack

[dieselfuel]

Originally Posted by finishline

looks like a direct bolt on chassis to your exsisting axial links and axels, exactly what im looking for. did you have to mod it to get the 12.5 wb, and if you dont mind, what shocks are you set up with?

no its not a direct replacement for the axial chassis. the lower links will need to be shortened about 9/16" as stated a few posts up., the uppers should work ive seen quite a few guys using them with no problems. as for shocks, your stock axial shocks WILL NOT WORK... you need much shorter shocks. such as 1/10th buggy fronts like these: http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LX2585&P=7 or stampede fronts like these: http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXJK79&P=Z or revo shocks like these: http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXHFZ9&P=7...

shocks need to be 3 1/4" to 3 1/2" extended. any more than that and youll get bad axle steer when articulating.

[finishline]

thx dieselfuel, dont know how i missed that, staired at this thread for about 30 min

[ADDICT]

how about shock wt with revo shocks for this build? I know you said stock wt but whats stock wt? Im trying to build something similar, with the BJ chassis. i still dont know what kind of springs to use. lol this is my first post on

[binaryterror]

Originally Posted by rtooyak

how about shock wt with revo shocks for this build? I know you said stock wt but whats stock wt? Im trying to build something similar, with the BJ chassis. i still dont know what kind of springs to use. lol this is my first post on

Revo shocks will be very slow reacting.

If you use Revo shocks you will want to use Jato .7 springs and those are pretty heavy. You'll also want to change to Jato pistons. Stock is 30wt.

Personally I love the droop on my Black Jack, it runs 25wt front and 35wt rear with #1 piston in front and #2 piston in the rears.