My return to a "Sporty" (Poison Dart inside)

[cagedcbr]

Well after running my GC3a for almost a year it's been recently left on the sidelines for my Bully MOA build. Now I decided to throw a whole new "sportsman" truck together using alot of the tricks and mods I've learned here on this forum. It will really be a mish mash of some of the great ideas some others have come up with but thrown all on one truck. I also want it to be on eof the prettiest trucks I've ever built but remain functional. Heres a small list of things so far.

Jones'n Poison Dart (YES to bodiless sporty rigs)
Axial axles
Felsenfest spools
Beef tubes
U/D, O/D gears
XR uni's, Chubs, knuckles (VP swap later)
FSJ trans.
VP DH Pro Comps/HB Rovers
That's it for now.

My original idea was to dye the PD all black (reason I bought the grey chassis) with black panels to match my MOA rig but in the dyeing process I used the only box of dye I had lying around which was a cheaper brand (not RiT) of black dye. This is how it came out so I figured "let's roll with it" and started looking at some real poison dart frog pictures and came up with this paint scheme (much better than all black I think).














I will have more pictures coming (still have to upload to photobucket), I'm not much further along yet but I do have the axles fully built and the side panels screwed in place now. Just need to head out to my LHS and poke around for some upper links and rod ends for them.

[C*H*U*D]

That looks fantastic! Got to see my first Poison Dart in person the other night. Great looking chassis'....Casey did a really good job on that one.

[cagedcbr]

Thanks, Yeah I guess that is the first thing I should have mentioned. The Poison Dart chassis is absolutely beyond what I thought I would get in the mail, it is perfection. I didn't figure it came with panels, the protective film on the panels is not clear and I thought they were just templates made of dense cardboard LOL, but even the panels are perfect. I would say this chassis is on par easy with anything from larger operations such as my GC3A. Amazing work Casey.

[Krawler Konceptz]

Wow that looks awesome

[DRV KRAWLER]

That looks amazing ! Can't wait to see more on this build. Blue looks great, love the panels.

[ninja turtle]

wow man that looks sooo cool. great job.

[Stormin2u]

Man that looks just like the frog, nice work.

[RockMafia]

sweet job :-)

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[PhantomRS10]

That thing is sweeeeeet!!!!

[ev0l]

That is a great looking rig. Casey did a NICE job designing them, too bad they are "endangered" now ;)

[BEDWOOD]

Nice looking rig ! the skin is very sweet with the body color . Do you have some details on your xr10 uni conversion, im planing to do this on my Fastback.
Thank's !

[cagedcbr]

Thanks for all the compliments

For the XR universals all I did was cut them to the length I needed them, and then ground a flat spot on each side just like a stock axle. I don't know if you could do this with a stock locker but it is acheivable with the Felsenfest spools because you can pinch down on the modded XR axle with the set screws in the spool. I just haven't checked if the ground flat spots are the same size as the stock axle, being smaller would cause to much slop.

[Eric Perez]

Any more updates? Looks like a real killer

[cagedcbr]

Sorry no updates, I sold this chassis not to long after posting it up here. Got out of comp crawling and more into scale rigs.