TCS Twistex Build

[CD13]

Kevin is thinking outside the box again and came up with a new AX10 chassis. I have been thinking of building a sportsman so I asked Kevin about his new chassis. Michelle of Krawler Koncepts got a hold of me with the offer to build one and post a thread of it, so here it is.





Sense my work mat is black I wanted you to be able to see the chassis parts.



Here's the pivot points for the front. Kevin had to pay for these.





He even included the HPI body mounts and a set of Axial high steering knuckles witch I'm grateful for. I decided I will also be doing the over/under drive and a little beefier lockers and trans.
Thank You Kevin and Michelle

[Phins Fan]

Subscribed!! I love the outside the box thinking and am always looking for different rigs to follow. Good luck with the build!!

[Duuuuuuuude]

Sweet, looking forward to this!


WTF are those pivot balls from originally?

[Szczerba]

That looks like some parts from an air conditioner.

Ready to see what it looks like built up.

[Krawler Konceptz]

Your welcome CD! All you have done for me this is the least I could do
And thanks to Kevin for letting me be part of TCS!

[Manning]

Those are from older 10th or 12th scale onroad cars. I recognized those parts in the pics in the other twistex thread. I should be involved in a build of one of these soon......paging Ricky!!

[ROCKEDUP RICKY]

Originally Posted by Manning

Those are from older 10th or 12th scale onroad cars. I recognized those parts in the pics in the other twistex thread. I should be involved in a build of one of these soon......paging Ricky!!

It's coming, I can't wait to put our heads together on this.

[EeePee]

Coooool.

Hurry up.

[CD13]

Originally Posted by Phins Fan

Subscribed!! I love the outside the box thinking and am always looking for different rigs to follow. Good luck with the build!!

Thank You Sir

Originally Posted by Duuuuuuuude

Sweet, looking forward to this!


WTF are those pivot balls from originally?

Good thing Mike answered this cause I didn't know.

Originally Posted by Szczerba

That looks like some parts from an air conditioner.

Ready to see what it looks like built up.

You got a point. You'll get to see and drive it.

Originally Posted by Krawler Konceptz

Your welcome CD! All you have done for me this is the least I could do
And thanks to Kevin for letting me be part of TCS!

You have always been good to me, I'm glad You and Kevin have got together.

Originally Posted by Manning

Those are from older 10th or 12th scale onroad cars. I recognized those parts in the pics in the other twistex thread. I should be involved in a build of one of these soon......paging Ricky!!

Thanks for the info.

Originally Posted by ROCKEDUP RICKY

It's coming, I can't wait to put our heads together on this.

This is gonna be right up your ally.

Originally Posted by EeePee

Coooool.

Hurry up.

I am, I am.

[666]

Originally Posted by Duuuuuuuude

Sweet, looking forward to this!


WTF are those pivot balls from originally?

From this:

Cyclone 12 Kit - 61600 at HPI Europe

[CD13]

So here it goes. You need one of these



And one of these



Use the flat sided one first



Put the pivot ball in the middle



and put it together with the hardware Kevin provides



Now your ready to bolt it to the chassis



Sorry about some of the pics, My cameras has auto light adjustment.
You want to make sure to bolt it to the right side of the chassis plate.
Kevin has the servo mount for behind the axle and it will be on the left side. The block side is gonna be the speed control.



Now in the same bag is a round pivot socket.



again, the pivot ball goes inside and its bolted together with Kevin's hardware.






Then that's bolted to the same side of the chassis.



I hope no one is offended by obvious parts and how to bolt them together but we all know someone is gonna ask so this being the build thread for Kevin I wanted to make sure and explain everything.

[CD13]

So now we are gonna use the second package of pivot housings and balls and the second part of the chassis.



Now you need to make sure you bolt them to the right side. The chassis is gonna end up with the trail going to the right side.



So it needs to be turned over and the pivots bolted to the bottom.

[cartronicshn]

Very interesting looking chassis, subscribed, i am looking to update my ax-10, at least on of them, and this chassis looks promising.

[CD13]

So now to assimilable the chassis. Body mounts first. Only one place to put the front but lots of places to mount the rear,





Got all the spacers and bolts lined out



You have to put the upper chassis brace on first





Then the front,2 long bolts, spacers and seperators









Then bolts and spacers for the rest of the chassis







And here's it together



and here's the weight



Now I have to build some axles and tranny.

Link to my photobucket

http://s167.beta.photobucket.com/use.../TCS%20Twistex

[brazwewn]

Really digging the detailed pictures. Been trying to figure this one out for some time.

Wes

[Hacksaw707]

It takes one hell of A creative mind to dream something like this up

Very interesting......

[Krawler Konceptz]

Great instructions CD!

[CD13]

Originally Posted by Hacksaw707

It takes one hell of A creative mind to dream something like this up

Very interesting......

Yea, That would be Kevin, He's always had out of the box idea's.

Originally Posted by Krawler Konceptz

Great instructions CD!

Thank You Michelle, CD

[CD13]

Got the axles built and under it







Of course the mandatory flex shot

[ROCKEDUP RICKY]

Your doing a great job CD.