TMXONR's Cherokee Wraith

[ROLANDROCKSHOP]

nicely done sir!

[Tuffguy]

Beef. Got a mmp and some sort of brushless in the future for mine!

[TMXONR]

Originally Posted by Tuffguy

Beef. Got a mmp and some sort of brushless in the future for mine!

Sweet, maybe we will have good weather on a Sunday sometime soon so that we all can go hill climbing.

[Rootar]

Me likey the cooler/rx box. Was that your idea or did you borrom that for someone else? becasue someone needs a pat on the back.

[TMXONR]

Originally Posted by Rootar

Me likey the cooler/rx box. Was that your idea or did you borrom that for someone else? becasue someone needs a pat on the back.

When I put it in the back, something made me thing "cooler", then I decided to paint it.

Also, you need to get that Bronco finished and come climb some hills.

[Tuffguy]

Originally Posted by TMXONR

Sweet, maybe we will have good weather on a Sunday sometime soon so that we all can go hill climbing.

Just have to decide how much carnage I want to cause on the motor. Got a vxl 3500 already and a 17.5 novak coming. How did you secure your mip's? I have some scx 10 mips but don't have the pass through set screws.

[TMXONR]

Originally Posted by Tuffguy

Just have to decide how much carnage I want to cause on the motor. Got a vxl 3500 already and a 17.5 novak coming. How did you secure your mip's? I have some scx 10 mips but don't have the pass through set screws.

I tried the regular set screws that came with the shafts and even with red loctite, I had a couple of them back out. Then I tried some Traxxas screw pins that I had. The Traxxas pins worked but they were long and stuck out. I didn't want to catch them on something and have to cut them out. I ended up running some HPI screw pins that I found at HobbyTown. The package calls them screw shafts and the part number is HPI86094.

[Carlman]

Man love those wheels, looks great overall mate.

[TMXONR]

I finally put on a set of SX's a couple of weeks ago and they work really well. I think that I am also going to ditch the front bumper. The metal bumper made the front of the chassis way to stiff. I ended up breaking off the entire front end of the chassis and it broke right at the rear mounts for the bumper.

[ussprinceton2004]

..I like it how you made it up that perpendicular wall of dirt after many, many, many tries...

[ROLANDROCKSHOP]

Originally Posted by TMXONR

I finally put on a set of SX's a couple of weeks ago and they work really well. I think that I am also going to ditch the front bumper. The metal bumper made the front of the chassis way to stiff. I ended up breaking off the entire front end of the chassis and it broke right at the rear mounts for the bumper.

hmmm..i wonder why it broke...

[TMXONR]

Well a couple of weeks ago I decided that I was done with the plastic chassis. With my new chassis I wanted something with a little bit of the southern buggy look to fit my driving style, I also wanted to keep Jeep Cherokee body panels.

Here is what I have so far. The chassis is made out of 3/16" solid rod and I am using a cut up Proline Jeep Cherokee for the body panels. I still have to clean up some of the welds, braze on some nuts for the body mounts and then build an interior.

[Bulldog]

Nice upgrade to the metal! Great design work as well.

[tinycrites]

Can't wait to see this thing it looks sick.

[TMXONR]

Here is a rough look at the interior. Its ugly, but thats why they make sand paper and filler.

[ROLANDROCKSHOP]

it aint done yet...

cmon man i got 2 new guys that wanna hillclimb with us in a week or so..
get on it!!

[TMXONR]

Originally Posted by ROLANDROCKSHOP

it aint done yet...

cmon man i got 2 new guys that wanna hillclimb with us in a week or so..
get on it!!

I may get it finished this weekend.

[TMXONR]

I cleaned up the edges of the styrene work, got the rest of the nuts brazed on and finished cutting out the panels. Now I just need get it painted.

[nitromike]

This may be a silly question but what is the difference between the AX10 08101 MIP shafts for $44.39 & the Wraith 11116 MIP shafts for $60.66?
I see you are using the AX10 ones, i take it they work fine?

[TMXONR]

Everything is painted and reassembled. Here is a sneak peak.

Originally Posted by nitromike

This may be a silly question but what is the difference between the AX10 08101 MIP shafts for $44.39 & the Wraith 11116 MIP shafts for $60.66?
I see you are using the AX10 ones, i take it they work fine?

I haven't seen the two sets side by side, but I remember reading that the drive hubs on the Wraith specific shafts allow you to use the stock size screw pin for mounting. I'm not sure what else was changed.