My Blue Monkey IFS/Trailing Arm Wraith Semi Build Thread

[BuzzinHornets]

So after building my first Wraith I had a ton of parts sitting around after going nuts with upgrades and decided to put them to use on a fast basher type build. The BlueMonkey kit caught my eye so I pulled the trigger on the IFS and Stage 2 trailing arm kits. Then made a massive parts order for the Wraith chassis and exo parts needed.

I apologize for the iphone pics, but that's what I had handy as I built this. I will also keep commentary to a minimum and kind of let the pics do the talking. I will however try my best to answer any questions about doing a build like this. I am no master builder but would love to help others out if I can.

Now to the pics....


Pile of goodies and new chassis assembled.




Servo and radio box mounted.




Front end coming together.




Trans and rear axle mounted.




Mocked up and on the wheels for the first time.




Bump steer eliminated. The extreme angle of the steering link caused massive bump steer. Good news is that the fix was simple. I used some conical washers as spacers to even out the links, 2 on the knuckle and one on the bellcrank. This setup now has ZERO bump steer.




Electronics in, getting it all buttoned up!












DONE!




Gratuitous poser shot....

[allanon1965]

would really like to see all the pics, but just one is showing

[Calderwood]

Yeah you need to edit your post with good links.

[BuzzinHornets]

Originally Posted by Calderwood

Yeah you need to edit your post with good links.

Stand by, I'll get them fixed.....

[Yaxx]

Yepp! For me too! Just one can be seen... but looks awesome Those rear links with 2x shock mounts are???

[BuzzinHornets]

Pics are working for me now. How bout everybody else?

[BuzzinHornets]

Originally Posted by Yaxx

Yepp! For me too! Just one can be seen... but looks awesome Those rear links with 2x shock mounts are???

GMade aeration shocks and Blue monkey trailing arms.

[allanon1965]

yup. looks good here

[BuzzinHornets]

Originally Posted by allanon1965

yup. looks good here

[allanon1965]

I have the first generation of blue monkey dual shock trailing arms, I absolutely love them!

[BuzzinHornets]

Originally Posted by allanon1965

I have the first generation of blue monkey dual shock trailing arms, I absolutely love them!

I expected to get those, was pretty happy to see I got the new ones when my order came in. These are super sweet!

[Ballistic17]

Awesome build. Looks great. I have been trying to get rid of my bump steer in mine. Gonna look into doing what you did on yours.

[allanon1965]

are they delrin or aluminum?

[BuzzinHornets]

Originally Posted by LeeSc10

Awesome build. Looks great. I have been trying to get rid of my bump steer in mine. Gonna look into doing what you did on yours.

It will do the trick.

[BuzzinHornets]

Originally Posted by allanon1965

are they delrin or aluminum?

They are aluminum, very nice parts.

[vegas1973]

Two very nice rigs.

[joe122]

Two very well built rigs. Excellent wheel choice BTW on the Wrexo as well as the Wraith. Let us know how the Wrexo performs.

[BoardN88]

How is the steering with their lil mods they did on this new kit from Blue Monkey?

[BuzzinHornets]

Originally Posted by BoardN88

How is the steering with their lil mods they did on this new kit from Blue Monkey?

The steering pretty much is what it is. It's simple to get rid of the bump steer and get full lock to lock movement. At that point it steers like an exo. In my opinion it's not good enough for serious crawling but that isn't what I built this for. Outside of that it's pretty good. Suitable for u4rc I'd guess. I have no complaints.

[J5races]

Can you explain more what you did to get rid of the bump steer.

I see pics of the old blue monkey kit and the steering arms that go out to the knuckles are angled back a lot. I believe the new blue monkey kit (which I have on the way to me) has adjustable slots to move the bellcranks forward.

It looks like on the knuckles you added spacers, is there more to it?

Thank you

Jon