Chaotic Switch Bodiless Carbon Chassis...Tech thread

[Chaotic Crawlers]

Chaotic Switch Bodiless chassis Tech Thread

This chassis started off as a revision to our Chaotic Special. We love the special but knew we wanted to go carbon and figured
why stop there. We didn't hold back with this chassis. Many many hours have gone into the design and testing of this chassis
to ensure that is will be a top performer. The skid is a unique one piece design thus eliminating the normal bottom mounting
screws and preventing hang ups. As usual all of the spacer and standoffs are drilled and tapped to make installation
as simple as possible. We kept with the delrin spacers to keep the weight down and the strength up.

Includes:
2 - 1/16" Carbon Side plates
2 - 1/16" Carbon Side Cab Plates (reversible)
Custom 1mm thick one piece CNC machined Skid
7 - 35mm Delrin Standoffs - Drilled and tapped
10 Delrin Cab Spacers
Hardware
Hardware and spacers for Upper links
Panels (.040 sides & .020 hood and roof)


Weights:
Chassis w/ Aluminum Hardware: 2.15oz or 62g
Chassis w/ Black Oxide Hardware: 2.45oz or 70g
Upper Link spacers and hardware
Aluminum: 3g
Black Oxide: 6g
Panels: .45oz or 14g

Click HERE for pricing or to purchased from our website along
with titanium links for all of the Chaotic Special Chassis and more...



Looking to have a great performing chassis on a budget???

Now Introducing the...

Chaotic Switch Delrin Bodiless

Includes:
2 - 1/8" Delrin Side plates
2 - 1/16" Delrin Side Cab Plates (reversible)
Custom 1mm thick one piece CNC machined Skid
7 - 35mm Delrin Standoffs - Drilled and tapped
10 Delrin Cab Spacers
Hardware (Aluminum or Black Oxide)
Hardware and spacers for Upper links
Panels (.040 sides & .020 hood and roof)

Since the release of our Carbon Switch chassis we have wanted to make a more cost effective way for people to get into a great chassis. So here it is the...Chaotic SD. We didn't hold back with this chassis. Many many hours have gone into the design and testing of this chassis to ensure that is will be a top performer. The skid is a unique one piece design thus eliminating the normal bottom mounting screws and preventing hang ups. As usual all of the spacer and standoffs are drilled and tapped to make installation as simple as possible. We kept with the delrin spacers to keep the weight down and the strength up.

Weights:
Chassis w/ Aluminum Hardware: 2.65 oz.
Chassis w/ Black Oxide Hardware: 2.95 oz.
Upper Link spacers and hardware
Aluminum: 3g
Black Oxide: 6g
Panels: .45oz or 14g






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[Chaotic Crawlers]

This is the future home of the Chaotic Switch Tech section

If you have any question, comments, set up tips or advice please feel free to post up.

[OhioCrawler]

Will the xr10 "special" chassis links fit this new chassis? Or will new links also be needed?

[Chaotic Crawlers]

The links are the same.

[T3rry]

tried to order, says it's out of stock


but since this is a tech thread, i think the first, most obvious question is, what length shocks are these intended for?

[Donuts1]

So much want! One of the best looking chassis yet! I'm running your special LW now but may have to upgrade to this! Great job!

[Chaotic Crawlers]

It was designed to use a 3.5" or 3.75" shock.

You can use a 4" but would need to do some internal limiting.
I believe I already know of 1 person that plans to run a 4" shock.
So we will see how he likes it.

[slowride1]

ya im going to try the losi shocks out but i have mine limited to 3.5 on the front . i will post it all up once i see how it works

[ROLANDROCKSHOP]

Originally Posted by T3rry

tried to order, says it's out of stock
?

x2
when will they be ready for purchase?

[HARDKNOCKZ]

I plan on tryin just about every shock & length I can with this chassis. I think that the 3.5" with a soft spring & mid weight oil will prove best overall but we shall see.

J.D.

[Mysterious]

Originally Posted by Chaotic Crawlers

It was designed to use a 3.5" or 3.75" shock.

You can use a 4" but would need to do some internal limiting.
I believe I already know of 1 person that plans to run a 4" shock.
So we will see how he likes it.

Are all the bodiless by CC not designed to work with the stock springs of 4"? Are they all 3.5 or 3.75?

How would u limit it?

[Chaotic Crawlers]

Originally Posted by Mysterious

Are all the bodiless by CC not designed to work with the stock springs of 4"? Are they all 3.5 or 3.75?

How would u limit it?

All of our chassis can use 4" shocks....You would need to put a spacer (ex: aluminum spacer or fuel tubing) inside the shock under the piston so it cant extend to the max. A fully extended 4" shock will put your ground clearance much too high.

3.5" and 3.75" shocks just reduce or eliminate the need for internal spacers and allow for more range of motion.

[nonstopboost]

I ran 3.5" Big Bores on the front of my Special and 3.75" Big bores on the rear. But Im guessing with this new set up I will be going with the 3.75" all around!!

[Mysterious]

Originally Posted by Chaotic Crawlers

All of our chassis can use 4" shocks....You would need to put a spacer (ex: aluminum spacer or fuel tubing) inside the shock under the piston so it cant extend to the max. A fully extended 4" shock will put your ground clearance much too high.

3.5" and 3.75" shocks just reduce or eliminate the need for internal spacers and allow for more range of motion.

Any recommendations on shocks that fit best with CC bodliless? Brand/make/size?

[T3rry]

Originally Posted by nonstopboost

I ran 3.5" Big Bores on the front of my Special and 3.75" Big bores on the rear. But Im guessing with this new set up I will be going with the 3.75" all around!!

yeah i got bigbores with the mini T springs, not sure what weight of oil yet.

cant wait for this chassis to be released, i have everything i need for my new build, except the chassis/links/steering link

[Chaotic Crawlers]

The L, XL, XXL is the length..

If i remember correctly the cap mod adds 1/4" if using the small 3mm traxxas rod end.

Measurements with cap mod:
Traxxas Big bore #2660 L= 3 3/4"
Traxxas Big bore #2661 XL=4"
Traxxas Big bore #2662 XXL=4 1/4"

I'd suggest starting off with L or Xl's all around

These aren't the only possible shocks...but are very smooth.
I'll try to work up some part numbers and other shock options.

[chevotafun]

i think the part numbers are
L big bore part #2660
XL BB Part #2661
XXL BB Part #2662

The Xl's are hard to find.Well up here in canada.

[T3rry]

i got the traxxas 4962, it is for the maxx trucks, comes with 8 shocks, for only marginally more than 4 shocks, so i just split em with a friend... tower says they're 4-1/8 uncompressed, i dont mind limiting them internally.

[paystin]

Originally Posted by Mysterious

Any recommendations on shocks that fit best with CC bodliless? Brand/make/size?

Try the SCX shocks. I've been running them on my "special" chassis for 6 months and they are great.

[Chaotic Crawlers]

Originally Posted by paystin

Try the SCX shocks. I've been running them on my "special" chassis for 6 months and they are great.

Do you have a length and part # on the scx shocks?