The Sinister Pro

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Originally Posted by ManxCrawler

It'll be interesting to see how this goes, inboarded lower links are few and far between these days with the odd exception like EGRESSors tuber and one or two clones. I think the suspension will cycle really easily like that - maybe too easily causing rollovers but we'll have to wait and see yes

It's all wait and see at this point

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Got some panel work done today
still need a hood though
and nothing against the roof panel that came with the chassis just wanted a little personal flavor

[Postclanker]

Lookin pretty nasty so far

[concretejungle]

i'm really interested to see how that big skid works... i'm thinking it's a great idea!

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Originally Posted by concretejungle

i'm really interested to see how that big skid works... i'm thinking it's a great idea!

It works very well
I've seen it work on two other rigs
Holycaveman's and josh6575's

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Josh's build thread
A Bully build thread

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The birth and development of the sinister pro...

New bully Chassis! The Sinister Pro...

[ManxCrawler]

After reading through those threads and watching the VERY interesting vids posted, I take back everything I said about stability

...is this one of the chassis that turned up in holycaveman's mail? - I'm super interested in upgrading my BJ4 to one of these and I'm also super impressed with the wheels

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Originally Posted by ManxCrawler

After reading through those threads and watching the VERY interesting vids posted, I take back everything I said about stability

...is this one of the chassis that turned up in holycaveman's mail? - I'm super interested in upgrading my BJ4 to one of these and I'm also super impressed with the wheels

Yes, I got one from that first batch

[CREEPERBOB]

Wild looking chassis, looks like something from Spy VS Spy from Mad magazine.

[ManxCrawler]

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Ok.. I got the electronics in
Gonna try and get some test and tune in after work tomorrow

I did mess around in the backyard a bit things I noticed....

definitely notice the truck being lighter came in at 5 lbs 1 and 1/4 oz RTR

Seems bouncy not sure if it was the foam setup or shock setup or just the fact that this is the lightest truck I've driven
I'm thinkin shocks though...

I'll know more when I get it on the rocks

[ManxCrawler]

Is this with 6oz of internal wheel channel (I love that idea dude) weight?

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No just good ol lead stick on for now gonna talk with hcm and josh though

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Ok so I took the sinister pro out for her first run on the rocks not to bad still needs some fine tuning

List of things to do
Lower chassis main beam (by suggestion of holycaveman) light and low
Change foam setup -
Soft medium up front
Medium firm in the rear
Bend front of skid this will need done as a result of lowering the main chassis so as not to catch/drag on the rocks
Rework electronics

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i've moved the main chassis all the way down in the rear and almost all the way in the front one hole from the top
this has produced a nice even curve in the skid plate with around 3" clearence
the front lip still needs bent a little
front tires- soft/med seems to work well

[SINister]

Sounds like your getting it worked out. Any chance we can get a vid of it on the rocks.

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i got a video posted to youtube but it will only play 12 seconds of video then it freezes and all you get is audio weird ???
ill work on it

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turns out the video file got messed up so i got nothing as right now but i'll get some video next time i'm out which would be the 14th or the 17th and im gonna try to get some more pics up soon

[SINister]

Cool. I'll keep an eye out for them.