Chassis Makeover - Gray Plastic Out... Gray Metal In

[SonOfTheGriz]

Being stuck at home for a month has been rough, but we’ve been driving tiny trucks and driving tiny trucks leads to upgrading our tiny trucks.

Tonight, I pulled out a bunch of the gray plastic and replaced it with Samix aluminum shock mounts and braces. I did a decent job on the initial build of my Enduro kit curing the chassis twist out back by adding the battery mount and a Club 5 shock tower brace, but the machined aluminum parts are a lot prettier and lock the tail end up tight.

Up front, the metal panhard mount is an absolute godsend. Running a torque-beast of a steering servo, the steering now feels accurate and the panhard mount no longer wobbles around like a piece of al dente rigatoni under load.

The shock plates add a TON more mounting locations, but none of them are radically different than the factory locations. I’m trying as far up and as far back as possible to drop the ride height a little bit... we’ll see how it goes. Oddly enough, most of the holes increase rather than decrease ride height, so if I was going for ground clearance these would be the ticket.

And the looks... yeah. Pure hotness. Samix killed it with the design.

[mikemcE]

That panhard mount makes this truck.


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