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07-07-2008, 03:39 PM
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| Rock Crawler  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Midway
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First Off I want to thanks Don at DNA for the Great wheels for this build!!! You do great work!!!  Sorry no built thread!!! Not a lot you can do differently with these axles, just add motors, change the lock outs and rotate the motors up. Could change pinions but I didn't, YET!!! Still working of setting the Radio up so I have not been on the rocks yet. DNA SNIPER Wheels Enroute Berg axles Panther Cougars Kreepy Krawler Ruby Red foams 2-55T Integy motors 2 Mamba Maxxs JR 9000T Servo HB Frame Spectrum DX 6 Radio Hot Body Shocks   |
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07-07-2008, 03:57 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Elberfeld
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Stock chassis?
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07-07-2008, 04:03 PM
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No, I made the HB chassis. This rig is made for the big breakovers. It has 5" ground clearance in the center.
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07-07-2008, 06:05 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Elberfeld
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Any body off pics?
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07-07-2008, 06:35 PM
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07-07-2008, 06:51 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: On the G-Train!!!!!
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Looks like it'll be tipsy. Much too much ground clearance. Who knows it might work for you. I doubt it'll handle off cambers that great. | |
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07-07-2008, 07:05 PM
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Simply a home made chassis. Simple design to handle the breakovers that keep bottoming everyone out. Simliar to a torsion setup but not totally. Trying to think outside the box, and come up with something different. It may not work, but the original prototype I had of this was pretty good on the rocks. With the addition of the Berg axles I hope it will be even better. Plan to run it this weekend.
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07-07-2008, 07:14 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: On the G-Train!!!!!
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Yeah, you'll never know till you try it. So, HB=home built? If your area has alot of huge breakovers, I guess this is the ticket. |
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07-07-2008, 07:33 PM
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DTB....HB could stand for Huge Breakover.....lol
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07-07-2008, 07:38 PM
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nice looking rig... i like the coupe body...
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07-07-2008, 08:39 PM
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07-07-2008, 10:22 PM
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how about HUMPBACK... | |
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07-07-2008, 11:21 PM
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That is the name of the frame. It's a little Hump Back 40 Coupe. Just got the electronics figured out, so maybe some on the rocks pics tomorrow. Dig!!! Front and rear at the touch of a finger. No Problem!!!!  | |
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07-07-2008, 11:26 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Dirty South
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It will never work !! Oh by the way where are the Shafts ? What trans. you runnng in that there cheater rig ? :-P
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07-08-2008, 12:09 AM
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BADD, thought I would save the flex shot for you. I'll be coming to Tennessee Saturday.  | |
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07-08-2008, 03:00 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: USA
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Is this the same type of chassis you have on your WK a while back? Like the body choice look good.
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07-08-2008, 05:51 AM
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RUN2, Not exactly the same but their close. This is a better setup for sure. The WK was sort of the prototype for this one. The old WK worked fairly well over the rocks but the transmission just wouldn't handle the torque necessary to crawl in hard situations. Thanks for the compliment on the body.
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07-13-2008, 03:54 PM
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Well I went to an event today. I did not drive well at all. It rained early, we were in an area with sand and rocks. The traction was not good. The panthers, the way I had them setup with foams just did not do well at all. But I'll take the blame for bad driving. I'm not going to give up yet on the new rig, I need more driving time.
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