05-27-2011, 10:05 AM | #61 |
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Awesome work Eric, making me think about a the possibility of a MOA in my future.
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05-27-2011, 10:05 AM | #62 |
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It's the material on the ckrc'sthat sucks. My short side is all sorts of screwed up around the pin hole. " I thought all of this would be a pretty simple project. LOL." The way you whip stuff up, this whole project looks easy. Keep up the good work. |
05-27-2011, 10:43 AM | #63 |
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D-Lux, you can mount your battery in between the lower front links, using either a tray bolted to the gearbox or a motor mounted tray. I made a prototype motor ring with a mounting tab for a plate to bolt to, testing has proved it to be a good mod, BillJ, and DickyT have done a lot of testing for me and they really seem to like it, I don't have enough wheeltime on mine to make a good judgement, but it will get the battery weight on the front axle, and protect your pack during rollovers. I think Jordi has the tray bolted to the gearbox on his truck, you can check em out in their build threads. I came up with the ring mod because it would fit any MOA using 540 cans for powerm so its kind of a universal fit for the MOA's.
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05-27-2011, 11:20 AM | #64 | |
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05-27-2011, 01:31 PM | #65 |
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Nice work on the gears and the tubes look killer too. I'm gonna need to try a set of those. Keep up the good work.
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05-27-2011, 05:41 PM | #66 | |
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Very nice..... a no slop bushing........ been bitchin about that ever since the vp knuckles came out.. and some nice lookin toobs.... think you will get any flex out the long side delrin toobe????? | |
05-30-2011, 10:09 PM | #67 |
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done yet??? lets go crawling yo!!! |
05-31-2011, 11:27 PM | #68 | ||||||
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If I try to bend the tubes with my hands I can bend the long side Delrin tube and I cannot bend either the short Delrin or AL front tube. For refernce,... if I do the same to my Losi axle I get more of a bend out of it and its shorter even. The Losi tube measures approx .090 wall and the Berg ones I made measure approx .125 wall in the thinnest spot. Man, I wish. I was really, really hoping for a chassis shipment notice today. Hopefully tomorrow. I would really like it by this weekend. | ||||||
05-31-2011, 11:38 PM | #69 | |
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I did the mod myself and it ended up taking off 4g of un needed AL Take note that I pulled the ole Jenny Craig trick and I took the frowning/bad clothing etc,. before when it was fat and then the nicer/smiling picture after. I think it makes the case look skinnier and happier | |
05-31-2011, 11:43 PM | #70 |
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This brought the entire case down to 45g. I have been spending the days waiting for parts by trying to perfect all the different parts of this build. I decided that it could be nice to take some more weight out of the case by making a poly carb inspection plate for it. This knocked approx 3/4g more off the case to bring the entire case down to 41g. Thats 17g or close to .6oz taken off just the case itself, no gears etc,. I will be offering this inspection case SUPER CHEAP. I just need to replace the end mill that I broke and get some more material. AL inspection cover 4g Poly carb inspection cover less than 1g |
06-01-2011, 12:44 AM | #71 |
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Its going to be like driving air Awsome build thread.
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06-03-2011, 10:15 AM | #72 |
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Alright. This is getting a little out of Hand. Probably the coolest build I have seen to day simply as a result of taking stock stuff and adding some serious style points.
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06-08-2011, 02:26 PM | #73 |
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this thing gonna be ready by sat???
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06-08-2011, 03:56 PM | #74 |
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^^^ yeah! What he said!!! |
06-08-2011, 06:04 PM | #75 |
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Dude this thing looks sick!!! Are you concerned about the long tube flexing at all?
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06-09-2011, 03:36 PM | #76 |
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What they said...? Hope you get it done for saturday, look forward to seeing it!
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06-10-2011, 01:17 AM | #77 |
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Sorry guys. I was not trying to ignore. I checked my tracking number for my chassis on Wed and it said it was out for delivery. This was great news because I was expecting it Thursday with less than 24 hours to build the entire car. The sun was shining, I was feeling good because I was going to have the chassis that I have been waiting so long for. It was a good day. As I was waiting for my mailman who comes late in the day, it got cloudy, windy and the weather was looking like crap (as you locals know). Right when the weather turns to crap my mailman shows up with nothing. I was totally bummed! But, a couple hours later, a different mailman came. There was some mix up at the post office so I had two different deliveries in one day, weird. The second mailman brought the chassis! I was/am stoaked that I had another 24hrs to try and get it done. So, thats what I have been doing in the last 26 or so hours. |
06-10-2011, 01:19 AM | #78 | |
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If somebody is looking for a car to pass down to their grand children they will probably want to stick with the stock axles. Carbon fiber chassis concern me too but they are all about performance. I would run one knowing I would probably break it. | |
06-10-2011, 01:21 AM | #79 | |
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T1E with stainless 3.7oz T1E with AL 3.2oz | |
06-10-2011, 01:25 AM | #80 |
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I was doing some looking around and knew some were running AL rod end/shock balls. I was skeptical but in this thread (Weights Thread) I saw some results. I am not 100% sure they are the best bang for the buck but it is what it is. I weighed 16 stock balls vs. 16 AL balls. This is just for the links. I ended up doing another 8 for all my shocks too so, approx 10g weight lost. Stock balls 10g AL balls 3g |
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