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House’s Alumi-Fighter Bounty Hunter 1 Attachment(s) Not sure if anybody but a select few visits RCC or the Berg forum, but if you do then you can follow along and get a break from Facebook as I play around machining some parts trying to make something cool. I don’t consider anything crawler to be ‘vintage‘ RC, but if you don’t know what a Ti-Fighter is I am not going to explain... and I am sure everybody knows of Dlux knuckles and 7mm shafts with 8mm Ofna stubs. Tuff. So here I go, trying to MRCCGA. :ror: |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter This will be good. Those axles had a lot of thought and engineering in them from the start. "thumbsup" |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter Looking forward to following this thread glad to see someone still posting on RCC. I know what Ti-fighters are but who and what's a Deluxe? |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter Thanks guys, I know that this isn't all that exciting since I have already made these parts fit together on my other car and have been driving it... With that being said I really like my car the way it is and don't want to change it and not like it, so I figured what the heck, I will just build another one. Besides, one can always be an emergency parts rig for the other at a comp. Those who know me have seen that I have had some "interesting" failures over the last few years. I think I have fixed most bugs, but since I am doing it again I figured I would share... |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter No need to build a second car when you know some schmuk to steal an axle from if you break in a comp. :lmao: The axles are pretty groovy, how thin are the tubes at the case with them #BAMFA shafts? |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter Yeah, right!?! I have yet to make this set, but they should be right around .047 Wall which doesn’t seem to be too thin if you are using good material... Hopfully they hold up. The shafts are .275 dia and the tube thrubore is .281 with a .375 OD. |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter Gawdammit I'd break them right at the case for sure, but I am a ham fisted moron. I tend to jump things with my pro so yea. :lol: Erik was complaining about my motor not making any power compared to his. Then I reminded him I run 4s, kinda different ways to go about the same thing. I'll upgrade this winter and still run 4s so it'll be even dumber. |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter Machined aluminum and carbon fiber...that's a sexy start to a build! |
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Re: House’s TiDe Fighter If it’s anything like the other one I’m sure it will be awesome, Let me know if you need my address |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter Thanks man, I have always been a fan of your rigs. Always top notch. I do need your address so I know where to send this thing for you to tune it once it's built! :ror: |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter 2 Attachment(s) I think they should all come this way, what do you think? 8) I know, I know, function before fashion, right? Well maybe it will slide on the rocks better now... |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter 1 Attachment(s) Just a friendly reminder, if you want tapered rod ends just go to Dlux Fab and order the sliders for $12. Don't take the time to machine them. I did this over 6 years ago and forgot how miserable those little ******* are... |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter I couldn't keep revo ends alive so I switched to jato length from rpm. A quick trim with a dremel and a little drilling with a 3/16" bit so there is a shoulder over the link keeping the transition to threads strong and they're solid. http://i537.photobucket.com/albums/f...psezi4bm3p.jpg |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter Nice, I will check them out, thanks. As far as standard Jato ends I will never use them on a lower link after watching two fail back to back last month... :shock: |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter Just my 2cent I've had good luck when using jato rod ends. Out of curiosity who broke 2 jato rod ends back to back at BOTW? |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter Why aluminum skid instead of brass skid? bTW skid looks good polished. |
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Broke one on course, thought it was a fluke, swapped it out, broke the new one, went back to Revo ends and finished the day! Maybe a fluke? Who knows. My kinda luck! Maybe my curse is finally broken and he contracted it! :ror: |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter I've had to source as strong as parts as possible and the rpm jato trick has proven itself on my bomber so I call it good. :lol: just need to set the drill depth correct so you don't drill too deep and pull the few threads left. I did exactly that and pulled an end off the tie rod. Shoved it back together and finished the course but I got lucky it held. As for Dooley breaking them I'm betting the links were bent so the jato ends saw an angular load and not the typical push pull along their length. Go ahead, ask ke how I fingered that one out... :lmao: |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter Yep, single bend lowers. Blew the thread right out the side... |
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I’ll try not to let you down Matt... :) |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter purty! You like the drive of the sprung mass? |
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Not sure yet... But I am going to try it both ways. "thumbsup" |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter 1 Attachment(s) Having too much “fun” polishing. |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter 1 Attachment(s) My fingers are sore so time to start whittling on some new tubes... |
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Re: House’s TiDe Fighter 2 Attachment(s) Annnnd a set of rear tubes come alive. Nothing wrong with the lockout style, but I like the smaller OD possible with the snap ring style ends especially with this setup using small 3/8” tubes with big 7mm shafts in them. I may make a set in the future that fit the roller bearing.... Hope to get these polished up later this weekend. |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter 1 Attachment(s) I have always been a fan of .187 links, but I will give the .125 uppers a shot and see how they fare... I also usually run bent rear lowers not radiused, but these look pretty nice! Filled all the rod ends with teflon coated aluminum balls. |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter What tool do you bore the id with? |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter Awesome work! Love this Ti Fighter. Even if they are not perfect the look amazing. Yours will perform much better I bet. |
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I don’t think any cases are a perfect design, are they? |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter 1 Attachment(s) Could probably use a little more polishing but I am sure I will scratch the shït out of them installing the link mounts anyway... |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter 2 Attachment(s) After losing sleep thinking about which material to make the front tubes out of I finally decided on 7075 to match the rears. Maybe a set of Ti tubes will be in a future Super build, we’ll see... |
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Just prure awesomeness "thumbsup" |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter Might as well build everything out of titanium then... |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter 1 Attachment(s) Sorry not much tech, just manual labor... :) As you can see, House tubes, Dlux wheel hubs, SSD 0° c-hubs, and Hudy servo arm a la polísh... |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter No, there aren't any perfect cases.... But that's a perfect work you got there. You went the extra mile on those! |
Re: House’s TiDe Fighter 1 Attachment(s) A nice shiny pair of Swedish Shocks via Utah were delivered today... |
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