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03-03-2007, 11:54 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: So.Cal
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|  My Chassis thats going in the WK!
some aluminum, a cutting board, some screws, a die grinder and a belt sander, along with 5 hours and this is what i have.. This is my first chassis ive built and im very happy with it.. its sqare, light and im happy with the appearance.. This is going in my Wheelie King... or should i say the WK axles are going on this chassis  .hope to have the links made up tomorrow and axles on by the day after. I can't wait to finish... Stupid work getting in the way though      |
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03-04-2007, 12:24 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Saugus
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Hot dang! Leroys gonna be all shiney now!
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03-04-2007, 12:30 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: MUSE, PA
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hmmm, that looks oddly familiar....  |
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03-04-2007, 12:32 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: So.Cal
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 Its a knock off of a Bender.... BFD... im not marketing it, i made one.... a million people here have knock off BMVII's... Go annoy them  JOe | |
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03-04-2007, 12:46 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: So.Cal
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I just re-read your post and I can read into it a few ways... If i took it wrong i apologize... JOe |
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03-04-2007, 12:57 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: louisville
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benders is wider but looks good so far
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03-04-2007, 01:14 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: In A Nut Shell
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its got an uncanny appearance to another chassis cant remember what is is though |
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03-04-2007, 01:43 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: So.Cal
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03-04-2007, 01:49 AM
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| 20K Club   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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ya know that chassis kind of looks like one you can buy from some guy on the board. Just f'n with ya, very impressive handy work there. I like it. Here is my future WK project  Josh |
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03-04-2007, 01:54 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: So.Cal
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Im building a BMVII setup now, and after that one im gonna go at a full tube chassis. im just playing the field and see'ing what i like i guess... JOe | |
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03-04-2007, 01:58 AM
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| 20K Club Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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That is funny, that is exactly what I am doing right now. Going to do my bmv clone right now then onto the WK  |
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03-04-2007, 05:11 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mid TN
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I'll be very interested to see how this turns out. I'm geussing that with the plastic chasis the WK has, it's probably not worth trying to do much with the stock one.
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03-04-2007, 08:55 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: the hobby shop
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thw stock wk chassis is cheesy looking, but while i'm deciding on a "real" chassis i've been screwing with the stock one...it's not bad, or should i say i havn't broke it yet anyways, lol
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03-04-2007, 09:03 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Oak Lawn, Illinois
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Nice sw2 Copy, when will people be copying the SW3. lol and I don't mean this is a rude way
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03-04-2007, 09:08 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: So.Cal
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The stock Chassis on the WK like mentioned earlier is cheesy looking.. and it has a lot of torque flex. Also very limited on your link and shock placement. I have bashed my WK VERY VERY hard and the chassis has held up... i think the flex has helped that though .so far only thing broken was the plastic upper link (30ft tumble down a 40-45* wall) and i did break the front axle at the tapered ball end in the wheel hub. JOe | |
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03-04-2007, 09:34 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Missouri
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Thats a nice looking chassis. I like the fact that these axles are another choice for crawlers now that the TLT is discontinued.
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03-04-2007, 09:47 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mid TN
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I'm curious what you're going to use for shocks on that rig. I broke one this morning (ok, my son did it, but I let him drive it - I knew he'd break something when I did it, so, I broke it) and I've been looking at the shocks I have laying around for the MGT and pondering whether or not they'll work like they should. These axles are interesting - I'm working on a way to mount the shocks and the lower links to one side of the axle - I gotta got look at JIA's ralph thread again to see how he did that  |
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03-04-2007, 06:51 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: So.Cal
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03-04-2007, 08:09 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mid TN
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Looks like if you're going to turn the mounting brackets on the axles, you'll have to get longer sliders. Are you going to use the Revo set or something else?
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03-05-2007, 07:11 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Martinsburg WV
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It takes way more skill to "knock off" someone else's chassis, vs. just opening your checkbook and buying one off the shelf IMO. You get props from me for building it yourself, even if it does resemble something someone else is marketing. It looks like some good fabrication work to me. | |
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