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10-20-2009, 03:28 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Houston
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Well, its almost finished, just need to mount the electronics and figure out a body. Here are some pics!    Now thats narrow! A hair under 1.75" to be exact. Stock is 2" wide with this chassis, I curved the inner sides of the TVP's to match the curve of the output gear part of the WK trans, and Clearanced the areas where the trans bolts are. Looks like a performer! Oh, and I threw it on the scale with everything that is left to finish it off, and it came out to 4lbs 13 oz. That is with 3 oz added to each front wheel.  |
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10-20-2009, 03:47 PM
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Nice!! I like those wheels. I put a tray above the motor for my electronics.
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10-20-2009, 03:50 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: anderson
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man i like it almost made a post of what we can do with a old w/k with a sportsman class comming out i would think the king will get back out all over
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10-20-2009, 04:14 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Earth
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Very nice 4x, very nice indeed. Love the narrow mod you did to take it a step further  With a few small changes (to the link mounts mostly) this chassis is going to continue on through BWD |
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10-20-2009, 06:55 PM
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Very nice, makes me want to buy a WK just to use this chassis. Kieren |
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10-20-2009, 08:04 PM
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would be nice if the chasis was still avelable
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10-20-2009, 09:37 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Orange
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i never liked the WK but..............I LOVE THIS ONE good job on the rig |
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10-21-2009, 08:00 PM
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I still despise you... BUT the black out looks fantastic! Tranny is the best part though, right Shelby?  |
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10-21-2009, 09:05 PM
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10-22-2009, 08:09 PM
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Updates? had any real wheel time yet? |
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10-25-2009, 05:18 PM
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Shelby let me take this for a test drive today and I am really impressed how well it performs! It blows my comp rig away. Thanks Shelby for the test drive and congrats Don on a great conversion kit!
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10-26-2009, 08:11 AM
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10-26-2009, 10:41 AM
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It absolutely rocks! The skid I'd very narrow and very short, meaning there isn't much of a skid on the rig at all! This is awesome because even at the 2.75" GC that I'm at, I can make some tough breakovers. I curved the bottom of the TVP's where they meet the tiny skid, and when it gets hung up, you can get it to shimmy over to one side, hook up, and get over the ledge. I honestly think this is one hell of a chassis and makes the WK a contender again. I have very little if any torque twist, and that is with running the same gears front and rear. It is stable even with my very light wheel setup. All that I need to do is switch to some softer springs (the losi whites are too stiff!) Possibly some better quality shocks, put some overdrive gears in the front, and this rig will be a comp killer! Oh ya, still need to figure out a body, right now I'm thinking an axial XC-1. At the comp yesterday I set it up with the stock WK body, makes is a "sleeper" rig! | |
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10-26-2009, 02:53 PM
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10-26-2009, 03:03 PM
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How do those custom leopards work for ya? (it took me a few different viewings of this thread to notice :-P ) |
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10-26-2009, 06:24 PM
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10-26-2009, 06:53 PM
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I cut the inners to clear the shocks on my berg. Then I noticed that the sidewall near the tread flexed better, so I trimmied them on both sides. I like the way they work, the sidewall seems to flex more near the tread than the rim. I am going to trim the rears now. Also, I never had a single problem with sidebite on all the cougars that I have ran, so it doesn't feel like much of a trade off. |
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10-26-2009, 11:00 PM
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Here are a few action pics from yesterday:     And I just threw her on the scale. RTR at 4lbs 14oz.  |
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