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04-22-2011, 09:08 AM
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| R.I.P. Chip   Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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|  My son's Cadillac
I found this body about 6 months ago and had to have it. I am currently building it so I can drive my 1 year old son around in it. He's got to have a Cadillac like dad  To give an idea of scale, it's 52" long. I have 12v linear actuators to raise and lower the suspension, just like on my 1:1. It'll be powered by at 350w scooter motor, and run on 3s/6s. In 6s mode it should be geared for about 15mph, (a stock power wheels goes 5mph) For steering it's got an 1800oz/in tonegawa servo. For power I have 6 5000mah 3s lipos. The main frame is now done, and lastnight I finished the front suspension and gave it a function test. Here are the pics: Last edited by jason; 04-22-2011 at 09:16 AM. |
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04-22-2011, 09:22 AM
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| R.I.P. Chip Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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Once I get it all running and together it'll go off to get painted black, then be set out to get striped to match mine.
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04-22-2011, 09:23 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Greece, sun, sea and rocks
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Wanna adopt me???  You'll get a house in Greece for vacation as a bonus! |
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04-22-2011, 09:38 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2009 Location: Tehachapi,Ca
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|  lucky boy man, that thing is gonna be sick. Is that body from an old pedal car?
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04-22-2011, 09:40 AM
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04-22-2011, 09:45 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2009 Location: Tehachapi,Ca
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04-22-2011, 09:45 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: So-Cal, OC, CA. Earth, Sector-28
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that is going to be a sweet ride!!!
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04-22-2011, 12:40 PM
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| PapaGriz Yo  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the garage building the wife a crawler
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That is sooooo sweet!!!! I can't wait to see more progress on this one J.
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04-22-2011, 02:04 PM
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| Moderator Rule Breaker  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Austin, Tx
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Too cool. What are you using for steering and esc ? Check out this forum. May or may not be of help http://forum.modifiedpowerwheels.com/ |
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04-22-2011, 03:05 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: May 2009 Location: melbourne/palm bay
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u used actuators on the 1:1?..........are you in NC? Nice Ride Bro!!!!!!!  |
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04-22-2011, 04:53 PM
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| owner, Holmes Hobbies LLC  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Volt up! Gear down!
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Yeah buddy! If you need any more advice on it just give me a shout. The MMM should handle that motor well, but if it doesn't I can get cheap brushed ESCs for ebikes.
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04-22-2011, 05:01 PM
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| R.I.P. Chip Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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I'm still trying to decide if I want to run it on 3s and call it good, or put the pack in a series and run it on 6s. On 3s I can run the actuators and servo of the system power, if I go to 6s I'll have to put in a CC BEC Pro to knock the voltage down to those things. | |
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04-22-2011, 07:04 PM
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| Old guy   Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Northwest Arkie-saw and we got ROCKS!
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Thats bad ass. I've always love your caddy. It was the shit back in my day. I think it cool ,you building one for your son. |
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04-22-2011, 07:48 PM
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| R.I.P. Chip Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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I love piling the family in it rolling down all the windows, cranking some old country and just driving. We burn a lot of gas in that thing going now where, just driving. | |
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04-22-2011, 07:55 PM
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04-22-2011, 08:07 PM
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| cherry bomb  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Nanaimo, BC, Canada
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this thing is really awesome, we need some body off pics  is it going to be RC, or driven like a powerwheels? |
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04-22-2011, 08:14 PM
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| Built, not bought   Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Gresham
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That's one lucky kid. Can't wait to see some progress. |
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04-22-2011, 11:01 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2009 Location: Tehachapi,Ca
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Not sure what the frame looks like or how much clearance ya have but have you thought about a possible body drop? To get the stance you're after
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