moa tundra truggy build

[FATBOYrs10]

Originally Posted by jesseRS10comp

cool its looking great fyi I'm 14 lol and i weld my own cages and sand blast. keep up the good work

hey thats great to hear my son has been around that kind of stuff all his life believe it or not he started driving racing go-karts at age 2 but he has never took liking to sparks of things (maybe a little gun shy) but he dont mind gettin his hands dirty or turning a wrench we have built stuff together practically since he could walk n talk

[FATBOYrs10]

! UPDATE ! for all u late nite crawlers we did the "truggy" part of the tundra done tonite but i am tired and going to call it a nite but i will post new pics first chance i get tomorrow thanks for lookin

[jesseRS10comp]

thats cool to hear yeah the straps will help lots with shock travel

[FATBOYrs10]

ok here it is bare bones

[FATBOYrs10]

now with the cab be easy on us its r first rig but please let us know what u think we r going to put a front bumper,stinger,and xo just around the front wheel openings but we want to get a grill for it first

[Hoosierdady]

thats looking really good guys. Awesome job

[Docwolf]

so.....how much for a chassis? lol

[FATBOYrs10]

Originally Posted by Docwolf

so.....how much for a chassis? lol

that good? lol i will asume we did a descent job on our first attempt

[Docwolf]

yeah i like the whole setup, i am going to steal your idea, modify it a bit of course to fit my body, but it looks great. plenty of room for electronics and batteries.

[FATBOYrs10]

yea he has intensions on full interior we r planning on the battery blaying lenght wise hidden under a console almost like stock location we r goin to still use stick packs(for what we do i dont see spending money on lipos and chargers)we already have several packs from other rc's we've had and we r planning on putting every thig else under the hood except for the dig switch that we will hide in either a fuel cell or a toolbox

[FATBOYrs10]

think this might make a good spot for his winch after we get the bumper made and mounted (with a stinger for sure)

[jesseRS10comp]

wow its looking great keep up the good work

[Hoosierdady]

Originally Posted by FATBOYrs10

that good? lol i will asume we did a descent job on our first attempt

Yup, it's that good. You guys are doin a fantastic job on the chassis. I do see a spot in the back that you may want to widen for more travel. It's where the gear box is hitting that lower loop on the bottom. I would look into bending that out a little so that the gear box will fit in between there. Almost tucking the gear box for the rear axle up in the cage portion. Just my $0.02

[FATBOYrs10]

Originally Posted by Hoosierdady

Yup, it's that good. You guys are doin a fantastic job on the chassis. I do see a spot in the back that you may want to widen for more travel. It's where the gear box is hitting that lower loop on the bottom. I would look into bending that out a little so that the gear box will fit in between there. Almost tucking the gear box for the rear axle up in the cage portion. Just my $0.02

hey thanks for $0.02 but the motor actually its the other side and the gear box does clear the chassis just like u suggest--we r actually going to relocate the rear shocks it a bit more straight up (scale) position so that they actually bottom out at ride height we like for our rigs to set idle with just a slight kickup in the rear, we like climbing straight up and this tends to help (atleast for us) but we do want opinions and suggestions

[FATBOYrs10]

we plan on maybe gettin the front bumper and the rest of the tubing done by the weekend we r both off until monday

[FATBOYrs10]

ok here is what i have been workin on this evening thought i'd post this pic so u could see what i started with-it's some of the left over frame rail

[RICrawler]

Damn, this is turning out really good. Keep it up I will be watching this one!

[FATBOYrs10]

Originally Posted by RICrawler

Damn, this is turning out really good. Keep it up I will be watching this one!

hey thanks we r tring r best but it is r first go at a rig like this workin on getting it mounted up as we speak

[FATBOYrs10]

alrite here it is for what it's worth -not a real good pic-(but hey let us no what u think) it should'nt give us any problems it and the main frame rails and 2 cross members are all mig welded while the tubin is brazed hopefully when he gets done beatin on it the cab wil be the only thing we have to replace!

[FATBOYrs10]

if anybody is interested we did get a stinger bent and welded to the front bumper will post pics soon