EeePee's CR-01

[Natedog]

Originally Posted by twisted

i like the black. i was thinking black with a white roof for mine. maybe on the outside as well.

X2, looks good Eepee.

[cartronicshn]

Nice EP, i feel the same way on the tamiya body.

[roborg5000]

Looks better then the clear body you ran a couple weeks ago

[EeePee]

Thanks guys.

The body wasn't clear, it was invisible.

Since it's going to be used for the TSC scaler class I gotta do some point deducting accessorizing. And I think we have to run front and rear bumpers... I don't think it'll look good with a rear bumper. I dunno...

Started some tweaking to the rear suspension.





But of course it's raining like crazy outside so I can't really see what happens...

[cartronicshn]

Originally Posted by EeePee

Started some tweaking to the rear suspension.


But of course it's raining like crazy outside so I can't really see what
happens...

Now were talking,it's only rain...slacker
Btw, this mod would reduce the pinion angle, wouldn't it?

[EeePee]

You had to quote the pictures didn't ya?

Yeah the pinion angle is rolled forward a hair, and I can add a small spacer between the links and rod ends, but it's still good to me, as you can see it there in the second picture.

Yeah, looking at the stock rear link geometry it just didn't make sense to me. I'm trying to get the uppers a bit more parallel to the ground.

I want to swap the sway bars front to back too, but that looks like a small pain in the butt.

[cartronicshn]

Better now?, about the sway bars, aren't they same lenght? mine have gotten bent and i just straighten them out by hand, so just bend them a little and pull them out maybe?

[EeePee]

Yeah but that'll compromise the structural integrity of them and they won't be as effective!

Duh!

Heck, I can hardly tell them apart. They both look gold sometimes, and sometimes they both look silver.

[cartronicshn]

i know....wait they are supposed to be different color?, but they do bend to easy to think that would have any effect on them.

[EeePee]

Yeah, two different bars.

How'd they bend? Seeing how they're in a torsional twisting motion, eer uh, whatever, I don't see how they bent.

[cartronicshn]

i have to be honest, i bent them, to avoid tearing the suspension apart, which i will have to do anyways to mod the shocks

[EeePee]

I knew it!

Hey I think it stopped raining.

[cartronicshn]

Originally Posted by EeePee

I knew it!

Hey I think it stopped raining.

, well get to it

[EeePee]

Originally Posted by cartronicshn

wait they are supposed to be different color?

http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/ite...oduct-id=54030

[cartronicshn]

Originally Posted by EeePee

http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/ite...oduct-id=54030

i'll get a couple sets, to have around, i thought only the optional sway bars came color coded, that shows you how well i follow instructions, i am a renegade

[theonek]

looks bad a ss! i have had mine for a week or so and its still sitting in the box unopened... so i might build it now that im seeing some mods to do!

[EeePee]

Theonek, you build it now!

So at this point I've put the blue springs in back. The yellow is in front. Added the spacers to the upper rear link mounts. I've removed the front sway bar, and the front flexes now. I'm surprised how much those bars really effect things. I put the bigger sway bar in the back. I've also put 40 weight oil in the back shocks. I put Proline memory foams in the back tires, too. There's a definite rear stiff bias, and it's working well. And the memory foams are good back there.

I've also played with the linkages to see what their leverage differences could do. More on that later. Rising rate, falling rate stuff...

Oh and lowered the body a notch.

That was a day's worth of trial and error. And that's a good time.

[theonek]

soon my friend, very soon!

Originally Posted by EeePee

Theonek, you build it now!

So at this point I've put the blue springs in back. The yellow is in front. Added the spacers to the upper rear link mounts. I've removed the front sway bar, and the front flexes now. I'm surprised how much those bars really effect things. I put the bigger sway bar in the back. I've also put 40 weight oil in the back shocks. I put Proline memory foams in the back tires, too. There's a definite rear stiff bias, and it's working well. And the memory foams are good back there.

I've also played with the linkages to see what their leverage differences could do. More on that later. Rising rate, falling rate stuff...

Oh and lowered the body a notch.

That was a day's worth of trial and error. And that's a good time.

[theonek]

anything new?

[Shaun]

Looks good, I like the black.

Nice work