TRX weightloss tip

[Desmo]

My TRX need to loose some weight to be a competive scale crawler. What's the best tip to loose some weight?

I've changed the body on mine to a proline commanche body, got rid of the shift servos for the axles and made a custom battery mount.

I know the links are quite heavy, but what else?

[JatoTheRipper]

There's a lot of plastic that can be taken off like the fender wells. Remove remote locking diffs and servos and install from lockers.

[high plains drifter]

Maybe shave a few grams by replacing stainless/ steel screws/ nuts with aluminum... low stress areas like plastic, lexan, rx box, etc.

[Desmo]

This is my current setup. No inner fenders and no shift servos. Lighter body. Lighter and lower batterytray. Lockers and overdrive. Added weigt is brass portal covers front and rear.

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[rm25x]

My rig is 8.2 pounds with no brass and I run a hard body. It’s SORRCA C1 legal and I took first place in both C1 and C2 (still on 4.19 tires) with it yesterday. Weight can be a good thing.

[Feldhege]

Originally Posted by rm25x

My rig is 8.2 pounds with no brass and I run a hard body. It’s SORRCA C1 legal and I took first place in both C1 and C2 (still on 4.19 tires) with it yesterday. Weight can be a good thing.

What weight can they be for each class?

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[CODYBOY]

Originally Posted by Feldhege

What weight can they be for each class?

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None of the classes have weight restrictions. They for the most part are about tire size, tire coverage with body, and bumper sizes. That is a kind of "in a nut shell" answer!!!! You can find SORRCA rules here: 2018 Rules are up!
Ernie

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by Desmo

This is my current setup. No inner fenders and no shift servos. Lighter body. Lighter and lower batterytray. Lockers and overdrive. Added weigt is brass portal covers front and rear.

Nice. Who makes those front, brass knuckle weights?

[Desmo]

Originally Posted by rm25x

My rig is 8.2 pounds with no brass and I run a hard body. It’s SORRCA C1 legal and I took first place in both C1 and C2 (still on 4.19 tires) with it yesterday. Weight can be a good thing.

Mine's 8.5 with brass. Got around 110 gram on each portal cover on the front axle. Got SSD portal covers on the rear axle wich is about 70 gram on each side.

Think my plan must be to get some titanium links, lighter wheels, lighter chassis (come on Brazin ), convert to single speed and brush less.

[Desmo]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

Nice. Who makes those front, brass knuckle weights?

Can't remember. Some no name ebay china shop.

[Ninomaniac]

There's already brass everything for the TRX on eBay and AliExpress. No wait, not sure if I've seen brass tires. Male that almost everything.

[o0wiz0o]

Chuck the receiver in a balloon and loose the box if you after loosing every gram. Get rid of the side rails?

[Desmo]

Originally Posted by Natedog

Yes to losing rx box, but side rails help hold my body and I trimmed off about 1/2 the width, still works great but lighter weight and squeezes past obstacles easier.

Any pictures?

[Desmo]

Anyone know the wb of the Samix titanium links? https://www.amainhobbies.com/samix-t...025hls/p702639
I'm looking for 313wb titanium links.

[HumboldtEF]

I took a drill bit to the body mounts/posts and shock mount braces to shave a tiny bit of weight, drilling through where it was strong enough to take it and dimpling other areas it wasnt. I cut off the bottom of the body post that hung below the post mounts as I never plan on lifting the body any more.
It was a minuet amount of weight