home made chassis

[texase_maxx]

been tring to find a way to build a chassis what do i do to start

what is a good web site to find chassis plans to make a chassis form anything that i can make myself, and what would be a good place to look for axles

 

[SimpleGreen]

Wow...

Well, obviously you need to decide what kinda chassis you want.

Do you want to go scale (realistic) or not?

What transmission? Pede, Stealth, Emaxx, etc...

You could do a crawler with the monster truck style tube frame, or a straight railed truck with links or leaf springs, or a real style truck frame with the narrowed front, dropped center, and raisied front and rear. Then you need to know what axels your going to use. TXT, TLT, WK, Clod, etc, etc...so you'll know how the links (or leafs) and shocks will mount.

You can build a chassis out of many materials. Steel, aluminum, brass, lexan, carbon fiber, and if you want to get really out there, wood. You could utilize already existing parts. I saw a little 2.2 crawler with a chassis made out of a couple 1/8 nitro buggy shock towers.


Otherwise, just look around the board. Ive only been here a few days and can already tell you that the answer to your question is literally on nearly every page. Pull out a piece of paper and draw out some ideas.

-Chris

 

[SimpleGreen]

For the record, you dont need two threads for these questions.

what is a good web site to find chassis plans to make a chassis form anything that i can make myself, and what would be a good place to look for axles

Like I said, just read the forums. Go back 5,10,15 pages and look at other projects to get some plan ideas. I cant think of any one place that would have plans written out for ya to follow.

You might be able to find axels in classifieds on some forums, otherwise you might have to part out an existing crawler kit (which you can get from hobby sites and Ebay).

-Chris

 

[LAV25]

I'm in the process of building my own chassis out of chopping board and square aluminum tube. It may be pretty harebrained, I'll know as soon as I get it up and running, but you can see what I did here: http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63379

Good luck

 

[mrpink]

you can make a chassis out of an old soup can if you want.... you need to do alot more research before you start choppin.

 

[LAV25]

you can make a chassis out of an old soup can if you want.... you need to do alot more research before you start choppin.

I'm gonna try that next if this doesn't work out

 

[Norcal crawler]

you should look around and see what type of truck you want, look at the chassis available, and try to model one similar. That is what i would do.

 

[Reflection]

what is a good web site to find chassis plans to make a chassis form anything that i can make myself, and what would be a good place to look for axles

The BEST place to find anything related to RC crawling is crawlerspot.com "thumbsup"