pics. of my progress on my 3.3 conversion
 

Just a few pics. I have all of the electronics for it, just haven't had the time to make a bracket for the rx yet or solder things together...

I painted the springs and the chassis. After all of the brackets are made and the drilling, etc is done I am going to repaint it. Also remove the color from the AL tubes and the 17mm hexes


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That's purrty.

I like to be different...hence the orange theme

Wow. that's real nice... The orange and black combo works well together. :yes:

Of all the conversions I'd seen, none were orange/black

Yep, you truly have a unique build there... can't wait to see the finished product. Are you sticking with the same colour scheme for the bodywork?

Alien

Yup, RUSTY XL-5 from here on RCM is painting a body for me. He will hopefully incorporate a little black and white into the scheme, but that is up to him...

I like orange - http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/chri...ct-t12820.html

Another w/great taste!:mdr:

that orange chassis looks really good! did you just srpay paint it? im curious, what brand of hub carriers are those?

Thanks! I am going to repaint it when the truck is totally done....I put the paint on to thick so it is peeling off in some areas and I also did not use the correct type of primer. ( I need an etched primer )...it is high temp motor paint called Plastic Cote.

The hub-carriers are RD Racing

I think you will have to sand down the primer with 150 - 220 grit to give the paint a good surface to stick to. Then apply the coats lightly.

Alien

Very nice!

Holy Smokes thats nice!!!!

Glad I wandered into the Revo section. :yes:

Nothing a sandblaster can't handle to strip the paint completely and then hopefully a etched primer will help the paint stick a little better.

I am thinking of cutting off completely the old engine mount support to make a new mount for the battery tray. I mocked up the battery tray last night on the side where the old nitro motor used to be and I am not to found of the battery being up at an angle if using the existing old motor mount support...if something were to happen, the batt. would slide into the spur gear so....I am rethinking the mounting design for that side. Also, I am going to make a bracket for the rx that sits above the steering servo similar to Mike's design on his crt.5 kit.

Thats about the best method to remove paint from thick metal. It does leave a slight texture on the metal. It may show thru the paint, so if you do not want that sand the chassis after you sandblast with 400 grit paper till it is smooth. You may also want to buy an etching primer that you can sand, that will make the final coat smoother as well. If you do plan to sand the primer you can skip sanding the chassis after you sandblast it.

Nice color scheme! I like orange too:

http://scriptasylum.com/forumpics/mazda3.jpg

Actually, that's not exactly my car, but I photoshopped a different pic so it looks as close as I can.

I skipped over this thread several times figuring once you've seen a few revo conversions you've seen them all. Something told me to take a look and I am glad I did. That thing looks nice! Definitely something different for the tastebuds and probably the most interesting 3.3 conversion I have seen in a long time.

Thanks for the tips...much appreciated!:yes:

Thank you...This build may be taking a new turn since I posted this the other day. I am looking at a custom chassis being made for me that is 1.5" longer than stock and looks similar to the Gorilla Maxx set up. If I decide to go this route, I will have it powder coated orange.

Powder coated!!!:yipi:

YUP! I found someone local who will swap me some work for doing the chassis

Make sure when it goes to powder coating the edges are as clean as possible and try to get rid of hard corners. This is the only downside to powder coating is the it can chip in rough areas and hard corners.

Anodizing would work well too. I have a local guy that anodizes any color for 100 per batch, as much as you can fit.

Good to know...thanks for the info, I will keep this in mind!:mdr:

Great looking build! It is beautiful :mdr:

Heath

I got your body today, should get quite a bit of it finished over the week/weekend. :intello:

That looks really nice Mag!

I made 2 more custom mounting pieces....one for mounting the rx next to the steering servo and 1 on the other side on top of the unused existing steering servo mounts. The second piece makes a level mount for the esc to sit on. I will post pics. tomorrow when the paint is dry and they are mounted

Thanks...all of the custom pieces should be dry and installed by next weekend...hopefully!

Magman wanted me to post a few pics of the progress of the body. Only 2 sneek peeks. :wink:

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Finished w/the custom brackets....the rx is mounted behind the steering servo....I put it in for demo. purposes. The esc bracket was made to level the surface for the esc to sit on. The second batt. tray is a Tekno tray...what I did was CAREFULLY bend the existing motor mount supports so that the battery tray would be level.

1st. 2 pics. are of the finished mock up and the second 2 are what it will look like w/components.

The batts. pictured are not going to be used...just thought I would show off some of linc's handy work!


All in all, it should have good balance.

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the red anodized stuff on the motor looks really cool with the orange! do you think you will have any problems with the prong thing in the middle that holds the battary tray on the right side bending? because on my revo that prong thing bent

if problems do occur, I will just make a whole new support for the battery. I figured that I would try this approach first .

Very nice Mag, it's looking good.. :yes:. With all that power it should fly!! What colours are you going with for the body?

Alien..

Orange...of course:yes: silver and black RUSTY XL-5 is painting it for me

go back to the end of pg.2 and you will see the layout!

Yep... I just saw his little letter labels :lol:... Cool man... keep the updates coming.

I should be able to finish the masking by tomorrow. Should have it finished on Thursday. :yipi:

Finished cutting the masking today and will start painting tomorrow. Already 15 hours or so into it, and its starting to come together. :intello:

Thanks again!

holy cow!! this must be one heck on a body!!:surprised:
i painted my new proline body in like 3 hours, no it aint perfect but as it screams past at 40mph no one will know the difference:rofl: