1/6th Scale Savage Conversion

[Finnster]

Been working a bit on it last couple days. Still acquiring parts also. Been really busy, and two small kids takes most of my spare time.

Anyway, I chopped up an old alu skid plate I had from an emaxx way back when. I wanted to build a little platform to mount the RCM UCD and the slipperential to start test fitting and getting an idea of how I want to do the ext tvps. One big trick will be to be able to fit the rear servo in there with the motor. The rear str rack requires a bit of room, and the servo has to mount high if its along the rail to allow for proper travel. I want to move the motor way back to hopefully have room in the center for batts. Getting everything inside the TVPS is going to be a pita.

One note: I am using the 50T mod1 spur on the Slipperential. I had to file the hell out of the top plate to clear all the slipperential spur. Also, the tension ring for the diff is also large, so a lot had to be cut out for that to clear as well.

I got the plate all done, then stripped the horrid blue ano.







Looks like I will need to offset the UCD in the final version to give clearance to the R servo. Plenty of room to do this. Only other issue I saw was that the CD sits up pretty high compared to the tranny outputs, so angles are more severe. The F bone will end up being quite long, so not so much an issue. The rear one isn't so happy tho, esp if I try to move it back even further from where it is. The cup was wanting to rub the bone already. I may have to drop the TVPs down and mount the whole thing lower. I don't want to give up too much ground clearance in the middle tho. A ~1cm drop makes the diff much happier.

* I have on a cvd from my hyper st, as well as the rear XL dogbone. they just happen to fit perfectly. Eventually the F dogbone will have to be about 110mm longer...