1/6th Scale Savage Conversion

[Finnster]

Lol, yeah I cut a little slot for the spur. I wasn't going to post it, but the plate had a funny wtf face by the time I was done.



So I got the paper template laid out @+110mm. I laid down the bulkheads, servo and motor/cd to get a rough idea on the layout.





Even with the extra length. its still going to be pretty tight to get everything within the tvps. One bog challenge is going to be how to arrange the batts. Basically I got a few ideas. Easiest would be to make a batt box above the F driveshaft. It will sit pretty high tho. 2nd idea is to make saddle packs alongside the driveshaft, and fit them low in pockets. I was planning on HV anyway, so having twin packs is likely.

The 3rd option is to lay the packs flat and low and build batt boxes to open outside the tvps, sorta e-revo style. Its a bit sacrilegious, and I'm not that thrilled about having to make secure doors to hold the batts. OTOH, it would give the best cg result. Eh.



The first option is the easiest, and with that CC motor sale, I have a very cheap 1717 and 1520 to play with. Its awfully tempting to just use those on 6S or so w/ the MMM. Plenty of power and performance with parts already on hand. Otherwise I'm waiting still for the HVMMM, and who knows when that's done, plus its more money to spend...


I did look thru your pix _dV. You had some great ideas and layout. I like what you did with the str servos. That was another thing I was debating, how to mount the servos, as along the rail, the serov horn comes v close to the motor in the rear. I was going to turn them perpendicular to the tvps to clear more space for batts, but I may steal that idea if it doesn't work out well. Need to do it F and R, and its tight in back.