Scale 1/8 buggy

[BrianG]

I did that with my nitro Revo (oh so long ago!). I parked my car near the vacuums and then put the Revo in the garage bay. I went to go get some coins and when I came back, there was an old man in his Lincoln just sitting there waiting to get his car in staring at the Revo with the funniest expression on his face. Priceless! I guess you just had to be there. :005:

However, I didn't think to oil the screws and they started rusting very soon. I did not enjoy having to replace them. :007:

[nativepaul]

Necro post warning: I thought this thread had snuffed it when the old forum died but just came across it, guess it was only the search tags that croaked.

As you might expect after so long without an update things have changed a bit, I got Mike to make me a diff top brace and a 3mm spacer to go under the front diff mount so I could get rid of the bodged up 3mm nuts acting as spacers and re-drilled top brace with only 3 screws attached as pictured earlier in the thread (very nice work Mike thanks).




Unfortunately I didn't manage to get my Bowler Wildcat body moulded but I did find a source of pre-made scale bodies stretched to the right dimensions for the buggy and some extra long body posts to mount it with so my buggy is now rocking a Ford Focus WRC body for on-road.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...l/e86557aa.jpg

I am getting an XT8 truggy for Xmas so this buggy will only ever be see on-road use now and is undergoing an extensive lightening and stiffening program currently with a carbon chassis, braces, towers, battery tray etc and a smaller motor, I'm tempted by smaller LiPos too but I have so many 4s 5000mAh packs I'm doubtful that will happen.

I am waiting for 3.5mm carbon for the chassis and shock towers, but I have some 2mm on hand for the rest of it, so far all I have made is a new servo top plate but I hope to have more updates with carbon replacements for plenty of the alloy stuff soon.

[nativepaul]

I made some more progress today:-


I made a carbon Ackerman plate, unfortunately I went slightly overboard with the sanding, but as I'm using the other holes anyway I will use this one rather than remaking it, and may sand the unused second holes off completely to save further weight.


I cut out parts for a new battery tray that is not only much lighter but will lower the CoG too, as the alloy tray I have at the moment is raised off the chassis on spacers by about 5mm to clear the mudguards, I will mill groves in the chassis to hold it in position at the bottom.


I made a full front diff/steering post/centre diff/rear diff top plate that I hope will stiffen the chassis a lot over the regular front and rear braces, but without any vertical triangulation I may still need to use one of the stock diagonal braces to make it rock solid, I hope not but I have holes for the front brace if needed and there would still be a small weight saving with it.

More to come soon.