My BL Savage

[jnev]

Mike can do it for you! He is quite busy, so it may take a little time. but when it comes to machining, he IS the man.

Alright, I think I will shoot him an e-mail once I finish the drawings then, thanks.

I'm so close to finishing the drawings!
All I have to do now is to finish the chassis, and then modify some of the existing drawings a bit, then add a few more bits into the assembly to make sure everything is going to fit. I'm leaving for Canada this Wednesday, so I hope I can finish either tonight or tomorrow. I'll post some pictures of the assembly when I am finished.

Well, I have decided that my SolidWorks hates me.
It's crashed twice now, and of course it always crashes at the worst possible times. I'm going to sleep now(almost 5 am, wow)
I'll finish up the little bits (all I have left, really) and post some pictures tomorrow.

Well, I finished the drawings (for the most part). My SolidWorks keeps crashing because my computer hates me, so I'm done with it for now. All I have to do is add some holes to the TVPs, and add a section on the top electronics plate for the ESC/BEC (when I decide what ESC I am going to run, I don't think I want to use the BK 3695). Other than that, the drawings are done, sorry I couldn't get very great angles, I'm pretty bad with the displaying of things in SolidWorks...

General View:


View from the side with one TVP hidden:


View from the front:

So I'm redoing the drawings in SW so the chassis can accommodate 12s and a new motor I just ordered to power this beast, a 1527/2D. The LMT motor is going to be put to use in another project... I'm also going to go with mechanical brakes (brake bias woo!) and a HV-110, I really don't want to use the BK in this, and MGM's are just too dang expensive, and apparently the software has problems. I am also making the wheelbase shorter than the last drawings I did, so the wheelbase should be very similar to the FLM extended kit. I thought I wanted to make this truck into something resembling a 5th or 6th scale, but with the recent headache of trying to find a place to put my Baja, I think I'm going to tone it down a bit. Although with this new power system, I hardly think it will be toned down!
The only problem I can for see really is that I think that I am putting a bit too much weight in the rear of the truck, but we will see. I can always modify these new drawings I am working on to adjust the balance a bit. My personal deadline for these new drawings is 1 week from now. Once I finish these, there will be no more changes and they will be sent somewhere to be machined, and I will (hopefully) have my Savage I've always dreamed of!

So, I now have a question:
will this thing have too much power?
I'm afraid...

[lutach]

Originally Posted by E-Traxxer

So I'm redoing the drawings in SW so the chassis can accommodate 12s and a new motor I just ordered to power this beast, a 1527/2D. The LMT motor is going to be put to use in another project... I'm also going to go with mechanical brakes (brake bias woo!) and a HV-110, I really don't want to use the BK in this, and MGM's are just too dang expensive, and apparently the software has problems. I am also making the wheelbase shorter than the last drawings I did, so the wheelbase should be very similar to the FLM extended kit. I thought I wanted to make this truck into something resembling a 5th or 6th scale, but with the recent headache of trying to find a place to put my Baja, I think I'm going to tone it down a bit. Although with this new power system, I hardly think it will be toned down!
The only problem I can for see really is that I think that I am putting a bit too much weight in the rear of the truck, but we will see. I can always modify these new drawings I am working on to adjust the balance a bit. My personal deadline for these new drawings is 1 week from now. Once I finish these, there will be no more changes and they will be sent somewhere to be machined, and I will (hopefully) have my Savage I've always dreamed of!

So, I now have a question:
will this thing have too much power?
I'm afraid...

No, it will be fun power . I still have to try my 1527/1.5Y in my BPP truck. I tried my 1521/1Y with 10S that was still geared for 6S and that was too much. You will have a good time with that set up.