Project: Savage Flux 5T

[Bondonutz]

I hear ya, sounds good.

But, can't the front section be used for a battery tray easy enough ? Curious because this will be my next project .

The "roll bar" part of the TVPs looks rounded over on the edges ?

[thzero]

You mean where I have the "receiver tray"? I thought of that, but discarded it because the CoG would be very high for the batteries, and its not quite long enough either.

I was planning on creating a battery tray that would sit just behind the 'receiver' tray but down as low as I could go and still leave room for the drive shaft. Also looking at trimming off about 2cm of the receiver tray, which requires drilling new holes in the TVP, in order to move the batteries forward some more.

The "roll bar" part isn't no. I want to run a Baja 5T body (actually one of the Proline versions), the whole point of this project for me, so depending on how it sits I may at least lop at least the rear section or even the entire thing.

Still also considering cutting my own chassis, but need to get a few extra tools (small table drill press and router.. .cheapo versions so that if they get ruined by all the metal shavings its no big deal).

Originally Posted by Bondonutz

I hear ya, sounds good.

But, can't the front section be used for a battery tray easy enough ? Curious because this will be my next project .

The "roll bar" part of the TVPs looks rounded over on the edges ?

[thzero]

Just a pic of the conversion partially put together. I really dislike the Flux design because it makes swapping pinions really hard since you need to remove the ESC stand, then basically undo the backend as one of the screws for the motor mount is hidden by the bottom plate.

Am going to start mocking up with wood some TVPs for a center diff version.

[Bondonutz]

Originally Posted by thzero

Question;
I have yet to own a Savage anything so this is all kinda new to me, If one had the capability to make their own center shafts could the transmission be turned around so the motor will be in the middle more and have the Lipo forward of that ????
I realize some other mods would be nessasary to the motor mount plate ETC but is this a possibilty if the motror and trans were to spin in the direction needed ?

[thzero]

You could I suppose, gearbox spins both ways so not sure I see a reason why you couldn't. However, you'd have to do extensive mods to the chassis to flip it around.

Basically you'd need to cut out the red portion on both sides to allow the motor plate to fit in. Also at least on these you'd need to do a bit of work in bracing the motor plate as there is no material where the motor plate mouns would be.

Originally Posted by Bondonutz

Question;
I have yet to own a Savage anything so this is all kinda new to me, If one had the capability to make their own center shafts could the transmission be turned around so the motor will be in the middle more and have the Lipo forward of that ????
I realize some other mods would be nessasary to the motor mount plate ETC but is this a possibilty if the motror and trans were to spin in the direction needed ?