1/6th Scale Savage Conversion

[Finnster]

So a bit of playing around with the cad program from emachineshop. Drew up a simple shock tower that I'm going to test cut on the pegboard tomorrow.
2nd time playing with it, and had an easier time of doing things and figuring out how to make more complicated shapes by using a few tricks in the proggy. Happier with how it ended than where I started!

Was going to cut this from 1/4" 7075 I have. Considering picking up some CF instead. I found some ~cheap CF in small sizes. Enough to make the tower.

I can refine it later some more, but should be good for a test cut.



This is designed for flux shocks which I received yesterday. The LSTs are just too big to mount how id like, and there the shafts snapped alot anyway. The fluxes look good and much lighter.

[Finnster]

Also recieved my mbx6t rear suspension set yesterday also, as well as all the axles.

First off, the axles do look slightly longer than the XLs. Nice 8mm shaft that should hold the hex extenders too. Will get more width than I was thinking.
Planning to get +15mm ofna adapters. Should push it out nicely.

The other good thing is that the weight is half of the XL axles. 25g vs 50g for the above setup. Thats 100g savings total alone. The axles seem strong, and the cvds spin smoothly. Hopefully they last.




The other interesting thing was that the toe plates that came with the suspension set fit the Sav bulks actually quite closely. Some simple mods and they will fit right in. The other bonus is that they came with a bunch of toe plates, all for different toe and anti-squat settings. It would be awesome if I could get these to work!

I overlaid the Sav hinge pin brace over the brace from the mugen. Very close screw mounting. Need to open the holes on the mugen from 3mm to 4mm anyway, should be easy to make it fit. :)

Crappy pic, but I put M3 screws thru the mugen brace, and up thru the HPI on top.