Twin Castle 1717 Truggy project

[Lizard]

Thanks for your comments. Glad that you like it :)

Made a little progress:

Mounted four extra shocks because I did not want to go through the hassle of finding (much) harder springs for the shocks and thought it might be more durable and even load distribution on the a-arms is also a plus with that much weight on them I guess. Oil is 40wt all around, not sure if that is good, but I will leave it for now. Had to relocate the body-mounts because of the additional shocks, so an old Savage shocktower and bodymounts got re-used.

Received the Rival body and test-mounted it, I think with the body on it looks too narrow, I need to try +5mm offset squares and see how it looks then.

Found two different sets (28 and 40 shore) of some very rare Prafa 1/5 foam tires in 133mm diameter. Hope they will be good for speedruns. Does anybody know how to properly glue them to the rims?

Also made some more pictures. For size comparison: The Savage is 30mm extended and has a stock MT4 G3 body on it.

The motors are bolted to 8mm 7075 motor plates with four M4 countersunk screws. Centerdiff mounts are two MT4 G3 motormounts with the motormount-part cut off. The plate under the chassis is 3mm 7075.
I don't really like how the upper front hinge-pin brace is mounted, but I couldn't find a better way. Hope that it will hold up.

[JERRY2KONE]

Your setup looks interesting enough, and you are on the right track if you want more power. It looks like you have done the easy part of this project. now you have to find a way to sync the electronics on this to make them work in harmony with each other. that should be fun. Like stated above this kind of one off project is always a curious build to watch, because we have not seen this setup before.