My Savage Truggy Project!

Well I don't really have "access" so to speak, still going to cost me a fortune! The price you pay I guess.

Anyways, still some refining to do but all it is is some chamfering/hole making/fileting.. the easy stuff, to make it look pretty and to piece it together.
I'll keep working on it tonight and see what I can do! I just remembered I still have to make some shock towers for this thing, but those shouldn't take too long. Hope to have everything done tomorrow to send off!

Complete, with Mudguards (These are my own)


Mudguards off


Just the Chassis

[Jahay]

Originally Posted by Cody.McP

Well I don't really have "access" so to speak, still going to cost me a fortune! The price you pay I guess.

Anyways, still some refining to do but all it is is some chamfering/hole making/fileting.. the easy stuff, to make it look pretty and to piece it together.
I'll keep working on it tonight and see what I can do! I just remembered I still have to make some shock towers for this thing, but those shouldn't take too long. Hope to have everything done tomorrow to send off!

Complete, with Mudguards (These are my own)


Mudguards off


Just the Chassis

Nice!!! Just keep us updated! i still like the idea of this chassis.... I can see why no one has really attempted it now... Its quite complex.

I was looking at the designs and notcied that you are going to have problems utilising the stock steering assembly unless you use one out of another car which has a flat chassis.

Also how are you going to mount the motor?
1.To the side of the centre diff to keep the LCG?
or
2.mount it above like using the universal diff/motor mount in the RCM Store?

I vote 1. for Low centre gravity reasons. Otherwise what the point in making a chassis like this.

Seriously i would love one myself when you are done!

[Chadworkz]

Originally Posted by Jahay

I was looking at the designs and notcied that you are going to have problems utilising the stock steering assembly unless you use one out of another car which has a flat chassis.

You can see the holes on the chassis up front, surrounded by a little bit of circular material, where I assume he is going to install a two-post bellcrank style servo-saver/steering assembly. A UE GenIV SS would be awesome there!

Originally Posted by Jahay

Also how are you going to mount the motor?
1.To the side of the centre diff to keep the LCG?
or
2.mount it above like using the universal diff/motor mount in the RCM Store?

I vote 1. for Low centre gravity reasons. Otherwise what the point in making a chassis like this.

You can also see the 4 slotted holes in the chassis where he will mount the motor using a full-can motor-mount, like the Tekno conversion mount.

No i like the top plate...i think life will be BETTER than without it...

Hmm I coulda sworn I posted this up last night... but I finished the chassis and sent it off to the machinist! Still have to do the bracing just right but the chassis is 100% done. Figured I would post a picture of it to show what the finished product will be like. The rest is soon to come. :)

very nice, what is it going to cost to get in machined?

I'm not quite sure, I'm still waiting on the actual quote, but I was told it would be pretty reasonable. He was going to look over it and give me a quote tomorrow so I'll let you know.

any updates?

Unfortunately I'm going to have to put this project on hold for a little bit, the quote I got for the chassis was way too high and I've been calling around machine shops and they are all wanting ~700 for just the chassis (and around that much for the other parts too), which is just too much for me to spend right now. I've recently been looking at some CNC mills and I think I might get a little Taig or something and eventually mill out this project, but for now I don't think it's going to happen, sorry. :(

I will definitely get back to this though.

[simplechamp]

For those prices you probably are better off investing in a small mill. It would be an awesome learning experience, and you could do some jobs on the side to help recoup some of the cost. I've been looking into doing the same thing but my current living situation (small apartment) and finances won't allow it at this point.

the chassis you have drawn up doesnt look to awful hard so i agree with SC on this one,go buy yourself a small mill.the uses are limitless and youll always find something cool you can make for another project--josh

Yeah, I am definitely going to get myself a mill. I've just been trying to find out how much I want to spend on one. I'm probably going to go with a small Taig, good to go with some tooling for about 3k. After 2 or 3 projects it'll pay for itself.

[jappow]

you could really buy both a lath and a mill for about $1000 but all the extra's that you need will cost you ie. mill vise, end mills, parallels rounding bit........... and thats just for the mill.

Yeah, I'm going for a CNC mill though, not any options under 1k. I made a wishlist of a CNC Taig + Decent Tooling and such for 3k, just have to scrounge up some money and I'll put in an order. This project probably won't get much love until I can figure everything out though, much to learn about CAM and machining for me!

sounds fantastic, cant wait to see the rest of the build!