My Stretched Revo 5T conversion, advice pls

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by Overdriven

Hey Lincpimp, how's your savage coming? Can't wait to see another one of these going.

Just noticed this...

I like the idea, and I was planning to section 2 revo chassis together to get a stretched chassis for another of my larger scale builds. I do not need as much wheelbase as you do... I also have tons of revo parts, and the track width with 0 offset wheels is just about right to match up!

I am still working on the shorter 15" WB savage, and got all of the stuff in/ordered to do the 5t sized savage. I still need to finish the baja 5b conversion too. I seem to have alot of custom projects now!

If you look on ebay someone is selling "seconds" of the proline desert rat conversion corr body for the 5b for right at 100 bucks shipped. Pretty good deal considering they sell for 135 plus shipping. He says there is only 1 blem on the body? Maybe something to look into, I would have bought one, but I already have my desert rat body.

[Overdriven]

Originally Posted by lincpimp

Just noticed this...

I like the idea, and I was planning to section 2 revo chassis together to get a stretched chassis for another of my larger scale builds. I do not need as much wheelbase as you do... I also have tons of revo parts, and the track width with 0 offset wheels is just about right to match up!

I was in the same boat, working with what I had around. I've spent to much $ in my nitro days, trying not to repeat that. If I had or knew someone to weld alum, I would've done something more like a sectioning job. Would've been more work measuring, bending, cutting and cursing, but would look much better. I mention the cursing because the easiest place to section is in the trans area, and that still has alot of curves, so I wish you luck with that And yes, zero offset wheels fit under the 5t body just like a stock 5t does. The RPM wide offsets don't, but with the body at the height I have in the pics, they don't rub when the suspension is fully compressed and it still looks good from the front and the sides at ride height.

Originally Posted by lincpimp

I am still working on the shorter 15" WB savage, and got all of the stuff in/ordered to do the 5t sized savage. I still need to finish the baja 5b conversion too. I seem to have alot of custom projects now!

And we keep hearing about them, but never see them finished! J/K I know how it is to be r/c crazy with 3 or 4 vehicles in pieces, while you run the other 2. I'm glad I'm down to 2 now. I almost went shorter, as MCD has a trophy style truck, and VSModelsport makes/used to make? a similar body for MCD/FG vehicles which are a few inches shorter. But considering the cost of the bodies being about equal and having never seen one in person and having no way to do mockup I went 5t wheelbase. The pics shown are the 1st mockup with the new chassis, but I've done others with stock length to check the body height, width etc before even getting started, so it was mostly a convenience decision.

Originally Posted by lincpimp

If you look on ebay someone is selling "seconds" of the proline desert rat conversion corr body for the 5b for right at 100 bucks shipped. Pretty good deal considering they sell for 135 plus shipping. He says there is only 1 blem on the body? Maybe something to look into, I would have bought one, but I already have my desert rat body

I'm not a fan of the desert rat for the 5b, the top of the wheelwells is too thin in profile and doesn't look right to me. Thanks for the tip though, I'll look into it. I'm up in the air at the moment with this project. I'm going to try a few more things to get it to handle better on the street as this is my primary running surface. I think my main problem is my buggy is too much fun to drive. I drive it like I stole it and it just comes back for more, well more tires anyway! If I could convince myself its worth it to buy another esc+motor for a truck I won't run as often I'd be happy with it as is.