Savage Flux Xl Build

[Bondonutz]

Agreed, Looks beastly next to the buggy. Clever thinking w/the pins.
Keep us posted.

[brushlessboy16]

Originally Posted by Bondonutz

Agreed, Looks beastly next to the buggy. Clever thinking w/the pins.
Keep us posted.

Thanks, they are hardened steel so ill be surprized if they ever break(knock on wood)

Will do,
Trans should be here wendsday along with the other parts i hope

[Desert Rc]

Love the xl chassis. Going to be a sick build.

[brushlessboy16]

Another Big up date. scavenging around the shop today i was trying to figure out a way get the steering installed.. My main problem was finding bearings to fit in the steering assembly. The answer came in the form of bearings from an old transmission out of an electric duratrax evader... Next came the steering posts. Found a great match with Center differential mounting posts from an ofna Hyper 7 which i had lying in the junk box.. One end was drilled for m3, and one end was larger with an m4 opening. Hacked off the large end and it made perfect steering posts, they bolted into the stock location and work great.








Then i just had to dry fit the wheel tires and body!!

[eovnu87435ds]

hah, funny to find all my old parts wondering their ways on your build. that means i get to run it first!

[brushlessboy16]

Originally Posted by eovnu87435ds

hah, funny to find all my old parts wondering their ways on your build. that means i get to run it first!

Lol.

I was looking through my yellow box with the bearings in my hand and saw the posts and though hes selling that car, he doesnt need em'

and your evader is long gone


If you guys havent figured it out.. Being impatient and creativity go hand in hand

[thzero]

Did you fit the engine mount onto the XL TVP chassis yet? If so, got any pics of it?

[brushlessboy16]

No the flux motor mount will not fit on the flux tvp's.

Im using some of the cross braces and building my own motor mounting system on top of it

[thzero]

Yeah I figured that it would not as someone already tried to do it and posted over on rcuniverse when the Flux came out, but it was a real hatchet job. Be interesting to see what you come up with.

Originally Posted by brushlessboy16

No the flux motor mount will not fit on the flux tvp's.

Im using some of the cross braces and building my own motor mounting system on top of it

BB i hear you can take parts from a flux tranny and upgrade a nitro tranny if so can you use a nitro tranny housing and fill it with you flux tranny parts ? if so i have one with a abused second gear your welcome 2 !!!
i'm starting to wonder should i have kept my FLM nitro chasis and tried to modifiy it to use the flux motor plate and mounts it would have saved me alot of cheese to use in other areas ! i need i need i need LOL !

[brushlessboy16]

Originally Posted by ASYSTEMERROR

BB i hear you can take parts from a flux tranny and upgrade a nitro tranny if so can you use a nitro tranny housing and fill it with you flux tranny parts ? if so i have one with a abused second gear your welcome 2 !!!
i'm starting to wonder should i have kept my FLM nitro chasis and tried to modifiy it to use the flux motor plate and mounts it would have saved me alot of cheese to use in other areas ! i need i need i need LOL !

Flm makes there own brushless conversion. You only need one gear to convert it to the locked single speed. I did this to mine.
Thanks but I got my trans in today.. If you have a wheelie bar I might need that

[brushlessboy16]

Im Basically remaking the large motor plate and braces as one peice, from 1/4in aluminum...

Winter sucks.. snapped a drill bit, Got that out, tried to thread a screw in, snapped the head off, drilled it out, then broke my m3 tap in the hole... cant get it out, so i ground it flush..

But. I mounted the transmission. roll bar, center driveshafts, rear toe links.

Had to improvise as I had no transmission output cups. Used 1mmthick aluminum sheet metal. Made a sleve for the transmission output shaft to fit the differential pinion drive cups..

It can sit on its 4 wheels by itself now!

I started with the FLM nitro chasis converted it with the kershaw stuff it Looked dumb stripped it put nitro stuff back on bought another savage roller when i picked it up it was FLM nitro chasis powdercoated black with kershaw mount and battery saddles. Now from this point i should have toughed it out and purchased ONLY flux parts like mounts,motor plate, and i would have saved money but i stripped and sold the nitro chasis cause i had one already and now i have the trannyforward setup. i kinda understand what your doing i have a bunch of aluminum chasis braces and some stuff i know will get the job done for you. If the tranny is fitting between the tvp's and you just need to mount the motor plate i have these half mounts FLM provide to mount various plates between the tvp's they sent like a few extra with the parts i have ordered over time. does the flux motor mount bump the tvp if you move it out to far ? or is it where the plate mounts go there's no frame material to mount to.

[brushlessboy16]

Originally Posted by ASYSTEMERROR

I started with the FLM nitro chasis converted it with the kershaw stuff it Looked dumb stripped it put nitro stuff back on bought another savage roller when i picked it up it was FLM nitro chasis powdercoated black with kershaw mount and battery saddles. Now from this point i should have toughed it out and purchased ONLY flux parts like mounts,motor plate, and i would have saved money but i stripped and sold the nitro chasis cause i had one already and now i have the trannyforward setup. i kinda understand what your doing i have a bunch of aluminum chasis braces and some stuff i know will get the job done for you. If the tranny is fitting between the tvp's and you just need to mount the motor plate i have these half mounts FLM provide to mount various plates between the tvp's they sent like a few extra with the parts i have ordered over time. does the flux motor mount bump the tvp if you move it out to far ? or is it where the plate mounts go there's no frame material to mount to.

The flux motor mount does not fit the xl tvps plain and simple.

and I wish that the transmission was about an 8th of an inch lower, so i dont need to clearance the entire plate to clear the driveshafts

so it would be easier to use the FLM Flux extended tvp's ahh a uknown~unknown ! i figure with the tranny and the tvps not matching up even close u might have a "heck" of a time working around them and when done will they take the same abuse ! i didn't think the kershaw stuff was bad it just seemed like i was pressed so thats why i didn't stick with it, i was really a good lipo and a pinion away from a test run. i had been eyeballin the new chasis for like a year now and since the flux had been out for a while that made 2 options that was better than the can sitting up so high on the chasis. i was looking at you spur and 44 sounds like a blast i have the 47/20 on my truck now but would like to use the 44 becuse at the moment i'm stuck with my current motor/esc @5s. i am considering locking my tranny because i need that servo for my DM-1 and reverse wouldn't hurt but i'm worried i might burnup my esc "LOSI Brand" before the holidays are over and i can get a MMM. when you get a chance shoot me a link where i can learn about the locking the tranny.