Lightning 2 Pro carbon rallygame conversion

[bigboi146]

That's a great looking car! I wanna do something like this in the near future.

[powah]

Wow


It looks realy High-Tec and also very sleek


p.s. Paul i have a brand new Lightning Pro body i painted in Monster Energy Style for my Lightning Pro i ain't going to use it because i'm working on a Traxxas Slash body for this buggy. So if you want a new painted body let me know. The only thing the body needs is to cut it out and make the body post holes.


Keep up the good work!

[powah]

I have no picture now but i have a picture of my new Hyper 7 body that looks a little like the Ligtning Pro body only the windshields aren't green and the sides are green carbon look with black.

[nativepaul]

I like the slash look for a scale off road buggy, I would keep hold of your buggy body though, when I was running off road with my Focus rally body the chassis, motor, ESC, servo etc got covered in crap so for off road i used to run with the buggy body on and the scale body over the top of it, it saved a lot of cleaning and by the end of the run it was probably lighter too. Seeing that you have a hyper with out any of the stickers on the body I will ask you if you still have the decals, I'm after the ones that look like vents.

[powah]

Hello Paul,

I have send you a PM thank you again for the parts and the lovely card!


No problem, well the body is a Proline Hyper 7. Proline don't sell them anymore but a shop also in The Netherlands still have them for sale http://www.the-border.com/product.ph...7&cat=0&page=1

The stickers i have with some vents on it are these, i have also the original lightning stickers and some hyper 7 stickers only 1 big vent and 1 small vent.

[nativepaul]

I got some more done over the weekend, I was having some trouble with the shocks, with the angle I am laying them down at the lower spring seats were hitting the bottom wishbones and limiting suspension droop, so I bought a new set of wishbones and carved away the areas that they were hitting, I also took the opportunity to stiffen up the suspensionlaying the shocks down had softened up the initial movement and put more progression in it, so I rebuilt the shocks wit 70weight in the front, 80 weigh in the rear and stiff springs all round.
Fronts


Rears

However now the spring seats aren't limiting droop, the springs hit the front diff housing and that limits droop although to a lesser extent, so I will have to take it apart again and modify the front diff housing.

I made up some body mounts, the front ones aren't perfect though i should have made them taller, so I may well remake them.

I also replaced most of the M3 screws under 20mm long with some alloy ones I had laying around from another project, here's how it is looking now.

[nativepaul]

I finally got round to modifiying the front diff housing, the screw faces for the top clamping screws needed moving back 3.5mm, and there was just enough meat in the plastic to get that far back, another .2mm and I would have perforated the housing. I also had to shave off a strengthening rib, but with its placement in an allready high strength area I am not worried about having weakened it too much.


Now the springs just have a microscopic amount of clearance at full droop increasing as the wheels rise.