Project: Savage Flux 5T

[thzero]

Er I guess it is!! Still, for what I was looking for its just the inverse instead of being more centered. Want the batteries, being 6s+, up front as far as possible to keep weight over the front end too.

Originally Posted by Bondonutz

Desert Boy chassis has motor/ESC in front, Batterys in rear. I just got done looking at the DB chassis, I do like it but the TCS is much larger !

[Nard Cox]

Originally Posted by thzero

Thanks, I'd seen that, but the chassis isn't long enough. I'm looking for a 5T conversion which means a 22.4" wheelbase. Nor is the DesertBoy17 which is only 17.6".

I did contact GCM and they have a couple of 5T length DesertBoy chassis, however just like the TCS Crawler's the motor/gearbox is in the standard Flux location. They wanted 400+ for custom TVPs.

Oyeah sorry, lost track of the ''5T'' and that you meant the TCS 5T conversion in stead of the XL lenght TVP's! My bad

[thzero]

Just a pic showing the size of the 5T chassis... should get a pic of it with a battery and the XL chassis to really show the difference.

[Bondonutz]

Whats this ??

[thzero]

<points to the Savage Flux 5T> topic title.... its the TCS Crawler 5T conversion chassis for the Savage Flux.

Originally Posted by Bondonutz

Whats this ??

[Bondonutz]

Sorry, I guess the picture I reposted with the crude arrow pointing at the home made battery/electronics gear "tray" wasn't enough ?

I'll try again with a Larger RED ARROW

[thzero]

Oh doh!! :)

That is just as you called it, a home made tray. This was actually a Savage XL that I had done a mid-tank mod to, so that's the tray for the Ofna 250cc fuel tank. Was probably just going to leave it rather than use the bulky plastic radio/battery/servo box of the Savage.

Originally Posted by Bondonutz

Sorry, I guess the picture I reposted with the crude arrow pointing at the home made battery/electronics gear "tray" wasn't enough ?

I'll try again with a Larger RED ARROW

[Bondonutz]

I hear ya, sounds good.

But, can't the front section be used for a battery tray easy enough ? Curious because this will be my next project .

The "roll bar" part of the TVPs looks rounded over on the edges ?

[thzero]

You mean where I have the "receiver tray"? I thought of that, but discarded it because the CoG would be very high for the batteries, and its not quite long enough either.

I was planning on creating a battery tray that would sit just behind the 'receiver' tray but down as low as I could go and still leave room for the drive shaft. Also looking at trimming off about 2cm of the receiver tray, which requires drilling new holes in the TVP, in order to move the batteries forward some more.

The "roll bar" part isn't no. I want to run a Baja 5T body (actually one of the Proline versions), the whole point of this project for me, so depending on how it sits I may at least lop at least the rear section or even the entire thing.

Still also considering cutting my own chassis, but need to get a few extra tools (small table drill press and router.. .cheapo versions so that if they get ruined by all the metal shavings its no big deal).

Originally Posted by Bondonutz

I hear ya, sounds good.

But, can't the front section be used for a battery tray easy enough ? Curious because this will be my next project .

The "roll bar" part of the TVPs looks rounded over on the edges ?

[thzero]

Just a pic of the conversion partially put together. I really dislike the Flux design because it makes swapping pinions really hard since you need to remove the ESC stand, then basically undo the backend as one of the screws for the motor mount is hidden by the bottom plate.

Am going to start mocking up with wood some TVPs for a center diff version.

[V0RT3X]

All the motor mount holes are accesible at the bottom. There's a hole in the skidplate. (atleast on stock TVPs)

[thzero]

Ok, well thanks for letting me know that one of the holes in the skidplate lines up. I double checked all the part #s and they are the same, so its very possible I have something put back together incorrectly!

Still don't really like the design, but oh well.

Originally Posted by V0RT3X

All the motor mount holes are accesible at the bottom. There's a hole in the skidplate. (atleast on stock TVPs)

[Bondonutz]

Originally Posted by thzero

Question;
I have yet to own a Savage anything so this is all kinda new to me, If one had the capability to make their own center shafts could the transmission be turned around so the motor will be in the middle more and have the Lipo forward of that ????
I realize some other mods would be nessasary to the motor mount plate ETC but is this a possibilty if the motror and trans were to spin in the direction needed ?

[thzero]

You could I suppose, gearbox spins both ways so not sure I see a reason why you couldn't. However, you'd have to do extensive mods to the chassis to flip it around.

Basically you'd need to cut out the red portion on both sides to allow the motor plate to fit in. Also at least on these you'd need to do a bit of work in bracing the motor plate as there is no material where the motor plate mouns would be.

Originally Posted by Bondonutz

Question;
I have yet to own a Savage anything so this is all kinda new to me, If one had the capability to make their own center shafts could the transmission be turned around so the motor will be in the middle more and have the Lipo forward of that ????
I realize some other mods would be nessasary to the motor mount plate ETC but is this a possibilty if the motror and trans were to spin in the direction needed ?

[Bondonutz]

OK, what about fabbing a new motor plate that would not need to butch up the chassis and use a motor mount like Mikes for the 3.3Revo convert ?

I'm not trying to drive you crazy just trying to help and weigh options for myself for when I start my own. Thanks for your time.