hillbillybob
Newbie
I wanted to build something unique and found inspiration for my build when Jesse started building his new buggy. With his permission I drew out my own plans from pictures. I tried to keep it as close to 1:10 of the full size chassis as possible. I'm at 11 1/8 inches on my wheel base and the buggy is 109 inches so I'm pretty dang close. My chassis is all 3/16 solid rod. I chose to braze versus weld because I like how smooth it flows out and I didn't have to spend much time cleaning up the joints. I started a while back but figured I'd finally make a thread 
I started out with a small sketch by eye and blew it up to scale and then started changing my rough sketch into a more accurate version until my top view and side were the same
Keeping to scale I went with treps for the closest to the creepy crawlers and used gearhead rings to dress up some 8 holes I had. I swapped to stainless hardware and added another round of bolts to change it up a little more.
The floor pan is large enough I could've used a wraith skid but didn't like the fixed geometry and the scx skid would have been just as much work to mount so I opted to build the link and trans mount into the frame.
I saw a sweet steering setup in a moon buggy build here and wanted to try it in my build so I could do a cms to keep the axle clean and with the limited space up front this worked out great. This was my first mock up of it and has been reworked since. I used 1/4 tube and drilled 13/64 for 10/32 all thread I used to mock with. It functions awesome but after a little use the threads are all smashed so it has some slop so I'm going to switch it out for 3/16 solid now that I know how I need to have it clocked. I get full lock both ways on my narrow XR mod.
I started out with a small sketch by eye and blew it up to scale and then started changing my rough sketch into a more accurate version until my top view and side were the same
Keeping to scale I went with treps for the closest to the creepy crawlers and used gearhead rings to dress up some 8 holes I had. I swapped to stainless hardware and added another round of bolts to change it up a little more.
The floor pan is large enough I could've used a wraith skid but didn't like the fixed geometry and the scx skid would have been just as much work to mount so I opted to build the link and trans mount into the frame.
I saw a sweet steering setup in a moon buggy build here and wanted to try it in my build so I could do a cms to keep the axle clean and with the limited space up front this worked out great. This was my first mock up of it and has been reworked since. I used 1/4 tube and drilled 13/64 for 10/32 all thread I used to mock with. It functions awesome but after a little use the threads are all smashed so it has some slop so I'm going to switch it out for 3/16 solid now that I know how I need to have it clocked. I get full lock both ways on my narrow XR mod.
