With enough research and Redcat's recent clearances, I decided I would try to fit this body to a Marksman TC8. Tried and succeeded. The body, I believe it came off of a Radio Shack branded RC from the name of Fast Lane. I don't have any details on it alone, but I came across the body via eBay and was fascinated that such a thing existed. Eventually I will give the body a detail and paint it. Here's what I've done so far.
Let's start with some stock pictures for reference. The front & rear bumpers, the bed, as well as the side steps in the bed, running boards, bed trim & chrome trims are all pieces also. Headlights have buckets but not the tail lights.
Measurements:
Mock up with 4.75 tires:
These 2.2s are still just way too big:
Another mock up without the inner fenders but still 4 shock towers. With the body posts adjusted in the front, a huge body lift is just ugly (not saying I wouldn't have fun driving it still). In stock Redcat form, the wheelbase was one setting off from matching, so I adjusted the front links to the inner setting which turned out perfect.
The initial plan was to run a leafed rear, but with the way these XR247 axles are, I was unable to make them work. So I ended up with a cantilever rear (leftover from the first go at my LC70 Interceptor build) and sway bar. Bent the sway bar outward a bit to not interfere with the cantilevers.
Here's the stock rear bumper from the Marksman which I notched the middle section as so to account for the license plate area of the Tundra bumper. And I also utilized the TC8 front bumper, which is how the body mounts to the chassis (used screws to put through both bumpers).
Looks so much better with the body now mounted. Frame rails line up with the bumpers, and skid is level with the body itself. With 4.75s, the rear wheel arches don't need any trimming. The front, though, needs an immense amount of trimming which was expected. I'll begin with cutting off the stock flares, then go from there.
Here's what I did to attempt to fix the horrible axle swing and bump steer:
On the existing chassis panhard mount, I took this leaf mount swing from the leaf kit I bought and bored out one of the center holes. Using the new hole, I mounted that to the panhard mount and used the main hole next to it to act as a template to drill a new hole also so that piece would be mounted with 2 screws. Having a replacement link available, I also had another to replace the drag link which now mounts in the usual knuckle position with the tie rod link.
Extending both links like this doesn't seem like much, but the angle of both links are now slightly less (they aren't completely parallel to each other but to me that's ok. The goal here was for the rig to have an even left & right stance at resting height. Before, the axle was shifted to the driver side at resting height.
Let's start with some stock pictures for reference. The front & rear bumpers, the bed, as well as the side steps in the bed, running boards, bed trim & chrome trims are all pieces also. Headlights have buckets but not the tail lights.
Measurements:
Mock up with 4.75 tires:
These 2.2s are still just way too big:
Another mock up without the inner fenders but still 4 shock towers. With the body posts adjusted in the front, a huge body lift is just ugly (not saying I wouldn't have fun driving it still). In stock Redcat form, the wheelbase was one setting off from matching, so I adjusted the front links to the inner setting which turned out perfect.
The initial plan was to run a leafed rear, but with the way these XR247 axles are, I was unable to make them work. So I ended up with a cantilever rear (leftover from the first go at my LC70 Interceptor build) and sway bar. Bent the sway bar outward a bit to not interfere with the cantilevers.
Here's the stock rear bumper from the Marksman which I notched the middle section as so to account for the license plate area of the Tundra bumper. And I also utilized the TC8 front bumper, which is how the body mounts to the chassis (used screws to put through both bumpers).
Looks so much better with the body now mounted. Frame rails line up with the bumpers, and skid is level with the body itself. With 4.75s, the rear wheel arches don't need any trimming. The front, though, needs an immense amount of trimming which was expected. I'll begin with cutting off the stock flares, then go from there.
Here's what I did to attempt to fix the horrible axle swing and bump steer:
On the existing chassis panhard mount, I took this leaf mount swing from the leaf kit I bought and bored out one of the center holes. Using the new hole, I mounted that to the panhard mount and used the main hole next to it to act as a template to drill a new hole also so that piece would be mounted with 2 screws. Having a replacement link available, I also had another to replace the drag link which now mounts in the usual knuckle position with the tie rod link.
Extending both links like this doesn't seem like much, but the angle of both links are now slightly less (they aren't completely parallel to each other but to me that's ok. The goal here was for the rig to have an even left & right stance at resting height. Before, the axle was shifted to the driver side at resting height.
