BC-Brian build body or bodiless

[BC-Brian]

I'd think you'd have to do more than that. Unibody typically refers to something that is all one piece, so while you could make it from lexan, it'd have to be one continuous piece top/bottom/side/side. Like a unibody car, the frame and main body is all one structure and cannot be separated.

I don't know that anyone has managed to pull that one off yet.

Yea, that's what I was getting at "thumbsup"

I had sketched out an actual unibody design to be made of formed carbon fiber but it just wasn't worth the effort. It would have been a nightmare to make with no real benifit over standard bodiless.

 

[Duuuuuuuude]

Yea, that's what I was getting at "thumbsup"

I had sketched out an actual unibody design to be made of formed carbon fiber but it just wasn't worth the effort. It would have been a nightmare to make with no real benifit over standard bodiless.

Bragging rights isn't worth the effort? :ror:

 

[BC-Brian]

Bragging rights isn't worth the effort? :ror:

Ha, considered it. I am always making weird crap, just for the sake of being weird. People, "ask why not just do it the proven reliable way". Where's the fun in that?

For now it's making a cab for the SA, one who's legality won't be as severely questioned, till this whole mess gets sorted out by the rules committee."thumbsup"

 

[Rootar]

I know your isn't a unibody in its current state i was saying that i wouldn't consider your topper to be a frame, just that the topper could be consider legal had your chassis and topper been all one piece (under the unibody rule). For it to be a frame it should resemble the construction of your chassis imo. My lexan cabs are built like every one else's (as an assembly) and they resemble the construction of my chassis so they are part of the structural frame.

 

[rock hard]

Bragging rights isn't worth the effort? :ror:

Its been done, it was hard to find, actually I think harley posted I link to it when I started my unibody stink....

I think maybe it was motorman1600 that did it from recolection.

 

[rock hard]

here is one, ( not the one I was thinking ) but wait till you see what I found....gatta get back to it....

 

[rock hard]

If you guys had any historical knowledge then you would know that when the dimensions for bodiless trucks was setup they were typically metal tube frame.

They were top heavy and didn't slide on the rocks, and Lexan VW Bug bodies ruled the day. Overtime people figured out ways to make bodiless trucks out of stronger lighter materials. In the future someone else will figure something else out.

Personally I would rather see what someone can figure out within the existing rules. The bodiless guys figured out a way to get ahead of the bug bodies, so now its time for the body guys to figure out something new.

Bottom line its not Bull $hit ....its Evolution!

thats golden Fish, its the futur, and you was dead on with the prediction, and b.c did it.

 

[rock hard]

well couldnt find the link or the post wit the link to the unibody build.
it wasnt small like the one pictured, it was huge, like a bodied rig.

this is a debate about body/bodiless.......the desire to make measurements the same is not new my any means.
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/general-crawlers/281485-bodyless-chat-am-i-only-guy.html

and there is likely other debates prior to that...

some will say they bodiless have an unfaiir advantage....
but austin would likely disagree
and I know at least one body was in finals ( yochi )

so I dont know if there really is a unfair performance advantage, or if its just preferance
for me its preferance, I dont like bodies....dont like buying them, dont like painting them dont like
mounting them. and damn sure dont like body clips, or losing body clips on course.

but looking at when the bodiless rule was made, and why it was made the way it was, and given there is little a body guy can do except trim his body to improve it.....

and given the bodiless guys have used new materiaqls, and will continue to do so.......
maybe the body dimensions really do need to change...not for sake of b.c.'s truck...but to meet the wants and needs of the drivers who run a body.

 

[C*H*U*D]

here is one, ( not the one I was thinking ) but wait till you see what I found....gatta get back to it....

This is a bodiless. Some know why I say this. Some don't.

 

[rock hard]

This is a bodiless. Some know why I say this. Some don't.

well speak up...why is it?

Is the skid bolten on?

 

[rock hard]

another classic

the rules committee has determined it does not fall into any catagory so rather than expand the rules we feel its easier to kill you and hide the evidence!

oddly enough, this was a post in one of the 1st bodiless threads back in 06