dna4engr
Rock Crawler
After my IFS wraith experiment didn't work out the way I wanted, I still had the itch to get a go fast rig that performed better. Steering, handling, and weight balance were way off.
As you can tell from the title, this will be a Ford Bronco skinned rig. I think the straight up tubers are great rigs, but I just love the straight up tuber race cars that at least somewhat resemble a street rig.
I've admired the Venom 1 rig from Poison Spyder's 2012 KOH entrance and wanted to use that as my inspiration. Obviously not a jeep version, but the engineering in the chassis is just top notch.
Preliminary Parts lists includes:
3/16" Rod Custom Tuber chassis
BMRC V2 Rear trailing arms
Crawler Innovations Deuces wild 2.2 standards
Crawler Innovations 6 Bolt wheels with 350 SLW hubs
Dlux Fab Modded AR60 housings, U4 axle trusses, and no slop bearings
Axial Universals, stock rear shafts, and 43/13 UD gears f/b
Axial 2.2 R35 Trepadors (left along for now, but like will get some dremel work)
Supershafty Bombproof trans (geared 56/14) with 6mm outputs and MIP drivelines (thanks Savage03)
Vanquish titanium steering links, bearing caps, link mounts, chubs, etc
Gmade piggybacks (for now since I have them in the parts bin)
Savox 1231 servo
Futaba 4pls
Castle MMP powering a Tekin Pro4 HD 3500kv on 3S
With the 2.2 tires, the custom chassis and the dimensions of the Proline 73 Ford Bronco body for the 3.3 Revo, I think it will work out in proportion to be a pretty scale with the Venom 1 jeep.
Here's the tires, wheels and foams
Stock links on the rig for the build process and the bronco body resting on top. Trust me, it won't be sitting that high, it needs a lot of cutting and trimming to fit inside the tires.
The frame is started. I elevated the first section of tubing about 1.25" so I can use the skid mounting plate as an upper link riser (more on that later)
Progress is coming quickly
Basic Skeleton is in place. Still a lot to do. Plus the nose doesn't look quite right. A little too long.
Lot more to come. Looking forward to getting this thing into a roller so I can test it out and see what needs changing.
Dna
As you can tell from the title, this will be a Ford Bronco skinned rig. I think the straight up tubers are great rigs, but I just love the straight up tuber race cars that at least somewhat resemble a street rig.
I've admired the Venom 1 rig from Poison Spyder's 2012 KOH entrance and wanted to use that as my inspiration. Obviously not a jeep version, but the engineering in the chassis is just top notch.
Preliminary Parts lists includes:
3/16" Rod Custom Tuber chassis
BMRC V2 Rear trailing arms
Crawler Innovations Deuces wild 2.2 standards
Crawler Innovations 6 Bolt wheels with 350 SLW hubs
Dlux Fab Modded AR60 housings, U4 axle trusses, and no slop bearings
Axial Universals, stock rear shafts, and 43/13 UD gears f/b
Axial 2.2 R35 Trepadors (left along for now, but like will get some dremel work)
Supershafty Bombproof trans (geared 56/14) with 6mm outputs and MIP drivelines (thanks Savage03)
Vanquish titanium steering links, bearing caps, link mounts, chubs, etc
Gmade piggybacks (for now since I have them in the parts bin)
Savox 1231 servo
Futaba 4pls
Castle MMP powering a Tekin Pro4 HD 3500kv on 3S
With the 2.2 tires, the custom chassis and the dimensions of the Proline 73 Ford Bronco body for the 3.3 Revo, I think it will work out in proportion to be a pretty scale with the Venom 1 jeep.
Here's the tires, wheels and foams
Stock links on the rig for the build process and the bronco body resting on top. Trust me, it won't be sitting that high, it needs a lot of cutting and trimming to fit inside the tires.
The frame is started. I elevated the first section of tubing about 1.25" so I can use the skid mounting plate as an upper link riser (more on that later)
Progress is coming quickly
Basic Skeleton is in place. Still a lot to do. Plus the nose doesn't look quite right. A little too long.
Lot more to come. Looking forward to getting this thing into a roller so I can test it out and see what needs changing.
Dna