Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof UPDATE!!!!!

[jcboof]

Well, the time has come to build a new rig for 2012. The new year and the new chassis definitely has me excited for the upcoming season!

After careful deliberation, it was rather apparent that I HAD to have one of the BWD "Thing" chassis. Don has always had some of the coolest and best performing designs and I knew that I would not be disappointed in this one. I contacted Don a while ago about the Berg version and as soon as he had it ready, it was on its way to me!!:mrgreen:

For starters, this kit is COMPLETE! The only thing needed is rod ends. The machining and fitment is top notch as usual and i know everything will fit together very nicely.

A big thanks goes to Don over at BWD for setting me up with this awesome chassis. I'll do my best to get everything dialed in and keep everyone updated on any new info or tweaks I can come up with!


OK, Here's the breakdown of my goodies!!!

BWD "The Thing" Berg version chassis
Titanium Upper link kit from BWD
Berg Axles
300's
Axlemasters
Mann 2nd and 3rd gears
VP knuckles
Avid bearings throughout
86Jeep steering, with forward tie rod
Mayhem Engineering Evolution wheels 1" aluminum fronts and 1" Delrin rears.
Sedonas
Novas Double Deuce Foams
Traxxas big bores, with Jeepin Doug Mini retainers and ball ends
Holmes Hobbies 35T Torquemasters. Special edition!!
Dual FXR's (soon to be Micro Sidewinders)
Castle BEC
BWD Delrin MotorSavrs
Futaba 9157 Servo
CCD Axle tubes ( hopefully will have them soon)
Futaba 4PK
Krawler Konceptz Inside skins (Need to design some soon!!!!)


The build will get started this weekend. Hopefully everything will be done and I'll get it on my test course on Sunday!!

Now, heres a teaser of my Thing...:shock:

 

[GEARSCIENCE]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

nice man i like the look of those chassis a lot

 

[BuckImod]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

This is a very nice chassis! I'm getting mine on the rocks for the first time sunday. I'll be watching your progress."thumbsup"

 

[chicklet]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Sweet! Get that THING together already! 8)

 

[jcboof]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Sweet! Get that THING together already! 8)

Lol! I'm working on it. Have a comp tomorrow so I won't get started on it till Sunday morning. But if I have enough time I might "Wedge" (v2) another build in my weekend schedule..8)

 

[chicklet]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Very nice! BWD all your rigs!!!!

 

[Harvo]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Very nice. Now you will be ready for our Battle at Battlegrounds 2012 "thumbsup"

Watching this one. I like the Thing Chassis.

 

[jcboof]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Very nice. Now you will be ready for our Battle at Battlegrounds 2012 "thumbsup"

Watching this one. I like the Thing Chassis.

Lol! Heck yeah man! I'll be ready!!!
This should be a pretty cool build as I will be trying out some new tricks!!

 

[Krawler Konceptz]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Wow this "thing" is really contagious:ror:

 

[jcboof]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Wow this "thing" is really contagious:ror:

Yup. Now I just need to get some skins for this "thing"!

I'll be in contact with you later tonight."thumbsup"

 

[Krawler Konceptz]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

I knew you would be in need of them..as you mentioned that over a month ago:mrgreen:

 

[DRCrawlGood]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Looking forward to the build, Don makes some great parts and its nice to see more of his products being built.

 

[Mini]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Is it done yet??? lololol

 

[binaryterror]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Another truck I get to beat? LOL

Bring it with you to show off tomorrow...or be a man and have it running tomorrow!

 

[jcboof]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Another truck I get to beat? LOL

Bring it with you to show off tomorrow...or be a man and have it running tomorrow!

Lol! I don't know Jake, this one has winner written all over it.
I'll bring it tomorrow if you promise not to get too much drool on it.

 

[superduty03]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Good seeing you today man, can't wait to see his "thing" all done up :lmao:

All jokes aside, I like the chassis a lot, and I know you will put together a winning combo for the 2012 season! "thumbsup" now get tO work!

 

[djjiz]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

That "thing" done yet?"thumbsup"

 

[jcboof]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

That "thing" done yet?"thumbsup"

Build commencing in T minus 12hrs. These "Things" take time guys. Be patient!

 

[jcboof]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Well, the build got put on hold this morning as my computer decided to pick up that nasty Win7 Virus that's been going around here on RCC. After talking to Binaryterror for about an hour, I was able to get things back up and running on my laptop.

I have the chassis assembled and will have some pics up soon!!

 

[jcboof]

Re: Its a Berg THING, You wouldn't understand. By jcboof

Ok, first thing is to disassemble the old truck. It worked ok, but it was falling apart and definitely needed some attention. I bought this truck as it sits from another member here and never touched a thing on it except for the converting the steering from knuckles back, to knuckles forward and changing out the Kyosho shocks to big bores. No other tuning or maintenance was done on the truck, so it was definitely time for a teardown.

Broken CF chassis!:mrgreen:

OK, now on to the new one!

The BWD kit comes equipped with some 1/8" Titanium links, They were a tad bit long in the rears for my liking, so I added a bend in them to shorten them up to bring the motor in the rear down a bit. Worked nicely!

The same thing in front too, The links were a tad long. I normally like to clock my tubes at 20* and then roll my axle back so my motor is almost flat on the ground. I have to do some more works with bending the front uppers to get the proper length, but its going to work out just fine.