Marzzz23's.... 5th D Sucker Punch...

[winnerone23]

Looking great Troy.

I would not say lazy, just unmotivated. We are expecting another foot of snow Wed. into Thurs.:shock:

Jerk! I wish we were getting a foot of snow here.. its calling for a dusting..

Bout time you posted some tech in this thread.. Man it was boring. You north eastern boys get lazy in the winter

We can't all live in a warmer area that doesn't get any snow ya dam leprechaun!
I wish we got more snow, its the only money I make right now.. 12hr shifts from start to days after, till clean up is done.. no snow, no money.. :'(

 

[winnerone23]

Now for some "tech"... Haha

Shock building time...

Starting point



Needed upgrades.. the only ones needed for a leak free and smooth scx shock.. imo...



With the chassis and amount of flex, I limited the front shocks 4mm. Not much but enough to help keep the nose down.
I also took a little tid bit from Christina(hittman) and went with some internal springs. They keep the rear end lower and sucked down for sidehills, until the rear end needs to drop out. Then they are only good for a 5mm shock limiter. The are losi micro crawler springs(part number losb1722)
I went this route for 2 reasons. 1. It Just works! 2. Dave ran my sporty at a few comps and said he wants his to work, act, and react just like mine did/does..



Green slime and 3 stock o-rings, no black plastic piece..



Together but no oil. The rear shock will extend just as far, or close, to the front shocks..



Together with oil.. 40wt front with silver mrc springs and 30wt rear with silver mini-t rear springs..



Ride height comes in around 2.35" front an 2.65" rear of skid.



At rest.. (oh, look at them Shift hubs shine!)



The when ready to drop out.. a full inch of ground clearance is to be had, the full length of the skid.



With a full body, resting on the servo mount..



One cut to go around the servo.. low and sleek. No issues getting around upside by any means! Which is were Dave likes to spend half his time per course... :sly::sly::sly:



Time is nearing for electronics.. and for fun, I wanted to see where the rtr would come in at..



So I stuffed the stuff in the tool box, after I hit the rate button for the tool box..



Not bad.. a little over 3lbs 11ozs.. no knuckle weight yet.. so add 4ozs to it, at minimum. So right around 4lbs when all said an done..

 

[Jslick]

While you are building a rig for him, you might as well clean up that rats nest of wires and shorten them up. :ror:

 

[TSK]

Thanks for helping a brother out. I was beginning to think MarzzzBarzzz went to go live in a cave.

Ride height looks just about right with the internal springs and limiters. My SP has much less flex than that. I'm using 3.5" BB's with 5mm internal limiters front and rear.

But someone has GOT TO have a better front 4 link plate to donate to the cause

 

[winnerone23]

John, the wiring Will NOT leave here looking the way it does! You should know that by now.. lol..
Decased, shortened wires, Smashed!

You got it Travis. Always liked the chassis, just wasn't in build plans of my own..

With the internal limiters, its down to about 5.5" of flex.. I like it for my own rigs. Ill prolly end up snapping some external CF limiters on the rear shafts tho.

The front 4 link plate might be getting delt with in house.. once I start to tackle electronics placement, ill look at what CF I have and deal with it.. :thumbup:

 

[Hittman]

We can't all live in a warmer area that doesn't get any snow ya dam leprechaun!
I wish we got more snow, its the only money I make right now.. 12hr shifts from start to days after, till clean up is done.. no snow, no money.. :'(

Hey! We got a whopping 2" last Thursday! But today it is 61*:mrgreen:

 

[marzzz23]

Holy moly Troy you have been busy as hell! Rig looks awesome. I am sure this rig will be as smooth as his sporty. I will never get him to ever shut up. Once again dude you are the man, I would have never got to it.

 

[scatterbrains]

Holy moly Troy you have been busy as hell! Rig looks awesome. I am sure this rig will be as smooth as his sporty. I will never get him to ever shut up. Once again dude you are the man, I would have never got to it.

I would have done it for ya.....may not have been straight but it would have worked :twisted:

 

[winnerone23]

Holy moly Troy you have been busy as hell! Rig looks awesome. I am sure this rig will be as smooth as his sporty. I will never get him to ever shut up. Once again dude you are the man, I would have never got to it.

Busy busy, ya know.. no life an all..

I would have done it for ya.....may not have been straight but it would have worked :twisted:

Its got to be Straight Pat... Dave will be following it around as is!

 

[winnerone23]

Got some mechanical parts in to finish the roller up..

Got some steel tranny gears and just couldn't put it back together with the aluminum outputs, so I added some steel ones while it was apart.

Out with the old, in with the new..



Time to work on that link plate.. bolted a Bwd, Chaotic, and his plate together..



Bwd and Chaotic were split between the Bwd holes and the rest was real close. So I ended up cutting a template out and making one.. but I'm bot sure the SP is getting that, or if I am..



What I did do, was bolt the Chaotic plate up and get into having some fun with CF.. I didn't like how far back the links I had on it clocked the axle and the other set clocked it forward.. so I went to town on some new 4mm CF rod I got in and made upper links F/R..

To Rears..



Mmmm, CF...



All on and looking good!





Tho now the tie rod is out.. :/ (oh well, back in the parts bin it goes)..



I'm much happier with the status of it now as a roller and electronics will be shortly to follow.. only 3-4 weeks to the first comp of this year!

 

[Crawllife]

Feel free to make another brother a set of carbon links...

 

[marzzz23]

Looking good Troy, take your time ,we are supposed to be getting 6-10 more inches of.snow tonite. It never ends

 

[Jslick]

Let me know when these start to sell. I'll send you my links to get proper measurements."thumbsup" Great work, are you pinning them also or just glue??

 

[winnerone23]

Feel free to make another brother a set of carbon links...

Thanks for the offer... Lmao.. get me ur lower link lengths, so I can make sure the uppers will be the same..

Looking good Troy, take your time ,we are supposed to be getting 6-10 more inches of.snow tonite. It never ends

I'm taking it, but I can only diddle daddle for so long.. I have/want to test and tune yet.. Also, I have a set of sporty axles to build, to get my sss-rs back up and running yet.

It doesn't look like I'll be getting the snow, here.. crawl, crawl, crawl!

Let me know when these start to sell. I'll send you my links to get proper measurements."thumbsup" Great work, are you pinning them also or just glue??

Will do John.. :thumbup: I was out today with mine on my rig.. binding the crap out of it! Bogged everything out from my 7980 to my 13t... (traction like Rausch) spray crete on "Squan" type terrain..
Links held up good enough for my liking.

No pins, just glue..

 

[Crawllife]

Haha! Thanks bud. My lowers arnt here yet. I'm hoping tomorrow.

 

[Hittman]

Will do John.. :thumbup: I was out today with mine on my rig.. binding the crap out of it! Bogged everything out from my 7980 to my 13t... (traction like Rausch) spray crete on "Squan" type terrain..
Links held up good enough for my liking.

No pins, just glue..

You will find that pinning the links is your friend. They hold good without, but that extra security is nice to have. I have had links with just glue last for a long time, then fail in the worst of times! Major comps and such. Trust your little leprechaun on your shoulder thus time Troy.. I think he knows what he is talking about"thumbsup"

 

[winnerone23]

Messed around long enough.. So I grabbed the electronics and its go time. First the mess..



Then I started to get it in order..



And realized, before I start cutting any wires, I needed a place to put them..

A little something like this..







I cut some CF tube for supports.. Will keep everything nice and solid!



Placed the servo and motor in.. Which the servo will be flipped when all said and done..







More shortly

 

[marzzz23]

Holy ish.......thats alot of CF bling. Looks great! Thanks!

 

[winnerone23]

Holy ish.......thats alot of CF bling. Looks great! Thanks!

Thanks Dave, glad you dig it..
When I don't have parts, I make em. As its the only material I have to work with, it comes out a little flashy.

Looking to have it in the rocks tomm. But you can't have it back.. Yet

 

[winnerone23]

Dave........ Oh, Dave...... Can you say.... RTR.....