My Custom Design AX-10 Aluminum Chassis

[dirtworkshw]

Greetings from Indonesia!

Here's my AX-10 with custom design aluminum chassis, my goals are to achieve lowest COG and 3" max of belly clearance and get rid of those polycarbonate body (wrecked tons of them)...critics and comments are welcome....

Wallet Burners:
- Novak Rooster Crawler ESC (MM and FXR are not available here! Dang!)
- Mirror imaged Transmission.
- 3Racing Front Knuckles (the stock one broke after fell from 6ft cliff hahaha!)
- Junfac Bent links
- MIP Driveshafts
- Hitec HS 5645 MG mounted on custom made alu. battery/servo tray
- Losi Rock Claws
- Custom made upper links
- Proline Eight Shooter Rims
- G Made Zero 124mm (limited to 114mm) Shocks semi-droop setup
- Junfac Wheel Widener.
- G Made rear four link plate




This 4mm aluminum chassis was handcut, using small hack saw then drilled with bench drill each hole one by one why? Because there's no CNC or Waterjet service here would accept small quantity job :-(


Here's the front view, the servo/battery plate is custom made.


Rear view, with this recent setup, anti-squat is achieved..thanks to this forum!"thumbsup"


Undercarriage, this lower link setup is inspired by top banana (one of my favorite!). Comments are highly expected on this section ;-)


Belly clearance nearly 3", still managed to fix the "nose dive"...guess I need thicker oil for the front shocks.


I'm not an articulation junkie, this pic is only to show how much the front axle can go.


Does my rig comp legal with that kind of chassis and body panels?:?:

Finally, I think this is my best setup ever, my rig is more and more predictable, she survived all hardest section (without DIG) in my local RCC spot (it's a quarry). Can't wait to throw her in a comp next year. So I've done with this one, my next project is BW chassis with DNA/HR dig...thanks for visiting "thumbsup"

 

[hitman46mod]

Good job."thumbsup"

 

[dirtworkshw]

Good job."thumbsup"

Thanks Hitman...;-)

 

[bighitbomber1]

Very nice...looks like some thaught went into that one!! I always enjoy seeing what people build for chassis with hand tools not some $20,000 machine to do it for them, not that i wouldn't mind but....

 

[chvy4wd]

Nice looking chassis. The more i see forums like this, the more i want to build my own chassis, just have to find the time and material. "thumbsup"

 

[Parky]

Looks GREAT !!!
Nice and clean, fantastic job... "thumbsup"

 

[ManxCrawler]

I noticed the transmission is straight instead of offset, can we see a pic of the tranny setup?

...I achieved the same thing with my R2 tranny by mounting it on it's side - but this raises the motor height - but I hate such a huge dogleg, it can't do anything for the dreaded torque twist, but the straight tranny reduces it a lot

Kev

 

[allgm1]

great looking rig, obviously you put some time into it. I can really appreciate your work as hand tools are pretty much all I have to work with also.

 

[hardhead]

Man thats cool looks like you have it dialed in "thumbsup"

 

[dirtworkshw]

Very nice...looks like some thaught went into that one!! I always enjoy seeing what people build for chassis with hand tools not some $20,000 machine to do it for them, not that i wouldn't mind but....

Thanks, frankly there are plus and minus doing this kind of job, the plus is obviously is saving our budget, the minus is all about precision. But after a month of researching, one day of sketching, three days of fabbing along with sweat, blood, anger and tears (lol)...the result is just priceless..."thumbsup"

 

[dirtworkshw]

Nice looking chassis. The more i see forums like this, the more i want to build my own chassis, just have to find the time and material. "thumbsup"

Thanks...go for it man!

 

[dirtworkshw]

Looks GREAT !!!
Nice and clean, fantastic job... "thumbsup"

Thanks..."thumbsup"

 

[dirtworkshw]

I noticed the transmission is straight instead of offset, can we see a pic of the tranny setup?

...I achieved the same thing with my R2 tranny by mounting it on it's side - but this raises the motor height - but I hate such a huge dogleg, it can't do anything for the dreaded torque twist, but the straight tranny reduces it a lot

Kev

The tranny is centered just because I'm not using dig...I was thinking that TT could be eliminated by moving the driveshafts position from offset to center...but the result isn't good enough..after few month researching on this forum...finally I found that TT greatly eliminated by rear shocks and links setup....I have never been using R2 tranny so I have no idea...

 

[dirtworkshw]

great looking rig, obviously you put some time into it. I can really appreciate your work as hand tools are pretty much all I have to work with also.

Thanks..."thumbsup"

 

[dirtworkshw]

Man thats cool looks like you have it dialed in "thumbsup"

Thanks man! "thumbsup"