Work has been crazy lately, and I haven't really had much time to finish up what I had in mind, but I'm getting close.
Here's what I've been cooking up. I wanted to run a rear cage. Vaterra K10 cage didn't quite fit, Pro-Line cage works, but it's not exactly my favorite, but the BOM cage on the other hand, is one of my favorite rear cages.
For this, I picked up the
GMADE BOM Rear Cage Kit. It comes with the complete rear cage, fuel cell, and FRONT bumper too! (more on that later).
Here's the cage all bolted up to the body.
Now here's where I ran into some issues. The Enduro cab is longer than the BOM cab, so it pushes the rear cage back further.
The cage is about the same length as the stock Enduro bed, but the cage has sides that would interfere with the rear tires unless you lengthened the wheelbase.
So I just happened to have the
GMADE BOM 324mm extended links. I may switch these out to other links eventually, but the length of these seems to work for what I want.
Another issue with running this cage is that it will not allow for having the shock hoops as it was created with a cantilever suspension in mind, so I had to use
Boom Racing shock keys and change the orientation of the shocks.
I also had to use the
Enduro yellow 2.47 lbs/in. springs to stiffen up the rear suspension due to the orientation of the shocks.
Along with the issues of needing to extend the wheelbase, I discovered that the driveshaft was too short, so I needed to extend that as well. I bought another
Enduro driveshaft set thinking that using another long end would be enough.
Alas, it didn't work. The metal insert of the Enduro driveshaft at the furthest of each end would leave the other end just barely attached by around 5mm or so. If I wanted to use these, I'd need to modify the metal insert to have a ring int he middle like the Axial WB8 shafts to prevent the insert from sliding completely in one direction or another.
So... I resorted to using extra Axial WB8 shafts that I had lying around. You can see that the insert has that ring stopper to prevent the insert from going to the extremes of each end.
Here it is all mounted up and ready to go. I like the way it looks, I just hope it performs well. Still not completely finished though.
So the rear cage hinge pegs are too short. They are barely held in and will easily fall out. For the time being, I just zip tied it so that it can't back out any further, but I plan to drill the ends and attach extensions cut from the sprue using set screws to make the peg longer.
The bonus in this rear cage kit is that it comes with the BOM front bumper that actually fits with this body pretty well!
I guess you could call this an "Enduro Bomero"?
