wraith no more. starting a new thread

[evan03]

Doing a crawler type much lower weight frame

Just enough for electronics and shock mounts

Shock mounts still in the adjusting stage as well as the trst of yhevframe


All eltronics on board and ridding slightly high

 

[67mustang]

I like it. If you angle the shocks toward the cab you can increase wheel travel then increase the stiffness with different springs. I dunno what terrain you typically see, but i prefer a higher clearance under the belly. Dont increase wheel travel so much that you lose forward thrust when fully articulated. If you increase wheelbase, overall width, and belly ground clearance, it will conquer lines you couldnt before.

 

[evan03]

I know I said crawler but its kind of a blend of speed and slow there's a few ponies under the hood and 6s batteries that it runs . Well maybe just 4s now since I made sure it'll fit. I might play with laying the rear shocks down more I like how they are now . Needed a visual to build around

 

[Steelfish]

that new body sure looks good.. are you planning to put some panels or by chance a lexan complete body over that?

 

[evan03]

Thanks.

Probly no body or panels. Going for light weight.


Played around with laying the rears down even guessed pretty close on how much to move the shock in to maintain ride Heigth . This gained right at a 1/2" of articulation

Shock mounts as pictured are just for testing. Not sure what the finished product will look like.

Don't want to lay the fronts down as much because it supports a lot more weight.

 

[evan03]

Got a little done on the rear tonight

This is the crawler setup there will be another mount to stand the shocks up for speed

 

[67mustang]

On my truck I angled the fronts moreso than the rears. There may be more weight on the front end, but that wont be the case when you are crawling up something. At that point most of the weight will be on the rear during a climb. After reworking and testing mine, I came to prefer that my rears are more vertical to keep the rear from unloading and rolling. On a real vehicle, the rear suspension is always stiffer for overall stability.

 

[evan03]

Yeah. Was wondering about that. I want to run this and see how it is. It may sponge all over the place.

 

[evan03]

Got a little more done

Stinger is for battery protection

All loaded down. May redo front shock towers to help protect the battery still need some electronic mounts and maybe a bar here or there

 

[evan03]

So far I'm coming in quite abit less then the wraith plastic frame.

 

[evan03]

Had to rebuild the shock tower for battery protection ( still needs finished) so I figured I'd do some mounts with front shocks layed even further down. Articulation gain was about 3/4" which is quite abit.

Also Compromised. Can not fit a 2200 4s on the nose. 3s 2200 clears. 4s will have to mount out back or not at all.

build is goind very very slow. will problyend up being a 3 months build when all said and done. but will also be my best.

 

[evan03]

1/8 scale buggy shocks that I've revalved for crawling.

 

[evan03]

So I got it together enough for a test run after dark. I'm very impressed with its crawl ability at 6.5lbs. I'm also impressed with the 900 kV out runner ntm prop drive I installed for the test run. The motor puts out 500 watts on 3s and 800 on 4s I ran it on 3s. Motor runs very cool and smooth its not sensored and cost 15 bucks.

For me its perfect. Cheap slow and smooth

 

[evan03]

test run on 900kv outrunner.

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[Steelfish]

that motors moves your rig great for being a 900kv..

what motor is?

 

[evan03]

Ntm 3548 from hobby king. . Motor works very surprisingly well. Goes quite abit faster then a strided our fast walk.

Motor at 800 watts is only supposed to pull 55amps so Ive been looking into getting a 80 or 100 amp esc. My 150 SMP ESC is a little over kill.

I've got a vud loading of some real rock crawling. This rif now makes stuff silly easy compared to wraith and pulls new lines I would have thought in passable

 

[evan03]

Ntm 3548 from hobby king. . Motor works very surprisingly well. Goes quite abit faster then a strided our fast walk.

Motor at 800 watts is only supposed to pull 55amps so Ive been looking into getting a 80 or 100 amp esc. My 150 SMP ESC is a little over kill.

I've got a vud loading of some real rock crawling. This rif now makes stuff silly easy compared to wraith and pulls new lines I would have thought in passable.


Starting to see where a long a longer wheel base would be handy. As it sits its about 1/2" longer then stock wraith. . I'm thinking about streching all links 1". This would put wheelbase just shy of 17"

 

[evan03]

finaly did a real test run.

the screws hold the tranny down ripped out of the tranny. im going to fill with epoxy and fix it for now. or get ax10 or wraith metal case not sure yet

all in all for low dollar crawler with no crawler specific power parts its doing pretty good.

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still need to ad a side bars in the cab area and maybe reinforce the rear shock mounts alittle bit and ad some more protection to roof .

ohhh these are 6.0 dual stage foams in the ripssaws and they do decent.

this thing is pulling lines that my wraith could only dream of. it was just to heavy

 

[Calderwood]

finaly did a real test run.

the screws hold the tranny down ripped out of the tranny. im going to fill with epoxy and fix it for now. or get ax10 or wraith metal case not sure yet

Are you using m3 or the stock coarse thread?

 

[evan03]

M3 everywhere