RC Bashers

hey guys,
here is my latest project that i am slowly working on. the new job and living in washington DC kinda cuts into the RC time.
here goes:

i apologize before hand for the picture quality. in the move my camera got lost, so this is using a blackberry.

Kyosho MP7.5
chassis cut in half and reversed to give a bit more room upfront.
slid the center diff to the right by one diff width, (so a motor can go low on the chassis.
rear solid axle: (the cool part)
twin force short side centers, gets the width pretty much perfect.
custom center link mount: (i owe the design to the guys on rccrawler)
the lower link mounts are going to be longer links from the 7.5 ST
the mounts i made are from some 3mm carbon fiber sheet i had laying around.
also locked the knuckles with a bit of angle stock. need to clean that up some to make it pretty.


doodled it on sketchup.

Smart link mounts on the rear axle. Get a move on, I want to see this thing run.

here are some better pics, got the memory card issue sorted out.

Nice lockouts on the rear. With so much RTR and kit building going on these days, I've been starved for hand build projects. That's what got me into RC and crawling way back when, because just about everything had to be made by hand or at least sourced from other models.

yeah, i love tinkering. so i have been tinkering with this for a while now.

know where i could get some nice 6061 3mm aluminum sheets?

Afraid I don't. I just try local hardware stores and scrap, I have an old car amplifier for example, haha. 1/8" might be easier to find than metric also. I make a lot of things from 1/8" thick by 2" wide strap aluminum from Lowe's.

yeah, i use that stuff too. its not very structural for what i am looking for though. its a pretty soft alloy when it comes to aluminum.
ive got some 1/4" stuff. that is much tougher, but man its some thick stuff.

need some help guys.
i am looking for the width of rear slash bumper mounts.
i am planning to use the rear bumper and need to know how i can attach it to my vertical plates.

thing like the width of the mounting holes. and length of the bumper bumper from the mounting holes to the bumper end.

Be interesting to see this one done and running for sure. What did you use to draw up the sketch? I tried playing with autocad recently and omg it about burned every brain cell I had left lol.
So this bumper measurements you need not totally following, at the mounting holes where it attaches to the bulkheads you want it measured from the inside?

where those red lines are?

exactly!

and the length from those to the back of the truck (where the bumper stops)

62mm across...other one is tricky with the bends lol

If I measure straight across and bypass the bend so go screw head to screw head its 86mm front to back

hmm. 66mm sounds good.

the 86mm might work as well... im sketching it in google sketchup to see how it all works.

what about these red lines? is that where the 86mm comes from?

Hmm might need to get Wrench in on this one cause he has the 2wd slash mine is 4wd and bumper are different I think cause that one there doesnt look like mine at all even tho its a rpm one but doesnt look like the stocker either...but yes I measured straight across like that.

i'm sure wrench will show up soon!

made one cut and a little drawing. i think this could be a good shape for the vertical plate.
there will be a "table" so to speak about half way up where you can see the dotted lines on the drawing. this will be where the ESC will go, it wil also make the CF side much stronger.
http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_info.php/cPath/1_25_1460_1374/products_id/163378/n/Kyosho-Chassis-Joint-Set
those things will be used to mount the table and also to mount the vertical paltes to the chassis. i'll buy a couple sets of them.

Sweet some cf being cut! Ever need some metal stuff made I got a guy that can just about anything, super nice guy.
I got some cf comin to love the stuff.

its a beast to cut. i use a hack saw. thing is it gets all over the place. its a HUGE carcinogen material. and the little glass parts make me itch like crazy for hours after cutting it.

other than that its great

i've met a few guys online with CNC machines to cut this stuff, but I'm cheapo and am going to cut it myself, (and probably screw it up.

Yea I use the fiberglass wheels on a dremel, suppose a jigsaw would work to with a good blade.

Nice work there MJ. So you need some numbers tossed your way. Sure thing. Let me get the rig and the calipers out and see what I can come up with for you.

yeah need a couple numbers.

i need the length from the center of the front wheel to the front of the bumper, and same for the rear

I wonder if some kind of fluid could be used to cut down on the dust when cutting?

i could pour water on it while cutting, but then i would need some sort of shop vac in my apt. have you seen the new shopvac's attachments that turn a 5 gallon bucket into a shopvac. would be pretty sweet.

Probaly fling cf goo all over instead lol