TurboFurball

Yeah, mine will probably necessitate the trimming of tjr one on the body

Yeah,having it together I can see that anything longer wouldn't really help! (Thanks for your advice on the shock BTW!) I figure just extending it isn't going to be too tricky, however I've called in a favour at work and our resident machinist is going to sort it for me :-) (Extending the prop, that is)

Depends on what you're getting over as to where you want the weight, but I do imagine thats a lot lighter now! I have vague plans to make a metal front bumper and nerf bars, but that's really out of necessity for rubbing on rocks

Well, after copious breaks and interruptions, the back end is finally together! They only just peek through the chassis, but at full compression everything squashes up to about 2mm shy of hitting the chassis, so I figure it'll be ok. The back end of the chassis does twist a bit too, but I figure under actual use the chances of actually getting that much strain on it are minimal ... there's also copious flex Here's where the links are now located To-do list for the weekend: lengthen propshaft by 25mm, rebuild front end (fixing the slop, new top of shock mounts, new shocks, *not* fixing the steering until after pay day), make a battery tray, sort out body mounts in new places (the whole body is moving back a bit) and then just throw a set of electrics at it - simple

Looks great!

Many small zip ties in pretty colours

Those are quite possibly the most phallic taps I've ever seen

Starting to look like a lorrry now Could you not route all the wiring through the sleeper and make up some little curtains to hide it? (while adding a little scale touch)

Well, I got the back axle rebuilt. Added washers to the ends of the driveshafts, and massively shimmed the diff to be as snug as possible with the pinion I've also started on the link relocation - should be able to finish that off tomorrow!

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For the last couple of days I've been off work ill, so in the gaps where I wasn't busy sleeping or throwing up I made new electrical mounting plates etc for my Stampede (dubbed the Kitty Wagon, thanks to it's copious Hello Kitty stickers) ... basically nothing was going to fit right without a lot of adjustment, so this was the path of least resistance. Now I just need to get the soldering done at work on Monday and it's mobile. I predict a brief 'whee' followed by the gearbox exploding. Then with a new metal gearbox there will be another 'whee', and within 5 minutes there will be a driveshaft broken. It's best to be realistic about one's expectations!

Yeah, my CC01 didn't start out as a Moggie, so the body mounts were in a different place and more bodgy. Rigging something else up isn't a big deal though - I can probably integrate them with the shock mounts and make it more secure and tidy at the same time

Nice and tidy, my 85mm Ansmann back shocks turned up today so I'll probably have a go at this over the weekend ... the body mounts on mine are in a different place, but nothing that can't be worked around!

Good point, well made

I have a lovely Unimog shell ... though I hope to have made it non-typical in time for the nationals, if all goes to plan!

Stampedes going to fast

Well, I could have got an SCX10 for similar money, or an Ascender, or a Sawback ... but then I'd just build it and go, which would be boring!

Yeah, the steering will have to stay that way for a while now, too ... it's on the list, just quite a way down. The slop is amazing, but not helped by the fact that nothings been shimmed at all, so all that fancy looking ally is well wobbly. Class 1 is for scalers really, but it would be nice to be in the same ballpark as the SCX10s etc so I'll take any improvement I can find

Jeez, you guys lack self control Thats very sexy to look at, but I think it'd be a bit much to live with ... when you get to the point where your toy car costs more than your real one, it's time to look at your priorities, lol

I was looking at those (amongst other things!), in due course I'll have a bash at making one myself - I want to use this as a learning experience in making parts myself I'll probably try and make a single piece that goes from the front bumper, under the front diff, and through to the start of the links ... and then try experimenting with teflon coating, lol ... the only downside to that is extra weight. Hmm. For the 4-link I found the first 10 mins of THIS VIDEO to be very informative, since the aim is to be able to do class 1 crawling I'll move to a heavily triangulated setup, which saves cutting the original bottom link points.

First change - got rid the brick at the front, used a bit of it epoxied back on to keep the front together and vaguely watertight Next on the list will be moving the 4-link locations up by a bit (all four to keep the geometry) so the lower ones don't get caught on every little thing

Figured I might as well file this in one place This is my starting point: a second hand CC01 chassis thats had lots of alloy bits thrown at it, but there's a couple of rusty bits, some rounded out bolts, and loads of slop in everything mechanical. Also, it's had no modifications done to the chassis itself ...

I'll do a build thread, thats better, right?

Yesterday I got my CC01 project truck ... unfortunately I forgot to take photos before taking it completely to bits ... (tonight begins the cutting, mwahahaha!)

Yeah, I feel that I got my moneys worth - new shocks are the only thing I really need to buy for it, someone spent far more than I would have already, with all the alloy bits, fancy wheels, etc. Mostly I'm going to do some homebrew engineering in it's direction, and use it as a learning exercise ... and if I use it for a good long time and am still enjoying myself I'll invest in a 'proper' scaler, lol