Taming an LRP 32 savage missile

[francis Labarbara]

I have the zr 32 tuned now and it is in fact scary. The truck is a missile. Giving it more than 1/2 throttle is impossible. Even on loose gravel it flips. I am running 47/16 gearing and could go higher but I really don't want more speed. I have taken out some spring preload in the back and that helped. Flipped it so much yesterday I broke a body mount and ripped the body pretty bad. What else can be done to handle the power?

 

[Jam Racing 1]

i can't tell if you have the wheelie bar and wheel on the back, if not I suggest getting it, it will help with out of control wheelies

 

[francis Labarbara]

I ordered the HPI one to try it.

 

[olds97_lss]

So far, I'm really digging the t-bone rear skid/wheelie bar. I ran it pretty hard yesterday with quite a few endo's and it held up just great. Even with the HPI wheelie bar, the body catches the grass and it folds it up and destroys it. Granted, it's better than nothing, but the tbone one works a lot better at keeping the front end low enough and protecting the rear of the body.

I do have an extra rubber bumper piece to keep my bumper from compressing too much. Totally hack, but it helped with the HPI wheelie bar. I got tired of the little arms that attache to the top of the bumper and bottom of the shock tower breaking frequently.

 

[francis Labarbara]

I run and grass and gravel so if it helps I will upgrade.

 

[lorinlewis23]

Try gearing up two teeth on the clutch bell. That should take away some of the wheelies

 

[Jay F.]

I'm running the stock 17/47 gearing on mine, and it wheelies also. I'm running trencher x's. When I was just barely done with break in, carb settings still at break in setting, the thing was pulling the front wheels off the ground. This engines just a beast.

 

[francis Labarbara]

I put 47/17 gears in and a new body and mount showed up in the mail. I looked at the old one and hmmm.
Savage Ironman

 

[francis Labarbara]

 

[olds97_lss]

I see someone else is running half bodies. Nice to see the torch is carried on. 🙂

Although, looks like you actually use a body mount of some sort on there. That due to tearing up the rear of the body with wheelies and whatnot? If so, you might want to check out t-bonez rear skid/wheelie bar. Seems to be working out really well on my rig.

 

[francis Labarbara]

The new body came and I was going to cut it for the rollbar and the old one was laying there. I then thought about you posting about half bodies. I made a mount that fits to the top of the rollbar. I looked at it again today and thought it looked pretty good so I painted it. I never even cut the new body.

 

[olds97_lss]

I did it to mine because wheelies messed it up and the roll bar I built would have made me cut the body in half down the middle anyway. I made little mounts on the lower left/right corners to hold the back down.

 

[Caretaker109]

I like tho looks...
Why are you running the Joe's backwards?

 

[francis Labarbara]

I wondered about that.

 

[SAVAGE CABBAGE]

I did it to mine because wheelies messed it up and the roll bar I built would have made me cut the body in half down the middle anyway. I made little mounts on the lower left/right corners to hold the back down.

pist a pic of how u do it or if vids r possible post a vid

 

[olds97_lss]

pist a pic of how u do it or if vids r possible post a vid

How I do what?

 

[SAVAGE CABBAGE]

How I do what?

How do u make th body mount 4 the half body

 

[francis Labarbara]

Wore some paint off today. It works a lot better now. Thanks. I need to drive better now.

Put some more paint on too.

 

[olds97_lss]

pist a pic of how u do it or if vids r possible post a vid

Oh, I don't have the rig anymore and pretty sure I don't have pics. I just drilled a couple holes in the sides of the body, then made wire stand offs out of piano wire, drilled a couple holes in the TVP's and mounted them hangers to the chassis, then ran clips through loops I made in the wire. Looked stupid with the body off, but with it on, you didn't even notice them. Besides... wsa running half a body anyway, the whole thing was kind of silly looking, but a half body served the purpose of blocking some grass and whatnot from landing on my air filter and from destroying my front shocks.

EDIT:
Found an old image, but it was pretty small res, so I zoomed in a bit and circled the body mount loops I made:

 

[francis Labarbara]

Time to add dirt.

 

[francis Labarbara]

Waiting on parts now to eliminate the tie rods.

 

[olds97_lss]

Waiting on parts now to eliminate the tie rods.

Hmm... lst shocks? do anything special to mount those up? Got them on the front too? Guessing that's why you ditched the turnbuckles. Will it bottom out on the chassis before the shocks bottom out?

Those almost look too small for LST shocks.

 

[francis Labarbara]

LST shocks on both ends. Suspension has normal travel. Mounting them required some rearangement of the hardware. I had to find longer screws for the lower ends.They pass threw the shock and both holes in the A arm. On the top I turned the mounts around and reused the screws/nuts. The LST shocks are the same length as the Savage ones.

 

[francis Labarbara]

LST and Savage. Same shocks.

Integy rear hub carrier for Savage XL

 

[francis Labarbara]

Losi LST shock install 2.0

 

[francis Labarbara]

New clutch shoes in. Back to 47/17 gears from 49/18. Flipped the arms and reattached the shocks. New tires. They made 1 tank on the Octane. Might as well ring them out. I taped them. The cat helped.

 

[olds97_lss]

Flipped the arms and reattached the shocks.

What do you mean by "Flipped the arms"?

 

[francis Labarbara]

I swapped sides and remounted them so they are upside down. This gave me a much better location to drill a hole to mount the shocks. It needs a bath.

 

[olds97_lss]

Oh, I see. Didn't realize you drilled holes for that. What did that do for you for making it "much better"? Makes it so the shocks can fully extend before the arm is at it's limit? Or did it do that already and this helps make it so the center of the chassis hits the ground before the shocks bottom out?

 

[francis Labarbara]

It allowed me to drill a blind hole into the arm because its much thicker there and the shape of the arm for the original mount is molded in a shape that actually supports the bottom end of the shock. The way I had them before was too weak to hold up and I broke one out.