Hi all
I have been off here for a couple of months as I have had a bit of a saga with my IRC extended chassis kit. In short, everything appeared to fit fine until you tightened the screws down, at which point it became unusably misaligned. Engine plate twisted due to cross-member without square ends, TVPs are not actually indentical outline side to side, which throws different stuff out depending on which part you wanted to take as being 'straight'.
Sent it back but miraculously the problems only exist for me. Don't get me wrong, nothing was so horrible that it looked off at first glance, or when loosely assembled. But the slight tolerance issues throw everything askew when you clamp it all down. Got a new engine plate which deforms a little less when clamped down and two new cross members for the skid plate, although the reason the skid didn't fit is because the holes on the TVP are too far inboard
I can't frankly be bothered to attempt to return the kit again as the guy is so bad to deal with. Slow, and managed to lose the A4 sheet outlining clearly all my issues that had been taped to the returned chassis "what sheet?" Not the first part of his I've had to return either.
So I need a good extended chassis. I would like one the same length and low CG as the IRC extended chassis (as I even have a custom cage from Drummerguy to fit that length chassis, plus the extended centre front/rear dogbones etc and the XL bodyshell). Needs to be strong for heavy bashing (clumsy driving!!!)
Where can I go? FLM? See people have troubles with them too?
Cheers, Alex
I have been off here for a couple of months as I have had a bit of a saga with my IRC extended chassis kit. In short, everything appeared to fit fine until you tightened the screws down, at which point it became unusably misaligned. Engine plate twisted due to cross-member without square ends, TVPs are not actually indentical outline side to side, which throws different stuff out depending on which part you wanted to take as being 'straight'.
Sent it back but miraculously the problems only exist for me. Don't get me wrong, nothing was so horrible that it looked off at first glance, or when loosely assembled. But the slight tolerance issues throw everything askew when you clamp it all down. Got a new engine plate which deforms a little less when clamped down and two new cross members for the skid plate, although the reason the skid didn't fit is because the holes on the TVP are too far inboard
I can't frankly be bothered to attempt to return the kit again as the guy is so bad to deal with. Slow, and managed to lose the A4 sheet outlining clearly all my issues that had been taped to the returned chassis "what sheet?" Not the first part of his I've had to return either.
So I need a good extended chassis. I would like one the same length and low CG as the IRC extended chassis (as I even have a custom cage from Drummerguy to fit that length chassis, plus the extended centre front/rear dogbones etc and the XL bodyshell). Needs to be strong for heavy bashing (clumsy driving!!!)
Where can I go? FLM? See people have troubles with them too?
Cheers, Alex
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