Project racer, carbon fiber Savage

[Pope]

Okay plans are under way for a CF race savage. Here is my starting point.

What am I doing to it well here it goes.

1)CF TVP's (on the way, Hope I get them soon stupid customs)
2)"Bulletproof" Diffs
3)Ceramic bearings all around (stock ones have cost me 5 pinion gears in a month)
4)ERCM Drag mod Picco .28 (Why drag mod well I have a 250cc tank and the mains are only 10min for MT)

5) CF bulkhead plates, motor mount plate, and midtank mount (I am going to make these.)
6)Flux axles (The current XL ones are just to wide)

Should be a fun build and with the Ext flm's I will make a basher so two trucks again for me.

 

[Fx]

This picture makes me sick. Good luck with the build though.

 

[Travis Mowery]

Good luck alex. The truck will look sweet.

Travis

 

[Pope]

Forgot big bore shocks. Thinking of making some lcg cf shock towers as well

 

[frddyj]

thats a butt-ton of bearings & diffs, you sure its not the shim-job? :sport-smiley-026:

 

[Pope]

Yea sure. It all started when I replaced the bearings I had with new ones from an XL. I did notice the steal ring in the new bearings that hold the balls are a lot thiner in the new ones than the old 25 ones I used to have.

 

[Combuster]

have you tried the bearings from smf

 

[Pope]

Just got the tvp's today and ordered some CF plate.

 

[Pope]

all holes drilled in the TVP's now just to install them.

 

[Pope]

Okay went to the LHS last night and picked up some screws to make my own screw kit. (getting tired of the stock screws)

Started putting it together but the motor was too high for the mid tank plate to fit so started grinding and cutting away at the trans case and the tvp's to lower the motor and trans. Almost done that then I just have to get it put together.

 

[martin34]

Sounds good.Looking forward to seeing some pics.

 

[Pope]

More crappy BlackBerry photos

 

[Londoner]

Looks good Pope, great job!

 

[kvnnets]

Really nice job Alex.

 

[Pope]

Thanks guys.

 

[savage01085]

Looks good, man you need a camera lol.

 

[Pope]

I have one but it is very hard to get pics off of it as I am having some major computer issues.

 

[Scott]

Looks good Alex!!

 

[I-Hate-Traxxas]

any update??

 

[Pope]

What you see there is now my basher. Truth be told it is still one heck of a race truck but I have deceided to do a from the ground up brand new race truck. I was replacing 95 percent of everything on the truck anyway so why not.

Plus I just got a few new tricks I want to try out.

 

[Pope]

Okay picked up alot of stuff for this bad boy.

Picco .28 ERCM Drag mod
DX3R
Ace super HT steering servo
Hitech High speed T/B servo
OFNA 086 pipe

 

[I-Hate-Traxxas]

Get some pics up! What tricks do you have up your sleave?

 

[Pope]

Get some pics up! What tricks do you have up your sleave?

:nono: Now I can't let everything out of the bag.

Still need big bore shocks doh.

 

[88gtanotchback]

this sounds like a nice build you got going. nice group of parts. the 1015 rules!

 

[Pope]

Okay bigbores and extra shafts, eyelets, and alum shock caps coming.

I think this is done for now.

 

[I-Hate-Traxxas]

get some pics up when you stuff comes in!

 

[Pope]

Here is what I have gotten so far.

Here is what it looks like right now just put servo's and a new tank in.

Here is the body I painted up for it. It isn't cut to fit because I forgot to pick up a body ream but here it is setting on top of the truck. I am hoping to add some picco, ERCM, and Hpiracing stickers very soon.

 

[Pope]

Okay i have been getting some mixed reviews on using the Drag mod in a race truck. What do you guys think. Also how many people have had issues with them blowing trans apart?

 

[Pope]

The picco has arrived. Now I am just waiting for the Big Bore shocks. I am hoping they show up tomorrow so I have them for our bash sunday.

 

[frddyj]

Okay i have been getting some mixed reviews on using the Drag mod in a race truck. What do you guys think.

kinda late to be asking this question, no?