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The Start: I've always liked the Tamiya F-150 body, since it was my first rc car (Blackfoot) and I've always wanted to do something out of the box with it....I've had this body for a couple of years, not knowing what to do with it, until I had this leftover Lunchbox transmission, that I couldn't sta...

Part 2:

The bottom holes for the tube chassis and the frame rails line up almost perfectly....

The front end was 4 linked using Fox C hubs and the transmission was flipped around, to allow me for an easier 4 link set up....

Here’s a small running video...

Still needs some decals, and other little details...

[youtube]https://youtu.be/mbmPrlXOQMk[/youtube]

https://youtu.be/mbmPrlXOQMk

Here’s a quick paint job for my runner body, I hope to paint up another one in my racing colors, and some MCI decals as I progress with this.... Gave it a bit of a thrashing before taking these pictures and it was pure joy, although, the 21t motor doesn’t move it as fast as the 5.5T that I had on my...

Progress:

Cut and mounted the nose plate

Mounted the rear Klein arms, b4 hub carriers, and threw some B3 CVDs just to have a visual, need to order a set of B44 CVAs....

Lonestar wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 8:59 am

tecnica2001 wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 8:21 am And the arm mounts are mounted on the wrong side

Twitchy is fast

Off course, you need to adjust your driving to the car, not the other way around....

Progress,

Rear arms, cvds, and shocks mounted

Lonestar wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 12:44 pm hope you have spare KC lights

looking good!

I’ve flipped it a couple of times already,

A bit of progress:
I might go for the carbon 10T towers and big bore shocks....still awaiting B4 CVDs, turnbuckles, diff rebuild kit, steering bellcranks, and off course electronics....

So finally got my carbon shock towers and some other bits, so instead of waiting until everything comes in, I’ll piece in whatever part I get as I get it....keeps me sane

Aluminum turnbuckles and rpm ball cups, while I wait for the Lunsford kit to come in

Biz73 wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2020 11:33 am Pints and electronics can be a bad mix

Looking good. I'm excited to see the finished product.

I don’t even remember what I was trying to say, and I don’t even drink

Pinted (painted) it

Had to massacre the body to fit and Velcro to hold it, the body was short for the chassis (T3), so I did the best I could, I’m tempted to buy the short chassis and a new body, but just tempted

Since I’m a restless RC person, I like to experiment, someone suggested the Custom Works front hex conversion, I ordered A set, mounted it, and it works awesome, the only thing is, you’d either have to use a long shank rod end, or use a shorter ball stud on the inner most hole on top of the caster b...

Also, I ordered a Medium Length CVD Kit from Custom Works, and with the GT hubs, it wouldn’t get full up travel, sufficient, but not complete, because it would hit the inside if the outdrives, so I ordered B4 hubs, and used some creative spacing, and it also works fine, full up and down travel

Might order 1.18” B44 rear shocks to limit the down travel a bit, and it should be 👌 That can be solved with inner and outer shims on the shock shafts! And it should be indeed... because that's way too much travel on this suspension, the car will be crazy lazy and roll a lot before anything happens...