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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:03 am
by Asso_man!
FERRETTI wrote:Asso_man! wrote:indeed, that all black version is shweeet, but it seems you have left the ball studs on the rear shock tower...
Do you mean the ones on the rear bulkhead
I still have a few jobs to do on it I will remove them when I chop it up
sorry I meant the rear bulkhead of course
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:18 pm
by badhoopty
for the rear bulk tabs, i cut the majority off with a dremel, then used the dremel with a half inch or so sanding drum to put a nice curve in it.
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:54 pm
by Synergy
That seems to work nice Badhoopty I will try that method, thanks.
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 2:20 pm
by Synergy
This has moved on only a little bit, but I've added a couple of new pics. I've chopped the bulkhead and found that it was once white and I've cut and painted a motor mount so all that’s left to do is some dyeing and body cutting, which I am not looking forward to.
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:45 am
by Daryl Lane
Looks Great, coming along very nicely. I need to cut and past some of these pics to my new web pages, all the pics I have are on paper, computers were not totally available back in the day.
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:03 am
by Brat
May I know what's the material of that white chassis?
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:17 am
by Asso_man!
Brat wrote:May I know what's the material of that white chassis?
pure fiberglass
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:05 am
by Brat
Asso_man! wrote:Brat wrote:May I know what's the material of that white chassis?
pure fiberglass
Is it more sturdy than the carbon fiber?
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:18 am
by Asso_man!
it is more fragile, more flexible and less resistant than CF, but also less expensive
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:15 pm
by RichieRich
The A&L fiberglass chassis is crazy thick.
I've never seen a piece of fiberglass even close to that thickness. I think it flexes about as much as the aluminum tub. I'm might rig nose braces to mine. I think it can be done with nose tubes and some RC10 GT parts. We'll see.
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:48 pm
by scr8p
RichieRich wrote:The A&L fiberglass chassis is crazy thick.
I've never seen a piece of fiberglass even close to that thickness. I think it flexes about as much as the aluminum tub. I'm might rig nose braces to mine. I think it can be done with nose tubes and some RC10 GT parts. We'll see.
i had thought about doing that to mine, also (bracing the nose with gt parts). but, since it's a shelfer, i'd rather keep it looking as period correct as possible.
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:53 pm
by Synergy
scr8p wrote:RichieRich wrote:The A&L fiberglass chassis is crazy thick.
I've never seen a piece of fiberglass even close to that thickness. I think it flexes about as much as the aluminum tub. I'm might rig nose braces to mine. I think it can be done with nose tubes and some RC10 GT parts. We'll see.
i had thought about doing that to mine, also (bracing the nose with gt parts). but, since it's a shelfer, i'd rather keep it looking as period correct as possible.
What you guys need are graphite nose plates, no braces, no flex, no worries
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:54 pm
by mrlexan
Is the GT the one with the little A shaped brackets that the tubes attach to? I remember seeing a setup like that and had no idea what it was. I nothing about the GT.
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:00 pm
by scr8p
they had 2 different mounts. the older gt's with the 1 piece chassis had nice cast mounts, and the newer ones were plastic.
this is the best pic i have of the older ones on my gt.
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:11 pm
by mrlexan
Yep, that is the one I remember..... very cool. I need to get a GT.