Fibre-lyte Graphite Buggy

[JK Racing]

In reading other builds, the chassis is too wide at that point and needs a little spacer. I had also read that the chassis needs trimmed for the rear arms to move freely, is that still true?

[railey72]

Yeah, the chassis is too wide at the rear bulkhead so they include little spacer squares. No trimming of the chassis was necessary for the rear arms. Not sure if using the Andy's made a difference but I didn't have any issues. The rear arm mounts are pretty tight against the bulkhead but it did all bolt together.

[scr8p]

if you had a later style bulkhead and could slide the arm mounts up to the short wheelbase location, the arms might hit. not sure about the fibrelyte tub, but they did on my fusion speed tub. had to do some massaging with the dremel.

[Charlie don't surf]

Is the Fusionspeed tub in need of the spacers as well?

[scr8p]

tub sides to bulkhead, no. rear kickup to motor plate, yup.

[Charlie don't surf]

different than the standard spacers that you would use to keep the chassis torque down?

[scr8p]

fusion speed didn't give any type of spacer to take up the space. i had some 3/32" aluminum spacers laying around from god knows what, so that's what i used.

[railey72]

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[RC10resto]

Wow - very impressive

[Charlie don't surf]

This is nothing against Doug's killer build ( nice "big Jim" checkpoint ) but I am surprised that the weave directions, of that the top cloth was laid over the material at different axis's- It
really changes the coolest thing about the FL twill carbon's light refraction- I wish they had thought about that when laying those parts out-

I am still super jealous though

[Ruffy]

Beautiful build and very nice work!
Personally, I would have prefered to see this with the stock RC10 arms instead of the Andy's ones (personal preference as I never cared for them) but you have built yourself a fine looking car here.

Congratulations!

[wyldbill]

in refrence to the aluminum tranny case, since it seems that 2.25 tranny case is the only one any of us has ever seen would you consider sending it to one of the resident machinists for reproduction. im sure atlas or even chad smith at dynotech could learn alot by examining and taking measurements off of it so we could get some more of them. i believe when we asked chad about making on he said he would need an original nylon case that was not warped at all but could never find one. that case certianly be used for that purpose. i personally think they would be sweet made out of delrin but aluminum would work too.

[scr8p]

a couple years back, i remember a guy on dodc selling 3 complete 2.25's w/ aluminum cases. unfortunately, my paypal was empty at the time.

[wyldbill]

iirc, i think that is where that tranny came from?

[scr8p]

i'm pretty sure scott won that above trans on ebay awhile back. he put it in a rc10 truck conversion, which i believe doug bought, and is how he got it.