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Dave's Ten4
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 2:08 am
by DaveM
Hi Guys,
Made a start today,
Not much progress,
Started with a new chassis.
Cheers, Dave.
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Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 2:12 am
by DaveM
Hi Guys,
I was saying,
after a lot of work,
a lot of swearing,
and in between measuring,
marking out,
drilling,
sand blasting,
I have this,
Real engineers, now is the time to look away!
Cheers, Dave.
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Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:03 am
by RC10th
Octi-Grabs
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Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 2:39 pm
by dillonhoffman
Nice job indexing all those holes! I've done a lot of projects at work involving speed holes and I know how tedious it can be
What's you plan for finish on the chassis?
Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 7:11 pm
by DaveM
Hi Guys,
RJ loves my Octi-Grabs, but no love for the Viper fronts.
Hi Dillon,
I'm going to leave it bare aluminum, hopefully to look like a factory prototype.
Cheers, Dave.
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Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 8:17 pm
by mk-Zero
Looks good dave, should really have a factory prototype look like you want
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Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 11:33 pm
by DaveM
Thanks Brian,
If it wasn't for you and Jeff this build would still be languishing.
The idea of a 4wd just gave me the push I needed to get going on it again.
It's only been 5 years give or take a couple of months.
Some more progress but I have run out of parts.
Cheers, Dave.
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Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 11:44 pm
by GoMachV
Ooooooo..... That's gonna be interesting with the short arms and lowering kit. Uncharted territory
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Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 12:30 am
by DaveM
Hi Jeff,
I never said I knew what I was doing, I'm making it up as I go along.
It is purely a fantasy car I dreamed of building 5 years ago,
now hopefully it will be 4wd. Sweeet
The first time I put it together I re-drilled another chassis for a mid mount 6 gear,
it was ugly, a lot of holes in the bottom of the chassis.
I made a lot of mistakes with that one, but did learn a lot, time to start afresh.
Cheers, Dave.
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Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 8:18 am
by bully
Nice mate this should be cool...
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Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 10:20 pm
by DaveM
Hi Guys,
Hi Adam,
Thanks Mate!
I have made some more progress,
I found that I can use RC10T hinge pins with a couple of shims.
I will try to take some more pics this afternoon.
I have turned the front diff into a spool, by leaving out the diff balls and cutting drive rings
out of rubber sheet.
Since it won't need to turn I used bushings instead of bearings and replaced the 6 small ball
bearings with a 4-40 small pattern nut as a spacer.
I have done this before with my T3 when running a 3 cell lipo, it works!
Cheers, Dave.
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Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 1:56 am
by DaveM
Hi Guys,
The promised pics,
The postie brought some more parts from Tower Hobbies,
but now I am out of parts again!
I am using vintage #6360 RC10 rear arm mounts that are 1.5 degree toe-in, not re-release #6360
rear arm mounts which are 3 degree with #6366 1.5 degree rear carriers.
I put the left hub carrier on the right hand side and right hand hub carrier on the left hand side to
give zero toe in.
Cheers, Dave.
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Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 1:58 am
by DaveM
A couple of more pics,
Cheers, Dave.
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Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 2:26 am
by dillonhoffman
Wow that's really cool
Re: Dave's Ten4
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 2:47 am
by DaveM
Thank you Dillon,
It's coming together, I just hope I can make it all work.
Now I have to be patient until some more parts turn up and others become available.
Oh and I need to put some more money aside.
Cheers, Dave.
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