Future Tuber Buildup

[mikedealer]

Well im finally getting settled into my new space, unpacking boxes and organizing all my crap and parts, and ran across my digital camera finally yesterday, and a box of parts i was planning to use on a new tuber build.

although i had some crazy ideas of using cantilever laydown shocks, laying it out on the chassis makes it look really stupid and weird. Havent decided or picked out a tranny yet, but i have a mip, mip change box, 2.25 stealth, and a 2.65 RPM, probably going to use 2.65 RPM in the end so i can use a nice kickass motor.

Parts are picked up from ebay and various places:
- GT Front Bulkhead (im going to cut center peice and push the bulkhead tight to give it a tighter fit and slighty shorter wheelbase)
- GT Front Arms
- GT Rear Arms (im probably going to use another rear alloy arm cause i think the car will be too wide)
- Aluminum Front Steering Knuckles, C Hubs, Rear Hub Carriers, and Rear arm mounts (blue will be stripped)
- Holeshot (i think) front steering servo saver assembly (pretty cool peice)
- RC4wd x11 shocks (or x10 i forget)
- RC4wd Rod Ends (i will be making approx 1/4" aluminum turnbuckles on a lathe)
- RPM rear bulkhead, which i may replace at some point, but if i keep this ill dye it black.

Tires and rims are going to be a problem... If i make this a "1/10th scale" sized buggy, tires and wheels are limited and i will need shorter rear arms. But if i got 1/8th scale (longer length), i can keep the rear arms, and use some nice panther truck paddles and jconcepts j82 front tires and rims, although i would like aluminum rims, i may settle for jconcepts j82 white plastic rims.

electronics i have no idea yet.. but probably a brushless setup at this point will go in.

The Tuber style will be a protech mix, and a hpi baja style mix of flavor tuber style lol..

Just for another news update too on the tubers... my workspace is being setup today and all this week, converting a shed over to have some nice usable space, and running underground electricity maybe too after a home depot run later. Later this week i will be hard at work planning and making all sorts of new stuff... will keep posting updates here for now.

[philk]

EVERYBODY loves the Tubies! I am going to try to weld one up someday. Looking forward to seeing your progress!

[Eau Rouge]

Tube cars are really pretty cool, but I don't think I had ever seen one until this forum started.

[mikedealer]

ya tubers are a awesome mix of modeling skills and RC skills. i always love stuff that wasnt off the shelf.
of course some of my stuff ive made in the past looks like helen keller made it, although it looked great in my head... my hands couldnt translate it lol