What project missed the End of Year contest?

frizzen · Post by **frizzen** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:11 am

Here were my two that were racing for my third entry-slot, and fell short of the deadline.

Kustom Flatbed Rollback Car Hauler

I broke out the Commercial License for this professional truck. Pimps like lowered cars, and lowered rides just don't fit on a wreckers hook. Mostly Transformer ZZ, zz-m motor, slotcar rear...

Offroad Flatbed Ram. I don't have any good pics yet, but here are some old bad ones.

stage-right

Siderails? We don't need no stinking siderails!!!
Flat bed, Exo-cage, Winch, Canoe, Paddles, Bike... Still needed recovery points, cooler... Plus any other scale details I could think of, and maybe a dog.

HottieHot · Post by **HottieHot** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:39 am

Happy New Year!

Wow! The Car-Transporter is very Cool!

This is the ultimate project for the competition, unfortunately not enough time

My Porsche 356

sidewinder · Post by **sidewinder** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:27 pm

This was going to be the body for my ulitimate build. Its for 1/32 slot cars. The plan was/ is for a wire framed, digital propo 1/32 scale terror. But I didn't even get the frame completed yet so...

redrustbucket · Post by **redrustbucket** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:41 pm

My ZZMT based, 4 link f/r, coat hanger tube buggy stripped out the tranny and front steering servo simultaneously. I was still recovering from hand surgery and the thought of reworking it in time was too much so I shelved it. I'll try and get some pics up as there are a few good ideas floating around in it, mainly the square tube telescoping drive shafts. Those took a while to figure out.

redrustbucket · Post by **redrustbucket** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:43 pm

That hauler is dope. I saw some of those at Target the other day with some bad ass VWs on the back.

redrustbucket · Post by **redrustbucket** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:40 pm

Some pics of my 4 linked crawler that worked good for about 20 seconds before everything with a gear in it stripped out.

ibjamn · Post by **ibjamn** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:44 pm

You are so wrong. You have to show more of that.

hue35 · Post by **hue35** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:42 am

Cool thread... nice to see so many awesome rides in progress. redrustbucket, you're a friggin' madman... that's going to be insane. I can't wait to see video of that thing in action.

redrustbucket · Post by **redrustbucket** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:00 am

I'm not sure when I'll get back to it as I'm neck deep in my 1:1 crawler right now.

It needs a lot of redesigning at the moment.

The tranny was made with rev up gears a while back. The reduction was insane, about 1200:1 but the gears were plastic with very fine teeth and keeping the mesh tight enough proved impossible so far. I'm going to try to make another one with MT gears. I liked this one because of it's compact size though.

The front servo was a spektrum with the pot removed. I'm not sure if it stripped because of the plastic gears or because I removed the pot.

The front of the chassis needs to be reworked to inboard the shocks more as they rub the tires. The upper links in front need to be moved as well due to the crappy geometry they're causing, but the servo is in the way so I'm not sure what I'll do there.

The rear works pretty good and other than less deflection at the u-joints than I'd like, the drive shafts seem to be a success.

I'd also like to try ball joints for the links as there's way too much slop to them right now. Clint put a link up somewhere for some tiny ass ones.

Other than that it works great.

I'll take more pics when I tear it down and try to rebuild it.

DarkTari · Post by **DarkTari** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:25 pm

Whatchall Pimps need to do is finish up dem projects,
cause you know there's always gonna be "sumtin" goin on in Da Hood.......