Stretched Chassis Expedition

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 10:07 am

I started to tease you guys with this here: 'My Next Project'

I figured the finished product deserved it's own thread, and is more appropriate for the 'Custom Jobs' forum anyways.

Ok so here's how it went down...

I tried to break the chassis because I figured that would be easier than resawing, but that sucker is solid, so I left it and shaved the body down instead.

Painted the chassis up and it looks good. I still need to add at least one more battery.

I figured I'd have a problem with the paint sticking the the chrome. So I tested first, and I was right, but I found out wiping the fresh paint off took the purple off the chrome, so I made chrome bumpers and grill, and sanded the rest down. I couldn't get all the chrome off without sanding out details, so after a couple coats it got a really bad rough texture. I wet sanded with some 1000 grit sand paper, trying to leave most of the paint, and level it out. That was a total success, and the paint came out really nice. I replaced the purple chrome with gold in my paint theme, and purple would have been better.

Cracked the back of the body when I was sanding it, and re cracked it after I painted it.

And I forgot to mention in the beginning I got this body from a $1.50 pullback monster truck that was right next to the $5 Thunder Charger cars at BigLots. So total investment, not counting glue and paints that I had around, $6.50.

It's cool how the lack of external antenna, longer length, and the small rear wheel makes it look so much more realistic.

I'm happy with this one, despite the crack.

Stoli · Post by **Stoli** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 10:12 am

Still looks bangin son. Your the flame master up in hur fo sho'

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 10:16 am

ya dude thats a shame about that crack just say that some idiot in a zipzap rearended you.

sessiz · Post by **sessiz** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 10:33 am

Excellent job dave.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 10:37 am

hogjowls wrote:ya dude thats a shame about that crack just say that some idiot in a zipzap rearended you.

I'm not even worried about the crack. You can barely see it in person. it's just that digicams show all the imperfections.

But if anyone says anything, I'll give them that line.

'...Yeah it was some housewife in a PT Cruiser.'

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 10:53 am

The angle of the that pic shows the crack more too. From a different angle it doesn't look so bad.

dabigpig · Post by **dabigpig** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 11:19 am

*SNIFF it's soo beautifull.

Post by **CaboWabo** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 11:38 am

excellent job dave!
I'd leave the crack alone too, not noticeable enough, plus it just makes it look like you actually drive with your blingin body.

looks cool mang.

payaso · Post by **payaso** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 12:05 pm

Great job on that dave... Turned out very regal...

How does it run?

silla

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 1:23 pm

payaso wrote:How does it run?

Funny you should ask, I was just getting to that.

I put the second cell in and it's kickin' freakin butt. I got some of my steering back, by way of the rear end pitching around now, and it's pretty stable, my most stable dual cell. Without the body, it don't flip. With the body, you have have to push it pretty hard to flip it.

I colored some pieces red, and it's lookin' pretty clean now.

I'll try to get a vid of some action shots together this evening.

Thanks for the compliments guys, I'm proud of this one.

Bit boy · Post by **Bit boy** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 1:31 pm

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 1:44 pm

you need to throw some springs up in there.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 8:30 pm

hogjowlz wrote:you need to throw some springs up in there.

Yeah, I need to get some springs for all my cars.

Those last pictures were so dark I just had to show you one last picture in the sunlight, and then I'm done.

Havok · Post by **Havok** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 12:15 am

Aquarius · Post by **Aquarius** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 9:23 am

Now he just needs some alloys for that pimpin ride.