LOSI LST XXL Conversion ideas

[mistercrash]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

To really stiffen the shock tower, you might also try putting a spreader bar across the backside of the shocks. It will help give a little more "I" value to the cross section.

Right now, I'm satisfied with having just a little flex. I'm afraid that if I make the towers too stiff, it might create breakage of other parts. The towers never broke or failed, it's just that the amount of flex they had was bugging me.

[mistercrash]

The brackets I made for the battery boxes are doing very well. I think I will go ahead with the making of the new chassis top plate with wings. It would make the whole chassis/batt box assembly a little cleaner with a bit less hardware. I just need to find the funding for another 9X14 CF sheet. If I can't then I might make it out of 6061 T6 alu since I have enough left to make a top plate. The rest of the truck is also doing very well except for the inner bearings of the rear knuckles. They are starting to seize so time for me to hit Avid RC for some new bearings. I made a thicker rear sway bar that is 3.1 mm in diameter. Good for racing I would say but a little stiff for bashing.