muggy build-up from scratch?

The motor mount is home made. It isn't anything special; it's the same principal used my many. It simply bolts to the center diff mount and has slots cut into it to accommodate the motor.

The gear pitch is module 1 (mod1).

I did make aluminum rock guards for it last night. I used T6-6061 1" wide and 1/8" thick aluminum bar. Now there is less chance of something flying up under the body and the chassis in much more rigid, with only the slightest flex. I'm going to order some carbon fiber and remake the parts to cut down on weight.

With the battery, the truck weighs over 12lbs, although you wouldn't know it if you see it run.

[jnev]

That is a very nice muggy. It sure is better than when it was nitro. :027:

Have fun with it.

Oh, it is better than it was in nitro form. I took it over to my lhs for a little show and tell. Everyone freaked out. At first everyone was giving me grief because it was so heavy, but after they saw it run, they kept teasing me about ways to go about keeping the front end on the ground.

If I'm going to race this thing, I'm going to have to find a much milder motor. Maybe a 9XL, geared.

[jollyjumper]

so 4s lipo is def. enough for this heavy beast?
do you have data logger?
i would love to see how many amps he (muggy) pulls.
cant wait to get mine.:dft012:

I don't have a data logger. The only ones that I can afford, or are willing to spend money on, will only do up to 100A spec (120A real life), so I figured that there was no sense in getting one.

The 4S is enough for the bigish truck. I won't say that 5S or 6S wouldn't be better for more efficiency and less heat, but the 4S does fine. Considering the cost of lipo packs, I like to keep my battery configurations simple. Besides, I haven't yet found a controller that I like as much as the Mamba Max, and all that can comfortably do is 4S so that's what I run.

Keep in mind, if you are going to do one of these Muggys, there was work that NEEDED to be done. Not as a matter of preference, but really needed to be done. The stock steering is really sloppy and the chassis flexes A LOT. It think that's why I was flattening so many spur gears. I've been running the same spur in my buggy since I converted it about 6 weeks ago. I just did the Muggy and I'm on my 4th spur. I haven't had to change it since reinforcing the chassis.

I think I found out one of the reasons that I am eating so many spur gears. I hadn't noticed it before, but I was clowning around with my son and I floored my Muggy and it cogged really badly. So bad, in fact, that it ate up the spur. I saw this happen. Perhaps it wasn't the chassis after all.

[jollyjumper]

i know about sloppy steering and chassis flex, easy fixes. innovative-rc chassis, hahaha. sloppy steering: use adjustable ackerman link.
lol, its gonna takes me long to do it tough.
i dont care so much for doing a conversion quickly so i can run, i care for doing it really nicely. maybe i'll even sell the muggy as soon as it works. i dont know. i dont even have it yet. haha.:D

I just used a 6-32 tie rod with rod ends and balls to make a new link. There's almost no play in the steering now. As for the chassis, I used a couple of pieces of 1/8 aluminum to make rock guards and used the existing holes to mount them. It's very rigid now. Almost no flex at all.

[Mr.lst]

i want to do a muggy soon!

The muggy is a nice basher, but I'm not sure that it will do well on a track in a crowd. I'll have to run it in a race to see.

[jollyjumper]

still working on the deal for the roller.
hope to have it as soon as possible.
i like muggy:004:
:mad:1i dont have muggy yet:mad:1