My 3906 Mutation

[redshift]

These are some before brushless shots from early 06, did yellow for visibility, never really happy with the look overall tho... I don't remember how many stick packs I burned up trying to feed those damn Titans, and I don't think it ever broke 20 mph. 2 speed was a necessity then, first gear is useless now unless I go way taller- I like that kind of evolution ;)

[Takedown]

Nice e-maxx! Ive got to say, you made a 3906 look awsome and that is something to be proud of.

[tc3_racer_001]

truely awesome :)

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by redshift

These are some before brushless shots from early 06, did yellow for visibility, never really happy with the look overall tho... I don't remember how many stick packs I burned up trying to feed those damn Titans, and I don't think it ever broke 20 mph. 2 speed was a necessity then, first gear is useless now unless I go way taller- I like that kind of evolution ;)

I have a bunch of emaxxs and have to say that I like yours better than all of mine!!!! Wanna make me a chassis like that

[TexasSP]

Linc, you have too many emaxx's already, you should sell me the race bomb chassis to free up space.......

[suicideneil]

I wouldnt mind some underside shots, and some more of the shock towers- how exactly are they attached to the bulks?

Nice custom creation, never seen one quite like that before....

[redshift]

I don't know what the deal is, I peck out a post, hit submit and it bumps me back to the "you are not logged in page" same as happened yesterday and MANY times before, so bear with me I have to be sure it;s gonna go thru....

[trev3813]

Wow, awesome truck, VERY custom

[redshift]

Ok, here's how it looked in Oct. '05, I was finally satisfied with the chassis itself, 2nd revision (I built an entire chassis before this one that was even more brickish) but now I have this butt ugly chunk of ???, it has no character, just like an uncooked slab of steak lol. So what now?

[redshift]

I have an RC pet peeve... body clips. I hate them and always have. My first hobby grade RC was a Tamiya Subaru Brat, that was about 1985, and I remember thinking "this is the stupidest &%$#@ way to hold a body on!

And not to sound like an arrogant ass, I love these bodies you guys come up with, they just ain't my style, I wanted something permanently attached, self contained and what not. Even if it was a little boxy looking hehe.

So I set out on the trim work, lightening up unneccessary material and deciding on some kind of layout, and I came up with the yellow rendition, which I was calling Madd Maxx, it should have been called Sunny cuz it din't have the look to fit the name....

[BrianG]

I don't like the body clips or the relative flimsiness of your typical lexan body, but the way I land from jumps and cartwheels, I'm glad I didn't spend a lot of time making a body because it would most definitely get wrecked fast.

As such, I don't spend a lot of time painting and trimming them. Most of my work goes to making things durable and pretty on the inside.

[redshift]

Thanks for all the compliments so far guys :)

Linc, I could reproduce it in its entirety, but it would take 2- months and I'd have to charge an arm and both legs lol.

Neil, 1-1/4", 1/8" wall box section was used primarily, with other pieces using 1-3/4", both bandsawed into channel, angle and combinations thereof. Once I had a rough blueprint for the a-arm pivot blocks, I milled them out of the same plastic I'm now using for the tower uprights, I don't know what it is, (it's some nylon variant) and is extremely tough, yet it machines like butter.

The new shock mount pieces (alum) are temporary, as are the wing and wing mounts. Just 'proving" parts before I settle on material. I had to make new 'T' sleeves for the bigbores because the Trinity spings are FAT and were almost going over the stock T washers, those are delrin.

[redshift]

...And onto the underside shots

[redshift]

And the under-underside

[redshift]

The steering layout was a tough one, and not very pretty. I remade the draglink from .132" stainless, also the lower tie-in bracket is .075" SS. There's stainless scattered throughout, the motor mount is also .132" SS, the 'windows' are .030 mirrored SS, and there is .012 sandwiched between the center backbone and the outrigger channel (battery cradles) to provide alignment for the round diff output moldings, and for assembly. Also for simplicity I only used 3 fastener sizes, M3, SAE 6-32 and SAE 10-32, all stainless. The skidplate is another unknown plastic, it's waxy, and very easy to work with, and the front bumper is for a Nitro 4Tec, and is also temporary. Originally I had used 1/4" smoked lexan that was actually cut out of a Pioneer bandpass sub box lol. And all of the other material was free ;)