Jeepspeed Miniature

[1xfloppy]

if you mess up brake fluid takes the paint off... and paint in reverse if that makes any sense...

I got my proline yesterday, this is my first time painting one of these anyone have any pointers?

 

[Baja_XJ]

yeah, paint the inside like floppy said, takes special paint, be sure to use it, it bonds to the lexan and dont flake off near as easily. When you paint it do it in light coats, and dont go overboard with the paint either, use the least amount as possible, the thicker you paint it, the faster it will flake off during a crash that bends the body

 

[Baja_XJ]

Dude, Let me know when you get it done. That will give me a reason to come and drive it!

haha okay, if it works, and works well then I wouldnt mind lettin ya drive it

 

[FlexdXJ]

haha okay, if it works, and works well then I wouldnt mind lettin ya drive it

Haha, Right on man!

 

[Baja_XJ]

You gotta drive the real mans way though, When its done Im going to mount a cam inside from a drivers visual and ya gotta drive by a TV so it can do a actual long distance course and not be a short course truck that dont take turns well

 

[FlexdXJ]

You gotta drive the real mans way though, When its done Im going to mount a cam inside from a drivers visual and ya gotta drive by a TV so it can do a actual long distance course and not be a short course truck that dont take turns well

As long as you don't mind me bashing on it hard! I can break RC cars pretty good!

 

[Baja_XJ]

lol so can I, my crawlers been out of commision for about 8 months now

 

[FlexdXJ]

lol so can I, my crawlers been out of commision for about 8 months now

Mine is good to go right now. I think I need new motors soon though!

 

[FoMoCo]

I've found that enamel spray paint works as good or better than the stuff from the hobby store, and its way cheaper. regular non-enamel is a no go though, flakes off if you look at it funny

 

[Baja_XJ]

Got the tube work as far as Im going with it until I ge the rear suspension under it so I can put the tubes in relative locations for mounts. Had to redo some of the tubes, had to do some mods to the exhaust to get it to clear because it was hitting tubes that couldnt be moved anywhere else, plans are to run off of the outlet of the muffler with some 3/8 breakline and run it out the bedside. Found out today just how narrow this body really is, after I got the back half done with the most all around clearance for tires, and axle I have 2.75" to squeeze in a driveshaft, trailing arms, upper arm, and 4 shocks. The track width has to be 6" outside to outside for the tires to tuck into the body during comp. Seriously thinking about cutting the bedsides off and making my own out of foam and then I could also make them more scale like hannemanns instead of these TT looking ones thats on it, and the front would be easy to do as well, just glue it on, shape it, sand it in, and then hollow out with a dremal. That way I could gain about another .75-1" of track width. Im afraid 6 is going to just be to narrow and it will be rolling all the time. Anyway, heres todays progress, done til saturday night most likely. Plans for then are to lay some sheetmetal to hold the back of the belly pan in place, and then do the trailing arms, and upper arm.

 

[DansGreyMj]

I got mine together, this is my first time painting a lexan body so forgive me if you think it looks like crap.

I am probably going to move the front bumper up so it doesn't look so weird, I also have a matching spare so i may attempt to build a tire carrier.

 

[GrimmJeeper]

awesome!

 

[winkosmosis]

These bodies are awesome but I'm not really into crawling, but going fast with my RC vehicles! I wonder how well that Axial chassis can work for speed. The alternative would be a non-scale independent suspension buggy type chassis like the Traxxas Slash 1/16

 

[2000bluexj]

How hard would it be to build a tube based cherokee crawler with a doved nosed and comp cut rear?

 

[Baja_XJ]

Heres a small update on my Prerunner XJ, got the rear suspension mocked up, had to link it up to find where to put the bend at in the trailing arms Im making, Upper link is done other than boxing it in and cleaning it up. Rear pulls a solid 2" travel which is pretty decent, had 1.625 and I dont geometry changes and got it up to 2" with good pinion deflection numbers so now I just got to make trailing arms the same length as my lowers for mock up and add shocks and the rear is done. Front will be started tomorrow! Plans for it should make it go pretty quick and easy. Using a old XXX-T frontend just to save the hassle of building everything from scratch. The lower arm is a A-Arm and the top is a single link, so the bottom Im going to make my own arms to narrow up the track to the body width and then J-Arm the top link. "Should" make pretty short work and have it rolling on all 4s by the weekend if all goes right. The only issue Ive ran into so far is figuring out what wheels Im going to use, the company I want to buy tires from makes them odd sizes so you have to buy wheels from them too but they dont make a bearing mounted wheel so Im unsure what Im going to do there.. anyway heres so rear suspension droop and comp shots, cant wait to get these fugly tires and wheels off ...BTW.. this is not the axle I will be running when finish, just mocking up with this so when the real deal gets here it will be a plug and play type deal, just clearing up that it will not have rear steer lmao

 

[Baja_XJ]

Front suspension is 75% done! Got to do the upper link and redo the pass shock mount, it got rotated about 3/32 between mockup and welding so I gotta cut it off and make a new one. Hopeing to have front done stamped along with rear shocks hung tomorrow night by this time.

*These Pix except last one are with tires .5 bigger than what will be ran
Ride Height

Springless/ Full Bump

Full Droop

and Full Comp with correct diameter Tires

 

[Baja_XJ]

Dan you need rox lox for it! This build used rox lox and its sick!

 

[winkosmosis]

Heres a small update on my Prerunner XJ, got the rear suspension mocked up, had to link it up to find where to put the bend at in the trailing arms Im making, Upper link is done other than boxing it in and cleaning it up. Rear pulls a solid 2" travel which is pretty decent, had 1.625 and I dont geometry changes and got it up to 2" with good pinion deflection numbers so now I just got to make trailing arms the same length as my lowers for mock up and add shocks and the rear is done. Front will be started tomorrow! Plans for it should make it go pretty quick and easy. Using a old XXX-T frontend just to save the hassle of building everything from scratch. The lower arm is a A-Arm and the top is a single link, so the bottom Im going to make my own arms to narrow up the track to the body width and then J-Arm the top link. "Should" make pretty short work and have it rolling on all 4s by the weekend if all goes right. The only issue Ive ran into so far is figuring out what wheels Im going to use, the company I want to buy tires from makes them odd sizes so you have to buy wheels from them too but they dont make a bearing mounted wheel so Im unsure what Im going to do there.. anyway heres so rear suspension droop and comp shots, cant wait to get these fugly tires and wheels off ...BTW.. this is not the axle I will be running when finish, just mocking up with this so when the real deal gets here it will be a plug and play type deal, just clearing up that it will not have rear steer lmao

You have to use the 1.55" wheels from RC4WD! Or get the Mini 1.5" wheels with their 1.55" tires

 

[winkosmosis]

Here are the wheels I'm talking about. There are a few different styles for a lot cheaper than RC4WD's. http://www.rcmart.com/catalog/rc-mc...-mini-wheel-chassis-p-28579.html?cPath=35_898

Then it's just another $50 for 4 tires http://rc4wdstore.com/2/index.php?manufacturers_id=15&osCsid=5e0d5659feba12866125234f581a0fa7

 

[Baja_XJ]

hmmm those wheels are a good find, if they were backspaced more I wouold definatly jump on them, but with those wheels the back would be about .75 to narrow. Thoe Mud Thrashers are the intended tire to use, and I think Im going with the 1.55 stamped, that will get me to a width of (if calculated right, done it in a rush) of 5.436, I was shooting for 5.875ish so I can shim around to get about 5.636 and that will work just fine. Im hit now though, I got the front suspension done, rear suspension done (until tests are done). Only thing left before ordering tires, wheels, and axle is to figure out what to do for steering and a driveshaft. Driveshaft I think I can rig up until I get around to machining the parts I need to do it right. But steering on the other hand has been giving me a handfull trying to figure out what to do. Its just got so much travel for its narrow width that I cant figure out how to do the links to where it wont be limiting the travel and having crazy amount of bumpsteer... but none the less I do have front suspension all mounted and shocks on it and it all works great. Need to figure out some spring rates and oil weights still as well then mount all the body up and it will be off to the track to test