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Yeah I think something neat could be made to tie it all in there I think at least one hole needs to be drilled for that lower bracket. when i redo mine, im thinking im gonna go for rectangle stock the width of the chassis from the motor plate, cut at the same angle as the left upright of the tub, a...

If you look at my e-gt buggy conversion, the waterfall brace I made ties into the factory motor mount holes in the chassis. I could have left some kind feature for a hook-like battery strap in the waterfall but you know how hindsight goes. I preferred to have the battery on the right side anyway. I...

I think if we would have had more time to mess around with it things would have been done differently. The plan to do this came fairly close to the race and I just hoped that it was going to finished for it. It was supposed to be just a GT restoration. Jason had sent me 4 GT's to restore. This was ...

Yes, the motor plate and mount, and the battery posts are going to be production pieces (he posted a pic of them on FB this morning). He did redesign the battery posts and made them a bit fancier. When i was building the truck I was running out of time to get it done for the VONATS. I had it figure...

absolutely dialed, tub conversions look so slick and light, only question is hows the forward/aft flex? right behind the rear battery post and the lower motor plate chassis mount, my conversion felt like rubber in hand until i tied in the gearbox with a bracket to the left side (looking from the rea...

i hope this isnt too sensitive of a question, would black tub GT's converted to electric, be considered to run? also wondering if any issues running a modern body like a jconcepts finisher, or a t4 body on my T2

i got my eye on a cheapish 17.5 trackstar 80a combo, i already have a hobbywing lcd 3 in 1 programming box... anyone experiment with program boxes between the two brands? my program box works with an hpi esc i have so was hoping not needing to buy another

Done and done. Thanks all!

So my big question is how do you now calculate your final drive with the additional idler, does it affect the pinion/spur/final drive ratio? i worked out mounting a gear in between, but clueless how it affects pinion spur selection or where to read up on basic gear calculation...now that i got my se...

Cool, so do I have to match the tooth count on the internal idler gear?

I was wondering if adding an idler to my spur gear, than driving the idler off the pinion changes the overall ratio of the transmission.. I've heard of this being done, but nobody ever got in to the dynamics of the ratio, like does the idler now act like a pinion gear?

be careful, you go down that road, you end up like my close friend who "bought" into magazine hype, spent half his 401k to built a shaffrof (sp) sbc that does 12's.... all the quality parts. all that "bulletproofing" forged this, forged that, ti this, dart that, bla bla bla... al...

Yeah I've seen plenty of there builds. The fairmont was my favorite. While they do some good work with little cash. I'd rather spend the money on new head studs and head gaskets and such when it comes to building an engine. its everything cringe and goes against every silly magazine that has told u...

theres a youtube channel i follow called sloppy mechanics, your chevette totally reminds me of stuff he's into, basically builds hysterically amazing ls turbo "beaters", all about super duper cheap, reusing head bolts, gaskets, rod bolts, he just pushed a stock 300k milled 6.0 bottom end t...

no good on b44 cvd's either... if i was smarter, i would of looked up the pdf manual of the b44, and find the exact sizes, but all isnt lost, the b44 fronts fit my caster s10b wheeler now, one last lead, but i dont wanna pay, but theres a set of losi cva's from one of their 2wd short course trucks, ...