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Cool build. Would be cool if you could mill the rear of the chassis and bumper on opposite sides and made it flush fitting.

romulus22 wrote:Cool build. Would be cool if you could mill the rear of the chassis and bumper on opposite sides and made it flush fitting.

Cool idea, maybe I'll do that.

though it would looks cool, it would make it really weak. even with the extra bracing. a good hard hit would likely shear the back of the chassis off especially if the mill cut was a sharp cut, not a radius cutter.

Yeah, it would look very nice, but this is going to be a runner, so I'm going to leave it how it is, which is very strong. If I were building one for the shelf then for sure, I'd do it.

Designed up a battery strap to be made from cf. Nothing fancy, basically just a shorty-pack version of the world's car brace...

Tonight i decided to take a break from machining parts and trim the new body for the car. I decided to go with a Viper to get a little more sleek look to it. I retained about as much of the body as i could around the rear suspension in hopes of giving the car a clean look.

Looks good Brian...get it finished up so I can come see it run.

I'll let you drive it Joey

Jake made my custom cf battery strap, looks great!


Should go well with the CNCrc trans brace and cf front and rear towers.

I've been doing a little work on the rear bulkhead recently. I added two holes below the inner most camber link position (the one below the wing tube), then added another set of 3 holes outboard of those to have more tuning options. Then, on the sides, I cut it down to the wing tube bosses, but left a little tab for the camber link holes. I wanted to try to maintain the stock shape overall, but eliminate all the unused material.



I also finished milling down the sides of the chassis. Pics of that to come later...

This is gonna turn out to a good looking car. Hope it performs for you as good as it looks.

Thanks! Yeah, I hope so too... Tuning it is going to be a bit of an unknown, since I can't just use CE tuning. For starters on the shocks, I'm going to run the same springs as a B5M stock setup (gray front and white rear, IIRC), since at least in terms of weight distribution it should be closer to that car than to an RC10. We'll see...

Looks good, sling some paint, toss in the electronics and get that thing on the track!

Love it! Quick question about the top shaft in the Stealth Trans...when you flipped it, did you have to do anything else? I'm looking at starting a similar project in the not-too-distant future, and want to start gathering pieces and parts for it.

Thanks!
Byrdman

MCKNBRD wrote:Love it! Quick question about the top shaft in the Stealth Trans...when you flipped it, did you have to do anything else? I'm looking at starting a similar project in the not-too-distant future, and want to start gathering pieces and parts for it.

Thanks!
Byrdman

Thanks!
Nope, just knock out the cap on the other side of the trans case and flip the shaft around. You also need to flip the diff around so that it isn't trying to loosen itself. All there is to it

Hopefully I'll be wrapping this project up over the next couple weeks

Love the way you braced up the rear end. She has a nice tight ass now