OK, here's more updates. I took this weekend (Sat. and Sun.) to finish working on the chassis. On this update I will be combining two days worth of info and work so it's going to be one long post.
Removing and installing is so cumbersome. There's like a gazillions of things that needs to be done, not to mention all my tools and parts are scattered around. SO here's what I have done so far:
(Saturday)
Here's the front in its stock form:
Slowly taking the rear apart:
Prepping up the replacement parts for the rear:
Stock parts:
It's all clean:
Prepping and slowing putting together the bulk heads:
Installed the rear arms and SUS mount 1D:
Here's the Tamiya aluminum rear upright along with its stock plastic cousin:
Here's the finished rear section:
********************************Family time and rest*************************************************************************(Sunday)
Finished attending church and had a family brunch at Ranch House Grill....
So continuing from yesterday........
Here's the front in it's stock form:
Here's the Eagle Racing counter steer steering and suspension set:
Taking out the plastic bulk head and most of it's parts:
Here's the Eagle Racing bulk head:
Also bought a 44mm universal high angle drive shaft:
Top shaft is Tamiya and the bottom is Eagle Racing: Note that the Eagle Racing has a higher angle that the stock one:
I did a shortcut by not shooting the process of putting all the parts together. So here is it's near completed look. By the way, I didn't use the Eagle Racing bell cranks for the steering as I opted for the stock Tamiya ones.
Here's the finished look for the front. I'm still waiting on for the Overdose front aluminum bumper holder from an online hobbyshop.
Here's the whole chassis with the aftermarket parts on it, My chassis is now called
TOE (Tamiya, Overdose, Eagle) TA-05 VDF II.
One thing to note: I have to play around with the steering settings and possibly find the best geometry to get a good counter-steer steering angle. Using the parts provided for the steering set, it's hard to get a high angle because once you max out, it gets stuck. Using a ruler and some math I figured that I would need an 8mm long extension for the knuckle arm. I'm aware that Eagle Racing is selling an extension arm, however that will hold me off from finishing the chassis for another week or two. So I went over to my box of RC helicopter parts and found a servo mount that is exactly 8mm long and the plus side is that it had holes on both ends. I had to enlarge to holes and attached the servo mount to the knuckle arms. That brought out the ball link. I attached the steering links again and checked. I was happy with the results.
The next update will be the HPI Toyota Mark II body.
Pheewww! Now I need to relax and loaf around the living room.
