Brian Kinwalds Cars from the Cactus
 

Just thought I'd drop some photos of the cool custom things Brian is doing on his cars.

Paul Sinclair kindly showed me some of the detail work Brian has done on the X cars while i was at the cactus.


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The amount of detail work on his X6 was simply amazing from the tunnels he had drilled for running his wires through, custom carbon fiber brace, motor plate and front shock tower.
:drool:

If Paul or Brian can shed some light on the custom stuff on the X5 squared it might help as it was a lot. Including running the transmission open at the top .

I'm sure you will all agree with me that this evolution and detail to the cars is what makes me so trilled to run X factory cars. Keep it coming guys.

:thumbsup:

The word goodies doesn't even sum it up.

I'm afraid the image hosting site is gash, the front pic comes up about 2 inches big and the rest not at all.

His car looks great! But that image hosting site is aweful - took an age to load.

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It looks like he is running a very large spur gear that won't fit under the cover, hence the modification.

I really need some of those alloy rear a-arm pivot blocks as I have snapped a ton and have ran my spares down to my last set. Does anyone know where those can be purchased?

a arm alloy blocks
 

i think you need trinity part tk901 xxcr rear pivot block
you need to cut off the 2 cross members then it will be a perfect fit

looks to me thats what brian has done

good look on finding part though its a relic now!!!!!!!

Not sure if it's just me, but I wouldn't like having the on/off switch poking out of the chassis. It looks far to easy to turn off. :o

This is the perfect example of Brian's attention to the tiniest detail. That's the "anti-Chazz switch mount." Seriously...

Brian wants the shell fitted on his car perfectly. He actually spends 60 - 90 seconds putting it on every time the car hits the track, even for practice. Regardless of how carefully I re-mount the shell after turning Dirt's car on, I never seem to get it perfect; Brian put the switch there so I don't have to remove the shell to turn on the car.

Why do I have to turn on the car? Once Brian finds his spot on the stand that is the only place he will be. (More of doing everything to perfection.) At a major race like Cactus where there is a half-hour or longer wait during practice, Brian will often have a significantly longer wait for his spot.

Therefore, someone on the Team must turn on his car and set it down. The anti-Chazz switch works just fine!

has he never had problems with the switch being hit during a race, switching off the car??

I doubt the actual switch comes through the chassis more than 1mm and with the width of the velcro etc, i doubt it would be knocked, its angled forwards as well so that part of the chassis could never hit the ground inless he ripped the wishbone off, but its game over then anyway.

I think the car looks ace!!:thumbsup:

Chazz: Why does he spend so long putting the shell on, its not like you could put it on backwards or anything:confused:

cool pictures, are there any more?

its ace looking at BK's cars, he always has some of the coolest little tricks going on.

Yeah some of his work is awesome... and he's a fantastic driver... but I wonder why he has modded his X5 to only use 3 wheels and a snapped tower... ;):p:D

Im not fussed on the x5 front tower either, not upto his usual standards:lol::thumbsup:

Those pics were taken after his 4wd main at the Cactus. Somehow during the race his left front wheel nut fell off, and the tire along with it... The front tower was broken attempting to do 3wheel backflips off the step up jump :lol:.

Thanks! I just went to trinity web site as well as a Google search and couldn't find any info on them as they're not listed anywhere:confused:

In my experience so far this seems to be one of the weakest points in the car(even more then the shock towers IMO). I've broken 3 now and it seems it doesn't take much for them to snap. I'm down to running a right sided pivot block on the left side shimmed to fit.

Is this something that others have had troubles with or am amongst the minority here? Does X-factory have a solution in mind, perhaps a beefier piece with more material around the screw hole?

Also, what size spur is Brian running? It looks huge:D

Yeah, Losi makes a brace to go across the rear hingepins.. are you running that?

# LOSI A9951 Rear Brace, 3 deg, xx-4 & X - 5, blue alum, $4.
http://www.xfactoryrc.com/storelosi.htm

Atomic Carbon also makes a rear brace, though you have to notch the back of the chassis a slight bit to make it fit - see Jimmy's X - 5 review.
http://atomic-carbon.gforceimages.net/products.htm

The rear braces can be a pain to keep on, so there has been some discussion (a while ago) about different solutions. What I've done is replace the rear hinge pins with shock shafts, oriented so the threaded end is out the back, and put a lock-nut on them which captures the brace (I don't run a rear bumper). Another solution, well-written up, is here: http://www.one-ten-rcforums.com/4wdr...ic.php?id=1329

Hope that helps some.

IIRC Brian is running a 110 spur, which is pretty big when you look at it.

The switch BARELY sticks out from the chassis. Just enough to feel the ridges. Plus, there is velcro on both sides which pushes the body away even more. In a side impact, the switch wouldn't even get touched. I turned the buggy on several times for him and it is not easy to find it some times.

So why is the switch on the X5 in a really stupid place? its pointing inwards toward the slipper adjuster. This must be a right pain in the arse to get to?

LOL, I see what you see, but its an illusion. The switch is on the chassis so it can be flicked through the unused battery slot - like Chazz said, its so Brian can prep the car 120% and then nothing gets changed.

So Chazz cant find it, he doesn`t even offer to turn that one on:woot::lol: