Jon Seals Modded Chassis

[Wacker 2]

Ok, following on from my thread about my Phat Bodies Bodyshell, people have requested that I show details of my modified X6 chassis.

So here goes.

I wanted to run saddle lipos, and not stick lipo from left to right - so I started by dremmelling out some of the interior webbing:



Its actually the webbing that remains that acts as the battery tray and as you can see from the next pic it gave great space for lead plate to be installed as weight - but I could actually put it wherever I wanted, I am still currently playing around with weight distribution at the moment:



I then needed to make a battery strap to hold the new batteries down. I had a sheet of fibreglass so i have used this for now but am in the process of getting a better carbon fibre brace made, which will actually have 4 posts and 4 thumbscrews at each corner of the cells:







However, as you can now see I have very little room for the radio gear (speedo and receiver) so rather than taking out more of the interior webbing, I made a plate to sit just above the webbing and behind the servo. I know this will raise the weight of the electrics up higher, but not a massive problem as they dont weigh very much. Luckily I found some posts (I think from an old 1/12th i used to have) that were the exact height of the webbing, and were threaded at each end. These were screwed into the existing holes in the X6 squared chassis for the back servo mounting:





Bolt the plate on:





... and I now have space for the radio gear. All nice and neat - I know you cant see as the radio gear is not installed (had to take it out to race my 1/12th at the weekend) but the motor wires run along the left hand side of the chassis next to the side of the lipos, meaning I have no wires going over the batteries and getting in the way. I will also be redesigning the radio gear plate in carbon fibre.

What do you think???

Thanks for looking, Jon