dex210: the way it should have been!

[dex210Nick]

Just over a year ago, I took a dremel to a piece of g10 plastic and made myself a custom chassis for my dex210. The car drove great with the new chassis, but my dremel work was sloppy at best.

This past summer I kept myself busy building a CNC router. Now that I have precision machining and CAD at my disposal, I decided to revisit my custom chassis.

The features:
Optimized battery placement for mid motor
-side by side saddle
-sideways shorty
made from 3/32" g10 plastic
v1 chassis length
~50g lighter than stock v1 chassis

It's a dual deck design. The last missing element is a brace between the transmission case and top deck. The final version will be made of carbon fiber for an even stiffer and lighter setup. Don't get me wrong, it's already plenty stiff and plenty light. At full race prep, it weighs in at 1,555g... with a 30g brass toe block!

My previous chassis was a +8mm, but I decided to go back to the v1 length because the track I race on is pretty tight. I didn't feel like the extra 8mm was doing anything for me other than making it harder to turn the car.







1/30/18 Edit: Reuploaded images to imgur. Screw photobucket.