Lowering the body ... again!
After some success with lowering the body previously I had been dying to lower it some more. The only way I could think of doing it was to move my ESC to the side of the frame... until I moved my steering servo to the axle. It's mostly a looks thing but it should help COG a hair with all the stuff that gets cut off and moved down. This isn't for you if you like the monster truck look with all the frame hanging down. Myself, I like the big tire/no lift look. Make sure you check out the end of the "Bed Bob" writeup I did on how to stop you newly lowered body from catching the rockers everywhere.
PARTS & SUPPLIES NEEDED
1/2" Poly cutting board
Misc Screws & 4-40 hardware
TOOLS
Dremel with cutoff disks
Drill with assorted bits
Curved scissors
Screwdriver
1. After moving my steering servo to the axle I was left with 2 problems. I had a big void up front that was asking to be filled ... and I had no place to mount my battery as it was previously held by rubberbands & velcro to the servo.
2. I cut out a piece of the 1/2" cutting board to act as a base for my ESC and to strap the battery to. After tweaking the fitment with the dremel I lined it up and left it while I went to the back. I realized I had more room to play with in the front so I wanted to cut the back down first. Then I'd do the front to match.
3. I decided a "flat top" approach would be easiest so I cut the back down.
4. After a test fit with my Chevy body I had an idea of how to do the front so it also got the flat top treatment.
5. Unfortunately, while doing my test fitting & cutting the front, I failed to notice that the front was not sitting on the chassis, it was riding on the suspension winch drum. So, I had cut off more than I needed to which is no big deal but I needed to address the suspension winch (SW). I decided to angle the SW mount down to have it line up with the axle better. To do this I neededto alter the brackets.
6. I drilled the front cutting board piece and slapped in some screws. Then I put in velcro for my ESC, BEC and battery underneath. I also put in the body mount posts (note that I changed these up a little bit later).
7. At this point I went to the back and did some tweaking. I lowered what's left of the factory battery box (my dig servo mount) and the rear bumper/stinger setup. I also trimmed the body mount posts that I had been using so that the body sits just above the frame rails.
8. Next I redid the front body mounts with some pieces that were a little longer.
9. And here is the final setup
Here is a shot of the WK body with the factory mounts, set to their lowest position. Followed by a shot after the first "lower body" setup and finally the current setup. Looking from version 1 to now ... what a difference!
And for those of you running the stock WK body ... here is an idea of how it will look setup this way: