Tuesday 22 September 2009

The Build......

Hi Guys and Girls

I received my cr on Friday and started the build.....

I received my kit in a jiffy bag which inside had the chassis and parts all individually bagged. The only problem with the kit is the lack of instructions some bits might get confusing for some. BUT This blog will take you though a step by step guide to building.

Ok here is everything you should get in the kit:


The main chassis, front braces are made out of carbon fibre and the side pods made out of csc ( For those of you that don't know what that is, it is similar to carbon fibre it has a thin layer of carbon fibre then layers of fibreglass then another layer of carbon fibre)

The chassis....


So lets crack on with the build I started by attaching the side pods to the main chassis. Opening the side pod bag you should find 4 screws and 4 nuts along with 4 parts of the side pods. As pictured below....


I started by getting one of the screws are pushing it though the middle screw as shown in the below picture then pushing one of the "solid" (outside parts on the above picture) over the screw...

Next place the second part on top this time the one with the center hollowed out.....



Finish by putting the nut on the screw and installing the second screw in the rear hole as shown below....


Then do the same to the other side....


My next step was to attach the front end this has to be done before the front braces can be installed. Do this buy simply mounting it buy putting two countersunk screws in the front two mounting holes.....


The next logical step from here is to attach the front braces. In this bag you should have 6 curved strips of carbon fibre 2 short ones, 2 medium length ones, 2 long ones as well as 6 screws and 6 nuts.

Firstly i pushed one of the screws though the center mounting hole then placed one of the short parts on to the screw. Making sure that it lined up with the side pods and the front nose cone as so.....


After this you should place one of the medium length strips on top of the screw lining it up with the first piece....


on top of this piece you should put the longest strip lining it up with the others. This one should sit over the rear mounting hole of the front nose cone.....


Next place the nut on and push another screw though the rear hole of the front braces and secure nut. When coming to putting the screw though the chassis, though the front nose cone then finally the front hole of the front braces. IMO you have two choices you can either drill the hole out to 3mm then just push the screw though and put the nut on the top. Or you can do as i did wind the screw though the cone cone until it was tight then just tighten the nut on the top. You should end up with something that looks like this....



Then repeat the above steps but on the other side....


I thought this point would be good point to install my new savox servo!!! This is a very simple task pretty much self explanatory...


The front of the car is now complete. I now moved on to the battery compartment so to speak. In this bag these should be the following.....

Now the problem i experienced here was how to hold the battery post while tightening the screw tight. So i did the following.....

1. Get a spare screw preferably a cap head screw and wind it in one end of the post and tighten it as much as you can buy hand....


2. Get one of the short countersunk screw place it though one of the outside holes on the carbon fibre strip. Put a small drop of thread lock or lock tight on the screw.

3. Tighten up as usual then when you need to tighten it up "TIGHT" put the right size allen drivers in each screw and twist in opposite directions in a tightening action.


4. Once tight let the thread lock set for a while then you should be able to remove the unneeded cap screw with ease.

Then repeat the last few steps for the second post.....


The last step is to simply push the last two long screws though the correct holes in the chassis then push the battery post assembly on to them then and secure the two nuts on the top.....



We are now on the final bag. This includes the rear T plate, Rear hinge pin brace and shock tower spacer.

First step is to attach the T plate. This is held in place by both the front of the gear box casing and the rear battery posts...


Simply line the part up with rear battery post mounting holes and the front mounting holes of the gearbox casing on the chassis....


To fit the rear battery posts you can use the same method as i used on the front....


The next step i made was to fit the rear hinge pin brace to the rear wishbones. This involves pulling out the rear hinge removing the standard brace and fitting the new brace to the rear of the wishbones as so...

In this bag you will find a small carbon fibre spacer this should fit under the bottom hole of the rear shock tower....

At this point it is a simple task of bolting the rear shock tower and rear pivot black on as below....


You should now have something that looks like this i am yet to attach my gear box i will update you once I've done this....


Good luck with your build lots more to still come from my blog so remember to check back.

Ashley

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for you blog Ash, it really helped me through the building of my CR2.

    Cheers,
    Raphael (Gayo on oOple)

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