DR10 1967 Mustang no prep build

[Iowa crawler]

Looking at the set up this morning. The ten inch wheelie bar bolted to plastic motor cover allows a ton of side flex.

I am questioning buying the DR10 roller kit.

I like the platform and got the Drag Race Concepts chassis for the kit. But for those thinking about the kit. I have replaced almost the whole thing. And knowing me I’ll probably end up building another whole rig out of it later. But the only thing I’m using is the control arms, shocks and link rods. I don’t even use the hardware. I save the kit hardware for repairs later. Because it’s all good standard hardware in covenant bags.

Now I need a metal motor cover and upper mounts. This will definitely keep the wheelie bar from swinging side to side.

Going to work on the body trimming the edge. And working on paint color options this weekend.

 

[WickedFog]

Looking at the set up this morning. The ten inch wheelie bar bolted to plastic motor cover allows a ton of side flex.

I am questioning buying the DR10 roller kit.

I like the platform and got the Drag Race Concepts chassis for the kit. But for those thinking about the kit. I have replaced almost the whole thing. And knowing me I’ll probably end up building another whole rig out of it later. But the only thing I’m using is the control arms, shocks and link rods. I don’t even use the hardware. I save the kit hardware for repairs later. Because it’s all good standard hardware in covenant bags.

Now I need a metal motor cover and upper mounts. This will definitely keep the wheelie bar from swinging side to side.

Going to work on the body trimming the edge. And working on paint color options this weekend.

I kinda like the idea of slowly building a car from parts. I think if I were going as far as you I would have grabbed the DRC chassis and built it from there, then grabbed any stock parts I need from Jenny's. But you will end up with darn near a second car out of this, so that's a bonus to starting ftom the kit.

 

[Iowa crawler]

The full kit is not available so got the chassis and figured I could use the DR10 as the doner and I did. If I add up all the little parts and figure out what I used and what’s left over. I paid 200 bucks for the DR10 kit and I probably used 150 bucks worth of parts. In the end I have a chassis that cost me 50 bucks. So it’s all good.
I hope I can use the chassis later.

I kinda like the idea of slowly building a car from parts. I think if I were going as far as you I would have grabbed the DRC chassis and built it from there, then grabbed any stock parts I need from Jenny's. But you will end up with darn near a second car out of this, so that's a bonus to starting ftom the kit.

I do that with crawlers but for a no prep I have no parts and no experience so this is how it went.

 

[Iowa crawler]

I got the body mounted out back so the front I can do later when I get the front bumper and body mount.

The paint is a pearl white with a white base. I still need to do all the chrome trim and bumpers.

 

[Doom!]

Looks great, my dad used to have a white 67 mustang.

 

[Iowa crawler]

This is a second try at the videos.

I spent some time balancing and aligning things a little better. I put a couple small battery packs to simulate the ESC.
And a played with the springs to get a 50/50 70/30 weight distribution. No idea what it will be when I’m done but it is very easy to adjust.
The kit shocks come with shims. You just pop the shims in and out till you get what you want. For the video I was looking for round numbers. I suspect it will pull one way or another and shimming the spring will change that. Should be super fun dialing that in.

More details on the bumpers. Next week I’ll chrome the bumpers and window trim.

 

[WickedFog]

Very cool. So the sway bar obviously helps, but is it adjustable? Like can you increase the tension with some adjustments?

Love the white as well!

 

[Iowa crawler]

The sway bar has titanium end links with left hand thread at one end. So the sway bar is very easy to adjust.

 

[Iowa crawler]

At this point in the build I need to take stock of the progress.
I ordered the Drag Race Concepts chassis kit for the DR10.
I ordered the DR10 rollerkit. I assembled all of that and put tires on wheels.

I added the wheelie bar and sway bar from Drag Race Customs.

I have everything together and I am now tuning a little and adding the body.

First thing is the front suspension. It has a lot of caster because it’s a short corse truck based chassis.
I ordered the Drag Race chassis PRO front bulkhead and bumper. Plus the shock tower mount. This will reduce caster to zero or there about.
I still need a small steering rack mount for that conversion to be complete.

The stock shock set up is 30 weight all around. I’m thinking I should change the front to 15 weight and the rear to 85 weight.

Still learning and reading about electric motors. And about no prep RC motors. But from the looks of it a BIG ESC is better. So I’m probably going to get a Monster X. Still reading about motors ESC and Battery choices. I will wait a while for the motor but the Trinity Holeshot 3.5 is probably my first choice there.

So far everything is going nicely . I’ll need the SkyRC GPS but not till April.

Over all this build is going well. I hope the DRC pro parts fit on the Drag pack chassis. It all looks OK but until it bolted down you never know.

I found another spot to practice. Need to walk it but it looks good.

 

[Iowa crawler]

I found the perfect spot. Ten minutes from my house at my favorite Rock crawling spot.

It’s a spillway from a big Dam and reservoir. There are a number of parts to the spill way. The top is a beach with a boat ramp. That has a large trailer parking lot. The parking lot has two areas and both are blocked off from traffic without a day pass. The reservoir is silted up so boat traffic is minimal.

The next level of the spill way is a large area of concrete but it’s made of rectangular pours of concrete and to bumpy. But that area has the parking and you can just park there and walk to the top part. That concrete is beautiful. No curbs or traffic.

 

[Iowa crawler]

My zero degree front bulkhead arrived today. Now my shocks are vertical and the suspension moves straight up and down rather than up and back.

I am installing a metal motor cover to replace the plastic one.
That and metal body mounts in the back should tighten up the wheelie bar.

And I got my front motor mounts and bumper.
So I can finally mount the body.

 

[Doom!]

@Iowa crawler Much better!

 

[WickedFog]

That looks awesome.

 

[Greywolf74]

Thats coming together very nicely!

 

[Iowa crawler]

Thanks I’m really happy with it. The steering rack is still set for the 15 deg. Of caster as a result the linkage is to high giving wicked bump steer. But I have the proper mounting block coming for that.

The body is now mounted and the bumpers are chrome.
I’ll be fiddling with the body mounting height and wheel well openings and all that stuff now that the holes are drilled.

This thing is stupid light. 3.3 pounds with no battery or electronics other than servo and receiver. No motor, no ESC, no battery and no cap.

 

[Iowa crawler]

I decided to remove the lower front spoiler. I lowered the body down to the shock towers and the way it faced forward was probably going to hit stuff rather than skid over it.

Plus my inspiration car has no spoiler.

 

[WickedFog]

That looks much better! I may have to chop the spoiler off ours now!

 

[Iowa crawler]

It is cut so when the suspension is fully bottomed out it is level with the road and just scraping.

And the shock tops are touching the hood.

The body mounts are odd. 1.5 mm lock grub but a 4-40 mounting screw. I don’t like mixing hardware so I retreaded them. My posts came up 5mm short so I drilled and tapped the body mounts and used a long 2mm screw that sticks into the body mount about 10mm. Then I drilled and tapped the posts and screwed them into the mount. Made them easy to adjust and they are flexible.

 

[Iowa crawler]

I used a stubby 4 cell battery as the ESC weight and a brushed motor to simulate weight with the body and a 120c 8000 ma 2s battery. The minimum is 2060 or 4.5 pounds.

This tipped the scale at 2167 or 4.77 pounds.

Can’t wait to pull the trigger on this thing.

 

[Iowa crawler]

Nothing better than sitting in the shop on a Sunday morning. Just tinkering with my drag car.

I was thinking about how the tires expand and rub the body. I have belted tires but I don’t want the ugly black half moons so I covered the inside with aluminum. It’s tape for duct work and it’s .02mm thick. Has a nice glue on like a sticker.
The cool thing is it’s so thin you can rub out wrinkles with you thumbnail. I am going to bet you could use this stuff to cover panels on the outside. And polish it or make it look like metal.
It wraps around corners and sticks pretty well. The writing comes off with alcohol.

I’m going to mess with this stuff today.