New TC body

[rossb]

[Edit] - Fixed windows and posted new pics on Page 2

 

[ImBroken]

Very nice clean paint job....... Did you trim the windows with a butter knife? lol
Get that dremel out, would ya...
I'm just bustin ya balls... Nice job....

 

[PiErow]

Nice and clean. Really break out the dremel! You will vut your hand reaching in through the window with them like that!

 

[rossb]

I don't want to trim out any more window material because I don't want to weaken the body anymore. I might clean it up a bit more, but nothing major. This body is going to be raced so it will get beaten up fairly quickly.

 

[Bouzouki]

Use a dremal to smooth out the holes in the windows and it will look perfect.

 

[rossb]

What bit do you guys use on the dremel?

 

[vbgagnon]

A sanding drum should do the trick.

 

[Diver6127]

Ross, next time use a hole cutter. Scribe out the line (don't cut all the way through). Use a reamer to open up a hole in the middle and make pie cuts up to the line. Bend it in and it'll break right at the line. For the side windows, scribe a line with a hobby knife and do the same thing with the reamer as you did to the cooling holes. It can also be done to the wheel openings. Nice clean lines and no jagged edge. Just clean it up with 220 grit paper. For the wheel openings, wrap the sand paper around a soda can and just start twisting it in the opening. It'll smooth it down.

For an almost perfect 2" opening in the front (if you don't have a hole cutter), get a spool of teflon tape and trace the outter diameter with a sharpie. Scribe along the insde of the line with the hobby knife and use the reamer and pie cuts as I said earlier in this post. That will give you a hole that is 1.97 inches. For the rear, cut out the whole window. It's ROAR legal todo that. What I would do is make 2 two inch holes and cut a straight line from the top of one hole to the other. That way, you'll still have enough meat in the rear for support.

Another trick is to get a very long zip tie and loop it into the tank lid and extend the end out the window. If your chassis has a slot incorporated into it (like the serpent) then clip the lock off another zip tie and lock it into place. That way, when you have to refuel the car in the pits, your pit guy can just stick his fingers under the zip tie lift the car and open the tank all in one shot.

Remeber, we're not supposed to refuel in the pits. Car is supposed to be lifted off the track and refueled. Well, that's what is supposed to be done. At a ROAR sanctioned event, if they catch you that's a stop and go penalty the next time around. Besides, it makes good practice.

 

[rossb]

The holes in the windshield, rear window, and wheel wells were done with an Olfa circle cutter. There is no way I could have cut those circles by hand.

 

[Diver6127]

That's why it's so jagged! You kept twisting till i cut through huh!?! Next time, just scribe a line and do the reamer and pie cut trick. It'll be cleaner.

 

[rossb]

My front and rear holes are actually pretty clean. My side holes could use some cleaning up.

 

[Diver6127]

An emry board will do the trick as well.

 

[evilgrin]

deffinitly try the dremal with the sanding drum to clean up those holes use a slow speed a gentle presure cleans up the cuts very nicely.

looks good thou nice and clean.

 

[Da Hellion]

OOOORRRR swipe your girlfriends nail file ! 45 degrees inward motion

 

[Silent]

I have never found it necessary to cut out the side windows for cooling. You can just make tiny holes in the side to get your tuning screwdriver in there.

 

[rossb]

I have a bag of these little drums. I'll clean up the windows.

 

[Revo Rancher]

Ross, use the small sanding drums for most applications, fine grit. I use the heavier grit if I need to hog out a bigger opening. If you have a variable speed Dremel use about a 2 setting. Mine has about 5-6 hash marks, so I usually set it about 2. Keeps you from melting up the materails but enough speed to make smooth material removal. It also is moving slow enough so if you make a small bobble with your hand you won't destroy a lot of material. I never use a circle cutter. I only use the sanding drum on the Dremel and the body reamer after I rough cut the body and wheelwells with Lexan scissors.

 

[Da Hellion]

Dude I forgot but your car looks great !!!! poor guy comes in here to show us his car and we all bash it because of a blemish

 

[Diver6127]

Oh yeah, nice body. After a few races, we know what it'll look like anyway.

 

[rossb]

I cleaned up the windows and they look better. This body is going to be used for competition and it will get beat up fairly quickly.