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Nitro crawlers ROCK !!!
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Even if it does work I think it would suck! A nitro screaming at full rpm sounds great but to hear it try to creep around would make me want to shoot it.
no offense man, but if you are gonna put all that time and effort into trying to make a nitro powered crawler why wouldnt you start off with a crawler chassis/roller???
i thought about that but i think(this makes scence to me anyway) there isn't much room on a crawler chassis for the engine, and servo for the gas/brake and a reverse servo so i figured that if i take a chassis that is designed for all of that that it would probobly take away a lot of work to try and get all of that on a tiny lil chassis...JMO
If it were me, I'd do it with an existing chassis that give you alot of options as far as mounting cross-members in which to mount things like your engine, tranny, servos and fuel tank
Something like this...
http://www.rc-monster.com/proddetail.php?prod=flm71500&cat=31
I was going to post the same link that rollinlow posted. There is alot of R&D already done with the setup he posted. If I was doing it I'd start with something along those lines. Only thing I could see wrong is being able to fine tune the throttle control. Having the radio control the clutch would be great, If you could use a bearing mounted on a servo arm to press the pressure plate against the flywheel that way the servo arm didn't cause friction against the clutch and would still allow it to spin.
i don't think that would be that hard actually but it's 1:45 here and i'm to tired to think about it lol.....but i think i've made up my mind that i want to try it so by the end of the weekend you guy's should see some pics of a custom 1 of a kind "austin mcwilliam" chassis lol....and NO this is NOT one of those qaart "i'll get pics" things...i just need to go and get some steel rod so i can start the chassis...what size do you guys thing would be best??
Probably 1/8 to 3/16 steel rod or even some brake tubing, if you could find it I think some aluminum rod or tubing would be the the coolest, IMO!!!! good luck with the project we will be waiting for the pics....