Certified Automotive Graphics Vinyl Chassis Protectors
Not exactly a Big Squid or URC/Jang review =
Certified Automotive Graphics Vinyl chassis protectors for several off road vehicles and now offers them for the HPI Sprint 2 chassis.
NOT JUST AN OFF ROAD THING!!!
Dangerous_toys here on R/C Tech (Mr Robert Smoke) now makes chassis protectors for the S2 chassis.
Robert had his chores undefined with this one =
ALL OEM HPI S2 chassis are WARPED straight from HPI.
This makes it very difficult to create a template.
However, Robert has it pretty well perfected.
These are templated to the HPI S2 OEM chassis and line up quite nicely.
Robert installed the first one for me.
From there on out, I was on my own...
After spending over 20 years in refrigerated cutting rooms, coolers and freezers, add to that being a Greybeard and needing to wear XXL gloves (very difficult to find for the size paws I have)...
You can well imagine that I have a few dexterity issues.
Having said that, I was like a bear cub with two peckers trying to hit a moving fly with my pee when it came to putting one of these on my scratched up OEM chassis.
Nevertheless, I got one on and it looks great!
The aluminum chassis was more challenging because I didn't send the chassis to Robert. I just sent him an outline of the chassis and holes.
He did a great job matching things up, but I do recommend that if you need custom work done = Bite the bullet and send him the chassis. Nuff said...
HPI has screws at the very hairy outer ends of the S2 chassis, so a dead nutz fit may be a challenge.
Follow Robert's advice and carefully apply some heat -
This stuff will stretch and it will shrink as well =
So have a good hold of it when using heat.
Ask me how I know...
I used a hair drier clamped in a small vise so I could use both of my paws.
The major openings for the motor, battery and chassis venting will need to be made with a fresh bladed X-Acto knife.
These S2 chassis protectors may fit the HPI carbon fiber chassis straight away -
I'm not sure, but they should.
This is what mine looks like after two qualifiers and 5 B Mains (I spend a lot of time riding the barriers... 
)
If you run a EXOTECH, you will want to contact Robert and send him your chassis so he can make the template to fit.
Current colors available are black, red and purple.
Silver upon request.
Available in Carbon Fiber pattern and plain (no pattern).
•Permanent acrylic pressure-sensitive self-adhesive
•Stretchable with heat
•Easily cleansed with water
•Resistant to UV, water, dirt, grease, salt, mild acid and oil
•Long lasting
•Easy remove without residue
•OEM Certified Automotive Graphics Vinyl. NOT A 3M DI-NOC product
R/C Tech Pricing (these prices includes shipping) =
$10 for 1
$18 for 2
$32.50 for 4
No matter what color is available.
PayPal only.
When making a purchase =
PLEASE make sure that you put the quantity and the item type in the notes section of your PayPal payment.
PayPal is [email protected]
R/C Tech LINK TO Dangerous_toys =
http://www.rctech.net/forum/members/...ys-105858.html
He has them on eBay if you want to go that way =
Use eBay's advanced search by seller =
NOTE: eBay pricing will reflect what is required to vend on eBay, as well it should.
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Last edited by Marv; 01-22-2013 at 02:56 PM.