Originally posted by Corner Weight
When I was doing the graphite parts conversion, I weighed everything and came up with these weights (in grams)
Part, Graphite, Plastic, Weight loss
Chassis , 130.8 , 155.5 , 24.7
Battery Strap, 10.6 , 12.6 , 2.0
Rear Shock Tower, 6.6 , 8.0 , 1.4
Front Shock Tower, 4.8 , 5.7 , .9
Front Arms (2), 11.9 , 14.2 , 2.4
Rear Arms (2), 12.3 , 14.4 , 2.1
Chassis Brace (4), 14.1 , 16.7 , 2.6
Rear Hub Carrier (2), 5.4 , 6.7 , 1.3
Front Hub Carrier (2), 6.5 , 7.9 , 1.4
Total Loss, 38.8
Lunsford Ti Hingepins (all) 6.1g - Stock steel 10.7g - loss 4.6g
I've now got the ready to run weight down to 1545g - not too bad considering I've got an old heavy speed control in there.
Nice conversion there
I did the same thing when I went to the Carbon chassis stuff
but I was able to loss 15 grams from the Chassis and the Battery strap after milling matterial away from thm
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I`ll post some more pic`s tommorow
-Dave