Thanks Mark, Yer Darren handed me a brand new Savage XL and told me to have my way with it (insert evil laugh)

So I ripped down the gearbox and worked out a way to modify a revo centre diff to fit in there while maintaining the 3 speed box. Then I looked at dropping the motor and gearbox down to the lowest legal height. I made some prototype TVP’s out of Aluminium to make sure that everything could fit, and then lowered the servos down as far as I could along with designing and fitting a self contained front brake carrier.

Darren was adamant that the new beast must be able to accept the Go .28 with the twin roto-starter so I worked out how and where to make the cut-outs to accept the motor. Because we dropped the motor quite a bit the TVP ended up not very tall through that area so I made an extra section of the TVP to make a strut that goes over the top of the exhaust manifold for strength.

Once I had the Prototypes the way I wanted them I sent them off to a company that digitised them and sent me back a CAD model. This then went into my computer where I cleaned up some of the ragged areas, made the sexy “F” cut-outs and all the extra cut-outs for good show.
The carbon fiber sheet made its way back from China in the bottom of my suitcase last trip. The carbon Fiber sheet and the cad models went to a CNC machining company here in Adelaide and hey presto very bling TVP as easy as that!!!

Add some fancy linkages to give adjustable front and rear brake bios and the new beast is ready for its 1st race outing next weekend
I think my little revo with the GO .21 might get smoked by the big bad ass GO.28 cant wait to see this puppy in action.

As you might have noticed I am very excited and proud of Darrens new baby.

One word............................MASSIVE