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Wow! Alan this custom looks awesome.

stingray-63 wrote:

Wow! Alan this custom looks awesome.

Thanks Flo, its getting there:y:
Still waiting for various front shocks and the front sway bar bits to turn up, so come to halt suspension wise
So all i can do is alter body to fit around the mods for the time being.

Wait a little for the body. I am waiting several spares. And if you want, I have a hornet metalic body if you want.

The time has come to make the body fit the mods
Turned out to be a lot easier than i thought

First a bit of marking out



Then remove these ridges


Front now fits perfectly and looks pretty good



The back end rests nicely on the spacer for the rear shock


So all that is needed is a spacer to fit here and the body mods all sorted

That looks nice

Discret mods on the front. Excellent.

stingray-63 wrote:

Discret mods on the front. Excellent.

Thanks Flo
Ive always stated that i wanted to try and keep it looking as close to a hopper as possible, so far so good
Tho i dont think im going to be able to resist having a brace bar across the front top shock mounts, partially for practical strength and in a mock up i did last night it looked pretty cool n funky, tamiya missed out on one there i think

Tobiwahnknobi wrote:

That looks nice

Thanks Tobi
Tempted by the mods you are?

So finally some front shocks have turned up so we can proceed again
Listed as 50mm eye to eye tho in reality 52mm, i have extended them to 60mm in preparation for the shocks i hoping to fit at a later date (as usual im waiting on hong kong post haha), tho i might end up with a hybrid of the two different shocks


Not many parts needed to fit these, yayyy


Original hopper lower mounts fitted at the top using M3 flange head bolt and screw on 5mm ball end



Shocks fitted, looking good

A nice little strut brace made out of 5mm ball end connectors, carbon tube and M3 threaded bar


Body on and brace fitted, rather pleased with how it all looks now its together together

This Grasshopper is coming along nicely. I like that front end!