joeseif

I am going to make my own wheelie bar for my HPI Savage. I want to make 2. one that works normal and one that lays out sparks for good night time showmenship. Please post your pictures and ideas. Thanks Joe

benzzyo5

i made this from an old drop forward on my paintabll gun. i just dremmled and modified it a little. it never bends it's tough. i had a wheele for it but i recently broke off so now i'm just using it on the bar it self and you can see in the pics where it got drinded down from the street wheelies. and i never used it at night so i don't know if it makes sparks, it probably does

joeseif

That's cool. Looks easy to make. I don't think the aluminum will spark as easy as steel might. You could easly but a screw in the end to get some sparks. Go try it and get back to us

benzzyo5

it's like 10 pm here, but accually i'll try it tomarow. i have the day off from school toamrow. i'll get a screw and mount it iun. i have alot of self-taping screw i can put in easilly. if i can't see if spark in the day i'll try right when it gets dark, it gets dark early now

joeseif

Cool! I have seen sparks in the daylight before, you just need to be close and in the shade.

benzzyo5

ok, i'll fill ya in tomarow after i try it

dude7422

hello all dont know if you have wheels or plan to put wheels on that wheel bar but i used air plane tail wheels they come in many sizes aluminum hubs and hard rubber tire cost $1.00 up to 4 each hope this helps ya



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benzzyo5

yup i use a dubro airplane wheele, mine just broke off . i have the wheel i just have to make another pin to put through it so i can put it on thre wheelie bar, thanks though

btw to day just when it gor dark i put a screw in the bottom of it and it sparked when it hit the ground but then i broke the screw clean of. now i have to get the rest of the screw out

scottywilkes

if u want sparks find a titanium screw, they are really strong and the sparks u get out of it is crazy, titanium just sparks real well

fxrs

Here is one I made for my sons savage.

Stablock

I hated it when my truck would flip over on its self in the middle of a field or scratch the sht out of the body on the road so I made one. It was not unlike yours. It didn’t work out so well. The problem is it’s too skinny on the part that touches the ground. If you wheelie quickly, the bar hits the ground and the truck kinda teeter’s on the wheelie bar and causes the either the left or right rear wheel to lift off the ground. You lose speed because the tire off the ground spins like crazy, then when the wheel touches the ground, the truck violently throws its self on the other wheel causing the other wheel to lift off the ground. It’s kinda comical, actually. It looks like your truck walks down the road. Left tire, right tire, left tire, right tire….. But your speed is half of what it could be. Also, I noticed it did not work well with jumps. That is, if you land a jump tail-end vertically (accidentally, of course). The first time I did it, it stuck in like a lawn dart and bent a little! The second time it bend badly. Third time broke off and ripped the bumper off with it. Mind you, it was at the BMX track and I was bumping the doubles. About 6’-8’ of air.

What I found that works out best is a cheap mud flap for a car. I cut a piece out of it about two and a half inches by four inches. I mounted it using the top two screws that go straight down on top of the bumper (you’ll have to use longer screws) so that it is 4 inches straight out the back. There is enough flex in it to bend and touch the tail gate of the body but it will not allow the truck to flip over on it’s self. And now two and a half inches touch the ground and it doesn’t walk like before. I can wheelie across the baseball field at top speed now! It also helps lessen the blow on those vertical tail drops!

joeseif

Very cool guys. Now have a bunch of great ideas. I think I will be making two one that sparks and one that does not. It seems like I could make 10 for the cost or one store bouhgt. I'll post pic once it's done.

-SomeGuy-

This is mine. I was tired of waiting for my lhs to receive some new hpi ones so i decided to make my own. Except for the wheel, its made of stock savage parts and took me under 10 mins to make.

burnchassis3

Airplane landing gear attached to the bulkhead brace.
Works great.
CS

joeseif

You got sweat looking truck! what kind of rollcage is that? Have you ever landed on them or rolled end over end? i wonder how they would hold up, do they flex?

burnchassis3

Yea strong as hell I have 2 of them one on each truck.
1 has seen alot more abuse then the other lid landings from 18-25 feet up...full speed rollovers into stationary objects.
It has not bent more then 1/8 inch and never broken.
Accidents in 3 gear with a Force .32 and Collari .32.
With that cage,the savage x roll handle and engine guard its near indestructable.
thanks for the kudos!
CS

joeseif

Ok my buddy has a machine shop that makes medical equipment and he gave am some titanium scraps. Any sujections on how to use these 2 peices to make the wheelie bars that spark. i was thinking of making pads that come off the roll bars so the truck goes up and over almost to the point of landing on the roof, at this point the pads touch the ground and start sparting, as the truck rides almost inverted, then i hit the brakes and it returns to all 4's.

benzzyo5

it u want it to the point where the truck is almost on it's roof then the wheeles won't hit the ground. i thgink that you should jst so how mount them on the back bumper so when you wheelie it will definitly hit.

joeseif

Well I made the first pair. The regular ones. I took your advise and used the airplane wheels. Next I will make the ones that sparks. But not for a week or so.

benzzyo5

pretty cool, it came out nice!

DavidKirkbride

cool bars did you get sparks benzy?

benzzyo5

when i put the screw in. i had it spark for a little while but the screw broke off.

joeseif

I got the titanium disk mounted, it sparked like crazy! but it broke off pretty quick. I only got one mounted. It was very hard to work with. I need to send it to a shop to get a bigger hole drilled in it, my drill bits just melted.

benzzyo5

same thing i need to get a screw that doesn't break. mine also broke off in about 20 seconds[]

joeseif

I guess it's alot of pressure.