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Absolutely stunning work Bryce,i've said it once and i'll say it again,you da man when it comes to Bajas,nuff said,I got a woody when I saw your CVDs for the Baja and plan on them for mine but this has caused me to lose more DNA juice.Someone get me the tissues....:D

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dude, you just gave me some disturbing mind images of the terminator and uhm..

RE: Home Built Baja 5T-PTV (Personal Tracked Vehicle)
 

those remind me of jonny 5 tracks lol.

they do look really sick tho!

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Great job, very inspiring, I'm very impatient to see the full assembly.
thank :)

Whozenext.

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i want to see a vid of it in motion.

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http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j1...0/IMG_0460.jpg

RE: Home Built Baja 5T-PTV (Personal Tracked Vehicle)
 

WOW!!!

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WoW indeed!! I want to see this moving and what pipe is that?

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It's not an RC, it's a work of art! Freakin' amazing Brice.

RE: Home Built Baja 5T-PTV (Personal Tracked Vehicle)
 

I found more pictures of it from HPIBajaForum


http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/o...br9dbr9/r5.jpg

http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/o...br9dbr9/r7.jpg

http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/i...2/DSC00596.jpg

http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/i...2/DSC00595.jpg

http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/i...2/DSC00594.jpg

http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/i...2/DSC00593.jpg






So now that there are pictures, lets see a video of it in action!!![sm=thumbs_up.gif]

RE: Home Built Baja 5T-PTV (Personal Tracked Vehicle)
 

Found some more

http://gi105.photobucket.com/groups/...Y0L/026-15.jpg

http://gi105.photobucket.com/groups/...Y0L/025-17.jpg

http://gi105.photobucket.com/groups/...EY0L/041-7.jpg

RE: Home Built Baja 5T-PTV (Personal Tracked Vehicle)
 

And some more.....

http://gi105.photobucket.com/groups/...EY0L/062-5.jpg

http://gi105.photobucket.com/groups/...EY0L/063-7.jpg

RE: Home Built Baja 5T-PTV (Personal Tracked Vehicle)
 

is that rcx! omg the one time i decided not to go [:@]

that kid with his nintendo DS has no ideal how EPIC the thing in front of him is.

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What do the driveshafts look like?

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Brice,
I always look forward to your builds. You're a machining genius............................
Whats on the boards for your next project?

RE: Home Built Baja 5T-PTV (Personal Tracked Vehicle)
 

It's a custom pipe that I made. Started off as a GoPed G460R or something along those lines and I chopped it at the welds and reconfigured it for the tank. The tank is pretty much ready to go. I need to throw in a radio and some gas and fire her up. We will probably fire up the engine this weekend and maybe throw down some carpet just to see her move. I did the blue aluminum treads for the show and would hate to scratch those up. We still need to do a professional photo shoot of the finished build.

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Yep, you missed a cool show. Not much new as far as products but definitely lots of cool builds in the TGN booth. The little boy is the son of the guy on the left. That's Manny from Custom Street Toyz. We share a shop together so his son is around this stuff all day long.

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Thanks for the kind words. Now would also be a good time to thank Manny from Custom Street Toyz. He was in charge of the color scheme and anodizing. He also assembled the tracks and helped with the chassis assembly. Each track link has 15 parts with a total of 90 links on the whole vehicle (1350 pieces in just the tracks). Thats a lot of parts to assemble. I couldn't have pulled this off without his help.

What's next.......? Each project I seem to one-up myself. I don't know If I could do that again. I do have something up my sleeve though that I started a year ago. I always wanted to do a four-stroke gas 1/5~1/4 crawler. More of a competition crawler than a scale crawler. In the past, all of my machined parts have been done with 2.5d machining. The crawler axles that I started to design require 3d machining. I have a copy of MasterCAM that I have yet to play with but I think it's time I learned how to use it so I can get started on this project.

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Machining genius for sure.
I'll be interested in those axle plans...it's no secret that i want to do a semi scale full tube chassis formula offroad jeep that the crazy icelanders race up the sides of volcanoes...we got loads of gravel pits here to climb up the sides of...but to be true to form it really needs solid axles, skellengers are not an option ...so i'll be keeping my eyes open for your next project to see what you come up with;).

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Did you miss my question? Without them you certainly won't be giving it a run :)

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You can see the drive shafts in almost every pic. They are the gray bars going across to the tracks on the rear end.

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Speechless
Amazing ingenuity my friend

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Please, post a little Video ... [sm=thumbs_up.gif]

RE: Home Built Baja 5T-PTV (Personal Tracked Vehicle)
 

that is beautiful Brice ...............nice work

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Gotcha, I didn't recognise them...