el_tonto

How much ground clearance does the Lightning have? How much travel do the on-road shocks have? I'm looking at doing a rally conversion of my Tornado using Lightning parts. I anticipate needing the Lightning front arms, links & dogbones, the front and rear shock towers, and front and rear shocks. But I need to know if I'll lose too much clearance at the front.

The redcat site lists the Tornado as having 215/205mm track (F/R) and the Lightning as having 195mm track - so I'll end up with 195/205 track F/R. These widths will suit this body http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXRXT0&P=ML (ok so that's not much of a rally car!)

ehroof

you definately wont have enough clearance to make a rally car with the lightning, its very low, wont run off road. on the track, its so low the sides get scraped up from the corners.

el_tonto

What if I retain the standard buggy shocks? can I "jack it up" or will the suspension arms then be at too much of an angle?

ehroof

i will check for you tomorrow, i honestly dont know, it may work. so you want to use the lightning arms with the volcano shocks? actually you cant, one takes a pivot ball suspension, the other a arm suspension, the lighting arms wont work on the bb, only the shockwave since the diff cases are different.

el_tonto

My drill will fix the pivotball vs a-arm issue! Or I could probably just switch over the plastic ends of the shock shaft.

Actually I have a HSP Atomic something-or-other which I think is actually closer to the older Redcat Tornado XP. But I figure this is probably still the best forum!

WhiteWabbitt

Hey, new here i aquired a lightning and converted to off-road..they are correct you wont get clearance you need..i had to get longer control arms,dog bones, shocks and re geared to put some beefy mud tires on . Running stock 3300kv motor and 2s battery with better esc. Im not a drifter.but MAN do these rigs FLY offroad!! Either way buddy go for different unit to scab arms,axles ect from…they gotta be atleast 1/3 longer to get any ground clearance without too much binding on the dogbones