This is a build log starting from basically just a body, and working on the design.

The body I bought ages ago for this build, but kinda got stuck on the design ages ago (its made for a savage)


I recently got motivated to actually use it.
I was tempted to remake my one tamiya DF-02(which I started to design parts for) to fit it as the wheel base is close, but changed my mind as I just didn't want to redo the DF-02 so much.

Then I got the bright idea to make a custom chassis, and use the drive-chain I have left of the piece of crap Brama 10b. But I got worried as I remembered melting one of the bevel gears that drive the differential.

After that I happened to throw the body ontop of my E-MT I made... and the spacing of the wheels from front to back was perfect... the DF-02's were a little short and would have needed the body modified to make it look better, but the HPI MT's wheelbase lines right up. So I figured I could put the bramas diffs in the the diff holder... no go the diff cup on the brama is 2mm's deeper, and stops it from fitting in a mt's diff holder. So I had to make another differential, and luckily I had a diff still left in one piece from one of my old MT's. And yes I realize this last piece was a mess, but I could figure no better way to write it >.>

ANYWAYS I didn't like the spur holder on the E-MT I made and found the TT-02 spur holder by accident last week on amazon while looking for something else.


So I slid that on the MT spur's shaft, and saw how well it so I cut the blue aluminum collar a little so it holds it tight against the drive pin.

but due to pushing the bearings to the drive cups I had to redesign the center gearbox from the e-mt build (note this is another MT chassis the e-mt I made is not being used), and made a few other changes to fix things I didn't care for. I cut a copy of the E-mt's braces out of some 3mm aluminum from a project I scrapped decades ago with a motor mount and am at this point in the build



A little bit different design as in the e-mt the motor plate moved this time I'm just moving the motor so I cut out the front to allow access.
The pinion cover is being made as I type this. (the housing is made of petg for temp resilience)

Next update will probably be the front Arms assembly as those are printing now on another printer

Things IU still have to do design the rear arms, find, or make dogbones for the axles, find a dogbone for the center driveshaft for the front, design/make the rear arms, and design/make the shock towers.