Bad weather modding!
 

It's cold and cloudy here in Chicago, good time to get creative. I've been wanting to do the throttle mod forever plus I've wanted a wing on my Savage since I first got it.

The throttle mod isin't perfect, needs a few tweaks. I looked all around the house for some kind of plate to mount the wing stay to before mounting it to the back of the shock tower than I thought, "Why not use the rear shock tower from an 1/8th scale buggy!". It worked perfect and it's very solid.

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I couldn't stand to see the buggy tower sticking out so I mounted the rear shocks to it, not sure how that will effect the handling of the Savage.

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I can't stand the color of the wing though, I'm headed out tomorrow to buy some of that Krylon paint for plastic.

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Can't wait for my FLM Ext LOC TVP's to arrive!

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that would look awesome with a exciter body!

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Awersome looking truck, the purple highlights (fuel tubing, aluminium etc) look great!

Nice job with protecting the cooling head also...

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How well does that body hold up to rollovers and accidents? I have been debating one of those bodies but all of the sharp angles make it seem like it would crack easily.

Nice looking truck by the way.

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Bronco's rock. I've taken many-a-tumble and mine's lookin great. Very stout body!

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Thats what I wanted to hear!. I have had my eye on it for a while now. Now I got to decide a paint scheme.

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my buddie had one he rolled the truck once and it blew into three pieces.

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I haven't really bashed the Bronco body since painting. It'll probably hold up like most, next I'd like to get a Jeep Rubicon body.

Thanks for the nice comments guys, it was awsum carrying the Savage around by the wing yesterday :)

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Nice job! Definately different, and unique. There is nothing more sweet that a virgin just painted shelf queen body! (then all is lost after the first high speed cartwheel, rollover, frontflip. (AAAHHHHHHHHHHH, $#@$%% !!)

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Which 1/8th scale buggy shock tower did you use?

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It's from an HB Lightning.

I got the Krylon paint. They didn't have purple so I got black.