hornet to truck

[raydee48]

Anyone have instructions on converting the hornet buggy to an off road truck? And what parts would I need?

[wldnas]

Hi Raydee []

Well Many, many years ago when I use to own a few RC's as a kid, I converted the Hornet I had then into a kinda primative form of Stadium/monster truck, to do it I used a set of Wild One wheels and tires, made some custom bodymounts out of some thin plastic modeling tube, and bought a Marui Big Bear body to fit on the top, when fitted you could see through the side to the chassis internals so I made a couple of side cover plates out of thin black plasticard and glued them onto the sides of the chassis with a glue gun.

it looked pretty cool, but the hard plastic body was top heavy and on high speed turn it would roll over very easily, still and interesting experiment which I could try to reproduce today fore I now have some spare Hornet chassis, a set of tatty Fox wheels and a Big Bear body to hand []

but on getting back to the question at hand, the Hornet chassis isn't really best suited to this task, as it is too narrow and prone to instability, but now that materials availble today are far much better then what was availble to me back in the late 80's you could make a better job of it by using a simple Lexan truck body, you could use the original mounts at the rear and just make a new extended one at the front using the orginal hole for the existing front mount, fit some wheels like Stadium Raider/Blitzer Beetle types or Lunchbox/Pumpkin ones of your feeling a little brave and that might look and perform better than my early attepts []

Give it a try, it might pay off []

[Twmaster]

You will need to change the front uprights if you want to us Lunchbox/blitzer etc wheels on the front as the stub of the wheel axle is too short. Otherwise you can fabricate a front mount easily out of bits as mentioned previously and use the rear mounts from the Hornet.

There are pictures in my showroom titled 'pair of bees came in a box', click the 'visit my showroom' link in the sig of this post, to see a sorta trucked out Hornet.

Cheers,

[aconsola(2)]

ebay is your best bet. I'm not allowed to post links to live auctions, but there is a guy(whom I've bought from several times and highly reccomend) who constantly has CRP parts listed. He has 2 in particular that would benefit you.

The first is a hornet truck mount kit, it include hornet specific front and rear mount bases.

The second is the FX-10 to blackfoot kit.It is a complete conversion kit and it includes all the extra hardware and wheel mounts that are not included in the plastic-only hornet kit to put Truck tires and body on a hornet.

-Anthony

[raydee48]

Thanks! You guys have been a great help. I'll post the before and after pix when I'm done.

[raydee48]

I'm almost done with my project, The "Monster Hornet" is posted in my showroom page. Let me know what you guys think. I bought some tamiya monster truck tires/rims, but they aren't compatible with the axles. Are there any specific conversion kits for this? Thanks in advance.

[AstroVannin(2)]

What you need to do is get the rear transmission mounts and lower chassis parts from a midnight pumpkin. The rear transmission is easy, just unscrew the hornet one and slide in the MP units. For the front, unscrew the "suspention arm retainer" and remove the arms. Then cut the midnight pumpkin chassis about an inch behind where the suspention arms attach. Make the apropriate holes and attach to the hornet so the arms will be in the same location (only lower). Next line up the front peice (the bit that holds the suspention arms) from the MP chassis and attach it to the Hornet chassis. Bend some new tie rods, install a wild mod motor and masher 2002 tires and your done.

[aconsola(2)]

What parts did you wind up using?

Post a pic with the body off if you get the chance so we can see the guts of the project.

Which wheels do you have?

-Anthony

quote:Originally posted by raydee48

I'm almost done with my project, The "Monster Hornet" is posted in my showroom page. Let me know what you guys think. I bought some tamiya monster truck tires/rims, but they aren't compatible with the axles. Are there any specific conversion kits for this? Thanks in advance.

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[AstroVannin(2)]

I can post an image of my "Monster Grasshopper" if somone can tell me how to insert an image

[DJTheo]

Just use the search function or read the help/faq.

Cheers

[raydee48]

I posted the pictures without the body in my showroom under project. I appreciate any of your suggestions.

[AstroVannin(2)]

Raydee If you want pics on how to make a BIGGER BETTER monster hornet let me know and I'l send you some pics and a better description on how to do it.

[raydee48]

Send the info to mwhite333@cox.net. Thanks

[AstroVannin(2)]

Did you ever get the pics??

[Twmaster]

quote:Originally posted by AstroVannin

I can post an image of my "Monster Grasshopper" if somone can tell me how to insert an image

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Inserting an image is easy. Just click the picture icon above. type in the location of where the picture is served from.

OK, that part is easy. The trick is you need to have the picture hosted from somewhere on the Internet. You cannot just put a pic off your computer into the forum like you can with the showrooms.

Cheers,

[raydee48]

Hey AstroVannin, I got your pics. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll be sure to post pics of the final product.

[AstroVannin(2)]

the advantage to the way that i did it is that it raises the bottom of the chassis by a little over an inch for better offroading

[AstroVannin]

Finnaly some pics of the monster for all to see. Using some of the LB suspention it what gives the chassis ride height.

http://www.rcpics.net/view_single.php?medid=16514

http://www.rcpics.net/view_single.php?medid=16516

http://www.rcpics.net/view_single.php?medid=16511