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"Modified" Dyna Storm

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Hello All,

Like many of us I always wanted a Dyna Storm. So back in February I purchased this original DS. 

 

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Due to its age alot of the parts were very brittle so I decided that I wanted to make a more robust chassis. 

If you are a Dyna Storm / Dyna Blaster fan and you frequent this site you would have seen Collin's  numerous posts and you would also have seen all the work he has done creating re-production parts for the DS and DB.  So I reached out to him and he made me a heap of parts.

So over the past few months I have been slowly acquiring parts. I think I finally have all the parts I need to make a small build thread.  

Here we go...

 

 

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I started with the Diffs and Transmission.

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Next up was the steering knuckles. These are from Shapeways. I removed the old pin.

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Perfect fitment. No issues.

Now to the front arms. From Shapeways as well.

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New bulkhead, Kydex bumper and Kickup

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Carbon shock tower.

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Perfect fitment again.

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Front end sorted. 

 

 

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37 minutes ago, Boone227 said:

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Right now I am struggeling with a  +20hours carbon 3D print which are broken because of one layer not sticking well, asking myself: "why do I do all this painfull tinkering...", I saw your post and needet to smile.

What a face :wub:

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15 minutes ago, Collin said:


Right now I am struggeling with a  +20hours carbon 3D print which are broken because of one layer not sticking well, asking myself: "why do I do all this painfull tinkering...", I saw your post and needet to smile.

What a face :wub:

Yes the front stance looks amazing!

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So I decided to try a different approach with the rear hubs and CVD's. I am not sure if I will leave it but I will give it a go.

I used  53793 Alloy Hubs and 53791 CVD's.

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Not so sure about the fitment. The CVD's fit but just barely. 

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I will try it out and if it does not work I will go back to the original CVD's and hubs.

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I am afraid that the CVDs will jump out of the cup very soon. I guess you will run a hot motor also...

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2 minutes ago, Collin said:

I am afraid that the CVDs will jump out of the cup very soon. I guess you will run a hot motor also...

Kinda what I was worried about. Also the stance is a off. I will upload some pictures with the wheels on. I will try it at least.

I am not sure what motor I will use. I will start with the Pink Acto first and then move up to a brushless.

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For the rear suspension mounts D1/2 you should use M3 Nyloc nuts, not the pressing nuts.

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If I remember correctly, DS and Super Astute can be rebuilt with Blitzer beetle hubs to modern CVD´s. Kontemax described it in his Astute files. 

Actually Yeah Racing now makes decent Carbon steel CVD´s for the Avante for a good price. If they´d make a longer dogbone, they´d be my choice for the DS.

Yeah Racing, please read this comment and start making...:D

Very nice project and documentation about Tom´s effort to keep this Tamiya classic running...

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16 hours ago, Collin said:

For the rear suspension mounts D1/2 you should use M3 Nyloc nuts, not the pressing nuts.

Nice catch. Thanks Tom!

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4 hours ago, ruebiracer said:

Yes, it was this paper. In the part 3 there is the comparison between the Astute line universals against modern universals. And what you can do to switch working with spacers.;)

I will check this out. Thank you.

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Well done, cool paintjob,

still doesn´t look old against the TRF201.:)

The lines are more pleasant to me. Your rear camber is quite negative? Intention, or does it still have to come on the setup board?

Mean machine, for sure it does look the part! Wrenchdog rules...:D

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Both look REALLY sporty! An no Box art always a great choice : )

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On 6/21/2020 at 7:43 PM, ruebiracer said:

Your rear camber is quite negative?

Its probably that @Boone227 did not made the upper turnbuckle longer yet. Now it runs a bit diagonal because of the design of the rear damper stay balljoints.

Also I would add some try weights to the front.

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19 minutes ago, Collin said:

Its probably that @Boone227 did not made the upper turnbuckle longer yet. Now it runs a bit diagonal because of the design of the rear damper stay balljoints.

Also I would add some tyre weights to the front.

Yes its quite negative. I wanted to show you guys how it looked. I cant adjust it any more because the CVD's will pop out. Most likely I will not keep it this way. I just want to drive it once like this and then I will go back to the original. 

 

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7 minutes ago, Boone227 said:

I just want to drive it once like this and then I will go back to the original.

You mean original like fully original? :blink:

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4 minutes ago, ruebiracer said:

..dogbone I guess!:D

I HOPE!

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1 hour ago, Collin said:

You mean original like fully original? :blink:

Haha, no not fully original. Just original style hubs and CVD's.

However I do have a re-released  DS that I will keep original and eventually sell.

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