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PostSubject: Pics of the Cage I Made....   Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:37 am

Made this a few weekends ago and finally got a chance to clean it up, paint it and make panels for it like I did with the RC HardBodyz Cage. Total cost of material was like 7 bucks from TSC, got a couple lengths of 3/16 dia. cold roll steel and a small length of 1/2" wide flat stock for the mounts. I designed and made scale drawings to go off of then just started cutting and bending and welding. I weigh 155lbs and can (and have) stand on this cage and it is solid but it still weighs the same as my old cage... its also a little shorter for better approach and departure. I've also added a few other goodies to my tmaxx since the last time some of you saw my truck... Losi Claw MT tires, Carbon Black Traxxas Tubes for the front which DO WORK with 3.2" wheels, RPM True Track Rear, RPM Upper/Lower Front A-Arms and knuckles and Shock Mounts and another set of RAM lights.

anyways... heres some pics.....



a few hours later


finally got some paint!


Finished product


After making light brackets


heres what it used to look like...
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PostSubject: Re: Pics of the Cage I Made....   Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:50 am

NICE!!!!!!!!!!

Looks like it could really protect things well.

How much does the cage weigh?


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PostSubject: Re: Pics of the Cage I Made....   Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:16 pm

Looking good Stem> glad to see you back around man. You bashed that thing pretty hard yet or what?

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PostSubject: Re: Pics of the Cage I Made....   Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:36 pm

SAAAAAWEEt tht thing looks bad ass
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PostSubject: Re: Pics of the Cage I Made....   Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:29 am

holy cow that thing looks awsome. im usually not a fan of yellow but that looks really cool with the carbon fibre panels.
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PostSubject: Re: Pics of the Cage I Made....   Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:15 pm

thanks guys, used yellow cuz its something different. not sure how much the cage weighs but the truck weighs 12.5 pounds as it is with beadlocks, tires, aluminum bulkheads, RPM parts everywhere, and 160 cc's worth of fuel
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PostSubject: Re: Pics of the Cage I Made....   Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:25 pm

Are them beadlocks rims actually functional? I have a set of plastic beadlocks on my MRC and they are junk. Dont lock the bead for stinker Nice cage though for sure. What possesed you to make a cage?

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PostSubject: Re: Pics of the Cage I Made....   Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:36 pm

yes they are actualy beadlocks and work really well www.maximizerproducts.com

I had that RC Hard Bodyz Cage and it got all kinds of tweeked so I kinda unbent it and was gonna make new mounts for it, but I said eff it ill just make a new cage thats stronger.
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PostSubject: Re: Pics of the Cage I Made....   Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:37 pm

eff it....... LMFAO, thats great schtuff there man. Well I think it looks great you did a fabulous job. What did you use for a welder and materials?

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PostSubject: Re: Pics of the Cage I Made....   Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:00 am

lol thanks, I have a Hobart Handler 140 and just used some 3/16 cold roll steel rod for it.
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PostSubject: Re: Pics of the Cage I Made....   Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:23 am

nice cage man blingbling
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PostSubject: Re: Pics of the Cage I Made....   Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:31 am

Hows it looking after this summer beating it in good shape?
That thing looked amazing .

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