Nelson.81
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What started out as a python over time I added the spring steel outdrives & most of the corally 7075 parts shock towers, chassis, diff mount ,servo saver, Ackerman, top deck, hinge pin holders. I then changed the bodyshell & fitted radix 4s body , tworks titanium centre driveshafts & adapted the lwb t2t brace to fit. Then onto its current refresh/makeover decided to add the spark arms , corally 7075 bulkheads & centre diff cover & tie the t2t brace into centre diff & add scorched hubs & titanium driveshafts. Waited until I was off work this wk yo tackle this but stripped the buggy down in work on my last nightshift to get ahead a little. Fitted the bulkheads and arms to the rear 1st all straight fwd enough. Then did the same at the front little more work involved you need to shave the inserts for the hinge pin holders flush with shock tower & shave the upper arm slightly to fit, no bushes now so no adjustment off caster. Then onto fitting the scorched hubs started with the front 1st all went on either no issues I test fitted the hubs with both the stock typhon Cvd/driveshaft & scorched titanium with the stock thickness driveshaft fits no issues but with the thicker driveshafts it can bind a little a certain angles so need to space out the pivot balls about a 1mm to avoid this before setting toe/camber
(I’ve still to set mine). Then onto the rear this is where the headache begins, to fit the scorched hubs to spark arms you need to shave them a little bit similar to what horatio did when fitting them to his Kronos, if you use the original python/radix/syncro/ksgama/punisher arms you wouldn’t need to. But the hubs fitted I thought it was going to plain sailing until I went to install the Dogbone & found it was coming up about 8-10mm short. The typhon & python/radix/spark dogbones nearly the same size 93/94mm 1mm difference so I thought the typhon must have shorter arms, so went and ordered a set of typhon arms thinking this would fix my issue, couple days later typhon arms arrive I line them up next to the spark arms & before I even fit them I know I’m up the creek without a paddle they near enough the same length as the spark arms maybe bring me in 1mm closer. A little bit Pissed off at the expensive pile of parts & situation I had created for myself I give it
and left it for a day to ponder my options. Day or so later fitted the typhon arm to see where it left me. Options find a Dogbone to fit maybe a custom hinge pin blocks move arms in slightly maybe try fit arrma outdrives to the diff. Searched about looking for longer dogbones found a cheap pair on AliExpress not sure what they for but at 101mm they on there way but I think this might be a tad to short with spark arms* also found a 103.5mm centre driveshaft going to try it also but because of sale at time of purchase was restricted to 1 per customer so if it fits I’m 3wheel drive 
. But these just to see if fit and can make it work as fitting titanium centre & front driveshafts & not having them at the rear not the plan I’m hoping that what I actually need is 102mm and I can then order the method rc titanium driveshafts & get this thing complete. I’ve got a new spark body also to paint but it’s not a concern until everything else complete. But at the minute I stuck waiting on parts drive pins, tool to fit them & dogbones/driveshafts.
(I’ve still to set mine). Then onto the rear this is where the headache begins, to fit the scorched hubs to spark arms you need to shave them a little bit similar to what horatio did when fitting them to his Kronos, if you use the original python/radix/syncro/ksgama/punisher arms you wouldn’t need to. But the hubs fitted I thought it was going to plain sailing until I went to install the Dogbone & found it was coming up about 8-10mm short. The typhon & python/radix/spark dogbones nearly the same size 93/94mm 1mm difference so I thought the typhon must have shorter arms, so went and ordered a set of typhon arms thinking this would fix my issue, couple days later typhon arms arrive I line them up next to the spark arms & before I even fit them I know I’m up the creek without a paddle they near enough the same length as the spark arms maybe bring me in 1mm closer. A little bit Pissed off at the expensive pile of parts & situation I had created for myself I give it
and left it for a day to ponder my options. Day or so later fitted the typhon arm to see where it left me. Options find a Dogbone to fit maybe a custom hinge pin blocks move arms in slightly maybe try fit arrma outdrives to the diff. Searched about looking for longer dogbones found a cheap pair on AliExpress not sure what they for but at 101mm they on there way but I think this might be a tad to short with spark arms* also found a 103.5mm centre driveshaft going to try it also but because of sale at time of purchase was restricted to 1 per customer so if it fits I’m 3wheel drive . But these just to see if fit and can make it work as fitting titanium centre & front driveshafts & not having them at the rear not the plan I’m hoping that what I actually need is 102mm and I can then order the method rc titanium driveshafts & get this thing complete. I’ve got a new spark body also to paint but it’s not a concern until everything else complete. But at the minute I stuck waiting on parts drive pins, tool to fit them & dogbones/driveshafts.
The scorched parts are amazing. The standard driveshaft lengths work out short on the Kronos XTR when using the Scorched parts for Kraton, as the cups on the axle are deeper into the hub and bearing.
, now just gotta order and wait on more parts again.
. They’re in and work only issue I have is the drive pins, arrma drive pins on hub side of driveshaft are 14.5mm & I could only find 14mm, I thought 0.5mm wouldn’t make much difference but 2 sets of 14mm drive pins I ordered both came in at 13.7mm tried them but causing bit of vibration/oscillation at hub so going to have to get longer pins I found online @17mm & cut them down. Then I just need to do alignment & the body then I think I can send it. I can’t find my camber gauge so going to have to just eyeball it until get another. I’ve a new body to paint but I’m going to try vinyl wrapping my old body also see how that turns out , never wrapped anything before 
. The only parts not upgraded where the front/rear diffs & diff mount insert they now on the way & a little something else for this & a future build. Still need to pull my finger out & do the body, I hate doing them I’ll get to it at some point 
but I won that battle this time. Diffs installed & shimmed, shimming corally diffs can be a pain having to disassemble to add them my tip is sacrificial shims, I put on a couple to begin with then cut them off until mesh set, ended up 1 front none in rear.