Manda's (Amachan) RC Adventures
Exhaust problems on an electric RC car...
While driving around yesterday and rolling around on the ground, some damage happened to the exhaust stack on my car as you can see in the picture above.
It didn’t take long before it broke off.
For a while now I have been thinking of wanting to change the exhaust stack as I had a feeling it was going to break at some point. This kind of forced my hand in making a change.
First I removed the exhaust stack and the box it mounts on. Those aren’t glued together as they are both fixed to the body with screws. I wanted to go for a more factory stock exhaust that hangs under the body. So I sawed most of the stack off, drilled a hole and widened that with a craft knife. I smoothed the hole a bit and then blued it in the exhaust box.
And this is now the new exhaust on my RC truck.
I am aware that the exhaust might start grinding on the rear tire under full suspension compression, but I think it will be fine. I am rebuilding the shock early next month anyway and they should be a lot stiffer then. I will just have to see how it goes.
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