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Looking great Mark...👍
Those TF driveshafts look quite a lot shorter on your photo...any danger of them popping out on full droop..?...love the marshmallows...where did you get pink ones..?
The shocks polished up great...what did you use..?
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Default Driveshafts, cleaner, droop...

Hi Aire,

Driveshaft (Droop)

Driveshaft.

The driveshafts are 6mm shorter than the Mardave. The Top Force shafts are a perfect fit Aire . They allow for complete up-travel without Rear shock fitted, so once the shock is fitted there will be no issue with up travel as the shock will not go up as far as not having the shock off.

Droop.

Droop again Aire is perfect I have taken a picture of the Droop showing the wishbone touching the chassis, which will be at it lowest point. Again with the shock fitted the wishbone wont hit the chassis at full droop.

TAMIYA PINK Marshmellows.

The PINK marshmellows are a what I have used for a long time. I used to use them in all my off road diffs to prevent dirt/sand getting in the thrust race. I have also used them on driveshafts and have worked perfect again on the COBRA. I got them from Ebay at .....Tonys TAMIYA Parts.....

Metal Polish.

The polish is autosol chrome polish. I think its the best metal polish out there. I used to use the tube, just like a tooth paste tube, but the liquid is better as you get to use all of it. I found the tube to split on corners and you wouldnt use all of it...



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Great explanations....thanks Mark.
Really enjoying the build ..Alan..
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Thank you Aire.........
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Default Wing...

Not had much time to build the rear shocks yet.

But here is the Original Mardave Wing. Cut out, stickered up and ready to mount to the COBRA......

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Default Rear Shocks...

So managed to do a bit today on the COBRA....

Rear shocks next.

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Default Rear shocks

As with the fronts, I polished up the rear bodies.....

Shocks ready to fit to the COBRA........

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Default Fitting the rear shocks....

Shocks meet COBRA.......... Droop worked out well with the TOP FORCE driveshafts......

Now we are looking like a COBRA.....

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Default Front Bumper.

I wanted a front bumper for the COBRA. I have been playing around and came up with a RPM RC10 style front bumper. I made it from 0.5mm metal plate. I then wrapped it in 8D carbon fibre wrap....
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Default Mardave COBRA Wheels.

New Mardave COBRA Wheels and New Mardave wheel bearings......

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Default TRX-3 Shocks. Mardave Wing and COBRA Wheels

After building and fitting the COBRA shocks, I wasn't really happy with them. I cant stop them leaking. I have changed the orings, I have changed the cartridge oring and built them with Associated Green Slime. Still pouring out and made a mess on the worktop....

So, I had these. I believe to be the best ever made shock, and still today. TRAXXAS TRX-3 Shocks.

TRAXXAS TRX-3 Shocks fitted with standard Mardave springs for now.

Mardave New COBRA Wheels fitted.
Mardave Wing fitted.

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Looking fantastic! It's a handsome thing!
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Default New COBRA

I see there is another NEW Mardave COBRA and a selection of New chassis in different colours....

The New COBRA is called the Mardave COBRA ECO. It is rear motor with big bores... Comes with the original body also.... Looks very nice to be fair........

Chassis colours are,

Blue
Yellow
Black
Grey

All are powder coated....................
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Default Undertray

Having got a Mardave undertray, I wanted to install it on the top without the complete tray being fitted. So having a think, I remembered the TRF503 using the TRF511 undertray but we had to cut them down.

So this is what I did. I cut the Mardave undertray in half and then trimmed it to fit under the battery boxes....

I will also use double sided tape to stick the sides to the chassis. This will then firm the sides up and I can then install Velcro to firm up the body sides once fitted. This should then stop the flapping around of the tray and body....

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Default Original Mardave Spike Tyres.

I had a set of Original New Mardave Spike Tyres. I thought I would stick them on to see how they look.... If we was running grass, these would be my first choice for wet/damp grass for sure. Very TR32 looking...

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Default NOW !! The Best Bit !!!!

Now the best bit. Cutting out and Painting the Body.

Body all cut out and ready to be prepped and painted.......

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Looking great Mark..👍....shame about the quality of the shocks..!
Couple of things...how did you fit that front bumper.? can't see any screws..!
Not sure why you fitted the under tray on top of the chassis..🤔...why did you not fit it underneath, to protect that nice chassis..?
Looking forward to the finished body..!..😃
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Default Front Bumper and Undertray

Hi Alan,

Bumper.

The bumper is double sided taped for now. Just to see how the fit was. I will drill and countersink if there is enough material to countersink as the screw heads are tiny compared to 3mm hex of today, so should be ok....

Undertray.

This is the design of the Undertray I believe, is to fit on top, not underneath. The reason we fitted the Undertray on top is due to cornering and effecting the handling of buggy. It also effects the ride height. We put the Undertray on top then wrap or get the clear chassis protector for the actual chassis. That way you can fit the body to the Undertray on top, it doesn't effect the cornering and the ride height isn't effected...
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I see there is another NEW Mardave COBRA and a selection of New chassis in different colours....

The New COBRA is called the Mardave COBRA ECO. It is rear motor with big bores... Comes with the original body also.... Looks very nice to be fair........

Chassis colours are,

Blue
Yellow
Black
Grey

All are powder coated....................
£200 is that a reasonable price?
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