JQ White Edition ECar Build

JQ White Edition ECar Build

July 3rd, 2015

Dallas Pruett

“THIS IS THE CAR, IT WASNT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, IT BEAT THE ODDS. DONT LET OTHERS STOP YOU FROM CHASING YOUR DREAMS, DO WHAT YOU WANT, NEVER GIVE UP. “

– Joseph Quagraine

Joseph, A man with so much drive. He has made such an impact in the RC community with his company, many said he would fail, he proved them wrong.

Want to read more? Check out THE Story http://jq-products.com/the-story

Link to THE Ecar: http://usa.jqracing.com/product/3516/theecar-white-edition-pre-order

NOTE

This is a pre-production kit, THE Manual and THE box is subject to change on the production kit

On To the build 🙂

When you first get it, you should unbox it, and take it to where you will be working.

Next up, you should probably open the box. From there, you will see this awesomeness. * Note, the Box that was included was the White Edition NITRO Car box, the box art is subject to change *

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Once everything is out of the box, note the awesome packaging and sick looking body.

Along with all the bags of parts, you get a Manual, Window masks, and a sticker sheet. * Note, the Manual included in this kit was for the Previous YELLOW EDITION Ecar, The manual will be updated for the Production kits *

Whoops… don’t forget the antenna tube!

Onto Bag A

In Bag A, You have 3 bags. THE Front Shock, THE Rear Shock, and some hardware. One cool thing to note about this kit, lots of little color washers come standard, very appealing to me.

Open em up, and you see everything!

I’m currently starting with 40 wt. oil up front, and 35 wt. in the rear, with the stock pistons. I’ll be ordering up some VRP Pistons soon.

Fill em up!

And I Present… THE Shocks!

When presented with such awesomeness… remember… you need to breathe…

Moving on to Bag B…

Seems like this may be containing the Diffs!

Bag B Splits up into three smaller bags… THE Front Diff, THE Centre Diff, and THE Rear diff.

Noting the tooth count and gear set that is to be used with said gear.

43T/13F to be used in the front.

43T/13R to be used in the rear.

They’re ready to be filled!

And by the magic of pictures, they’re done and filled!

My Starting setup will be 8000 F – 6000 C – 4000 R

Moving on to Bag C – We start working on the front clip of the car.

Step one, Attach the front rearward hinge pin retainer.

Step two, Insert the two bearings, insert the pinion gear and attach the cup for the center

driveshaft.

From here, we move on to installing the diff into the Diff case, and attaching the front hinge pin retainer along with the front A Arms.

Next up, Bag D

This contains the front shock tower, front camber links, sway bar, and some shock mounting hardware.

Mount the shock tower.

Note, 9 Camber link positions and 6 Shock mounting positions.

Sway bar!

Top plate and front body mount!

Camber links!

Bag E is just the Chubs and Knuckles. They come pre-assembled, which is great, although i always recommend taking them apart, and checking that it is built correctly.

Note, they are Aluminum – This is a very nice feature that is not standard on most other cars!

Bag E is just attaching the Chubs/Knuckles and putting those beautiful shocks on! here’s those colored washers! 😀

Bag F we just start on the Rear end of the car!

Insert the diff, Attach the Hinge pin retainers, and attach the A arms, we have a rear end!

Moving onto Bag G – This bag contains the Rear shock tower, wing, wing mounts, and the hardware to attach the rear shocks!

Wing Mount!

Rear shock Tower!

Note that there are 10 Shock positions and 9 Camber link positions.

Wing mount attached to the rear shock tower!

Shock tower attached to the Diff case!

Rear sway Bar!

* Note the rear hinge pin retainer etching*

Bag H is just the Rear hubs!

Again, these come pre-assembled, and I always recommend rebuilding them to be sure that they are built correctly.

Note, these are Aluminum with 9 camber link positions.

Attach the Rear hubs! Camber links!

This is where I had the only bump in my build, Note the rear left camber link has one bent rod end, it is supposed to be like that on the right turnbuckle as well, and this is being taken care of by Ilias @ JQRacing 🙂

Rear shocks Installed!

Got Droop?

Moving on to Bag I. This is just the Center diff mount!

Bag J is where it all starts to come together!

Steering Rack!

We are finally able to break out this beautiful chassis!

Note. The left sideguard is already pre-installed with the battery/esc tray.

Steering rack installed!

Center Diff installed!

The rest of this step is moving to install the Front and Rear clips onto the car, one really interesting thing i would like to note about the car, is that there is a grooved part of the chassis around the diff area that you install an oring into, to keep anything that may get under the diff case out of the diff area! And any oil/grease that may leak out, doesn’t leave that area!