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Looks like it's about time someone did a little track maintenance ...

That freaky little thing goes pretty darned good!

LOVE IT BC. great job.

great work that thing handles great ... when you making the dual motor 4x4 buggy

Thanks guys - the car has done a few batts worth at the track in various drivers' hands and everyone thinks it's a blast to drive.

twin motor buggy? That's an interesting idea but I may not try that as current 4WD buggies are already excellent and I'm not sure any performance advantage might be gained from that. I come from a background of RC monster trucks so I've already ran my fair share of twin motor cars - they are awesome fun but in a 1/10 offroad buggy the weight of 2 motors is going to really weigh down the car.

Rado shack did a twim motor 1/10 buggy 2 380s called a black phantom, was damn quick for a toy

http://support.radioshack.com/support_games/27866.htm
8-12mph they were being cautious, I reckon mine kept up with a tamiya fighter buggy ok

that thing is awesome...

BloodClod wrote:Thanks guys - the car has done a few batts worth at the track in various drivers' hands and everyone thinks it's a blast to drive.

twin motor buggy? That's an interesting idea but I may not try that as current 4WD buggies are already excellent and I'm not sure any performance advantage might be gained from that. I come from a background of RC monster trucks so I've already ran my fair share of twin motor cars - they are awesome fun but in a 1/10 offroad buggy the weight of 2 motors is going to really weigh down the car.

twin motor car is just what comes to mind when i see your fwd car.im not saying build it to beat a b44 i just think it would be cool.twin motor rcs have alot of low end "punch" and the 0-30mph speed would be hard to beat ...i do understand that it would be hard to top the great 4x4 race buggies of today.. maybe a 1/10th scale twin motor race truck???

BloodClod wrote:Re-cut the delrin parts in black instead!

Going from the time it took to re-cut everything in black delrin and carbon, and the fact you even bothered, I take it you have acces to professional tooling. Would you mind giving me a little insight as to what kind of machinery comes into this?
I'd love to have my own stuff and put the dremel on the side, but don"t see that happening soon.

Aby further thoughts about the torque reply?

Mr. ED wrote:

BloodClod wrote:Re-cut the delrin parts in black instead!

Going from the time it took to re-cut everything in black delrin and carbon, and the fact you even bothered, I take it you have acces to professional tooling. Would you mind giving me a little insight as to what kind of machinery comes into this?
I'd love to have my own stuff and put the dremel on the side, but don"t see that happening soon.

Aby further thoughts about the torque reply?

I wouldn't say professional tooling but I have a CNC-equipped Sherline mill with a extended travel table to be able to cut some of these chassis. The dimensions of a 1/10 chassis just about uses up all the travel I have on it.

A CNC mill speeds up the process and allows a bit more creativity in the design.

As for the torque question I think you are right. The torque would be less at the pinion-spur connection but it would have to be able to handle the higher speed? I'm sure there are more complicated terms to describe everything but I'm afraid I'm no engineer. lol!

Wet weather locally of late...

FF Buggy received a shell makeover and clean-up...

Cool build. Just in case you didn't know, you cay dye delrin. -Jeff

This build is so inspirational. I wish I had the ability
to build a front wheel drive like this.
Again congrats on such a brilliant buggy.

Fantastic car.

Since you cut all new parts, are you going to build a 2nd one?

Thanks guys, I'm considering running this buggy at an upcoming local race. Will try to take some race vids if I do.

As for building FF buggy no.2 I do have some ideas on a TRF201-based FF. Just need to let the idea simmer a little while I work on some other projects... halfway through restoring a Yokomo 834B.

This might be a dumb question but could the wing be hurting front traction?

You said it has a lack of traction on take off and comming out of the corners so I suppose at those slow speeds the wing wouldn't unload the front end. You ever run a few laps without it? Might be interesting to see if it has any effect?