anyone ever thought of this?

[Blue_Basher]

So i have been lurking around on the forums for a litlle while, and i have been wondering if anyone has ever tried to create/ modify a car to be a 6 wheel drive? i know there are already 6x6's but i was talking about making a track car and not a crawler lol.

[DMAT]

anything is possible if you try. you'd might need a custom cut chassis and modifying a few other parts but I dont think it would be that hard. pick an end and go with.

[Lowgear]

^That's only 4wd but the same concept. Take multiples of the same vehicle, cut them up, then just figure out a way to attach them together and voilà!

[integra22t]

there is also this

[Phin]

Daryl Lane's 4x6 - http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=22221#p327710

[hugger19]

here is mine http://www.tamiyaclub.com/pictureframe.asp?t=n&id=img7734_18042006235158_2.jpg it ran pretty good but was very heavy. sold it like 2 years ago.

[Coelacanth]

I've considered doing something similar with an Optima chassis; the 4 rear wheels would be 4WD, using the normal Optima's front & rear diffs to drive them, and the fronts would be non-driven...so it would only have been 4WD, not 6WD. There's already lots of cars out there like that, so I wouldn't have been doing anything unique, and it would've been too much complicated work figuring out how to drive the 2 fronts, so I never went through with it.

[Phin]

A 6wd Optima wouldn't be too hard if you don't mind using two motors. You could power the front wheels using a Maxxum FF transmission.

[Coelacanth]

A 6wd Optima wouldn't be too hard if you don't mind using two motors. You could power the front wheels using a Maxxum FF transmission.

Yes, that would certainly work! I've never had any Maxxum parts, though. Never gave it a serious thought.

[terry.sc]

A 6WD Optima wouldn't be too difficult, the front diff case has two sprockets on it so the centre diff could be used to drive the front diff as well.

[Coelacanth]

Everybody says it's easy...but I've never seen it done. I put a lot of thought into it years ago and abandoned the idea because I doubt it's as easy as everyone says. Somebody feel free to prove me wrong.

[Phin]

You could also use that double sprocket to run the middle pair of wheels in a Slingshot type setup and then run another chain off it to the rear set of wheels.

[Diamond Dave]

Daryl Lane's 4x6 - http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=22221#p327710

Awesome thread!

[Kyoshojoe]

I've toyed with the idea of using lazer zx-5 gearboxes cut in half and two fronts grafted together so you would have an input shaft and an output shaft to drive another gearbox. The only real problem i can see is that the zx-5 gears are not that beeffy and would most likely strip the bevel gear in the first gearbox.