RC10 "Infinito"
Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 10:58 am
Named after my new Bianchi bicycle this is the first rough mock-ups of what will be my new runner, building on what I have learned and liked/disliked about my WOIN car that I have been running occasionally for nearly a year now.
The car will be based on a LWB truck chassis/noseplate with big jeepz arms. The front end is the usual with B4 carriers/steering blocks however I want to be able to use the truck front end without butchering the front of the body so I have mocked up a front tower from some scrap plastic that works with the truck bulkhead but will not need any trimming of the body beyond what a standard buggy front end would need. This is tricky to achieve due to the ammount of material that can be left to strengthen the tower outside the nose tubes while not restricting suspension movement but i am now confident that this will work. Once I have finalised the design I will have it made in 3mm carbon by fibrelyte.
The rear end is very much WIP and I may in the end revert to Dynotech arms but the current mock up is showing promise. One of the secondhand arms that I had was broken at the outer pivot point so I had nothing to loose in modifying them. I redrilled the outer pivot more inboard which allows the use of unmodified B44 hubs (allowwing much more camber link options) along with B4 CVA`s while retaining the same track width as my WOIN car. For the inner camber link I have used aftermarket B4 alloy front camber blocks that i have bolted to a trimmed down old bulkhead that again had seen better days. The alloy blocks fit perfect around the gearbox and allow for spacers to be added for roll centre adjustment.
The car will run big bore shocks (currently being mocked up with yokomo) along with VTS slipper, shorty lipo, Detanator body etc. basically i want to make the car look as standard as possible at first glance but with as much new tech squeezed in as possible.
Has anybody tried a similar approach with the rear end...if so will it work?
The car will be based on a LWB truck chassis/noseplate with big jeepz arms. The front end is the usual with B4 carriers/steering blocks however I want to be able to use the truck front end without butchering the front of the body so I have mocked up a front tower from some scrap plastic that works with the truck bulkhead but will not need any trimming of the body beyond what a standard buggy front end would need. This is tricky to achieve due to the ammount of material that can be left to strengthen the tower outside the nose tubes while not restricting suspension movement but i am now confident that this will work. Once I have finalised the design I will have it made in 3mm carbon by fibrelyte.
The rear end is very much WIP and I may in the end revert to Dynotech arms but the current mock up is showing promise. One of the secondhand arms that I had was broken at the outer pivot point so I had nothing to loose in modifying them. I redrilled the outer pivot more inboard which allows the use of unmodified B44 hubs (allowwing much more camber link options) along with B4 CVA`s while retaining the same track width as my WOIN car. For the inner camber link I have used aftermarket B4 alloy front camber blocks that i have bolted to a trimmed down old bulkhead that again had seen better days. The alloy blocks fit perfect around the gearbox and allow for spacers to be added for roll centre adjustment.
The car will run big bore shocks (currently being mocked up with yokomo) along with VTS slipper, shorty lipo, Detanator body etc. basically i want to make the car look as standard as possible at first glance but with as much new tech squeezed in as possible.
Has anybody tried a similar approach with the rear end...if so will it work?
