I did not like the excessive camber change in suspension travel in the Villain IFS, so I mod it into something like P4.
Someone said I was crazy to even come close to think about mod the front end as the earlier Eagles were having similar design and it worked ok. Well, the fact is, even the subsequent Delta cars were design with sort of double wishbone suspension, and I took a look at P4, the idea was simple and make sense. Why not?
With tiny suspension travel, excessive camber change is less significant but I was looking for more suspension travel, since it can be easily improved, why not?
Somehow the sequence of the photos were reversed... anyway, you probably got the idea. Luckily nowadays there are plenty of various metal ball joints that I believe it strong enough to do the job.
Front end completed. Rock solid!!! Added 3racing touring car shocks.
Bolink yellow wheels at 2 inch diameter fit perfectly, and good start for off road tires.
The rear axle was nice but the bearing holes were OFF alignment!!! I am not trying to be difficult here but the precision/tolerance in various parts of this car were acceptable by suboptimal, not fair to compare it with contemporary cars as I believe the milling was not done with great machines that we have today.
Put it this way, for example, in a F103 (not very new now), we see the rear axle spins freely. In the case of this rear pod, the axle barely spin even with new bearings... may be this one was one off bad or it is systematic issue, I have no idea...
Soft tires also help to play some part in suspension. Using tires of various hardness/thickness/width to fine tune suspension was a common trick back when on road cars were pan cars and they were design with no suspension, a typical example will be RC12E. Another trick was drilled out wheels but that is another story...
RC10 worlds front wheels and proline tire from my very original Worlds car was used here. Quite a great match.
I have a bug body lying around, trimmed, mod. A pseudo off road low rider
Full Fiber-lyte conversion, including a carbon fiber tub! Sure the upper deck is broken (I already have a new one on the way) and the long...
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Nice looking car. I had one that a friends dad gave to me and i foolishly sold it on ebay a few years ago(with all the orig worlds car parts too) and I think i got like 150 bucks for it. I now punch my self square in the cash and prizes daily for...
Picked this car up a while back, finally got the parts back from anodizing. It came pretty much as you see it minus the red. Just had to clean the dust off of her a bit and replace a few screws. It had white dished wheels on it, replaced them with...
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Thanks Jeff and JK racing -
I´d say that´s the one :D
Pretty excited about this buggy. I have been looking for the Delta Desert conversion for a couple years now and finally came across these parts. Really never thought I would find this kit let alone nip.
Well, due to an extraordinary series of circumstances I charged my lipos 6 months ago in preparation for race day and they’ve sat ever since.
I know there has been a lot of talk about lipo storage so I thought I’d throw out some real life...
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My first Lipo packs were Orion hard case packs. This was about 4-5 years ago, and we always left them full charged (like you sometimes for months), and they were great for about 2-3 years. They are pretty inconsistent now, but I doubt one occasion...
Hmmm... what do you think this guy was thinking? He actually cut the motor plate off and moved it to the other side. I am also interested in pulling it apart to see what he did to the LH trans case. I assume that he just flipped the top shaft, we'll...
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Jay, are you sure that belt-system is a hyperdrive? It kinda looks like if it has 3mm pitch belts.
Cedric got a bunch of hyperdrive stuff and told me it was a smaller pitch.
I used B4 cvds with the B3 axle and this is what I got on my FT B3. It gave me 250mm at the rear with B4 rims and tires. Used three axle spacers on the outside only. It has a ton of potential.
im not feeling too hot tonight so ill just post pictures i snapped a second ago (sorry about the poor lighting as well) and say that i didnt build this work of art now in my possession, and that it was made for 1 thing and 1 thing only. concrete...
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I believe that is an old McCallister Outlaw Vette-
looked like something they would have made in the day...i know he still pulls alot of the odd bodies so i guess i just gotta call or email them and see or im gonna have to troll ebay and hope i get...