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You made new rear arms. Yes! Since I had widened the car I thought I could attempt lengthening the car as well and I decided to try to make some new arms and lengthen them to achieve a longer wheelbase. This 834B I'm working on is also one of the earlier versions so the original arms are quite flex...

tiger1 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:16 pm Bro, you really are doing a great job here. A GREAT GREAT car!!

Thanks!

Just a quick update to show you how the car looks now with the widened stance and modern 2.2" tires.

Aside from that, I did something else quite significant... can you spot what it is from the picture?

Some progress over the last couple of days... First I printed up a new set of pulleys and a new belt tensioner with some revised dimensions and they came out looking pretty good. http://www.raceworks.sg/bc/834b/834b_23.jpg The main difference in this version of the pulleys is that I was playing with...

2 months? Wow... why is it taking so long? You might consider buying a printer and doing it yourself. I've been interested to pick up 3D printing for quite some time now but the start up cost was just too high - but I did some research recently and it seems the tech has reached a point where you ca...

I posted this a while ago. FYI http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=36513 Hey a01butal, thanks for the link. Your thread was one of the many that I referenced when working out how I wanted to do the belt conversion. The set you have certainly is interesting to me, mainly because it stil...

lKeFUiY_zaY Nothing exciting... just a very quick vid of the first test of the belt-drive system on the 834B. The old wheels are somewhat unbalanced and causing the vibration. The belt-drive itself is quite smooth. The only thing I realized is that front pulley is actually not in line with the rear...

Okay so I made some progress last night. First off, a picture of the very first pulleys I pulled off my 3D printer. They aren't perfect, but better than I expected for a first print and they fit fine. These are 16T pulleys. http://www.raceworks.sg/bc/834b/834b_18.jpg I tested them in the car with th...

Ooh! I'm jealous now: I'm still waiting for the parts I designed and ordered prints of about 2 months ago. Did you draw the teeth profile or is there a module for that in your cad software? 2 months? Wow... why is it taking so long? You might consider buying a printer and doing it yourself. I've be...

Okay... it's a tad crazy but the journey that started with a search for sprockets... led to ideas about a belt conversion... which led to a search for pulleys and parts... which ultimately resulted in me buying a 3D printer over the weekend and watching many hours of youtube videos on 3D design and ...

tiger1 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:20 pm Cool stuff!!!!!!

Good to see you man!

How's everything going?

The body looks good and I really like the turnbuckles , they do fill that space as well as being a functional support to the roll hoop , do they add any torsional rigidity to the chassis ? Yes the turnbuckles do reduce torsional flex which I think is good as the kydex chassis is so soft and flexibl...

Mr. ED wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2017 5:56 pm I wouldn't worry about braking. Breaking though...

Just realized in my absence I've lost access to the BST forum to look for stuff. But I'm guessing parts are just as rare there as they are on ebay?

Just about every part is rare , I've seen a few rear drive pulleys for the slipper type pulley come up on eBay but not a front one for about a year and I check virtually daily for 834 parts , good luck , I ration driving mine because of the down time if I brake anything. sigh... thanks for the advi...

Hmmm... I wired everything up and on testing found that the front sprocket is worn quite badly. Are these rare items? For now I'm going to take one off one of my shelfer car to run but it'd be a pity if I'm going to have to baby it.

Pics to follow soon.