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anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 10:14 pm
by 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.

Re: anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 1:28 am
by 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.

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Re: anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:08 am
by 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 voilĂ !

Re: anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 9:40 am
by integra22t
there is also this

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Re: anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 10:21 am
by Phin

Re: anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 10:39 am
by 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.

Re: anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:00 pm
by 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.

Re: anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:56 pm
by 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.

Re: anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 3:52 pm
by Coelacanth
Phin wrote: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.

Re: anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 4:39 pm
by 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.

Re: anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:07 pm
by 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. :P Somebody feel free to prove me wrong. :mrgreen:

Re: anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:38 pm
by 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.

Re: anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 6:54 pm
by Diamond Dave
Awesome thread!

Re: anyone ever thought of this?

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 3:09 pm
by 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.