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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.

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.

^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!

there is also this

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Awesome thread!

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.