Thursday, 4 February 2010

Time for the next installment, now i have light again, no fun building by candle light, lol.

Have now moved on to the rear suspension, the lower hinge pin mounts are the common plastic inserts with 3 different options, but the top hinge pin mounts are as seen on the v10's 1/8th big brother with an elongated hole and a grub screw top and bottom, so your roll center adjustment has a good 10mm of adjustment, and these can be altered in a matter of seconds, handy for pit lane fine tuning.

The driveshafts on the car come with cvd's all round, they are slightly different from the norm, firstly they slide though the hub from the wheel side and are held in place by a circlip, but also have 4 .25mm shims to alter your offset from 0 to +1, my only issue with the driveshaft is the pin holding the cvd together feels alittle loose and a fraction short, but hopefully this wont be an issue. and lastly instead of the normal m4 nut holding your wheel in place there is an m4 bolt.
the frontend was similar to the rear with all the same adjustments.

Ive moved back to the rear again, to the brake linkages, this is definitely a new one on me, and have to say looks very impressive, firstly you have those large disc's then you have 2 alloy brake levers with pads bonded to them, they fasten at the rear though plastic bushes, then a brake cable passes though the front with a spring inbetween, seems to work flawlessly, and very strong braking effect, i will add a pic later, it sounds complicated but is actually really simple!

Its becoming very apparent as i build this car that alot of thought has gone into its design and where they haven't found a new innovative ways they have tried to atleast better the norm! from the alloy pulley adapters which are lightened and also have 4 grub screw holes in the event of stripping threads will be handy too the steering linkage which has 6 different ackerman positions altered by just a couple of screws.

im away now for a few days, but will add some pics when i get back, then hopefully finish off the build.

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