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Some excellent TC's here.. I am looking to make a modified chassis as well. Thanks for the info.

I built a RWD TC from scratch, the only chassis parts I didn't make were the knuckles, front axles and the hexes. It used chassis flex instead of suspension, and worked quite well. For about 3 laps. I think if I had access to the tools to do it again it would actually be pretty good. This car I built had the fiercest turn in I've ever seen on an RC. Even at top speed it could do a 180 turn in the width of the track, without the rear end coming loose. The main problem with it was that the chassis flexed around the motor mount, and I killed about half a dozen spur gears trying to sort it, and it never really worked right.

I made a 1/10 235 car out of a xray NTI.
made the car longer and a lot wider .
and exept for the arms and pullys there wassent enny thing oridginal on the car left.
good thing was it workt a lot bether than the 235 serpent that was already out for a decade. lol

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Originally Posted by Mark Headling (Post 440923)

Sorry Fabs! Lets see then then!

I, ve seen one of his modified cars when I was visiting Fabs. It was a Tamiya-based single-belt TC.
Might even have a picture of it lying around ... but won`t publish it without Fabs conscent :p

Me like Fabs cars!:drool:
:D

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Originally Posted by scoyle (Post 442269)

Chris,

Setting aside how jealous I am that you have access to the professional tools :drool: would you have any thoughts or pointers on how someone could go about doing this without work access to tools etc.

By that I mean CAD packages and milling tools etc. that would allow someone to design and make one-off type bulkheads and carbon fibre parts? I have got stuff from fibrelite before but did not realise that they would do one-off parts for people - will check their site for formats that they take for designs.

To do it without professional tools will be a lot harder. I'd suggest at first keep it simple, reuse bulkheads because they are they hardest bits to make. A new chassis alone can re-distribute weight quite effectively, and there are companies as mentioned that can do it from a sketch you provide.

If you must get into re-designing bulkheads, then find an engineering or machining company that is willing to do it and talk to them about what they'll need from you.

CAD packages; there are a few around that are free, cheap, or have free trial periods, I can't tell you much about them as I've only used Catia for the last 8 years, though I used SolidEdge before which I thought was pretty good at the time.