Jorn Neumann takes TQ at the Euros
 

"Heavily modified" DEX210 (V2?) in the hands of Jorn Neumann has just taken TQ at the Euros - final this afternoon

takes leg #1 of the A-Final also

Is there anywhere to find out what mods he's done to the car?

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/b...blogspot.ie%2F
(translated from french)

New front geomerty
New steering link (shorter)
Lipo laterally across chassis
New bracket (?) on rear - maybe new inner top link positions?

European Champion across the box should make the latest release a much easier sell.

It's got an RB6 gearbox on it and new wishbone front and rear hangers.

One pic I have found, look at those front arms

http://rcracingtv.net/wp-content/upl...nningBuggy.png

Front arms look different but seeing thruogh the shell it looks like no change to the cell location at all.

As for the front end the steering link shown is slightly longer making for more change in steering.

Asside from this it looks like a standadr car with small shocks

To be honest the front arms might even be particularly for this track, not something we see back on the car again: I recall hearing and seeing on RC Racing TV that the track was bumpy and had very rough sections in it, even with pebbles here and there. I can imagine that not using gullwing arms in that particular situation really helped Jörn to get a more consistent drive - Even the wedged shape of it suggests they've made an attempt there to make it slide over the pebbles or shoot them up and away (I do know for sure that's not typical Durango styling) :)

It's interesting to see the rest, too: No Spec B DIMEC chassis for Jörn but 'good old' alu, new rear tower with more mounting options and in front of the shocks, different mounts for the wing, completely different gear cover (which indeed looks a lot like an RB6 one)... and that makes you wonder how butchered that rear end really is :p

It's one of those things that until some close shots come out (which they might not given there is barely no pics coming from this event as EFRA have been a bit funny over press) then all that can be done is specualtion.

I'm sure will have to wait a really long time till we can get are hands on any of those parts..

Definately a shorter chassis the amount hacked of the shell probally a shorty in there

It's not shorter he's just cut his mid motor body shell.

No thats definately a j concepts shell which are for rear motor cars they have to be hacked for mid motor

That rear end looks very butchered to me
Plus i dont think nueman has ever used a dimec chassis (correct me if im wrong)
Im personally not a fan of the dimec chassis

Body is definitly short, I suspect the rear tower sits further forward with the odd back end on that car. Is it just me or does Durango seem to have more funky combos in off road then anyone else? They never seem to run anything close to box stock.

I saw those same front arms in a pic of Travis Amezcua's DEX210 during the Hot Rod Shootout that just happened this past weekend in AZ. Everything else on his car looked std issue.

Area52 has some pics of Jorn's car http://www.area52.cc/news/3997-updat...o9bZo.facebook

That's a cool low profile gearbox

that's a +11 alloy chassis
you can tell from the additional metal inserts that's between the plastic side pods and the front plastic bit.

it also has new bulkier front arms, turn buckles and gearbox case.