modiefied X6???
 

I wonder if anyone spotted this pic:

http://y-trail.de-blog.jp/photos/unc.../img_9352s.jpg

...seems to be a heavily modified X6!

Looks interesting as I own an X-6 but I have a suspect that this may be an Atomic Carbon S2.

It has the X-6 tranny, but thats where the it ends.. costum chassis and B4 reararms. I think it from one of the Japanese Tamiya drivers. Untill the TRF 2wd is ready they can run pretty much whatever they want.

definatly not an S2 !

that looks like a homemade car - the rear tower, gearbox ( 4 speed ? ) and motor disc are from the latest X-6 upgrades ;)

the rest looks home made like the main chassis, obviuosly the front end is the AE B4..

looks neat though that, very tidy job who ever has done that

Sexy Bodyshell!! :D What is it from??

it has AE and Hot Bodies stickers on it - either the guy also has Tamiya stickers on and doesn't know where his loyalties lay, or it's just a bit of a home made hack job to create a cool hybrid, which is my guess?

Either way, it's a nice looking conversion and I like the narrow layout.

Looks good, looks like changing the cells could be a pain. :confused:

definately the 4gear x6 gearbox and tower.

wow! i think that looks really good! i dont like where the electrics are though, would be complicated changing the batteries i guess. got any more pics? or info. from the owner on how it drives? [maybe its on some forum somewhere??]

i like that a lot :(:drool::woot:

source of the picture
 

sorry guys, i was not able to trace down some additional info. i got the pic from the mirage blog -> http://y-trail.de-blog.jp/maruyo/ ...maybe someone could get the text translated, it doesn`t work on my machine as i do not have the japanese language-pack installed. i only get ?????? where the text should be!

you can translate whole web pages on google translate, its not great but ive done it and am readin through now

so, what advantages will this have to the wider x6 then? or do we not know?

Ok may bad, I thought it looked a lot like the paintjob of one the Japanese TRF drivers, who were using X-6 cars at the worlds....

http://2wdrc.com/images/NewsImages/09-15-2007_25.JPG

Here is the translation. As translated by http://tets9.freetranslation.com/


Mr./ Ms. Furuya enters it by a/the custom car this time also. A/the base be X-6. Even the movement was ultra ミッド.


So it is a moded B4 to an X6 to an Furuya special. Nice work in any language.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...6/0871913a.jpg

The rear tower is NOT of the new X6 it is a differnet shape.

body shell is a slimed down version of a std x6 shell

maybe the guy couldnt decide between an x6 or an s2 so made this instead :lol:

I am wondering how much flex in the chassis there is.

It appears to be a tub chassis like the S2 but a closer look and it isn't. Just a velcro strap between two rods. There are two layers of carbon on the base but it's still flat - I wonder what the flex would be like on it?

I am 90% sure that it is not a tub. What I see in the photo is a 'sandwich' chassis. This is very common when working with any composit materal. There are 2 layers of materal, in this case carbon fiber, seperated by a filler, here a foam I am sure. In aerospace, where I work, we use differentmaterals from poltstirene to a honeycomb to a lattace frame. What happens is that when you seperate the layers of materal you vastley increase their torsional ridigity. This process was auctualy pioneered by my father in the 40's and 50's.

Here is a carbon pannel with a aluminum honeycomb core..

http://www.burnhamcomposites.com/ima...comb-panel.jpg

My money is that this is what he is useing..

http://www.dragonplate.com/ecart/img...oamcore_sm.jpg

This is a foam core. Looking at the sides of the model I see no honeycomb structure. It looks solid. I have used foam core carbon pannels extensively and I am fairly sure that this is what he has used. I would.

This would produce a chassis as stiff as iron but a a huge weight savings.

I think it's double layer (triple inc top deck) with alloy standoffs between but you can't see the bottom layer as the undertray covers the side ;)

Thats what i thought at first but if you look closely at the front where the velcro ends it does seem to have some sort of foam in it. It sounds way to complicated for this use and ali posts are popular for this sort of thing but i have to admit it does look like he's using a foams sandwiched carbon sheet.