3-Wheel Buggy
Hi All, I'm new here having searched the internet for a forum where people design and build their own r/c cars. Some great projects on here!
Over the next 12 months I'm intending to build a 3-wheel buggy just for the fun of it (and the design has been mulling around in my head for years). I'll be using Schumacher internals from either my Procat or Bosscat and adapting the belt drive to suit the 3-wheel layout.
Why 3 wheels? Well I'm interested to see just how lightweight a buggy can be and following the old Lotus adage 'less is more' it seems worthwhile to look at losing 1 wheel and all the adenda associated with it. I'm hoping some careful design can overcome most of the stability sacrifices, but time will tell!
Although I'm doing this for fun it would be interesting to race it when it's finished to compare to a normal 4-wheel buggy. Would any local level race meets allow such a machine to compete?
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