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Old 16-04-2007
Richard Lowe Richard Lowe is offline
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You will need a slipper, without one in a buggy TC3 gears arn't quite strong enough. There isn't enough room to fit the origonal BJ4's slipper in there, and the design of the WE slipper means you can't use it without a dogbone link to each gearbox without machining your own outdrives.

You will have to extend the chassis, leaving it the same length as a TC will make it very unstable in the air and over bumps, nevermind the comedy handling, MR4BC?

You will need to radically alter the front end too unless you plan on running it on an on-road track, otherwise every time it lands nose first it will dig in. The front wishbones need some kick up too, again for bumps/handling. The front end looks like it will be amazingly brittle with the amount taken out of the front wishbones to fit the hubs.

Sorry if thats a bit negative but I've been down this road a while since with the TC3'O, you just cant start with a TC and 'adapt' it to be an offroad car there are too many compromises. When you start getting parts prototyped in small numbers it gets very expensive very quickly.

JConcepts have done all the hard work in developing an offroad car that uses the AE TC drivetrain
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