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Originally Posted by j.m.
Using a standard production rear suspension arm would be nice to see if you could come up with an appropriate rear hub system that allows you to adjust toe. Like the turnbuckle system on a predator or the other homebuilt pictured.
Camber would still be hard to adjust with this system, but it could possibly be done with shims under the arm mounts on the chassis.
Not sure if you caught this, but the HPI_Kogaff has a saddlepack configuration. The chassis also is much lower compared to the other cars because the rear arm mounts are so elevated from the lower deck.
How did you get enough clearance on the front steering to use the wider rear rims/tires?
Cool car!
Jon
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Thanks! I did think of a production arm but I really wanted to use the trailing arm for this project just to see how it would run. I think because of the unique characteristics of a FF buggy, a trailing arm would work better to retain traction and handle bumps. If nothing else, the runs so far suggest that a forward weight bias is key to forward traction on this car... and the very long trailing arms certainly ensure the rest of the weight is put far forward in the buggy.
Using the standard steering parts from the DB01/501 don't pose any clearance problems with the wider tires, the problem was more track width which had to be narrowed by moving the inner hingepin mounting positions closer to the center of the chassis.