Cougar Invernational Build

[MHeadling]

Just some pics of the build of the Cougar for the Vintage Invernational race, Nathan Ralls will be on the sticks with this car.

Thanks to Dave Holmes for the bits, here is what I'm starting with,



I have another Cougar 1 that I got from ebay a few months ago so will make 1 good car from the pair.

[MHeadling]

Here are some pics from today:



Ball raced steering from my eBay car (see other thread) which is a bonus!

B4 shocks spaced out and fitted with Schumacher rod ends

[MHeadling]

Some pics of the other doner car, I got this from eBay a few months ago.

With the pile of Cougar 2 parts I'll make 1 good race car from the pair

[j0pp3]

Nice job mate!

Building queens out of a few wrecks is exactly what I'm doing too

Keep it up.

[Northern Monkey]

Hey Mark

You really set yourself some challenges don't you

You could do with some Cougar 2 front wishbones to get the geometry right on that. Seeing as most of it looks like a C2 Works.

Al

[Northy]

I spy some TRX1 parts

Awesome build, I'm going to see what vintage weapons I can dig out this weekend

[MHeadling]

Cheers Al! It'll all be good in the end!

Yes I wondered what the white parts were Northy.

Did a little bit last night:


Servo in, tried to use the Schumacher mounts but the were too wide so used some 12th scale ones I had in my box.

Hpi purple turnbuckle too, used an old school KO servo

[Stretch]

It looks like you've got enough bits to do a mid-engined variant.

This used to work amazingly well on carpet with the TopCat. No, really...

[MHeadling]

Yes maybe a mid motor one day!

A little update, got cells in place and just need to figure out a way to stop the cells moving side to side, maybe some servo posts on there side or a bit of carbon, we shall see.......

[mark christopher]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FABIIX-FAB...item4ab8388c91

[MHeadling]

Yes seen that Mark, nice but I like these old Cougars as it was my first race car

That would make a great race car that Fabix one

[discostu]

Double sided tape them in

We made a rocket powers cougar back in the early 90s we made an Alu angle with a d size rocket engin jubilee clipped to the plate then the plate bolted in on the original gearbox fixing a small Rx pack up front to power receiver and servo and a rocket egnigter to shoot this thing across our local playing field. It was all good until the back blast blew the rear bulkhead to bits great fun tho

[imull]

How about putting the saddles in the rear corners of the chassis like a cougar 1? Electrics down the middle

[Stretch]

I'd suggest putting them across the chassis as far forward as possible. They weigh less than the original nicads, so putting them anywhere else will play hob with the weigh distribution.

[MHeadling]

Cheers for the advice guys, I'll have a play with the cell location when its up and running.

I may get a lipo tray from SX3 and bolt this down once happy on the location, have to see what Nathan reckons when he tests it out.

If I stick with this location of cells I will add some weight under the cells and maybe on the front bulkhead too.

[Ralls Racing]

looking awsome buddy. cant wait to get out and test it woop woop

[steve_haskins]

hi Mark
this is my cougar 2, i run brushed in it but saddle lipos, in this set up the car is quite balenced
i put about 30 grams of wieght under the nose cone [handy place and you cant see them]
the car does handle better with cougar 2 wishbones [ the shock mount is different too]
and there were 3 different lenths of rear wishbone available
i find the std mid ones best

hope the pic helps with your rebuild
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[BORMAC]

Any reason why you aren't running the Works rear suspension, the swept CGR2 front arms and the CGR2 front tower?

The Mk1 arms make it a longer wheel base too. Just thought to ask if this was a tuning option or do you lack these items in your inventory?

Cheers-Jason

[MHeadling]

Hi Jason, these are the parts the car came with, I have a NIP Cougar 2 front tower but I offered this up to the B4 shocks and the tower looked a little too tall for them.

As for the wishbones, again these are what came with the car/parts lot.

I like the look of the Cougar 2 arms, do Schumacher still make them?

What's the difference between the works rear arms? Any idea on the part number??

Any tuning tips would be great.....

[BORMAC]

Mate the Cougar2 works was released around 93-94 sometime and was the final refinement of the series and in my opinion got it right with all the special parts that went into it.

The rear arms were one off items for both this car and the Bosscat works. Smaller and lighter hubs were used along with smaller and lighter flanged bearings. No doubt this played a part in reducing unsprung weight.

The front 'swept back' arms also changed cornering characteristics.

All the Cougar2 plastic parts were made from P.E.P. from memory. Maybe some one here could shed some more light on these items.

I have a new in pack set of front arms and good condition used rear arms, hubs and bearings if you want to PM me.

Cheers-Jason