B44.1 Wing lowering mod

[MHeadling]

Hi Guys, been told about a mod to lower rear wing on B44

Any pics about or a guide on how to do it??

[Dudders]

Good call, heard rumours but nothing seen!

[Col]

Why would it need lowering?

[MiCk B.]

This is Ryan Maifield car from the Worlds this year.



It's basically having the wing mounted on the lower of the two sets of holes on the rear tower.

MiCk B. :-)

[gazhillAE]

Hiya mick
Thanks for the deliverys recently!

Btw
This mod apparently makes the wing quite loose not tried it yet though
What's the blue bit holding them together off anyone know?
Gaz

[Hyper-1983]

Uses b4 wing mounts! Won't take to many hard landings!

[gazhillAE]

Originally Posted by Hyper-1983

Uses b4 wing mounts! Won't take to many hard landings!

Are they?
I thought they were chopped b44 ones?

[_sleigh_]

I'm running cut down B44 mounts with enough left pointing down to give support against the top deck/tower mount. I did have a failure at Worksop RD1, but was easily fixed with a nifty addition of two 4-40 nuts dremel'd into the mounts. It aint moving anywhere now!!

I'll grab a photo or two of how it's running now and upload hopefully tomorrow.

BTW, the blue part on Maifield's wing mount is a B44 battery post to give extra rigidity.

[Col]

What are the benefits of doing this?

[gazhillAE]

Originally Posted by Col

What are the benefits of doing this?

More rear end I'm guessing
And more aero dynamic
Jumps better
More???

[gazhillAE]

Originally Posted by _sleigh_

I'm running cut down B44 mounts with enough left pointing down to give support against the top deck/tower mount. I did have a failure at Worksop RD1, but was easily fixed with a nifty addition of two 4-40 nuts dremel'd into the mounts. It aint moving anywhere now!!

I'll grab a photo or two of how it's running now and upload hopefully tomorrow.

BTW, the blue part on Maifield's wing mount is a B44 battery post to give extra rigidity.

Nice one phil
Any AE bits in pipeline to do this properly???
Gaz

[peetbee]

Originally Posted by Col

What are the benefits of doing this?

Yes, come on Phil, why why why?!

[Northy]

Originally Posted by gazhillAE

More rear end I'm guessing
And more aero dynamic
Jumps better
More???

Really Gaz?

[GeordieBoyKel]

If you lower it, wouldnt you get less rear grip?
You'd be able to run a little quicker but a lot looser IMHO.

Kelvin

[mof]

http://www.rccaraction.com/blog/2011...oor-nationals/

Scroll down to "Brent AE B44 wing tip" for a video where Brent Thielke explains the mod.

Too bad the quality of the video is one of the worse I have seen in quite a while. But at least you can hear the explanations and luckily there are pics with good quality of the mod like the one posted in this thread of Maifields car.

[Hyper-1983]

Originally Posted by gazhillAE

Are they?
I thought they were chopped b44 ones?

Just going on what I have read here
http://www.rctech.net/forum/electric...thread-49.html
If you scroll down a few posts!

[Col]

Originally Posted by mof

Scroll down to "Brent AE B44 wing tip" for a video

Don't think I'll be bothering (with the "mod", not the video)

[MHeadling]

Thanks for all the replys lads

Iv heard it makes the car more balanced in the air, I'll give it a go and report back..........

[GeordieBoyKel]

Originally Posted by Mark Headling

Thanks for all the replys lads

Iv heard it makes the car more balanced in the air, I'll give it a go and report back..........

I'm sure it would make it loose on the track though.
It will be very interesting to here the findings.

[gazhillAE]

Originally Posted by Northy

Really Gaz?

Guessing so!
Jumps better and more aerodynamic in the air
That's why they did it for the silly big jumps at worlds