Gear/Belt 4x4

[RC-trix]

This is the result of the first few hours of design work on a gear/belt 4x4
The idea comes from a mate, CNC cutting wil be done by an RC brainiac who build his own CNC cutting mill

All gears are from the Associated SC 4x4 (very sturdy stuff and METRIC)
All gearbox parts are made of epoxy plate, partially laminated together, partially screwed together .

Next step is to show the design to our CNC-guy to find out if the idea is at all feasible





Grtz

Steven

[SLEENAD]

If this is going to be made by the same person who made the very interesting 2wd mid motor I saw last week, this is definately very promising!

[feniks]

the exicuting force on this car will be the same as the 2wd only the desining team is a bit bigger . but it will defenetly be good lol.

[Welshy40]

Tamiya did one and was very promising, Alan Harman and Ellis Stafford used it in the 90s and was consitantly making the A's, however Kyosho did one of these as well and wasnt very promising, hence why it was dropped, however for a design point of view its a good one to do.

A couple of guys on the RC10 Forum have already done this and converted a B2 and a B4 to 4wd using belt on the front axles, and pretty similar to your design.

[dodgydiy]

Just like the drive system on the old mip rc10's exept belt not chain. Like the simple gearbox construction though

[feniks]

that the idee issent new wel all would now that . as its almost all been done .
and getting a new angle or somthing comleet new is 1 chance in a million .
the same is like with the base of car we are starting from .
as I have run the most out there the choise was hard . and in this proces we are working aswell on the new drive train for the car aswell as on getting glitches out of the geometrie of the car . we still have a long way to go but we are getting there .

[Welshy40]

Originally Posted by dodgydiy

Just like the drive system on the old mip rc10's exept belt not chain. Like the simple gearbox construction though

Mip did a belt version as well, worked better than the chain