Landspeed Car - College Project

[rc_penguin]

Basically as part of the course I'm doing i had the opportunity to make anything i wanted over the year, I decided to stay to what i know and enjoy which is Rc Ive taken it up my local club to see what people think and they're all waiting to see it run lol

This is what I've come up with so far, the idea was to have a 4wd unit up front with as much weight over it as possible, then have a trialling wheel behind to help it go straight, kinda like a dart, a heavy weight up front then a flight at the back

The transmission is taken from a Schumacher 1/8th electric car with a shorter belt from their 10th nitro car. All the wishbones, hubs, driveshafts, shocks etc are all taken from a top scythe.

As for the power, 2 3.5kw inrunner motors theyre hugee!, 2 turnigy 12s speedo's and 2 8s a123 packs, so i can add another 14v to each motor if it isnt quick enough lol! It's generating around 10bhp.....
What ive got left to do is..
-Make a top deck to brace the whole thing and mount the cells to, theres quite a bit of flex atm.
-Solarfilm the ply fin
-Reduce the area of the front part of the chassis, if it hits a bump at 120mph and the front lifts alot of air will be hitting a wall of chassis and as you can imagine only way it'll be going is up :L
-Make a bodyshell, not sure how to tackle this yet!

Anyway here's some pics

















Will