Anyone designed a touring car?

[qatmix]

Some excellent TC's here.. I am looking to make a modified chassis as well. Thanks for the info.

[Joe of Loath]

I built a RWD TC from scratch, the only chassis parts I didn't make were the knuckles, front axles and the hexes. It used chassis flex instead of suspension, and worked quite well. For about 3 laps. I think if I had access to the tools to do it again it would actually be pretty good. This car I built had the fiercest turn in I've ever seen on an RC. Even at top speed it could do a 180 turn in the width of the track, without the rear end coming loose. The main problem with it was that the chassis flexed around the motor mount, and I killed about half a dozen spur gears trying to sort it, and it never really worked right.

[feniks]

I made a 1/10 235 car out of a xray NTI.
made the car longer and a lot wider .
and exept for the arms and pullys there wassent enny thing oridginal on the car left.
good thing was it workt a lot bether than the 235 serpent that was already out for a decade. lol

[Lowie]

Originally Posted by Mark Headling

Sorry Fabs! Lets see then then!

I, ve seen one of his modified cars when I was visiting Fabs. It was a Tamiya-based single-belt TC.
Might even have a picture of it lying around ... but won`t publish it without Fabs conscent

[rednoise]

Me like Fabs cars!

[BagofSkill]

Originally Posted by scoyle

Chris,

Setting aside how jealous I am that you have access to the professional tools would you have any thoughts or pointers on how someone could go about doing this without work access to tools etc.

By that I mean CAD packages and milling tools etc. that would allow someone to design and make one-off type bulkheads and carbon fibre parts? I have got stuff from fibrelite before but did not realise that they would do one-off parts for people - will check their site for formats that they take for designs.

To do it without professional tools will be a lot harder. I'd suggest at first keep it simple, reuse bulkheads because they are they hardest bits to make. A new chassis alone can re-distribute weight quite effectively, and there are companies as mentioned that can do it from a sketch you provide.

If you must get into re-designing bulkheads, then find an engineering or machining company that is willing to do it and talk to them about what they'll need from you.

CAD packages; there are a few around that are free, cheap, or have free trial periods, I can't tell you much about them as I've only used Catia for the last 8 years, though I used SolidEdge before which I thought was pretty good at the time.