Finally some news...Yokomo BD5

FROM YOKOMO JAPAN:

Belt drive 4WD

- Four-wheel independent double wishbone suspension
- New design mass aluminum oil damper
- 2.5 mm thickness carbon fiber chassis
- 2.0mm thickness symmetric shape carbon top deck
- 3.5mm carbon shock tower front and rear
- Front one way
- Fron and Rear sway bars
- Titanium turnbuckle
- Strong body post
- Front and rear aluminum machined bulk head
- rear and front ??
- Aluminum machined steering plate
- New design universal drive shaft

in this spy shot you can see similar layout car, but different shock towers....:

These are old photo found on the net ....the car looks close to this but revised in some areas :

Carbon Bumper (3mm)

Avaible soon ......

Lipo chassis.....why not?

I'm working on a new design lipo spec chassis.

The project is based on a symmetrical drawing to alow same stiffnes on both side......more details very soon.....stay tuned:

Different Materials lipo holder for better balance Left-Right

For better balancing weights left/right side and front /rear i'm thinking to adopt a modulae brass lipo brackets:

Balncing test made using 3Dsmax Reactor :

45g lipo rear bracket and 12g on front seems to be a good starting point to have a nice balance.

Final revision: the rear lipo bracket could take some fixed weights to alow a fully , simple, balancing method....now the cahssis has 4 additional holes on the both longitudinal and crossing axes to make fine balancing adjustments.

Soon avaible at Fibre Lyte Composites..

Dusty track?? DIY differential covers

download this image, print it on glossy paper,  attach a double side tape on back and follow the shape with a good cutter......

 

No more stripped servo horn.....tamiya servo saver HT

After some hard lateral impact servo horn will strip on metal servo gear....now i'm testing the servo saver made by tamiya for TRF416 ....

codes are: 

51000 hi torque servo saver black

54121 akuminium horn for hi torque servo saver