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Anyone wanna take bets on what color the new double headed 4L CV joint will be? My bet is on Dark Bluish Gray. Can't wait to have suspension, drive, working steering wheel, fake engine, etc all the components to make supercars now in 1:12 scale!

I featured the topic and it is in the front page, the problem is that there's no photo, so it's not shown.

It's nice to see you back with another ingenious model in your signature colors. The single chain doing all the work is simply billiant and having a bit of color to see it move is a great touch too.

Well done, glad to help inspire you! I see it drifts really nice and seems to be easy to control. Only question/commend for improvement would be, why not use the clucth becel version of the 20 tooth gear to reduce friction?

Interesting technique with the rubber band going through the ribbed hose for the spring imitation.

Well done! There should be a 7L steering rack and 4L links for the steering system, I think they are behind the axle and the horizontal shared shock is in the front of the axle.

There are 2 diffs in the partial inventory. You can see it on Brickset.

New CVs are classical, otherwise the Skyline would have used hubs from 42160 on all wheels. But this model doesn't use any new Cvs, only new 4 stud steering links.

Trully what Technic is all about. Interesting engine design with 3 spinning cylinders, any idea what it's suppose to represent? Well done, @R0Sch!

Perhaps there is a new, rechargable battery pack - afterall all the Bluetooth Technic hub has a hidden contact under batteries for that very purpose.

Very excentric and futuristic - gives me late 90s Technic vibes.

I agree, I think pneumatics with 1 motor + battery box would be a better fit here. Not to mention in this particular case pneumatics might be more efficient than driving a long series of gears and you could control several functions at once. AAAAAND there should be space left for a hidden compressor tank or two. You could still have a switch to switch between compressor and tracks for example.

One more thing to add. The set has 3 shock absorbers, so I think the ones in the rear keep the pendular axle leveled and the third one is shared by both sides of the front suspension to act as a suspended pendular axle.

Yes, or AWD not being engaged. It would make sense to keep the tranmission from winding up due to a lack of central diff.

I think lowering the ball joints for drifting also engages the RWD, since the set uses a transmission ring and handle.