sm 01 Posted September 17, 2014 Posted September 17, 2014 Hello everyone, I’ve just bought RC motor and I wanted to make a relatively simple and fun to drive off-road vehicle. Here is my first off-road MOC: Video of driving outdoors with basic info: Short review and indoor action (jumps and drift): Basically, I tried to make it as light as possible – it weighs 502g. It is 35 studs long, 19 studs wide and 16 studs high. Drive: 1 RC motor (outer output) directly connected to the rear wheels - RWD only. Relatively long travel suspension (front independent, rear dragged axle), and decent ground clearance. 8878 battery is in the middle, set lowest possible, for better weight distribution. Also there are few details in the interior. The IR receiver is hidden between battery and the servo (to save space, it partly goes under the servo motor). Servo motor for steering (with 4 round plates at each side also acts as a fake V8 engine under the hood). Doors and hood can be open, they come with safety locks to prevent unwanted opening - very often on rough terrain For sense of scale, here it is next to my 9398 Crawler: At the end, I really need to share my impressions about RC motor. It is really impressive, especially after I got used to the characteristics of the PF motors and tried almost every combination (PF motors&batteries) to achive better performance Of course, I knew it is fast, but nevertheless, you should've seen huge smile on my face on the first test drive. I wish I could turn back time and buy it earlier! More photos can be found at: MOCpages - http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/397115 Flickr - https://www.flickr.c...57647629179022/ All in all, this turned out to be very fun to play MOC, hope you'll like it… Quote
piterx Posted September 17, 2014 Posted September 17, 2014 :D welcome to the world of RC motors owners ehehe cool buggy tho! it would be nice making a sort of "contest" with 2 rules: . 1 rc buggy motor . those wheels so we'd have lot of models to race eheh Quote
sm 01 Posted September 17, 2014 Author Posted September 17, 2014 :D welcome to the world of RC motors owners ehehe cool buggy tho! it would be nice making a sort of "contest" with 2 rules: . 1 rc buggy motor . those wheels so we'd have lot of models to race eheh Thanks! That's a great idea - almost everyone would have a "horse" for that race! Quote
Black-Build Posted September 17, 2014 Posted September 17, 2014 It's very cool but the wheelbase is a little too long... Quote
HorcikDesigns Posted September 17, 2014 Posted September 17, 2014 (edited) Very nice car. Although it looks like great fun to drive (I remember my Sandrail, that had not so good suspension), the best thing about this moc are that hood locks! :D EDIT - But maybe with L-motor and shortened wheelbase (as suggested Black-build), it would look like crawler buggy... :D Edited September 17, 2014 by Gzzig Quote
sm 01 Posted September 17, 2014 Author Posted September 17, 2014 It's very cool but the wheelbase is a little too long... Very nice car. Although it looks like great fun to drive (I remember my Sandrail, that had not so good suspension), the best thing about this moc are that hood locks! :D EDIT - But maybe with L-motor and shortened wheelbase (as suggested Black-build), it would look like crawler buggy... :D Thanks guys! I was thinking about putting the receiver at the back, above RC motor - It would shorten the wheelbase for three studs, but then I decided to hide it down there... I tried to shorten it with relatively large angle of RC motor, but I guess that the angle could've been larger Quote
Rishab N Posted September 17, 2014 Posted September 17, 2014 Nice work, but I have to agree that the wheelbase is long Quote
sm 01 Posted September 17, 2014 Author Posted September 17, 2014 Nice work, but I have to agree that the wheelbase is long Thanks! I agree with you guys about wheelbase, it should've been shorter. Quote
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