My Chassis for TC18 [Not an entry]

[BrickbyBrickTechnic]

Hey everyone,

I'm coming out of a sort of "dark age" and wanted to enter TC18 as my first new project, however, after completing the chassis, I realised that I 1) suck at making bodyworks and 2) I didn't have the right pieces to do it anyways. The model was going to be a classic american pickup, but in the end I decided to scrap it. I did make what I believe is a cool chassis, which several functions, and that's what I want to showcase today. It has suspension, a drivetrain with a 2 speed gearbox, and most interestingly, virtual pivot steering.

The steering mechanism is compact and not very tall, which let me put the v4 engine on top without the car being so tall either. The whole chassis is also extremely sturdy, despite the complex mechanism within it.

Finally this set up is super compact and should be useful in many other MOCs.

Anyways, I've gone back to building lego recently and I have a lot of MOCs on the way. I also got a copy of 42111, so expect a lot of C models!

Thanks for reading!

BbBT

[Seasider]

Pretty good little chassis there, but it’s a flat 4 not a v4 you’ve built.

[neonic]

16 minutes ago, Seasider said:

Pretty good little chassis there, but it’s a flat 4 not a v4 you’ve built.

a Boxer engine 

Nice steering, looks interesting with those gears. Is it better than ... or has it another reason?

[1gor]

4 hours ago, neonic said:

a Boxer engine 

Nice steering, looks interesting with those gears. Is it better than ... or has it another reason?

Boxer engine works like that

With standard LEGO engine parts only flat engines are possible 

[ukbajadave]

Really like the steering setup, virtual pivot steering helps keep the wheelarches small. It's very hard at this scale to do hubs without using 15460 snowmobile hub. Are you using 1L pins to limit the turn and stop the arms locking straight?