George Staples' Lego Technic Ford F-150 SVT Raptor

[DLuders]

On MOCpages, George Staples posted his Lego Technic "Ford F-150 Raptor. If you do not know what this is, I strongly recommend watching the video below from Top Gear (American Version). It features the raptor and shows off its amazing abilities. The coolest part of this truck is that it is a production vehicle. It comes out of the factory ready to rip up terrain like nothing else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5paAXmf_8A

"Some specs on my version:

One XL motor for drive

One M-motor for steering

Solid axle rubber band suspension

4 speed transmission.

"The transmission is not my design. I got it from Sariel who makes some very awesome stuff.

"The steering is my design, I have a worm gear drive mounted to the axle and two planetary gears linked via universal to the m motor. This allows the suspension to travel, and the steering to work all at the same time.

"As you can tell from these pictures and the picture below, it has a interesting suspension system. The real Raptor has independent suspension, with the A-arms and shocks and stuff, but when I went to build the suspension, A-arms and springs didn't give me the appropriate travel distance. Also the A-arms and differential made the model too wide for the tires. So I played around with a few designs and came up with this one. The only draw back is I had to leave a hole in the bed for the shock arms to move up and down."

Edited March 24, 2012 by DLuders

[jorgeopesi]

Nice Ford and perfect colour .

[Lost_In_Noise]

Nice and clean design. It looks like the part number isn't too great either. It looks and works just like the real thing.

[_techniclego55_]

Awesome

[88high]

I'm not too fond of this model. It is not very accurate! First of all, the front suspension is long-travel independent. Next, where are those black mud decals? also, the wheels were way to close to the bodywork...c'mon! It's a Offroad truck! But I think the bodywork shape is spot-on :)