[Help] Teaser and Hood Problems

[unimog123]

Alright so I've been pretty quiet around here recently and I've felt a bit out of touch with the hobby since I have all my MOCs dismantled or just carcasses lying around. Last night I decided to start a small project which I'm pretty much finished with by now, but I finished the entire bodywork and didn't realize the wheels scrap the body when they are turned fully. Plus I used an odd suspension setup which makes it very plush and soft, causing the whole front of the car to sag and touch the wheels.

I know it's not much that could be done, but I would like to here your solutions if any.

Here's a little teaser picture:

I will post a full topic on this MOC when the hood thing has been sorted out.

[Hrafn]

Looking forward to seeing it! Can you just swap in some different shocks with harder springs? Alternately, can you move the mounting points for the springs? The more vertical the springs, and the closer to the wheel they attach to the suspension arms, the stiffer the suspension should be.

[unimog123]

I would do that, but the problem is that to sustain a low profile body I used three blue rubber bands attached to the wishbones underneath. It works decently well, but with the added weight of the body it sags when going forward and pops up when going in reverse.

Edit:

Here's my solution:

Rubberbands are still used.....

And me compressing the suspension completely.....

So it's not the best looking setup, but the wheels no longer rub with normal indoor driving (its raining out at the moment ) on the body.

It utilizes an old metal spring I had in my basement. Works pretty well, might even convert the rear suspension to different springs before the final topic on this vehicle.

Edited April 26, 2014 by unimog123

[Hrafn]

That's a really interesting solution! I guess it's too wide to use a transverse 6.5L spring to connect the two sides. One other option (if you have the longitudinal room) is to use a bell crank on each side, and run the shocks longitudinally, something like the Rover P6:

Edited April 27, 2014 by Hrafn

[unimog123]

It's funny you said to use the 6.5L spring length wise, I was tinkering with this MOC this morning and figured out how to use that spring. The non-Lego one was annoying me because it would cause the hood to be pushed upwards and it looked a little weird. I will have a picture of the final solution on my website.....when I get to it.

[D3K]

Irecently made a very effective pushrod suspension for small to medium sized cars, exactly to get a lover profile hood, give me a minute or two, and I'll make a quick LDD of it if you are interested

EDIT:

This is exactly the way I have it in a MOC now, just to show the actual suspension setup. While this works perfect for my MOC (small racecar), it migh not be ideal for other vehicles. But it can easily be modified by changing the width of the axle, changing the length of the 2L red half liftarms (to allow more or less travel, etc), and of course by using different strengths and lenghts of shocks.

Like I said, the main advantage of this idea, is that it fits underneath a relatively low profile bonnet!

Edited April 27, 2014 by D3K

[Hrafn]

Very nice! I may steal that suspension setup myself.