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  1. Gray Gear
    For 1:10 Scale yes but they are too small for 1:8. I cant go 1:10 anymore because all my cars are 1:8, but I like the bigger scale anyways
  2. Gray Gear
    My point was that you'll need quite wide wheel arches to allow the tires to move while steering. I like the 1:8 Supercar wheels because they allow for very tight wheel arches that look good, but they are waaay to wide for most cars, and that makes suspension design hard as well. The width limits the space for the suspension and steering and makes realistic setups hard to accomplish. It's all about compromises in the LEGO game
  3. Gray Gear
    Your setup does not have a pivot point inside the wheel. The axis your wheel is pivoting on might pass through the tire's contact patch, but that's not the same I think. It does not cancel out how much the wheel moves forwards and backwards when steering, right?
  4. Gray Gear
    Intresting Build. I like the way you shaped the body of the car using these "seat" panels. Looks very smooth. The real roof pillar needs to be reworked tho, those stacked liftarms really dont look good. While I respect you went out of your way to create the suspension setup of the real car, I still cringe inside when I see bricks getting bent or twisted Most of you seem to forget that while these wheels make it a lot easier to make a "realistic" suspension arm setup than the 1:8 Supercar wheels, they have a terrible pivot point for the steering wheels. A pivot point that isn't even inside the width of the wheels is very unrealistic and bad for steering. You always have to make some compromises, It just depends what the builder thinks is important. Can't wait for the flip-up headlights, coolest thing about the whole car imo
  5. Gray Gear
    I see you are making nice progress. Some of your building techniques that bend stuff really hurt my insides (especially on the wings) but I wouldn't know how to do it differently so... Keep it up!
  6. Gray Gear
    Understandable, I dont disassemble my MOCs anymore so I forget people need to reuse their bricks sometimes
  7. Gray Gear
    No, I would replace all the blue pins that are visible on the entire car. You could replace them with older black LEGO pins or even get some white ones from GoBricks to go super clean. But it is your car, so you do you.
  8. Gray Gear
    Cool! The car isn't really my taste but it sure looks nice! And there are nice small details. Just please, PLEASE replace these blue pins. They just ruin the otherwhise clean look of the car.
  9. Gray Gear
    Yeah the Land Rover wheels must be really cool for the 1:10 car guys, because they offer a more realistic offset. But for manual models I would still go for 1:8 any day, because you can have even more space for transmission stuff. I recently did a AWD car, and I managed to squeeze a 6-Speed transmission with center diff between the rear wheels so the interior stays free. What kind of transmission are you using in the second picture? I can see a center diff, and at least 2 clutch selector rings, but how do you shift? Is there a 3rd clutch ring in the middle? I am intrested.
  10. Gray Gear
    Sorry I dont get what you are trying to say. English is not my mother tongue. The car I meant is called "Dr!ft" btw
  11. Gray Gear
    Yeah maybe, but I would have said it anyways. I saw this in some kind of drift RC car toy a while ago Very cool if it really works like that
  12. Gray Gear
    I love Initial D. While the 86 sure is recognizable, it looks pretty rough all around. The details are just not there. I guess the secret mecanism will lift the rear wheels of the car a little and use differnt wheels under the car to go sideways? There is no way you'd be able to break tracktion on these wheels with just 2L motors i think. I am looking forward to your video!
  13. Gray Gear
    Hi there! here's some progress I made: I added the cooler with 2 fans in the engine bay, and a stick to keep the hood up (whatever it is called) I added some bucket seats, they will be completely red but I am still missing a lot of pieces. And the sideskirts and the front wheel arch have been revisited. Thats it for now
  14. Gray Gear
    @OnyyX Yes I think this could be done too, and I like the Aventador. But I for myself would rather build the car from scratch, building the gearbox&drivetrain is the most fun imo :)
  15. Gray Gear
    I like the rear axle drivetrain solution, very cool!
  16. Gray Gear
    @Bartybum yeah maybe a combination of "damn how do we fix the sets that are at the shops" and "we dont care about it being a military model but others do so we have to act like we care too" My 8043 actuators never failed on me, but I never put them under extreme conditions. What are signs of an early actuator?
  17. Gray Gear
    You act like I bumped a 3 month old thread, yet the post before mine was 20 mins before. The discussion wasn't set in motion by me... And dont you compare the 8043 to this disaster... My 8043 worked just fine, and its gears run smoothly in my Honda NSX and Mazda RX7 till this day. No issues. The Osprey's problems are on a way higher level, its literally destroing bricks. Customer service would have been in serious trouble if this set got to market. But yeah, it is my take on the matter, not a fact.
  18. Gray Gear
    Can we finally stop this discussion? LEGO just realized the Ospreys drivetrain had massive problems as it was already way too late and used that military stuff as a excuse so they dont have to admit their design mistakes. The Osprey is eating 8t gears for breakfast, why are y'all still buying that cheap excuse?
  19. Gray Gear
    @OnyyX Thank you, I am sorry to disappoint. I knew I wouldn't be able to build a R32 GTR with just original LEGO pieces, or or at least not a good one I can be satisfied with. This Model requires some GoBricks pieces to look good, and since they are too hard to get for most, instructions wouldn't be worth the work. Sorry
  20. Gray Gear
    The whole engine looks great, exept for the gear contraption in the front of the rotor. As I have proven with my small rotary fake engine in my RX7 MOC, it isn't even needed, and I dont think it is doing much good here as well. At higher rpm the rotor is clearly only scraping on the walls because the gear is mounted too unstable. I can only Imagine he wants to keep it to kind of simulate the mechanism in the real engine, and while it isn't very accurate I can understand it. But it doesnt look good. I love the lightbrick idea tho, looks and works great!
  21. Gray Gear
    The desing isn't bad, but I would not like this in a car MOC. Imagine accidentaly pushing the car forwards while it is still in reverse. Normally It wouldn't really matter, but with your design something might break since you stall the entire drivetrain.
  22. Gray Gear
    Lol your previous comment made you sound like some kind of streetracer, this certainly isn't what I expected That boi is absolutely massive...
  23. Gray Gear
    Good job, very recognizable! Its just as ugly as its real counterpart, at least imo
  24. Gray Gear
    Looks pretty good for a fantasy car, but the roof should be a lot lower to match with the overall look of the body imo. I would recommend using flex axles insted of flex hozes for the front wheel arches, that way you can skip the pins and remove these gaps they create. I like the shape of the front, it looks like the car has pop-up headlights, but sadly it doesn't. Still looks cool tho.
  25. Gray Gear
    I would suggest putting some bigger wheels on this thing, these look way too small.
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