nicjasno

You can't always just praise people. One can't grow without criticism.

A very unimpressive model.

8448 wheels were really a bad design with little foresight.

Chrysler had torsion bar springs that were adjustable in height. The cars still had anti roll bars.

Even the reinforced thing that i use here in the e30 mockup chasis is too soft for my taste. Your version with the rubber bits is unrealistic and will have no effect.

Your steering links... they need to be much less angled than they are. Preferably paralel to the woishbones.

If you want any kind of realism, You do NOT want to keep the wheels flat on the ground throughout all the motions. That's the whole point.

Build this: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=120399&st=825#entry2467887 It has exactly 1 stud of travel.

The suspension as is has only 1 stud of travel. I imagine that with the full weight of the car resting on the suspension it compresses the suspension enough to drop by about half a stud.

This thing needs a LPEpower prime mover in it :)

The suspension range is dictated with the spring as you can see on the pics i posted on the previous page. The suspension range has nothing to do with my rant about it. :)

The only thing in the technical department that the 42039 has going for it so far are the new wheels. However we can see that it could potentially have new wheel hubs, so i'll wait and see about that. I'm absolutely unimpressed by the front suspension and the rear is probably just as dull. The looks are its main feature so far.

It made the biggest step compared to its predecesssors, but current setups are not really better. The current suspension setups are smaller in size, and the suspension arms are 6L instead of 6.5L, which removes the bump steer that 8880 had, but the CV joints are worse, because they allow for very small steering angles and don't allow to transfer a lot of power before popping out. The placement of the steering rack in front or behind the axle is trivial at this point. The gearboxes have gotten more gears, but still work in the same way as the 8880 gearbox did. What was improved of course is the visual appearance of the models and the introduction of studless. But neither is a specific supercar trait, but a technic feature in general.

It has the best awd system of any lego supercar so far. And its CV joints actually allow for some normal steering angles and allow you to transfer power to the wheels without popping out immediately. It also introduced the new style wheels, where the tire isn't just foam rubber but much more realistic. It also introduced the new gearbox with clutch gears. Quite revolutionary in 1993. No supercar has made such a big step from its predecessor ever since. Since then, we're getting served more of the tweaked 8880 stuff, just in prettier, panneled packages.

8880 set the bar. Up untill that point every supercar was an improvement. From then on, we get the same (basically less) with every new supercar. I am still waiting for a car that will beat or at least match the 8880 in terms of innovation and specialness. For that, i expect at least realistic suspension angles or if they insist on unrealistic double wishbones, new universally usable wheel hubs with proper 8880 style cv joints that can actually be used for front and all wheel drive models.

The color is really not that important. I'm sure it'll be fine. And yes, i'm expecting a realistic supercar from lego.

The hub is obviously symetrical, so it has probably an axle hole attachment on both sides.

I still hope they use a better version of the hubs, which this pic would suggest indeed.

This model so far is an excercise in lazy design. When you first look at it, it looks amazing, but when you start looking at the details, you get disapointed very quickly.

Yeah :(

I'm pretty sure the setup is like this: Which makes me puke, because this means there will be bump steer (though not much because of the very limited suspension travel and of course again no realistic suspension geometry at all. In such a car, this is a big shame. And of course the real porsche has macpherson suspension not double wishbone suspension.

What i see is a SLA suspension. Which is actually nice. The upper wishbone pivots on the black liftarm and acts on the spring. The top of the red spring seems to be attached only to the wishbone.

If all the pics i've seen so far are any indication, the chasis won't be anything special.

This is so sexy:

What about a color sticker on the side? Anyway... i'd rather they would make an interesting suspension/drivetrain setup.