Meatman

Where are you seeing 84.7%? I am seeing about 1/2 of the needed parts.

Is this the first time that Lego has ever had individually numbered sets like this?

Leaf springs are made from spring steel which is made to bend and return to it's shape, the plastic plates are molded and not made to bend at all.

That's funny, I tried it with a shorter 2 x 12 plate and it still has a slight bend to it. This just does not seem like a very good idea. Much like twisting axles for torsion bars, which is something that I have also seen in the past.

Does it really matter how fast the engine spins?

Within the boundaries of good morals you should ask for permission, but legally you really can't do anything if people sell other people's MOCs. There have been many discussions on this in the Technic forum including responses from people who were selling other people's models.

That cannot be good for that plate. I think the goal these guys are looking for is a somewhat legal way to replicate the action of a real leaf spring without destroying their parts.

This is the longest April Fool's Joke ever.

So does that mean he's the new "Muscle" around here?

I can only assume that you skipped through the first 6 pages of this thread.

That Ford GT isn't bad at all. Not a fan of the type of gearbox that it has though. I have yet to see one of those push/pull rod ones work right.

The Ninja is probably the most complex build of the group. I've built the Vampire gt and it is extremely well done. It has a really cool new style gearbox and the flawless AWD dash switch and it has a great unique look. I want to build Jurgen's Koenigsegg next and also the Pony Car by Nathanael. I just about finished this one up(waiting on some parts for the tail lights). It was a very fun build, well desined and the instructions were excellent.

Funniest thing I've read today. Mostly because it is true. We as Americans need to poke fun at ourselves because let's face it, we do some funny and odd things.

If you are going full RC a full body would not be the way to go because the performance will take a severe hit. Case in point, look at the performance that Sariel gets from his RC models and look how he built the body. To be honest, I do not care for the look of models that use lots of miscellaneous technic parts to fill the body with liftarms stacked against each other. Crowkiller's cars use to be built this way 4 or 5 years ago and I thought that they looked a bit cheesy, overdone, and nowhere near as professional as they do now. I didn't become a big fan of his cars until he built his Gallardo, which had the look of something on par from Lego themselves and was not over done with tons of parts like he used to build. Instead I like when car and truck models use interesting techniques to create lines that make the models easily recognizable as their real life counterpart or at least pleasant to look at if they are custom. I remember sheepo said in an article or answered a question somewhere that his Porsche doesn't move well in 2nd gear or above and that would probably be due to the weight of the body since it has so many parts, so there lies the question of what do you want? You build this super amazing gearbox which is the highlight of your model, but your model weighs so much that you cannot show it off. But then again, sheepo's models are also very large, so you cannot create lines so easily as with the 8145 599 GTB set. I think that many people spend much time on their car's chassis and then rush to get the body for their vehicle done and take too many shortcuts and don't plan it out. You always see this where a builder spends months posting progress pictures of his chassis and then in a few days they have a body for the vehicle finished already.

I would make the pivot point true in the steering arms with a CV joint as mentioned above.

Is it right? Of course not. People use other people's information and copy and paste text all of the time on the internet. It would have been nice if they would have at least mentioned the source from which it came, but I don't know if you are allowed to have links in the description of listings. I have only ever sold a few things on there. Some people flat out copy exactly what other sellers have in their descriptions.

I am still a bit skeptical in how that gearbox runs with all of those gears(See 5th pic in post #40) using all of those perpendicular connectors to space out the gears, because even in the small models that I have built using perpendicular connectors on an axle like that, there is some adjustment to get a simple gearbox mechanism to operate and have just a small amount of gears mesh smoothly. So anyone that has built this, do you have to tweak the connectors back and forth to get this to work? I really want to buy these plans, but not if there are too many issues.

It's about time. But as expected they raised all of the prices back up.

Most guys that sell instructions also have tons of pictures of their models on their own websites or on Brickshelf, so it is pointless for them to even do instructions right? What would be the incentive of spending God knows how many hours doing instructions if the average builder could just build it from the pictures that they have already provided? I certainly don't mind paying a few dollars for someone's hard work, especially if the model I am paying for is very good. And it's not like anyone is hiding the parts required for their model. Just about everyone has their stuff at rebrickable, so you can see what you need before even deciding to buy instructions.

I would much rather have an optimized supercar with manual functions and a boring gearbox because after 15 minutes of Remote Control fun and your batteries are dead, a motorized supercar doesn't have much appeal because you can't really do anything with it. I like the idea of a Power Function motorized supercar more than I actually like the reality of it. Sariel's R.C. stuff is very impressive, but as stated above, RC=Radio Controlled which is much different then IR=Infrared, people often get the 2 confused. I know RC can also stand for Remote Control, but normally when you refer to RC, you are talking about the method in which the information is passing to the vehicle that you are controlling. I also like the idea of a motorized sequential gearbox, but if there is too much binding in the gears when motorized, it becomes more of a gimmick and a novelty.

Who exactly was he mocking?

I doubt if you'll ever get them back to their original form.

Isn't the chassis the same as the 9398? Or did they alter that?

Simply amazing. I was showing this video to some guys that I work with last night and they couldn't believe it.