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  1. Meatman
    I am also wondering how the use of friction pins in the front and rear suspension is affecting them. I thought the use of friction pins like this was frowned upon?
  2. Meatman
    I don't see why not, they make drinking straws in various transparent colors. It would just have be a different material. I am wonering how the the rear suspension will hold up over time. Not because of the shocks, but because of all of the weight being supported by a single axle hole on each side. I have a few angled liftarms with cracked axle holes now.
  3. Meatman
    When I first built my Porsche, the suspension worked a little, but over time, it completely lost all of it's spring.
  4. Meatman
    So the front suspension is dead right out of the box? Are you kidding me? It looks just as bad as the Porsche. I found this rather underwhelming as well. There seems to be much to love about this model and a few things that seem to be discouraging. My Porsche front suspension literally drags on the ground. Yes that is exactly what I was talking about. The engine must create a lot of friction if they needed to add a clutch gear just for it.
  5. Meatman
    Well you would think that anyone that is carrying exclusive products by Lego would at least be on the same page. I had also heard rumors that Lego stores at various locations all over the world were selling the set early as well. Good. It would seem silly if you had to take off the wheel every time you wanted to play with the spoiler. The new mechanism for changing gears doesn't quite look as intriguing as the Porsche.
  6. Meatman
    Wait, do you have to take the wheel off in order to use that key thing to work the spoiler? If so, that really sucks.
  7. Meatman
    I had seen that picture on Facebook. Why is Lego selling the set days early if they don't want images getting leaked out?
  8. Meatman
    The 8 tooth gear is centered. The 24 tooth gear is not and meshes with the 8 tooth gear it on the side. They also probably geared it down like this to help with the friction in 1st gear. So when it's pushed along, it's already dropped 1:3 before the gearbox.
  9. Meatman
    See that 8 tooth gear? That is what connects to the gearbox and the axle that runs forward from it with the new light blue gray 3L connectors connects to the shifter and front wheel axle. You can see in one of the other pictures that you have on your bricksafe folder that there is a 24 tooth gear from the gearbox that will mesh with that 8 tooth gear. And there will be an output from the gearbox that will also connect to the shifter and then somewhere from the shifter it will transfer the selected motion back to the engine.
  10. Meatman
    There could be 1 axle coming from the rear differential that bypasses through the gearbox altogether and leads directly to the center shifter and the front wheels(we know there is no 3rd differential) and on that same axle in the back could be a gear that connects to another gear beside it that drives the gearbox and goes to the center shifter. In one of the pictures, it looks like an 8 tooth gear is coming out of the rear differential and then driving a 24 tooth gear beside it. The axle the 8 tooth gear is on could continue forward and bypass the gearbox and go to the center shifter and there is your reverse gear. These are then switched back and forth at the center shifter. While not as complex, that is how Paul did it on this. He is using the same axle for reverse and to drive the gearbox and they are both coming out of the rear differential. I am not sure if Jeroen Ottens did it in a similar way or not.
  11. Meatman
    I have a feeling that the blue gear is only being used help the differential when it is under strain in the lower gears and is not being used for reverse at all. I am 99% sure that is all it's for(considering there are so many pics now that don't show it connecting to any other gear below it) Reverse is probably managed in the center shifting area by bypassing the gearbox altogether. I guess we'll see soon enough.
  12. Meatman
    I had heard that it was in fact for all of the friction that the many moving parts of the engine create. Quite coincidental considering Paul had mentioned fake engine friction in a recent gearbox article he wrote for Hispabricks magazine.
  13. Meatman
    True. But most cars that have sequential transmissions don't have reverse included in their gears. You can't expect someone to shift through 7 gears to get to reverse. It makes more sense have a selectable lever in the middle like most cars do. What we don't want to see is when the car is in reverse that it has 7 reverse speeds. I have a feeling that Lego learned from that mistake with the Porsche. Why would that indicate reverse? Maybe that is a new driving extension that does something that the old one does not? It looks thicker width wise than the older style. Paul did that in this model too. I think both guys also pulled it off in a completely different ways.
  14. Meatman
    Perhaps reverse is much more simple than we think and doesn't even go through the gearbox at all. I think it would make sense.
  15. Meatman
    I can clearly seen 4 driving rings that look to be moved by those new orange shifting parts. There are 2 on top and 2 underneath. There are six red clutch gears and two 20 tooth blue clutch gears being used by them.
  16. Meatman
    Isn't the 20 tooth blue clutch gear new? And what about that new yellow extension?
  17. Meatman
    Actually it does have an automatic gearbox. Or it can be shifted with paddles.
  18. Meatman
    They should fit just as deep as the regular hubs.
  19. Meatman
    Nah. It is an all new hub part.
  20. Meatman
    There must be. It was mentioned a few pages back that we were going to see special things in a week. This was after the initial leak.
  21. Meatman
    So the wheel rotors are in fact new hubs. I guess that means that they will also work with the Porsche wheels with 3 black friction pins. If the model is in fact 4WD(which it should be) I expect that the steering radius to be pretty bad. That is if they are using the standard CV joints. Or maybe these new rotor hubs will improve on that?
  22. Meatman
    It can be a problem with anything that has a motor. If you attach a motor to the 1L axle end of it and then a liftarm, then a gear, then a liftarm, the axle cannot work itself loose. See the front axle of the 9398 where the black 12 tooth gear is? that is how they are using it right there.
  23. Meatman
    I've also seen it used to support a 20 tooth gear that drives a differential. The axle will not work into the differential through the gear. Paul made a floating rear suspension and used them with the cv joints. It worked well because the cv joint has 1.5 depth of axle hole in it and the stop would not allow the axle to slide in anymore and pull out of the differential.
  24. Meatman
    You can put a gear on it and after bracing it on both ends, it won't work itself loose. There are some other uses as well.
  25. Meatman
    Read this on Facebook. Good stuff. I must say, the car that is featured in it is pretty damn nice in black and red.
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