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Hey. It looks like Mustang, so it's not bad. The thing I don't like, is there are studs all over the car. I don't know if it was really built in 2005, but when I looked at the picture, I saw some parts, that reminded me my own MOC. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=436333 As you can see, the front bumper is made in quite same way, the same is with the wedge plates above the front lights, but this is more like coincidence. So if it really was built in 2005, I'm surprised, I didn't found it, when I was building my car :)

Looks nice :) It has nice ground clearence too :) Do you know how much does it weight? What is the gear ratio? One more thing: it would be quite nice, if you'd write some specifications, like weight, ratio, engines, and so on :)

Your Rock Crawler seems to be very effective and efficient. Looks very light, it weights 850 grams, and that is its advantage. What is the gear ratio? One thing I don't like. It's the modified links. You can say, i'm ortodox about modifying Lego parts (and you're right), and if you do not have needed parts, I suggest you to wait a bit with publishing, and buy parts on Bricklink. It's not hard to modify parts, but I know, it gives more possibilities. For example you can cut the differential (the one with two gears), to get gear with 24 tooth, and a hole, which can be used in the gearbox. But, even with modified parts, your Crawler has impresive abilities, and I bet, you can make another one, as good as this, with original parts. Currently, I'm working on my trial truck, which is Unimog U5000, and it's built for polish competition, so it has no modified parts :D As soon as I'll finish it, I'll show it to you :)

I was thinking about this too. I came to an idea to use them to shifting gears remotly (I mean in linear gearbox), or to be used instead of gear racks in the steering mechanism in cars (lately, I thought about using existing LA to do that, but they seems to be a little to big). To be honest, I think, we should better wait for them, to see what they really can do :)

As you can see, this Torsen diff, is quite big, it's 11 studs wide, and for the polish truck trial competition, it'll be too big. The rules says, that the truck has to be in approximately 1:13 scale, so the truck is about 25 stud wide, depending of the choose you made. More than that, it is good if the truck has got reduction just before the wheel, so there is just no place for that kind of differential. As you can see, the rules of polish truck trial is quite restrictive, thus, the competition are very interesting. We've got very realistic looking trucks, and very creative constructors, like Emilus, or Atr. Personally, I don't use diff in my trial truck, and the Silcantar gives you the answer in his post :) More than that, we ride on a quite loose terrain, so the difference of the specific wheel is not big deal

Hi everybody, my name is Marcin, I'm 21, I'm from Poland, and I'm LUGPol member too. My hobby is Lego (so I've registered here too), music (prever a little bit heavier type), a little bit cars too (I've got '71 VW Beetle too, but now it's having a date with a mechanic). I've made three MOCs, and at least another two are not published anywhere due to the need of parts and I didn't make to make a photo of them. Now i'm working on a trial truck, so when I finish it, I will publish it here too :)