Will the train body cover the wheels?
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Yep, the same as my Limitless and Typhon bodiesWill the train body cover the wheels?
Yep. I’ve had to jack mine up a bit. It’s like 20lbs at 100 mph or something crazy.Great post! I was also curious about how much wing you were going to run in the rear to balance the aero, since the front of these bodies look like they produce plenty of downforce.. I'm guessing with that super low extended front lip, getting the correct ride height is going to be critical to avoid too much downforce pushing the front down too low, versus up too high facilitating a blowover..
Great looking Le mans style 1/10 body, it looks like a Porsche 917 from that angle to me. Was that the inspiration?
As always, I'm super impressed with your work and cant wait to see your finished bodies, I will be a customer for sure when your ready
So that one is a delta plastiks Porsche 917 body. This 4tec is so difficult to get dialed I decided it would be best to have a crash test body made of plastic. I'm not going out with a carbon body till the car is dialed..Great post! I was also curious about how much wing you were going to run in the rear to balance the aero, since the front of these bodies look like they produce plenty of downforce.. I'm guessing with that super low extended front lip, getting the correct ride height is going to be critical to avoid too much downforce pushing the front down too low, versus up too high facilitating a blowover..
Great looking Le mans style 1/10 body, it looks like a Porsche 917 from that angle to me. Was that the inspiration?
As always, I'm super impressed with your work and cant wait to see your finished bodies, I will be a customer for sure when your ready
When life hands you limes....This resin infusion stuff has been very frustrating so far.
My first run of this 1/10 prototype body sprung an air leak after the infusion that I couldn't find. Ultimately that resulted in the part drying out. The complex curves and tight corners made it very difficult to setup. I may stick with hand layup for this mold and use the infusion process for my smooth streamliners... ?
Under vacuum ready for infusion:
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Resin infusion complete:
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Ugly results where the resin is dry in some spots and too thick in other spots:
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At least this can be another demo body to crash
Most of my frustration is the materials cost for this infusion process:
-Multiple layers of carbon fabric (this one includes a hybrid that has green died fiberglass with carbon)
-Peel ply
-Infusion mesh
-spiral tube and t-fitting
-bagging material
-gum tape
-fittings
-resin
-Resin feed and vacuum tubing
Make Lime colored RC bodies?When life hands you limes....
Make Lime colored RC bodies?
This infusion process has been a disappointing money pit. I am going to give it another shot, but may scrap it all and sell off the equipment. Hand layup into a mold, so far, has been better.
I am feeling that I may do just that.In my previous line of work I made very complex composite products that required the infusion process. You look to have it setup pretty much correctly and the end result is down to the amount of, or rather lack of, resin pulled through. For a void of 128ml we had to draw over 400ml extra resin to move the air pockets.
I don’t want to teach you to suck eggs as you’re clearly a clever guy but seriously consider ditching the infusion and replacing it with wet layup and vac bag. Infusion is such a wasteful and costly process that we never used it unless we had no other choice on the table.
That streamliner looks awesome. Can’t wait to see that come to fruition.This one broke the mold litterally Kinda sucks because there was so much time and money invested.
There seems to be some issue with the colored die on this fabric and it interacting with the mold release chemical.
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Ditching this mold for now and been focusing on the streamliner.
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Is that a twin of mine? ?
There are only 3 in the world right now, plus 1 more that is 1/8 scale size.Is that a twin of mine? ?
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