LOL I am listening to Drowning Pool Break You right now!

The one on the left looks like a caviar salesman :lol: kid in the middle well.......but that one on the right.....We will BREAK you! Absolut robotics. Man, I am gonna get so warned. :lol:

HAHAH - family guy = gold

lol. that joke is much much older than family guy.

Russ, seriously? I was unaware of it before the Family Guy ep.

good read, thanks!

god you gotta love rc tech. Funny how fast the topic can change. Seriously I was just in tears reading this thread. But I think they are all on a bender either that or the potato water (vodka) cart ran out

thanks for the link. i couldn't quite remember the spelling of yakov's name. wouldn't want to spell that wrong here... :lol:

I tried to clean it up in PS. I may have gone overboard...lol

I know one thing for sure- you can see that the motor is turning something in that tube which transitions the rotation from perpendicular to parallel to drive the spur gear. And I may be wrong, but is he using a blade type spring instead of a coil spring?

It's definately shaft drive...

Where's the servo? Where's the other half the cell closest to the rear of the car? What happens to that rubber band holding the battery in when you hit something?

On second looks it is similar to the Predator in the the suspension looks more inboard than out. Would be good to see some clear close up photo's though, but be patient, as with any proto I bet photo's will be almost banned before the car is really ready to come out the covers.

Good luck with it I say, and as said before it is good to see a new 'kid' on the block as such !

Servo is on his hand/table.

I really wonder if it require different pinon/spur gear, as I dont think you can do 90deg cross with existed pinon/spur, no way.

So the real problem is: is motor mount able to take impact, and is gear easy to wear, one of biggest problem for shaft car.

Anyway, it's interesting design. If it works, I will give it a try (and replace suspension to something else for easier parts supply.. ha)

spot on those purple A-shaped twin upper link,

almost look alike with old TRF-414 or TA-04R front suspension,
it could be their way to increase suspension rigidity such as front upper arm of V1RRR or other current nitro car.

Hi all! ;)

I saw this car at the 5-th round of Russian Indoor Cup 2007 which was held in St. Petersburg.
It's excellent design. It's a lot of innovation. Unique shocks.
Extremely low unsprung mass, great side by side balance and lowest CG in the world (i think so).
It uses a traditional spur and pinion, so no problems with this.

At this race car drived by Vitaly Karpov.
By the way several leading Russian drivers tried this model and be happy.
On the track the car is looking a bit unusual: roll are very low and this leads to very high corner speed.
Awesome! :eek:

I can't post detailed pics because it's still TOP SECRET. :cool:
Some information on Russian forum (translated): LINK
Pics comming soon.

It will be bomb... :sneaky:

Ok, some pics. Sorry for bad quality :(

Hey Ruskie, good luck with your new whip. It is going to be a hard sell convincing belt guys to go back to shaft. KGB is going to have to release more pics and specs. :lol:

The best smile is the last one ;) the pics and specs will be later, when the car released and the new brand released. The car will be a bit differ from you see (from what you may see))))))), but performance of the car is much better than my t2'007 for nowadays..

So thanks for all responses :-) will see you much later ;-)

Ok, I saw the high-res photo...
URL: http://rcauto.spb.ru/forum/index.php...ndpost&p=15277

How does pinon connected with spur???? Is there a 90deg mini gear box on right side of chassis, convert motor shaft -> 90deg turn -> standard pinon -> spur.

And damper, is damper on chassis, connected with lower arm? Doesnt look like a rod-damper design.

Interesting project. Somebody posted a full picture of the car on the Russian Forum, which i have uploaded to the Red RC server which you can see here .

Looking at that pic, it has a hell of a lot of lead in the front of it. I hope my resize still shows the details, for the original size was too big to upload. I also brightened it up some since the original was dark to the point of not being able to see detail much.

A previous prototype from Babitch Oleg (who else could that be ?)can be seen on www.overrc.com.

great swiss website.

go to : "archives "> "protoypes et réalisations personnelles", if you're not too dumb you should find it. There is also an interview of the designer (in english) .

the HRes picture still doesn't show us the 90 degrees thing....c'mon, we want some more !! :nod:

here
http://www.redrc.net/wp-content/uplo...ssianepcar.jpg

that is alot of lead in the front :nod:

I think because car's weight is under 1500g in 6 cell configuration (Oleg said).
Lead can be installed anywhere.

What does this car use for dampening?

I think Josh cyrul made a car 5-6 years ago that had a similar front suspension. Looks like its based on 12th scale wizardry

Special type shocks.

based on KGB nuclear damping system ))))))))))))) :sneaky: :sneaky: :cool: That is one of secrets, Matt ;-)

i hit it on the head
 

Hit on the head, shaft with a BD mounted style motor layout. Lot of extra moving parts in the gearing department.

It is better to calculate efficiency of belt and gears. After everything will be clear.

Play on playa.

ashaft car is not necessarily more efficient than a belt car

The upper arm setup is similar to what trinity used on there old pan cars.. I wonder if it uses pan car springs with the blade sway bar setup..

"Solid" lower arms? Who cares; check out that steering system! Talk about a heavily modified concept.

I tried not to be too dumb. Are you talking about this?

Edit: Never mind, I guess I lose. Here's the list:

http://www.overrc.com/news/menunews2.htm

I dub this car 'Bowflex TC'!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
You have officially been named the funniest dude of this thread!

This prototype won Russian Cup 2007 in stock class.
I think I need not remind you that in stock minimal loss of power in drivetrain is very important.
Motors for 1-st, 2-nd and 3-rd car were the same (Fantom Team Stock FAN30426).

didnt know that prototypes were allowed in stock class? i guess stock is different over there