Post a photo... or a link to the photo. I don't beleive there are any problems with doing that.
only the half of the shock that is attached to the chassi counts as sprung weight, ie counts towards cg. if you mount the body of the shock to the suspension side it now counts as unsprung weight (ie ads to the weight of the pod), which DOES lower the cg because most of the shock weight is now on the pod.jackhole said:kgbracing, Well I think that by the looks of it if you wanted to try too lower the center of gravity you could do so by putting a small ball cup closer to the body ( of the shock ) and a longer one at the other end ( like a long losi one ) and mount it upside down that would make the majority of the weight lower than any other car. Oh and at least its not like EVERY OTHER CAR and just a knock off of the L3O. Thanks, JACKHOLE
.005 NICE sounds good to me, like i said shortening the body posts is probably worth it!Pro Parts said:Thanks for all the compliments guys, I really appreciate all the comments. I will try to answer everybody's questions but if I am not clear enough or forget something please let me know.
Burbs - The batteries are adjustable front to rear. They are not adjustable side to side as you can see from the picture of the car.
As for the spring rates, they should be really close to the current set-up, but I will have to get back to on this with more info after running the car more.
kgbracing - You are right, it's still a tee-bar, but there are advantages to the shocks being located the way they are. I will explain more later when I have more time.
Brad - You are absolutly correct with the isolation of the side shocks. The lower ball location on the shocks are in line with the pivot ball and on the same plane which will do exactly what you expained when the suspension goes thru bump travel. The CG of the car on the CAD system on this car is about .005 higher then our old car which is pretty close to other cars, but the left side weight was way better.
Bobby - My thoughts exactly. How are you and your dad doing?
JPH - I am really going to try to make it this year but we just had our first kid and momma might have a little something to say about it but we will just have to see how things go, our team guys will be there for sure if I am not.
See more in the next post........