AustinMiniMan98 wrote:
Sorry i haven't been on here in a while, i was busy readying up for the house move. It's a while off but i like to be ready and living out of boxes to make it easier. Anyway it looks like you have been busy! i don't think suspension will be necessary. They sell models of the Suzuki Jimny which was very similar to the sierra if not just named differently elsewhere. My dad actually built one of these after he got impatient of not finding a model moke. Anyway i could get one of those and see what modifications i need to make to the parts on that. Scale all the relative parts of the moke down and then forward the information to you so you know where to make the holes and whatnot on the model itself. If i really wanted to-although i haven't looked at it, i bet i could get a couple of the Jimny models, pre-assemble to sub frame components of one and see if i could use the suspension components off that.
Do you think you could modify the underside of the model to accommodate the 4WD system?
sounds like a good plan - I can modify the underside to do just about anything... as long as I have dimensions or a model to work from. Basically I'd take the chassis, make a 3d model of it and subtract it from the moke model with appropriate fixing points
Do you have a link to the Jimny online somewhere?
Is it a slot car, or is it a scale model?
for a slot car, it really doesn't matter a great deal what base model we started with, as long as the wheel base is close to correct. I couldn't find the Jimny online, but
this swift would surely come close in wheelbase and track
I'd like to think that there would be demand internationally for at least a few dozen of them, so if the donor parts were cheap and plentiful, it'd make it better for anyone who wanted one
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