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Re: Advance Technic Car + Remote Control Car
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:19:20 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Luke Ma writes:
> Another thing you could do (and Jake Rentar did this) is to put the motors
> directly to the wheels...eliminating as much friction as possible. This
> gives you non-straight driving if your motor power outputs are different but
> it also gives you the most amount of power you can have.
> From what I've seen, the 8466 is significantly harder to motorize than the
> 8448.
> Luke
Perhaps I could help a bit here from first-hand experience with the 8466.
After much debate, I had decided not to buy the RC car (129.99) for
motorizing the 8466. So instead I tried it with the rcx and/or standard
battery pack (as seen in 8735). Success! After many calls to the
imagination centers around the country and Consumer affairs (and also
reading a lot on the Internet) I found out that the -only- way to motorize
the 8466 at a decent speed was to completely rebuild the rear wheel assembly
from scratch, as the differential can become tricky to work around and going
through the gearbox just doesn't give you enough power. You must also
exchange the wheels and/or tires, as the rubber that comes with the 8466 is
excruciatingly heavy.
Hope this helps!
Jake
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 | | Re: Advance Technic Car + Remote Control Car
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| Installing motors into an 8448 is simple. In fact, they make room for 2 motors. (one in the front, one in the back). If you want to add the third and keep the gull wing doors, you'll have to do some modification, but not too much, to fit 2 motors (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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