42154 - 2022 Ford GT

[gyenesvi]

19 minutes ago, 1gor said:

it is not forbidden to dream and sometimes dreams came true...but as you pointed out it us good question how much torque can those new double joints handle... 

Indeed, let's dream on :) I think the weakest point of those double joints are the heads, and not the axles, so they will be able to handle the same torque as the existing small CV joints. And there are plenty of RC cars with such joints out there, so it should be okay for certain types of builds. That means not too big and heavy ones, but smaller and lighter street cars and off-roaders, that are geared faster, so not too much torque on the drivetrain. And I think the Audi RS will be such, it should be a medium scale, lighter and faster one. So it could work.

[1gor]

2 hours ago, gyenesvi said:

Indeed, let's dream on :) I think the weakest point of those double joints are the heads, and not the axles, so they will be able to handle the same torque as the existing small CV joints. And there are plenty of RC cars with such joints out there, so it should be okay for certain types of builds. That means not too big and heavy ones, but smaller and lighter street cars and off-roaders, that are geared faster, so not too much torque on the drivetrain. And I think the Audi RS will be such, it should be a medium scale, lighter and faster one. So it could work.

I could not explain it better 

[Ngoc Nguyen]

This step here confused me.

 

The black shock absorbers use hard springs, so this step compresses the springs  so heavily that they bend the connecting liftarms inward. The liftarms are reinforced with horizontal liftarms in subsequent steps but they are in constant compression, which I'm not sure would be harmless to the liftarms.

[anyUser]

3 hours ago, Ngoc Nguyen said:

so this step compresses the springs  so heavily that they bend the connecting liftarms inward. The liftarms are reinforced with horizontal liftarms in subsequent steps but they are in constant compression,

Instead of the 2L black friction pin on the spring would it be possible to insert a 3L axle pin later on?

[SNIPE]

16 hours ago, Ngoc Nguyen said:

This step here confused me.

 

The black shock absorbers use hard springs, so this step compresses the springs  so heavily that they bend the connecting liftarms inward. The liftarms are reinforced with horizontal liftarms in subsequent steps but they are in constant compression, which I'm not sure would be harmless to the liftarms.

the mclaren f1 car set compressed the front springs in a simular way and that seems fine

[JunkstyleGio]

 

Milan Reindl is for sure the "king of weird constructions". But I love it!

[Kostq]

 4 years later Doug did a review again. The color is very close to the 42154 too. If someone is interested - here's the real car /again/.

 

On 3/13/2023 at 1:42 AM, JunkstyleGio said:

Milan Reindl is for sure the "king of weird constructions". But I love it!

Land Rover made me scratch my head a lot at some places...

Edited March 14, 2023 by GTS

[Guillaume Esk8bricks]

For those wo are looking for a way to lower the Ford GT chassis, here is a solution .

 

Edited March 19, 2023 by Guillaume Esk8bricks

[therealjustin]

Looks much better lowered. Now, something needs to be done about those flying butresses.

[gyenesvi]

12 hours ago, Guillaume Esk8bricks said:

For those wo are looking for a way to lower the Ford GT chassis, here is a solution .

Nice and simple mods, I have just tested them. The rear one makes a much better looking heigh, while also retaining a bit of suspension travel, but the front one is too much, making the suspension totally dysfunctional. I suggest using this part in the front instead, with the round edge towards the spring

That makes it similar to the (lowered) rear height, and leaves a bit of functional suspension travel as well.

[m2fel]

I would have a bad feeling if the spring was always compressed. If there is no spring travel at all, you can replace a spring with two 1x6 thin technic beams...

[gyenesvi]

7 minutes ago, m2fel said:

I would have a bad feeling if the spring was always compressed. If there is no spring travel at all, you can replace a spring with two 1x6 thin technic beams...

The spring is already a bit compressed in the original build on the front, but not totally even after the mod. It's not spring compression that limits the movement on the top, but the wheels hitting the fenders.

[WW Bricks Studio]

Hi guys

Here to share my alternate F1 car with you, wish u like it, Thanks!

 

 

Edited April 3, 2023 by WW Bricks Studio

[shroomzofdoom]

 

[osterum]

I really like the Milan's model, but I think the headlights are the only thing that doesn't look like the original. Milan spoke about this in the review. Therefore, I want to offer my own version of headlights for Ford GT

If you want instructions, say about it

[therealjustin]

Massive improvement. Nice job!

[JunkstyleGio]

@osterum A few better pictures of your lovely improvement would help us.

 

 

 

[R4ph]

Did someone tried to create a trailer for the Ford Raptor, that would fit the Ford GT ?
That would be a cool way to display it I think.

[Johnny1360]

Are they the same scale, for some reason I thought the GT was a slightly larger scale.

[Lidar]

Hey, For anyone interested, I managed to add steering wheel function by lowering the steering wheel formation by 1 stud (adding 3 1X1 studs horizontally to the part above the steering wheel). I added part 6261387 and connected it to the back of the chasis underneath the steering wheel formation using a blue technic pin for support (basically, to add resistence so that the formations won't collapse when I put the other parts in and ultimately activate the steeering). I added gear 4640536 to the space behind the steering wheel itself, then added gear 6133119 to the long steering rod in the floor of the car with a few stoppers to hold it in place. I connected the 2 gears using a link chain (6044702). All these parts, I used from the motorbike set 42132, as I could find it cheaply. Steering works really nicely and it's pretty cool seeing the steering wheel rotate along with the wheels as you turn the HOG. I think it doesn't impact the look of the car interior in any negative way.
Hope that helps whoever wants to add that function.

[JunkstyleGio]

Pictures say more than a thousand words..

[blondasek]

@Lidar can you be so kind and add some pictures of the assembly or the whole mechanism? Thank you! :)

[Lidar]

3 hours ago, blondasek said:

@Lidar can you be so kind and add some pictures of the assembly or the whole mechanism? Thank you! :)

Sure. I hope you can see what I have done there...

 

This is a bottom angle image of where I added the support for the dashboard so it won't dislocate from the stud connections (the upper part of the highlited piece is connected to the skeleton of the car while the lower part is whay holds the dashboard assembly of the steering wheel in place):

Edited May 9, 2023 by Lidar

[R4ph]

21 hours ago, Johnny1360 said:

Are they the same scale, for some reason I thought the GT was a slightly larger scale.

The GT is 1:12
The raptor is 1:12.5 or 1:13

So the scale is really similar and one next to the other, the scale difference is nothing.

[osterum]

On 5/8/2023 at 11:07 AM, JunkstyleGio said:

A few better pictures of your lovely improvement would help us.

I made a short instruction. Since I can't attach the pdf to the message, I uploaded it to the boosty:

https://boosty.to/osterum/posts/25dd4c45-a9c7-490c-b2e9-ced90cc30829?share=post_link