single oil shock xxxt

[thewarrenator]

heres my idea... ive seen some conversion kits like this but im bored and want to make it on my own...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13/losircalltheway/projectuno2.jpg

it'll go on the front shock tower of my xxxt. for the rocker arms ill use 3mm aluminum i got from my school. and what not shown in the pic is braces the come out of the rocker arms axle thing the will mount to the shock tower posistions that the shock used to mount to. the object of this project is to decrease the number of shocks, which is less matenence, less weight, and it'll look nt only cool but different. plus im bored and have nothing other to do.

any comments, or suggestions are fully welcome.

nick

[gizmoguy303]

Awesome! Did you use Microsoft Paint CAD software?!?! :p ;)

If you have the time and money go for it. You'll learn new things and have fun from building something that you designed (with uber-cool CAD software, no less :D). Don't expect a handling benefit from it though. Actually you will have a lot of handling problems...

I looked at your diagram and thought about it for a few seconds. I think you are going to have a major problem actually having your front end "squaring" back up again. If you think about it, there is no force to bring your suspension arms level after going through a turn. Look at your diagram. When you go into a turn, one arm will move up and compress the spring. That force will ultimately be transferred over and push the opposite arm down. Now, what is going to happen when you come out of the turn? There are no springs to level the front suspension again. Basically, your front body roll will totally depend on what you are doing with the steering. I think if you want to make this ,you will need to use a very stiff anti-roll bar to keep your front somewhat level (and STABLE). :cool:

[baih]

rc trix in canada has already made the same design for over a year. it works in addition to the two original position shocks. you better check to see if they have a patent on their design.

[OutFrontFrames]

Mono shocks were great.. they can be just a tad twitchy at times..

[thewarrenator]

wow i never thought of this... thanks. yep i did use the old microsoft paint. haha. i dont really understand antiroll bars and where they would be mounted. can any one help with this? im only 14 and dont have much money but have built many things of this difficulty. the price limit will be 20$. i have the metal for the rockers and pins for the pivot points. i need the rods and some kind of ball end for them that will hook up to the shock tower.

[thewarrenator]

rc trix in canada has already made the same design for over a year. it works in addition to the two original position shocks. you better check to see if they have a patent on their design.

im not selling it so i dont really care.

[Hachi_Roku]

I think one of the problems with this design is that it no longer is independant suspension. If one wheel is compressed, a lot of that force would be transfered to the other wheel, which would probably upset the handling and like gizmoguy said, there would be no way for the car to centre. The only way for it to centre is to have a really strong anti roll bar. If you don't know how an anti roll bar works, all it really does is reduce the amount of body roll. An anti roll bar is a metal rod that connects the two wheels on both sides. When pressure is applied to both sides, both sides of the anti roll bar is lifted and therefor the only resistance is from the shocks. However, when pressure is only applied to one wheel, the force would twist the anti roll bar. This causes resistance and therefore reduces the amount of body roll

[thewarrenator]

so where would you connect each end of the anti roll bar?

[gizmoguy303]

I think this is what you would need:

https://www.ssl-stormerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/seekpart.pl?pn=LOS4142

[thewarrenator]

so where would you connect each end of the anti roll bar?