Quick CR2 Question

[DerbyDan]

Right, i'm an ex-off road guy returning back to the genre after about ten years soley racing touring cars, so i'm slowly getting up to speed with whats currently hot... & whats not.

The last car I ran off road was an original spec Losi Triple X that I still have. I just wondered If I could use this car as a base for an AC CR2 mid motor conversion? I understand that the BK2 had many subtle changes, but i've been told many of these changes reverted back to the original XXX design with the release of the CR?

Many thanks

Dan

[Wacker 2]

I'm sure the guys will correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I'm aware the only XXX model that cant be used as a donor car is the BK2.

All others can be used but the CR is the better conversion to start with... some of the drivers have played around with using some of the original XXX rear end parts to alter handling but a good starter would be the CR.

I'm running the CR conversion and its excellent

Jon!

[V-Rossi]

The rear end of the XXX wil fit (with just a tiny bit of filing/dremeling), don't know about the front end though.

[flipside]

The front will fit too. The XXX rear end is in fact better than the CR rear end :-) But indeed dremeling is required.

You will not have the VLA options on the wishbones though.

[V-Rossi]

Originally Posted by flipside

You will not have the VLA options on the wishbones though.

Which you don't need

Here in Belgium we are all running the XXX rear end, I made a topic on this matter: http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45211

[flipside]

You do in the front, cause the original XXX wishbones have in fact a short VLA in the front (i think)

[V-Rossi]

Hmm yes, forgot about that

[DerbyDan]

Thanks guys... looks like my XXX would work then

I might try the car in its current standard rear motor layout first & see how it goes. The current trend seems to be for mid motored cars.... certainly when I went to Stotfold last week there was a couple of B3s & a Kyosho but the rest were mid layout cars... generally how does the layout affect how these 2wd buggies handle?

By the way, what do you mean by 'VLA'?...

Oh & for reference heres my potential doner car

[rcjunky]

VLA stands for variable lenth arms (wishbones as you UKers call them, we call them ares) it basically means where the outer hinge pin is on the front arms, instead of 1 spot to put it, there is 2, so the lenght of center to center of the inner and outer hinge pins can be 2 differant lenghts, creating differant geomety and handling of the car.

That car looks good, just put in some modern electronics and swap some new tires ( or tyres as you guys spell it) and it could be competitive with all the new losi's out there. You may also want to redo the shocks and the diff just to be safe.