410 D.A.R.C conversion

[D.A.R.C 1]

www.darcdevelopments.com

[steve73]

Some advertising for you in a german forum:
http://www.rcindependent.com/wbb3/in...threadID=79130

[D.A.R.C 1]

Thank you Steve
That was very nice of you

[D.A.R.C 1]

DARC 410 chassis at the national
Middle of the page
http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/2013national-epr/

[D.A.R.C 1]

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130061
An interesting DARC thread.

[TonyM]

I've just built mine ready for the oOple Open this weekend. A few points to note:-

1. The body is about 5mm short on length if you cut to the markers. Try and leave a little extra on the nose end if you can.
2. The drive shafts are not precisely in line. To get them in line the motor housing needs to be moved 1-2mm towards the centre of the chassis. One for later batches perhaps. I thought it was me at first and then I looked at the official pictures and saw the same offset. I don't think this will matter too much, if at all.
3. TD's Kuhler body fits reasonably well - see piccies.


Forgive the crap paintwork - I wanted something quick


Electrics


Standard 410 vs DARC


DARC with Kuhler body.

[D.A.R.C 1]

Hi Tony
The shell is supposed to have a little clearance at the rear to allow for chassis flex and is secured using Velcro ( as low as possible to your radio gear)
The motor mount is designed to be where it is to allow for radio room and makes no difference to drive angle of shafts
Thanks for posting your car pics

[TonyM]

Originally Posted by D.A.R.C 1

Hi Tony
The shell is supposed to have a little clearance at the rear to allow for chassis flex and is secured using Velcro ( as low as possible to your radio gear)
The motor mount is designed to be where it is to allow for radio room and makes no difference to drive angle of shafts
Thanks for posting your car pics

OK thanks for the info.

On my 410 I usually rest the rear end of the body on a body post which I've dremelled down to just the base and I was attempting to do the same with the DARC, hence needing a reasonable body length.

Do you use the rear post at all, or have you completely done away with it?

[D.A.R.C 1]

Hi Tony
Our car in the advert has no post at all
And looks really sleek
It Just has some Velcro attached on the carbon sides but not covering the screws that hold the carbon sides on and still uses the front mount and clip.
I find it easier to fit the front body clip if you bend the clip to an arc with some long nose pliers.
You could use the standard rear mount by reaming the front hole further forwards from the mark in shell but to be honest I've never liked that Durango rear mount due to it being too close to the rear edge of the shell , so they always rip.
Plus using the rear mount makes the DARC shell look to porky!
Hope this helps Tony

For any non DARC owners reading this I will explain
The DARC shell has cut lines front and rear also front body mount hole and ariel marks
But no cut lines for the sides
So therefore you can install your radio gear the cut out front and rear on the shell, then place on the car until you are happy with the radio gear clearance .
Then trim the shell sides level with the chassis bottom edge. Velcro on.
This allows for larger speedos etc
Hope this makes sense

[Bman]

Originally Posted by TonyM

I've just built mine ready for the oOple Open this weekend. A few points to note:-

1. The body is about 5mm short on length if you cut to the markers. Try and leave a little extra on the nose end if you can.
2. The drive shafts are not precisely in line. To get them in line the motor housing needs to be moved 1-2mm towards the centre of the chassis. One for later batches perhaps. I thought it was me at first and then I looked at the official pictures and saw the same offset. I don't think this will matter too much, if at all.
3. TD's Kuhler body fits reasonably well - see piccies.


Forgive the crap paintwork - I wanted something quick


Electrics


Standard 410 vs DARC


DARC with Kuhler body.

Looks good! Can I see pics of the D.A.R.C. chassis and Kuhler body from the underside? I would like to see the gap between them. Thanks....

[jimarea51]

Hi..

Couple of pics of Northy's new DARC shell, I hope he likes it, Been up since 6am to get it finished in time for the Oople race@ RHR!!!

JIm

[D.A.R.C 1]

410darc in action Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8DaS...ature=youtu.be
Thanks for watching

[D.A.R.C 1]

Congratulations to Darc Driver Graham North ( Northy ) on his podium finish at last weekends Oople series at RHR
Graham finished third overall,Being his first time out with his newly converted 410darc makes this result very exciting.
Well done G
We will share Graham's setup
And the video above was also filmed at the meeting with Graham driving his car.


Pictures and film courtesy of Jimmy oOple
Thanks

[MHeadling]

A friend of mines DARC I wired up for him:

[Northy]

Nice AC rear tower

G

[TonyM]

I ran mine on grass for the first time this weekend (Southport Woodvale Rally) and it was awesome. I compared it back-to-back with my standard 410 (set up the same) and the DARC felt so safe in comparison.

[spindles69]

Originally Posted by TonyM

I ran mine on grass for the first time this weekend (Southport Woodvale Rally) and it was awesome. I compared it back-to-back with my standard 410 (set up the same) and the DARC felt so safe in comparison.

Same Tony,ran mine for the first time on grass/dirt at http://mercc.net/ yesterday after finishing putting it all together on saturday evening (11.30 finished)
Ran the car same setup as usual,and the car was totally different to drive no need to throttle/brake over the tabletop totally flat.
This has made the car corner the same as the xb4,no loss in speed like its on rails.
All i am going to do is go up on the shock oils 40/35 to 50/40 because no need to run soft on this chassis,it handles the bumps superbly.
Well worth the money.
Good work Scott,You have made the best car out there even better.

[D.A.R.C 1]

Thank you
Glad you are liking your kits

[B0tt0mline]

Is there also a conversion planned for the DESC 410?

[trekkerkk]

well , finally got a computer to work so I can share my experiences.
I prepared and built the DARC literally finishing on the Wednesday before the Broxtowe national,
the first time the car turned a wheel in anger was in the first timed practice it was very wet but the track drained very well so wasn't to much a problem went out on ballistic buggy greens all-round nothing cut off, even with me not being awake the car was very easy to drive and I learnt the track,
2nd practice was the same wet, but I could still see I could push the car more than I had done,
1st qualifier the car was really good only the muppet driving it let it down 76th in round,
2nd qualifier went out on schuey silvers allround and went 6 secs quicker 76th in rd very easy to drive
3rd qualifier I went back to ballistic greens these gave a little more front end so was easy to get better lines , I did get what I thought were glitches but in quali 4 found out I had had a sensor wire breaking down as the car had more pace in it than I had showed in qualification,
I qualified I 5 not great but not bad , the final was dry so baptism off fire ran ballistic greens with nothing trimmed, on the outlap I could tell grip was very hi but I could drive it without problems(bear in mind on my old Durango I would only ever run staggers)the buzzer went I kept out off trouble and immediately gained 2 places into 3rd we were out front covered by less than 2 ft I managed to get to 2nd then my servo horn let go I tried to carry on but I had no left steering,thats racing,
all in all even through a very mixed day off weather the car was great in all weather conditions, I can recommend the DARC without a problem ,cant wait to do a dry meeting as I have some ideas I want to try setup wise etc....
trekkker