The making of the LPEpower V8

Over the weekend i made a video of the V8 being assembled. Here it is in all its glory:

First 3d printed prototype

First 3d printed prototype of the wheel adapter is here. Now a 12mm rod with thread will be glued in, and tested. If all goes well, mass production can commence. I will keep you updated.

Custom wheel adapters part 2

So i got a rough quote for the 3d printing of the wheel adapters. The cost will be about 17 euros per piece. And i will have to cut the m12 thread on to the stud afterwards myself. I'm eager to hear in the comments what a fair price for an adapter would be. I'm thinking of 25 euros per piece. With this price i hardly make any profit on them, and they're as cheap as possible. This still means that they will offset you 100 euros for one set of 4 adapters. Please comment, so i can see if i should pursue this or not.

Mustang drivetrain demo

Here's a quick video of the underside of the mustang showing how the steering and drivetrain work.

Custom wheel adapters part 1

The LPEpower Mustang utilizes special wheel adapters to be able to fit wheels from 1:8 r/c cars to the lego turntables.

I decided to use non Lego wheels, because as you can see on the pictures, the normal lego wheels are just too small and too wide. I know that nowdays there's Lego wheels that are narrower, but their diameter is still too small and they don't have enough room inside the rim itself, to make a proper realistic suspension. 

I started to use turntables as wheel hubs a bit later, because once you can fix a wheel to the rotating part of the turntable, you eliminate the weakest link in a lego suspension, the soft axle. The normal 3 pin lego suspension parts used in most new "supercars", offroaders and the unimog do get rid of the axle, but they're still very limited. Especially the offroader/enzo hubs allow only 1 type of suspension (double wishbone) and use the small balljoints, which in themselves have so much play, that it's not even funny.

First mustang product sold

 



The building instructions are done and the first car has been picked up by the customer from germany today.