Extended wheelbase GTP2

Third,
thanks for that info , wish I had known that before I picked up a brand new roller kit to swap all parts off from .

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Originally Posted by FLoJo

Third,
thanks for that info , wish I had known that before I picked up a brand new roller kit to swap all parts off from .

Sorry to big house for the Tangent here.

So I'll make this the last I segway in this thread.

But the reason you can do that with the Truggy/Buggy hybrid is because Kyosho who pretty much pushed the Rally Game classes as we know them first converted a 1/8th scale buggy to "on-road". Then later when they wanted a more realistic wheelbase they decided to swap the Buggy Chassis out for their Truggy chassis. This extended the wheelbase from 330mm to 360mm.

Truggies are all very close to 360mm wheelbases. Some 358, some 362...etc. So Kyosho raided their existing parts bin to keep costs down rather than designing a chassis from scratch. This is also why most of the GT class cars have a 15* kick-up on the front of the chassis which is undesirable in an on-road car from a suspension geometry standoint.

There are only a few production cars left using one-off on-road chassis. Traxxas XO-1 doens't count cause its a full one-off setup, its wheelbase is 406mm though.
The 1/7th scale on-roads are:

• Hot Bodies Lightning street. 430mm wheelbase. Nissan Skyline R-34 body.
• Hobao Hyper One Seven Evolution. 396mm wheelbase. Murcielago/F430/911 body.
• OFNA DM-1 Pro (not spec). 397mm wheelbase. Porsche Carrerra GT/Mercedes bodies.