THE Car Introducion

Part 2 of the 7 Step Campaign:

Part 2:

THE Car Features:

- Narrow layout, along with one of the narrowest chassis ever seen on a 1:8 buggy. A narrow car is more nimble and fast compared with a wider one.
- Central engine location. The key to building a narrow car.
- Revolutionary Adjustable Weight Distribution. Engine and Centre Diff move 8mm forwards-back. The most useful tuning aid to be changed based on track and driving style. Directly affects laptimes in a big way.  (don’t show pic…censor it)
- Laydown Brake System. In order to make the weight distribution change easily, and taking out the centre diff easily, laydown brakes was the way to go.
- Simplest throttle/brake linkage on the market. Because simple is always better.
- Balanced left to right. Because we turn both ways on our tracks.
- Out of the box, about 3240g. Because no matter what anyone says, a lighter car is faster, wears less, consumes less fuel, and less tyres, and it is the future of our hobby. If a heavy car is faster than a light one, the light one has the wrong setup or the wrong tyres!
- Failsafe servo saver for the threadlock challenged individuals out there. Impossible to work loose.
- The first un-complicated radiotray. Changing a servo in a hurry, with tray in the car is easy. Everything on the tray can be changed with the tray, and linkages intact.
- Distinctive rear end geometry for great on power traction, acceleration and cornerspeed.
- New style roll-centre adjustments on rear.
- Designed for European and American tracks and drivers. Possibility to set the car up for Euro style tracks and driving style, maximum cornerspeed, or US style jumps and bumps.
- Pre-assembled turnbuckles, because we all hate building them.
- 14.5mm threaded, hard-anodized shocks feature 3.5mm shafts. Because bigger isn’t better, better is better. We tested all sizes, and this is the best for THE Car.
- 5mm CNC Aluminium Shock Towers with JQ Products trademark branding.
- Hard Anodised CNC Aluminium Arm Holders with inserts for tuning toe-in, anti-squat and kick-up as standard. Since this is a Pro racing car, why should you have to immediately buy option parts?
- Optimized steering geometry for maximum, yet linear steering, and reduced bump-steer. Steering = Cornerspeed = Fast Laptimes = Wins. It’s all about steering.  
- Molded composite front and rear chassis braces. CNC may be option parts, because they aren’t needed, except for the people who like bling, “just because”.
- 3-shoe clutch, with aluminum clutch shoes.
- Lightened Aluminium 4mm hard-anodized chassis with ballast locations as standard. Because THE Car is underweight with lightweight options installed.
- CNC Aluminium Steering Knuckles as standard. Plastic ones are for RTR:s, even if they don’t break. We do have a certain bling requirement at JQ Products.
- Clunk style fueltank because we all crash, and it feeds fuel to the engine while upside down.

03. August 2010 Part 1: First Photos, and Specs.

09. August 2010 Part 2: THE Car Features Listed.

12. August 2010 Part 3: My Goals, and Front end Geometry.

18. August 2010 Part 4: Rear End Geometry.

24. August 2010 Part 5: Steering, Shocks and Radiotray Simplicity.

26. August 2010 Part 6: Weight Distribution Funkyness.

02. September 2010 Part 7: Drivetrain, Fueltank and Aerodynamical Beauty.

Item Number: JQB377