Thats cool man, reminds me of the old scorpions but toyotafied
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Camotubebender
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Hopefully we see you at Crawl 4 the Cure in Gilbert this year. We need more "Cruisers"up there for the event.
Sounds good- when?
That's awsome!
very sweet!!
That thing is awesome.
Camotubebender
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Couple pics under hood
Thats cool man, reminds me of the old scorpions but toyotafied
I been trying to figure out his suspension too, and then you said scorpion.
There was a fella who designed his suspension to articualate the front axle opposite but equal to the rear, kind of like an open differential, with the body being the carrier, so as to keep the body exactly in the middle between both axles and greatly decrease body roll,
It sounds like thats what he's done but Id like to see more pics of how he did it.
You must be talking about Hydro Joe, search his name on pirate he's a square tube fabricater/toyota guy with some weird forced articulation suspension that i don't understand.
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Hey Cody- I have more pics if you want to see something specific, but if you look at the pics I posted earlier you can see how the front &rear suspension are mounted so they pivot up & down and side to side-also the suspension is connected to the bars in the tunnel and they transfer front to rear, so if the L.front wheel is compressed(pushed up) it puts pressure(pushes down) on the R.rear wheel. It works very well. Does this help?
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Camotubebender
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It's mechanical-no hydraulics just airbags for springs.
I'll see if I can find some better pics.
Thanks
Sh!t, just stumbled across this thread! That is awesome! Hella good fab work. Very Impressive!
Soni Honegger was the original inventor of the scorpion, and yes it had linked suspension.
Here is an article in 4wheeler from 1998
http://www.fourwheeler.com/featuredvehicles/129_9801_scorpion_mk1_over_the_top/
Here is Soni's little toy hauler!
Here is an article in 4wheeler from 1998
http://www.fourwheeler.com/featuredvehicles/129_9801_scorpion_mk1_over_the_top/
Here is Soni's little toy hauler!
I built a rc crawler with Soni's suspension but integrated way more adjustment for geometry. It worked good but I had difficulty keeping weight down. It looked soo freakin awesome. It was a pain getting it all dialed in and I was always adjusting and tuning. In the end I ended up doing a totally different set up without forced articulation. It was a cool design though. Its hard to find the design I think because the military started using it some I believe. Later i found a guy in australia somewhere who was able to incorporate the same handling of that suspension to his nissan patrol or land rover or something without all the linkage abd with using normal leaf spring suspension...it kinda made me mad cuz he made it so simply compared to all the links and stuff my little rc crawler had.
Soni Honegger was the original inventor of the scorpion, and yes it had linked suspension.
Here is an article in 4wheeler from 1998
http://www.fourwheeler.com/featuredvehicles/129_9801_scorpion_mk1_over_the_top/
Here is Soni's little toy hauler!
That's one badass hauler/trailer!
yup, so its hydraulics that transfer force from front to back opposite sides then?