AllStaruk08's cardboard F1 car

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Post Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:07 am

Radical u-pods! But would they pass a side impact crash test?
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Post Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:02 pm

wrcsti the idea was to aim them at the aero on the brake ducts.

mx_tifoso im not testing it to see if it does pass :P haha
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Post Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:05 pm

I'm pretty sure that with this choice of material, it wouldn't pass the crash tests 8)
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Post Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:21 pm

theres that much glue in the thing i bet it would (if you scaled the test down for the size of it) :P hahaha.

but saying that im not willing to try lol :lol:

should have the wing on and maybe paint the thing over the weekend. going to test paint some parts that didn't turn out too good to make sure it doesn't distort the shape.
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Post Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:01 pm

finally got the rear wing done and glued in place just got to wait for the little piece on the splitter to dry then i can attach the end bit to the bottom of the tub :) heres a few pics of how it looks at the moment

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Post Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:29 pm

looking good, i must say your beam wing looks quite large
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Post Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:44 pm

yeah its a bit of a beast lol i didn't realise how big it looked till i took the picture, its got quite a steep AOA aswell so maybe the angle of the pic you can see the whole of it and not the angle of the wing if that makes sense :S lol
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Post Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:04 pm

first coat of paint. maybe i shouldn't have painted it black :shock:

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Post Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:11 pm

Just wondering, would It be possible to add one of the new "stepped" noses?
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Post Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:56 am

i'd have to chop the front off from the front of the cockpit to have a flat top for the step down and im not chopping it up haha
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