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Shorten Wheel base on CR-01

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Just wondering if any fellow TC members shortened the wheel base on their CR-01 (especially the rear) and if so how did you do it?

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Mine has a wheelbase of 276 mm. To shorten it I made new links using threaded Rod and SS tube ( or alu, i don't Remember). I'll try to find some pictures...

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Unfortunately four years have passed and I can't find the measurement I used. But  I cut three different parts in lenghts, therefore I must  have used  just one original link.

 

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for fine adjustement probably I switched from original Tamiya uniball to traxxas uniball, but I'm not sure... photos don't help.

To complete the link  normally  use threaded rod 3 or 4 MA . I cut the rod 16 mm  longer than the tube and screw the uniball

for example, self made link for HPI Venture

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shortening MST

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shortening Axial Dingo

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I pulled up @mastino's first image in Matlab. Granted there will be some artifacts because it's a real world image, but he got a good top-down image without much distortion. And taking the photo with the ruler was key.

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Measured the the ruler twice and took an average to get:

>> mmPerPixel = mean([(170/701.11) 170/712.02])
mmPerPixel =
    0.2406

Then from that (using the measurements from the image) define:

>> shortTube = 186.65;
>> midTube = 250.18;
>> longTube = 254.07;

And from that calculate:

>> shortTubeMm = shortTube * mmPerPixel
shortTubeMm =
   44.9108
>> midTubeMm = midTube * mmPerPixel
midTubeMm =
   60.1971
>> longTubeMm = longTube * mmPerPixel
longTubeMm =
   61.1331

Those numbers look about right. Cheers to @mastino for the images illustrating his process.

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So it turns out the numbers are 55mm for the upper rear and 53mm for the lower rear to move it forward by about 15mm

i will find out once my kit arrives and I get building

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