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Chassis for Frewer Peugeot 205 T16

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Hi all

I've managed to snag myself a Frewer 205 T16 bodyshell with a view to putting it on a suitable 4WD electric chassis.

Wheelbase is around 280mm edit: 260mm and track seems to be 210mm.

What would people recommend I look at getting chassis/car wise?

Cheers

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280mm sounds big, the TL/TT and RA chassis are 257mm and take a 190mm shell. I'm wondering if that shell is more 1/8th size ?

Did a search and found this: https://www.hpiracing.com/en/kit/924

appears to be too wide for your body though ?

I don't think you'd find a tamiya chassis to fit, maybe some of the nitro stuff ? don't know much about those.

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I think these chassis were design to fit over 1:10 buggies for rallycross-level performance.  I'm sure others will have more idea but that WB is closer to 1:10 buggy.

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Cheers for the replies.

I've got a Top Force that's a little too long to fit inside the shell.

I've done some more measurements, this time with the Top Force which has a wheel base of 270mm and that seems a little long still.

So maybe a 260mm long wheel base would work better. Those 257mm chassis may work much better then. I'll check them out.

Yeah I'm assuming it's for the similar shells I used on my old ProCat back in the 90s.

I think a more buggy style chassis would suit the 205 T16, give it a more raised rallying look.

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First thing that I thought of is the group C chassis set at it longest - 280mm, its 200-210mm wide but being smooth surface only probably no use to you😕

Sven 

Not 4wd either! 

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What wheelbase does a tt0b have bearing in mind its the same chassis tub and gearboxes as the touring car?

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4 minutes ago, Superluminal said:

What wheelbase does a tt0b have bearing in mind its the same chassis tub and gearboxes as the touring car?

TT02B / DF02 = 266mm wheelbase

Width: 249mm

Although interestingly Tamiya gives us a 'Tread' width of 217mm front / 208mm rear for the TT02B. I suspect that they mean 'Track Width' - ie the centreline of each wheel. 

Either way it's too wide and possibly too long.

TL01B is the same width but 258mm wheelbase.

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I wonder if the shell is the same sort of size as my old Astra GTE I ran on top of a Fire Dragon. I'll have to dig out the specs to the FD

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According to Tamiyabase the Fire Dragon has a wheelbase of 264mm and a tread track front and rear of 200mm, but an overall width of 240mm.

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The guy who sells the the shells reckons a Dark Impact would work too.

Wheelbase 272mm

Tread/track front 217mm

Tread/track rear 203mm

Overall width 250mm

Maybe with the right wheels on it could fit OK.

Edit: 

Seems very similar to the Top Force I have though....

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