Hi all,

I recently got interested into doing a somewhat mechanically scale Ford Escort MK2, much ispired by memberprestonlal<span style="font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 255);"></span>own scale Escort MK2. He is doing awesome work on his, and as you will see I did use some of the same part as his build, namely the gearbox, the rear axle and Escort MK2 body from RetroRacing. Make sure you look at his thread over here if you have not already. Well technically it is JBLKING's thread as he was looking for a on-road RWD project, but it kind of drifted into prestonlal's own thread

<a href="http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_11281891/anchors_11305270/mpage_3/key_/anchor/tm.htm#11305270">http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_11...m.htm#11305270
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Here some of the characteristics and guidelines of what I want to build:

- Fully home made aluminium ladder type chassis
- Solid axle rear end (Tamia CC-01 axle)
- Four link rear suspension, with watts linkage
- Macpherson front suspension, with similar operation as the actual Escort MK2
- Front mounted motor (Tamiya sport tuned black motor)
- Realistic weight distribution, both for center of gravity height and fore-aft weight distribution (I would like it to handle like a real car, and not like an rc racing car)

So I would like it to handle more like a full scale car than like the regular RC tend to handle with their very low center of gravity. It would be great if the car would roll, squat and dive a lot, and the best would be if it turns on three wheels like the real thing





So I was looking at different axles, and it is very hard to find axles that would fit nicely on a 185mm wide body, and at the same time be somewhat scale looking. I looked at a few ones like this:



Most properly sized and scale looking axles were discontinued, the only option left was the CC-01 axle which fits perfectly, but I was not 100% sure about the diff casing being off-center, I would have liked it better centered like on real cars. Another option was SDI axles, whic are customizable in lenght with no special tools (thanks prestonlal for mentionning these). I had already pulled the trigger on a CC-01 axle when I finally realized I could have got a single SDI axle for 65 euros. fairly expensive but that would be very scale looking. I also liked having a real diff better, instead of the solid spool found in the SDI axles. I might change my mind once I ride the car and have traction issues

<a href="http://sdi4x4.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&amp;products_id=67">http://sdi4x4.com/product_info.php?c...products_id=67
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For wheels I already have some pretty scale looking steel rims looking wheels, and they fit nicely with the Tamiya Rally Blocks I already had from my TB-01 Rally. I plan on using these for the dirt rally mode on the escort, unless the offset does not work (they have a pretty high offset, not sure if it is +3 or +6. I found them on ebay but you can also find them athttp://www.genkidoridori.com/index.p...acturers_id=48




Not mine, but these are the same wheels and tires so it should look pretty scale:






EDIT:I also have the same thread over at Scale4x4rc.org, I will likely always update both but here is the link:

<a href="http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/showthread.php?p=966332#post966332">http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/sho...332#post966332
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