ive done some ringing around, and i can get my hands on some 1mm thick acrylic/perspex/plexiglass (or flexiglass? you yanks make up stupid names even for things with names!) and im wondering if this would be any good? its relatively cheap at a $1AU for a sheet the size of a number plate, so this would be great. im still unsure if i want to make a bathtub or just a flat chassis….
bathtub would be easy with acrylic, i could just strip heat it and fold it up from a prism-net or something, but carbon would be harder to work with i assume..
for the wheels to join onto the chassis (the all important factor and hurdle here) im thinking of chopping up my clone chassis and simply gluing it onto the new chassis with the axle stuck inside. this would give the car 1mm less clearance and may help the problem of tipping/rolling at high speeds.
as it is now, i still have no idea how to mod the chassis so that it lets a shell sit on it properly. i love my 350z shell, but getting it to look decent on a bit is a task, the clearance between the rear wheel and the shell wheel well is a joke.
anyway, enough rambling for now, let me know what you think of the acrylic/perspex/plexiglass idea and i might go check it out tomorrow.
