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Dakar Rally Truck V3

5,947 Maximum777  4.7 years ago
Auto Credit Based on Maximum777's Dakar Rally Truck V2

Dakar rly trucks are rally semi trucks with rediciolus suspension, this one has suspension similiar to a monster truck, but with swaybars to make it auctually decently stable. This truck is Identical to my V2 but with better tuned suspension and handling, be warned this truck has amazing suspension and this comes at the cost of durability and computing power, this is not mobile friendly, and I kind of can't do anything about the durability with how its currently set up. Right now its handling the best its ever handled, but the tuning was mainly softening the suspension just right and this means that now if you land a jump too hard the shocks just die, if you manage to make the wheeles do thier glitch where they freeze it breakes the rear suspension and overall its a very fragile truck. But when its working its an amazing truck, this truely shows at the proving grounds, and all in all I'd recommend not going over 90mph into turns. This thing is in need of a redesign and for now its an amazing toothpick that can snap at any moment, so Enjoy and expect something amazing for V4, just drive cuatiously, as if you can run it, enjoy my amazing suspension, all in all I think its one of the best looking suspension setups I've made so far.

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General Characteristics

  • Predecessor Dakar Rally Truck V2
  • Successors 3 airplane(s) +14 bonus
  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 12.4ft (3.8m)
  • Length 27.0ft (8.2m)
  • Height 13.6ft (4.2m)
  • Empty Weight 13,720lbs (6,223kg)
  • Loaded Weight 13,986lbs (6,344kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading 192.5lbs/ft2 (939.9kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 72.7ft2 (6.8m2)
  • Drag Points 12832

Parts

  • Number of Parts 470
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 2,508
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    5,947 Maximum777

    @SkippyTheEngineer ye ye, it's a great truck, I still have it, but it does not look like that anymore, the body is way more beat up, currently it needs a new wheel bearing and one of the two 3s batteries I was using to run it on 6s got punctured and discharged without me knowing so currently it's out of commission but once I can get a new set of 3s batteries, which should be pretty soon I'll definitely be out bashing it again, it's really a fun truck, just needs swaybars.

    3.9 years ago
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    I see a Senton 6s as your profile pic.

    3.9 years ago
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    5,285 CDRxavier

    @Maximum777

    I'm not talking a curve in a road at 60mph

    I know. I watch these races and I play Grand Turism myself.


    Cool stuff. No I mean it. It's cool. Even though eitle don't really care about them (they care about looks)
    Things under the hood don't always get noticed ...

    Let's stop there, all right? Don't spam the chat.

    4.7 years ago
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    5,947 Maximum777

    @CDRxavier the white bars are sway bars, they keep the axle level allowing the vechile to take a turn and not just compress one side of the suspension and roll but rather evenly distribute the load across the axle so instead of compressing one side they compress both, if you built them rock solid the axle liter cannot roll left or right and only goes up and down, I built them slightly flexible so that the axle can roll some and auctualy do its job and absorb bumps I kept it's abality to push there though so that it doesn't flip, also push means... Auctualy this takes a bit more explaining um, IRL race and sports cars have stiffer sway bars so that they dont roll too far left and right and instead slide along the ground when they go too far where most cars would flip, it's known as pushing instead of catching, most regular non sport vechiles don't have super stiff swaybars and absorb bumps better than race cars but can't take a turn nearly as fast or with as much control because they will catch and roll over, and I'm not talking a curve in a road at 60mph, I'm talking a hard right doing 100mph, riding the edge of a slide in and out of the turn. Street cars basically are a balance of push and catch, it's all a balance of do you want a Smoove ride or something that literally dosent flip taking a turn at 150mph, street cars drive well but not anything close to any sports or race car because regular streets are not perfect and have plenty of bumps and various lot holes, you get the point, race tracks do not, they are basically perfect, super Smoove and clean, there's no loose rocks and the ground is made to be gripped by racing tires at high speeds that don't have much tread. Rally cars are interesting they basically are the best of both worlds, they have plush suspension that's even better at absorbing bumps than street cars, but they also have the abality to Push and handle Amazing with stiff swaybars for on road and REDICIOLUS suspension for off road, this is greatly exzagerated in Rally Trucks which are top heavy, they are made for more endurance racing, like the Dakar endurance race, going over terrain nothing else can, they do however sacrafice a lot for this, they don't do on road very well and would never survive the corners an F1 car can take etc. Onlyt making it around bends by spinning thier tires and having less traction because if this. The big monster truck F1 you built is so simple and big it just dosent care, and also you made it so wide it's pr

    +1 4.7 years ago
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    5,285 CDRxavier

    @Maximum777
    Oh yeah so now you mention it ...
    It also hold true for what's basically the drifting ... estate cars. If they grip well of course they will end up rolling with the cage because high center of gravity.


    I drive it on mobile with physics to high. The white bars move (and I can see them move), but I can't figure out what they are all about and other stuff.


    But this one's COM is real high (higher than the top of the wheel) and just for that reason, this chassis actually handled very well.

    4.7 years ago
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    5,947 Maximum777

    Btw decently stable, cimpaired to other True Solid axle vechiles like this, that have as much suspension travel as this one, good luck driving something this big, with out sway bars, that still uses true 4 link, at 140mph on road, not much else can handle it with out swaying back and forth.

    Also for this to drive properly you MUST run it with PHYSICS SETTINGS: HIGH, otherwise the swaybars do not work and allow the vechile to roll extremely eaisaly and it just doesn't handle like anything.

    +1 4.7 years ago
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    5,947 Maximum777

    @CDRxavier I originally made this suspension to be really really scale looking, I wanted it to look real, and in the end I discovered a lot messing around with the swaybars but what I found is that if you basically give the rear tires no sideways traction it won't flip when you turn, and the problem is you can't turn so making it over steer was really the only way to make it drivable, I also made it easy to work in by making the chassis itself a sepreat part from the body, which btw is attached by one pole dead center in the chassis, I'd recommend taking it off and messing with it the chassis alone, anyways for the next version I'm changing the body to make it able to ride lower and I'm overhualling the shocks, they just like to expload right now and I got to fix that.

    +1 4.7 years ago
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    5,285 CDRxavier

    @Maximum777
    This is some seriously advanced suspension there ... even though I don't understand why half of them is even there, through viewing slow motions.
    So you are saying that my monster trucks (two separate links) now have a serious contender?
    I don't know why would you say "decently stable". I mean, my cars seemed pretty stable. Especially the BLOK (surprisingly stable for a small one)


    Addition: testing it on proving grounds.
    First try: roll over. Relatively high COM (but acceptable since it's a truck)
    Second try: Was going too fast and front wheel hit a flat section. See a couple springs flying out ...
    Third try! climbed to the top of ... the pyramid?


    Riding dirty:
    Oversteer. Thought the suspension can survive a roll (roll over), but it didn't. :(


    I'm thinking hard if I am to spotlight it or not.

    4.7 years ago
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    5,947 Maximum777

    Controlls: Pitch = forward/reverse, AG1 = lights, Yaw = steering and Break = break,

    4.7 years ago