Renault 40 Record: Chassis

What a painful kit! nothing is doweled or pinned, nothing lines up, and the instructions are crude to the point of being useless. As well, some of the long thin resin bits have bubbles in them due to casting flaws, and break in half the minute you try to push them into a hole. So I gritted my teeth and got the suspension done.



The rear has friction shocks and quarter elliptics at an angle to the chassis centreline. The brake rods are a nice touch but required lot of fabrication with various bits of brass rod to make it work.



In front the tie-rod and its associated arms had to be pinned to each other and to the knuckles. It's a simple dropped axle, again on quarter elliptics, with no apparent shock absorbers and certainly no brakes. Twenty-four hours at an average 140+ km/h must have been hellish.



So anyway it's sitting on its wheels. (The piece of wire next to the left-side windshield post is excess hinge material for the door which will be cut off at the end). Next is the body and final assembly. One adventure to come is scratch building the structure for mounting the steering wheel to the dash, as there is no obvious approach using the bits in the box. Stay tuned!