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Originally Posted by MarcusN
The MAN 630 sounds interesting, will you be making it 4wd or just rear wheel drive?
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It will be a 2wd. The 4wd trucks I have seen so far have a much bigger turn radius due to the missing differential. That would not fit to my narrow trails on the parcour. (and it's more expensive if you can't make it on your own)
In fact I want to build a Unimog at the same time with the MAN. One of them should get a special suspension for the front axle that I have seen on a trade fair this year at Thorsten's MAN 630 (who answered you earlier in this thread). It was fascinating, looking really realistic and working perfect but a bit hard to descibe in english
The other truck should get a swinging connecting arm between the swinging front and rear axle that should improve the trial capabilities. You can see this solution here on
Harrys page
But so far these are only plans ... let's see what comes out at last
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Originally Posted by MarcusN
Your parcours loks very nice. What material did you use to make it out of?
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The base panel is made of "Styrodur". In Germany you get it in building centers and it compares a bit to styrofoam, but it's stronger and not that crumbly. The "mountains" are made of styrofoam, paper-mâché on top and gypsum/cement at last.
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Originally Posted by MarcusN
Would it be possibly if you could take some pictures of the underside of your MAN and maybe the internals?
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I will take some pictures this evening and post them tomorrow ...
Jochen