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X6 Cubed first official "Body Off" pictures
X-Factory Release First “Body Off” Shots of the X6 Cubed We have obtained body-off photos of X Factory engineer Paul Sinclair’s prototype X–6 Cubed, which we are now able to reveal. In recent months X-Factory has released photos with the body on, but they have kept the lid on details of the new car while final details of the design were being worked out. As can be seen from the photos, the X–6 Cubed will be an all carbon fibre car in keeping with X-Factory’s recently released SCX–60CF short course and the X–60CF stadium truck. Spokesman Chazz Sinclair said, “We will be an all-carbon fibre company in about 6 weeks when the Cubed is released. Both the X–6 Squared and X–60 will still be available; they are molded chassis cars and there are certain advantages to that, but we believe most customers will prefer the lightweight, narrow carbon fibre cars.” While the X–6 Cubed is similar in some ways to the X–60CF and SCX–60CF, that basic design has been changed and updated to many buggy specific changes. Engineer Paul Sinclair explained “Buggies are lighter and shorter, so you want different characteristics in how they take bumps, jump, and corner. Especially, they must flex differently, and we have achieved that in the X–6 Cubed.” Several important features of the new X – 6 Cubed:
Paul Sinclair said, “The car in these photos is my prototype car, and there are a few minor changes between this and final production. The biggest one is the way the ball studs are mounted to the rear tower, in production, the ballstuds will be in the same location but mounted vertically. Also, the body mounts are not on my car. Otherwise, this is pretty much it.” Chazz added, “Eight Team drivers in U.K. have Cube’s, along with one in Belgium, one in Australia, and six U.S. Team drivers. Every one of them reports 2-3 tenths faster lap times than with their Squareds. More important, everyone says the Cubed is even easier to drive fast than the Squared was. That’s hard to believe, but they are unanimous. They describe the X–6 Cubed as ‘light and nimble’ compared to the Squared. The Cubed truly is higher math.” After several delays from various parts suppliers, the X–6 Cubed should now begin shipping to dealers in early June. The car will be available two ways: a “Conversion Kit” for the AE B4/4.1/4.2 models and an “UpGrade Kit” for the X–6 Squared existing owners. More details on pricing to follow soon...... There is also a videocast where both Chazz and Paul reveal the car “body off” too, which can be found here - http://www.xfactoryrc.com/rc/Videos.php More pictures can be found on our facebook page, UK distribution website and the X-Factory US website
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Pfff missed chance to update the gearbox to fit a geardiff as far as I can see.
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The car looks great! Great work Chazz & co and you are correct, carbon is the right way to go this is my next racing machine thank you.
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I love it! I've seen it in action, it looked so frisky, alive and nimble! Under the lid it's fitting to that: It's a lovely sight to behold whilst working on your car! One to watch and definetely on the wishlist to test/try out! |
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I was expecting something alot different.
What with all the current cars in the top end of UK nationals having Ally chassis. |
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Alloy is nothing new, the Schumachers, Associated's and Kyosho's of the early 90's (and late 80's) were all alloy, before they went through the phase of moulded versiosn of graphite/plastic and carbon fibre chassis's and back full circle to alloy again. I would bet sometime in the future it all moves around again too.....
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Darren is correct. For about six months two of our Team drivers here in the U.S. have been testing Aluminum chassis Cubes, and they are faster than the Squared. We also have been testing CF for about four months, so we have considerable experience with both, and impressions from different drivers. We selected CF for many reasons, mostly because it has been faster.
With the CF X - 6 Cubed, the most important part of the set-up sheet will be which top deck bolts are snugged down tight, which ones are a bit loose, and which are not installed at all. Can't do that with aluminum... |
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Will there be lots of adjustability on inner rear camber link position (particularly height) for production? This is useful tuneable on the C4.1 that I always wish I had on my X6. Ability to move the battery back and forth will be good in the UK for wet and dry running.
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Just my opinions guys, I was looking forward to the release and i got myself a B4.1 ready. |
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I'm lead to believe that a lot of the early testing and design work was done over here first, and alloy was used then.
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Battery movement was a key feature and you do not need to purchase any extra parts or alternative fancy battery retainers to be able to do it.
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The main difference wit the flex tuning on the Cubed is that removal of any screws will NOT put into jeopardy the strength of the car, all pivot and fixing points have been designed to overlap and multiple pick ups and fixing points on the top deck and chassis mounts allow for a selection of mounting positions to connect it all together, not just as simple as leaving a screw out or putting one in here or there and certainly no body clips holding anything together or in place (other than the body) The old plastic chassis are probably heavier than you think, in many cases some of the alloy chassis todays are lighter than the plastic moulded ones, I think it was more to create a one piece item rather then to have multiple parts at the time, but on the Cubed this approach is now being used to tune the car as described above. Plus many of the reason why manufactures turned away from alloy in the first place was because it bent and stayed bent, and to be fair this is still an issue on some of todays cars using that material too. Like I said in my first reply, X-Factory are not the sort of company to simply follow the crowd or make something simply because everyone else does it that way..... Think you will like it when it arrives, we certainly do....
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Hey Darren, how bout some pics of your car ???
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Alloy is light for sure, but just not what we wanted/or settled on for the Cubed.
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Just posted a couple more photos of the car on our UK facebook page for those who are interested....
>>>> X-Factory UK Facebook Page <<<<
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