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Team Magic E4RS4 Concept:
•Designing the Team Magic E4RS4
•NEW "Symetric Flex" chassis
•NEW "Symetric Flex" upper deck
•NEW "Symetric Flex" management
•NEW Motor mount with flex management
•NEW One-piece motor mount
•NEW Central layshaft mount
•NEW Lower bulkheads
•NEW Upper bulkheads
•Suspension arms mounts
•Suspension arms inserts
•Aluminium arms mounts pivot balls
•NEW Suspension arms angles
•NEW High precision roll center adjusters
•ST steel hardened and polished suspension axle
•Reinforced C-hubs
•Modified steering blocks
•Zero-Play suspension arms
•Anti-roll bar mounts
•NEW Aluminium 7075 Black anodized pivot ball
•NEW Aluminium 7075 Black anodized turnbuckles
•Aluminium 7075 hard coated spur gear holder
•CNC machined Delrin spur gear
•Low friction BANDO belts
•NEW Adjustable belt tension via eccentrics
•NEW Front spool axle with hard treated steel "No-Blades" outdrives
•Gear differential with 4 composite gears
•NEW "No-Blades" front double-jointed driveshafts
•Rear driveshafts
•"Symetric Flex" floating steering system
•NEW Optimized steering plate
•NEW "Symetric Flex" floating servo mount
•Ultra stiff servo ballcup
•NEW "Ultra Low CG" shock towers
•NEW "Ultra Low CG" big bore shock absorbers
•NEW Low rebound system shock caps
•NEW Teflon coated big bore shock bodies
•NEW ST steel hardened and polished shock shafts
•NEW Big bore Teflon shock pistons
•NEW Piston shaft teflon guides
•NEW Shock spring setting collars
•Aluminium Shock spring cups
•NEW PRO touring matched shock springs
•Aluminium 7075 wheel hex adapters
•Optimized battery position and mounts
•Quick release battery holder
•High Grade graphite battery retainers (3 positions)
•Low Friction ball bearings
•Heavy duty body posts
•High density foam bumper
Designing the Team Magic E4RS4:
What adventure we lived there ! To create the Team Magic E4RS4 turned out to be a challenge as great as passionant. Strong from our great and fruitful passt experience of the developement of the Team Magic E4RS II Evo, E4RS III and E4RS III+ cars, Team Magic Taïwan gave the responsability to create and design the E4RS4 to Team Magic Europe. So, I worked hard on the conception of the car, while Jeremy Clavey, professional CAD draftsman, designed the parts. This first collaboration with has been extremelly professional and pleasant, and I deeply thank him for that.
The E4RS4 is the result of a long work of study, drawing and numerous discussions with the Team Magic drivers of whom I'm in charge of here in Europe, as well as very invaluable advice of a world level driver (top ten), further to the test the E4RS III+ in a intensive way last year. Each of them had the possibility to express their opinion, to suggest ideas and to talk about their experience. I thank all the drivers for their precious help, as well as for their results and involvement.
In order to create the E4RS4, we studied in depth the weak points of the E4RS III+. We defined four axes of improvement to create the E4RS4.
- Lowering the centre of gravity and reducing the global car weight.
- Reducing the longitudinal flex.
- Optimising the torsionnal flex, as well as the "Symetric Flex" concept.
- Improving the efficiency and stability of the settings.
So, all the central part of the car has been rethought: chassis, upper deck, bulkheads, position of them, motor and middle axle mount, servo mount and flex management.
All this with the aim of improving an already very successful base, that was the E4RS III series.
To close this introduction, I would thank once again the Team Magic drivers, of all levels; as weel as the staff of Team Magic Taïwan, and also Jeremy Clavey, for their collaboration which I appreciate quite particularly.
Lionel Troyon - designer of the Team Magic E4RS4
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