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[thierry]

hello every body, i'm Thierry from Belgium, 57 years old and fan for 1/32 slot cars, and particularly about Le Mans '69 (first victory Jaky Icky), about 20 cars from 45 started.
but if i'm here is because i also fan about Lotus car (not biscuit, flower or toilet paper  ) , i actually drive a Elise every day , and i am busy whit lotus slot cars, so i'm here to look and to know how to do with it, and particulary whith the whishbown from the rear weels.

If more, just ask 

Sorry for my poor anglish (frogs tolking).

[Chris Wright]

Hi Thierry, welcome to the forum.

There a many ways to fabricate the wishbones on the rear suspension. Below is a picture of my Lotus 25. I try to fabricate the rear suspension as close as I can to the real car.

Every body has their favourite way of doing this. It is best that you look at the many photographs of the 60's F-1 cars that have been built by members of this forum.

Here's how I did the rear suspension on my Eagle:



My Lotus is very similar:



And here is how Mr Wisdom does it:



Good luck

Chris

[thierry]

woaw, thanks, y have a lot too lurn! do you use piano cords to make it or something else ? Do you use cement to fix it or with a other technique ?

[David Lawson]

Hello Thierry

Your English is a lot better than my French...

We all have slightly different ways of building our 1960s suspension and you will find a method that you are most comfortable with after a few car builds.

As Chris has said it is worth reading the various threads on this forum as there are lots of pictures and description on how to go about detailing these cars.

Each car I build tends to be a slightly different method depending on the suspension design but here are a few pictures of my Lotus 25 which shows the piano wire lower radius arms and wishbones soldered to the chassis rails and the front upper rocker arms in brass strip soldered to the front axle bracket. The rear piano wire upper radius arms, anti roll bar and springs are drilled and glued into the bodyshell.

It is nice to hear you are a Lotus enthusiast as well, I have been a fan of them since the early 1960s.

Here are a few of my single-seater Lotus scratchbuilds.

David

[Mark Huber]

Welcome Thierry,

I made these lower trailing arms and wishbones by soldering a piece of piano wire to each side of the chassis and then soldering piano wire loops < to the trailing arms. I bent the piano wire with a pair of pliers.

Like David, I may attach the upper rear suspension components to the body shell, although this will vary from car to car.

[thierry]

Genius your are