Anti-Gravity Go-Cart

[ti]

I did some changes to the original car to give it a more futuristic kinda look. I wanted a little more aggressive look and thus came up with this design. I used quite a few everyday items and parts from my 'Misc. box of tricks'.



Original kit used for this major build:









The result of the transformation:

[perttime]

Ha! Sort of like a Star wars pod racer, built as one unit. 

I always wonder how anti-gravity vehicles manage cornering. There's got to be something better than sliding and drifting like a hovercraft.

[TheChronicOne]

I dig it!  I can envision it running through a race in about the year 2114 and the engines sound like a cross between a TF-39 and an elephant. 



EDIT.  Sometimes I graze the touchpad as I type and it deletes whole chunks of things. Made my sentence not make any sense.

[Captain Canada]

That's pretty wild ! Bells and whistles everywhere ! Lots to peruse, that's for sure. My 'car brain' can't help but wonder what those enormous discs are going to stop lol

Cheers !

[zenrat]

...I always wonder how anti-gravity vehicles manage cornering. There's got to be something better than sliding and drifting like a hovercraft.

It's similar to steering a toboggan by digging your feet in.  You partially shear the anti grav field on one side perpendicular to the direction of travel.  The sheared anti grav field drags against the planetary flux and causes the vehicle to turn to that side.  Of course shearing the field that way causes a commensurate reduction in lift meaning the vehicle banks into the turn.  Shear it too much and it'll strike and dig in resulting at best in a ground loop and at worst disaster.

[perttime]

...I always wonder how anti-gravity vehicles manage cornering. There's got to be something better than sliding and drifting like a hovercraft.

It's similar to steering a toboggan by digging your feet in.  You partially shear the anti grav field on one side perpendicular to the direction of travel.  The sheared anti grav field drags against the planetary flux and causes the vehicle to turn to that side.  Of course shearing the field that way causes a commensurate reduction in lift meaning the vehicle banks into the turn.  Shear it too much and it'll strike and dig in resulting at best in a ground loop and at worst disaster.

Thanks!
I like to know how stuff works. A scientific explanation is always welcome, as long as it isn't so scientific that it confuses me.

[PR19_Kit]

It's similar to steering a toboggan by digging your feet in.  You partially shear the anti grav field on one side perpendicular to the direction of travel.  The sheared anti grav field drags against the planetary flux and causes the vehicle to turn to that side.  Of course shearing the field that way causes a commensurate reduction in lift meaning the vehicle banks into the turn.  Shear it too much and it'll strike and dig in resulting at best in a ground loop and at worst disaster.

You know too much................ 

[zenrat]

It's similar to steering a toboggan by digging your feet in.  You partially shear the anti grav field on one side perpendicular to the direction of travel.  The sheared anti grav field drags against the planetary flux and causes the vehicle to turn to that side.  Of course shearing the field that way causes a commensurate reduction in lift meaning the vehicle banks into the turn.  Shear it too much and it'll strike and dig in resulting at best in a ground loop and at worst disaster.

You know too much................ 

I'd been drinking.  I forgot my place.  Sorry.

[Rick Lowe]

It's similar to steering a toboggan by digging your feet in.  You partially shear the anti grav field on one side perpendicular to the direction of travel.  The sheared anti grav field drags against the planetary flux and causes the vehicle to turn to that side.  Of course shearing the field that way causes a commensurate reduction in lift meaning the vehicle banks into the turn.  Shear it too much and it'll strike and dig in resulting at best in a ground loop and at worst disaster.

You know too much................ 

I'd been drinking.  I forgot my place.  Sorry.

That's ok, the rest of us are always impressed by your explanations... those that aren't marking your card and target spotting for the Black Helicopters, that is... 

[ti]

Ha! Sort of like a Star wars pod racer, built as one unit. 

I always wonder how anti-gravity vehicles manage cornering. There's got to be something better than sliding and drifting like a hovercraft.

One way of looking at it.

[ti]

I dig it!  I can envision it running through a race in about the year 2114 and the engines sound like a cross between a TF-39 and an elephant. 



EDIT.  Sometimes I graze the touchpad as I type and it deletes whole chunks of things. Made my sentence not make any sense.

HAHA!!

[su27rules]

 

[TheChronicOne]

I dig it!  I can envision it running through a race in about the year 2114 and the engines sound like a cross between a TF-39 and an elephant. 



EDIT.  Sometimes I graze the touchpad as I type and it deletes whole chunks of things. Made my sentence not make any sense.

HAHA!!

Dude I hate that damn thing. I've tried turning it off but can only get it sort of halfway off....   I've disabled the zoom function at least. That was ultra annoying but I can still move the cursor around and somehow or another I'm inputing short cuts or something that moves the cursor (NOT like in a mouse fashion, but like in a Scotty beamed it from one place to another fashion as if a mouse CLICK and not a mouse DRAG) and sometimes it seems to take away whole chunks of things I've written, etc.