savo

[acc]

I see now, the pics below had renault on them to lol i was looking at the big picture above them.. I like the look of the 5 turbo, body hugs those rear tyres nice

[frankkind]

got the savo today, schassis is better than at the first picture,is cleaned.
perfect shassis
the body is very bad needs a lot off attention

[eightman]

got the savo today, schassis is better than at the first picture,is cleaned.
perfect shassis
the body is very bad needs a lot off attention

could you please give me dimensions of the body?LxW+wheelbase?

[frankkind]

wheelbase 630mm wide off the body 500mm

[eightman]

fast! thanks!

[cncit]

who or what is menoud

Hi Frank a bit of info on Menoud..

The Menoud family contested the French 1/4 scale championships in the early 90's.
The father was chief designer and the son Christophe raced the cars.

They raced a very sucessfull Sauber Mercedes F1 which started out with a very narrow flat aluminium chassis (later coppied by Yankee for theire Gt cars) with inboard pushrod shocks and hydraulic carbon breaks!

Then they moved to a twin carbon fibre tube chassis which had the front and rear clamping onto the tubes and allowing for adjustable wheel base. The car was very light and fast but very fragile..one off and your race was over.
The idea with the tubes was to allow inserts of different stifnesses that would fit inside the tubes and give quick chassis tuning at the track!

Ther design philosophy was super long wishbones and very narrow bulkheads with the shocks upright placed as close as possible to the centre of the chassis..another idea coppied by Yankee for their 1/4 F1 cars!

Also front and back ends were identical to make designing parts easier. Less parts to design etc.

The same chassis design was used on the Sauber Mercedes Group c and and later when group c was banned it became the Renault Spider GT car.

They also used the chassis design in their Audi 1/5 car but when 1/4 scale came to an end in France all their projects did too.

http://www.ftx-qs.com/qs/misc_pic/menoud_apero.jpg

John

[frankkind]

thanks for the info,but did sell the car a while ago
grt frank

[Mike Casey]

yea, thats some cool history. Pics would be wicked!!!

[cncit]

Thanks guys I have pics in old French model mags..i'll see if I can dig them out and scan some pages. The Menouds had some great ideas, shame they retired from the sport!!

John