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[Jogumpie]

Halfway July I am supposed to have a smaller flat ride ready for an exposition, so I decided to go with bumper cars. I have seen at least one bumper cars recreation on Themepark.nl, but I decided to go with my own design. Yes, the car is rather large. To be honest, this is just one time deal and I am just going to follow what comes up in my mind and keep you updated with what happens to this small ride.



I am planning on powering a few of those cars by connecting the vertical rods to powered chains in the ceiling of the ride.

One more month to build this...

Edited by Jogumpie, 04 September 2013 - 01:25 PM.

[Micronex]

Dear Jogumpie:

Can I borrow your shrinking machine? That car looks damn sexy ;D

On behalf of the rest of the forum.

[2015ASM]

Are you also entering this into Summer Heat?

Looks Good,

-AsM

[GreenAppleW]

those cars are looking great!

[Maxlaam]

Mhh, lovely!

[RNB]

Looks cool, but a bit too big. Move on!

[HamenChiz]

I love bumper cars, oftenly I bump head to head.

Nice cars, can't wait to see the whole thing.

[Jogumpie]

The bottom side of the ceiling. Will make sure the top side will be covered in some way. There are two chain loops, the inner one powers 3 bumper cars, the outer one powers 5 bumper cars.

Edited by Jogumpie, 04 September 2013 - 01:25 PM.

[Maxlaam]

Going to be great! What have you planned for the floor? Another cake?

[LaMbChOpZ]

I knew it!! I knew you'd go with this design.

Looks amazing Gump, now I just want to see how this turns out. Looking at this reminds me of an inverted design of Jesper's Pirate Ship ride thing.

[RCT2123]

Ha, this is cool. I love the strange projects you have been working on Gump!

[-=TK=-]

It's cool. I luve it!

-=tK=-

[RNB]

Cool! BTW, could the cars come a bit closer to eachother so there's a chance of collissions? Love this project already!

[Jogumpie]

Taken off the head lights. They were causing problems when the cars collided. Now working on the third car. Interested in how many cars the motors can handle.

[floris2burn]

I am amazed ...

... where you guys find the time to make all this during the end of the school year.

Love it so far, good luck!

[Jogumpie]

Got some footage for you guys. Let me be clear, this is still just a test. Been doing a lot of tinkering afterwards and I even came up with a way that should solve the whole jerkiness. Haven't worked it out yet, but I'll get up early to work on it again.

[Jumpge]

Wow, that looks great and super realistic, minus the whole jerkiness thing. I think that is my biggest concern, because once that is fixed it will look like a smooth ride up until the cars hit. Very nice work on the structure and realism on this, for I really like the outcome of it.

[RollerManiac]

Replace the grey rods with black carbon rods, and strengthen the connections at the top. The best way to solve the jerkiness would be to place a thin sheet of plastic on the bottom of the cars, and cover the base/floor with another thin, plastic sheet.

[2015ASM]

Looks great Gump, love the design. I'm sure you will make it even better

-AsM

[RNB]

Looks great!

One thing that could be improved: Make it possible for the cars to 'swing' a bit, so they always go a bit different!

Good luck!