From Japanese magazine R C Magazine, October 2001.
Kawada was working on moving the weight forward. As both the Alcyon and Alcyon II are quite rear heavy cars. The Alcyon being like 55:45, and Alcyon II 53:47, For comparison, I managed to get my alcyon II to be 52:48 without moving the servo forward.
So they made a protoype with saddle packs shifted way far forward, servo flipped and shifted very close to the steering links, esc is very close to the motor and pushed far inwards as possiblie while still not touching belt.
Notice also the laid down shocks and very low roll centers, but raised rear upper links to bring up the rear roll center so that it wont be too low. It shouldn't be too low in the rear or the car will understeer badly.
the final product was different though, it maintained the servo , battery and esc placement, but was only made for side by side packs, and the front C hubs were lowered and had the camber link go over the kingpin instead of using C Hub Sx-58 like in the pic.
The rear hub also got its own alloy piece that goes above the rear tyre.
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