Ok, still no idea how I’m going to make a moving front lip. One thing is sure, I’m not going to cut the Buddy Club wing at all so I have to build my own lip. 🙂
I’ve been thinking linear actuators, RC servos and pneumatics to move it.
Actually I scrapped the pneumatics already, because I don’t have a compressor in the car 🙂
Linear actuators would be cool. They’re powerful, reasonably fast and easy to control, but also bulky and expensive.
Seems that I’ll be using RC servos. Inexpensive and pretty easy to control and if one isn’t powerful enough, just add a second one 🙂
The part under the bumper is a wedge and the front lip can’t move up from the current position… at least the buddyclub lip is stuck there. I had a weird idea about three piece front lip that would rotate upwards, but it would be so complex that I’d have something transformer-esque instead of a front lip 🙂 Or something that is cut from the middle and could be widened a bit so it could move upwards… too complex again! 😀
Hmm, so is there room for the lip to slide up the front bumper without altering it? I can’t wait to see how this turns out =D