Jo.Mora

Great Idea! I'm using the DB5 "easy build" wheels on my 2+2 project. 😉

Yes I know... This will not be visible but I thought I would give it a shot anyway... 😁 Rear brake lines!

I finally was able to finish the last wheel. I installed the rear wheels and the spacing seems fine to me... Did you mount the tension bars like on my picture (correct way as per one other forum member, can't recall who, pointed out) or like on the instructions (wrong way)? This might have an incidence on the position of the differential.

Hi, Not that many mods really. The kit is very nice. I used some telephone wire instead of the rubber tubing for the different conducts on the engine as you can shape them. I modified the instrument panel so they would all illuminate, not just the two main. All in all, a great kit for the money.

Bon truc! merci de l'avoir partagé!

Really nice kit. No real issue except for the wire wheels. not impossible but tricky as I found some spokes to be too short. But the kit also comes with "easy build" wheels and once the hubcaps are fitted, you won't see the wheels anymore. Good option if you don't have the patience...

Had some spare time this weekend so I decided to add some details to the undercarriage... Heat-shields over the exhaust pipes and E-Brake linkage. Thanks to @Oliv79 for the inspiration and reference photos! Merci! Still plan to add the battery power cable and brake lines.

Hi Mike, I haven't installed the rear wheels yet just because I didn't built the last one yet... I have to be in a really motivated state of mind to engage in this... 🤣 I will certainly keep an eye for this potential issue. Thanks for pointing it out!

Wow! Merci pour l'info!! 👌

Pourrait-on avoir d'autres photos de la tringlerie du frein d'urgence et de ce qui me semble être la canalisation de carburant...? Ça me semble très fidèle et j'aimerais m'en inspirer. Merci!

My thought on this, it is just a mistake from the design department. Not an immense issue but nonetheless a very noticeable faux pas.

Hi all! Here's my advancement on the undercarriage. - Weathering on the exhaust pipes and silencers. (yes, I filled the two screw holes on the silencers) 😉 - Some weathering also on the floor pan and differential. - Brake discs clad with aluminum foil and calipers painted to simulate Cadmium plating.

Is it just me? Why there's a gap in the shifter boot? Decided to 3D print a replacement.

J'ai dû à deux reprises (jusqu’à maintenant) fabriquer des rayons de rechange. La première fois parce que j'en ai simplement perdu un, et la deuxième fois à cause d'un rayon défectueux. Ma solution, j'utilise des épingles de couture. Ça fonctionne bien et impossible de voir la différence. 😁

I just received Pack 6 two days ago so I figured that today was the perfect day to start building the two rear wheels (since it is raining here in Montreal). Well, It didn't go as planed. On my first wheel, on the second row of spokes, one of the spokes was damaged and unusable... Had to make a spare using a sewing pin. @AGORA, would it be possible to have a few spare spokes with each step?! Can't imagine they are so expensive that you can't toss a few more in the package. I just finished the IXO Bugatti and I have like 20 spare spokes left... On my third row, one spoke flew off my tweezers... 😶 After several minutes looking for it... Found it! it was just there. 😒 During the rest of the assembly, spokes kept falling out of place. Not a good day I guess. So even if my expectations where high, I kinda stopped after that one wheel. On the bright side, only one wheel to go! 😄

Hi, It definitely doesn't look right... I haven't received pack 6 (nor pack 5 for that matter) so I can't really verify the fit of the hand brake... Silly question: Did you firmly press the handle in place before securing it with the PS05 screw? Is the screw tight enough? Thanks for bringing this up, I will surely pay special attention to this detail!

In parallel to the Agora DB5, I am currently building the IXO Bugatti 57SC (which came in ONE package and cost like 3 time less than the DB5... but I understand that Agora as a different business approach) and I thought it would be interesting to compare the wire wheels from both kits. The Bugatti wheels are quite larger than the DB5's but they share the same number of spokes. Assembly is done in a similar way (including all the issues I encountered with the DB5 wheels...). The main difference is that the DB5 wheels have 4 rows of spokes and the 57SC has 5. Where things got crunchy is when building the 57SC wheels is that the spokes for the third row are definitely too short and I had to unbend the tip super glue all of them in place to make them fit. Despite this, the wheels look very very good! IXO has even thought of the inflation valve stem (circled in red in the picture) which I think is very cool... (@Agora, take note of this detail! 😉). Also, notice the amount of spokes I'm left with after building five wheels! IXO included 2 or 3 Spokes for each stage of each wheel just in case you loose some during the assembly! (@Agora, take note of this too! 😁).

Hi all! If like me you have lost a spoke (pinging off your tweezers to another space-time continuum) while building your wheels, here I share my solution. I used a sewing pin that was the same diameter to within a thousandth or two of an inch and using one of the original spokes as a template, I was able to make a replacement. I used a pair forceps (but you can use a pair of long-nose pliers if the tip is thin enough) to gently match the bends and then just cut the excess with some cutters. Once it was installed, I couldn't tell which spoke was the "fake" one... Hope this helps.

Hi, I see that you're done with pack 5... Good job! I'm still waiting for mine... I'm curious, is the rear suspension functional? I was a bit surprised (and disappointed) that the front suspension became non functional after installing the rigid one piece steering rack/tie rods assembly. I have built cheaper kits that had working suspension... I'm thinking of modifying it to correct this...🤔

Nice work! I feel the struggle here to... my fingers aren't as agile as they used to. 😒Do, oups! Undo, redo, DAM! Redo... 😭But when finished, 👌

In parallel, I am currently building the Bugatti 57SC form IXO Collection... My thoughts on the IXO spoke wheels; Although they are larger than those on the DB5, the quality and consistency (size wise and finish) of each individual spoke is not as good as Agora's. This is probably why they do include a few extra spokes for each step. Nonetheless, I had to "modify" several of them to make them fit. The rest of the kit is truly amazing though! They also do include an "easy wheel" option in the kit if you don't have the patience... 😉 Seeing this, I can only salute the work done by Agora on their spoke wheels and how well they come together when compared to other manufacturers...

I just ordered the Bugatti 57! I am super excited and I can't wait to get my hands on it! 😁

Really nice work! See you also drilled front cam case breathers (or what ever these are called)...

Yeh, those A-arm pins are really small! And expensive for what you're saying... 😶 For the spokes, I learned my lesson... I will never use the tweezers to pick them up again! Just to "massage" them in place once they are threaded through the holes... 😉