Jo.Mora

Thursday at 04:20 PM

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

DB5 Member Builds · Thursday at 12:14 AM

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

DB5 Member Builds · Wednesday at 01:59 AM

On 5/11/2024 at 7:45 AM, Wtshark said:

You're probably right. A mistake where a part is too small to fit into its assigned area is a simple one to fix. Especially when it's in such an "upfront" area. Perhaps during the scanning they mistakenly used a shadow as a measurement. We shall see.

The undercarriage looks great, I wanted to ask you, when you mount your rear tires, are they equidistant from the frame? Mine are off, with the Driver's side being about a mm or 2 closer to the frame than the other (I think), and I was thinking it was because of the tension sway bar attached to the rear end. It's probably not going to be noticeable when the body panels are mounted, but was wondering if you experienced this and if so, how you fixed it.

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.

Tuesday at 10:25 PM

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.

Tuesday at 08:16 PM

6 hours ago, Le_Fred said:

Étape 041 : Montage du pneu et de la lame de déchiquetage de pneu

je me suis aperçu que ma pièce 41-B, le cache moyeu était partiellement bouché, j'ai donc décidé de jouer le Mario et débouché l'axe de la pièce, j'en ai profité pour également élargir l'axe de cette pièce afin de permettre à la lame de déchiquetage des pneus d'avoir moins d'adhérence avec l'axe de la roue.

J'ai également fait l'autre coté car il était très difficile de sortir la lame de déchiquetage sans tout ressortir.

Maintenant, un petit coup d'ongle et hop, le Bond-Gadget est de sortie

Bon truc! merci de l'avoir partagé!

Monday at 08:31 PM

12 minutes ago, Bugatti Fan said:

That Type 57 Atlantic looks right up my street !

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...

DB5 Member Builds · Monday at 05:22 PM

39 minutes ago, Scotter said:

Excellent job, I'm especially impressed withe brake linkage and how you achieved it?

DB5 Member Builds · Monday at 02:19 PM

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.

DB5 Member Builds · May 11

5 hours ago, Wtshark said:

You're probably right. A mistake where a part is too small to fit into its assigned area is a simple one to fix. Especially when it's in such an "upfront" area. Perhaps during the scanning they mistakenly used a shadow as a measurement. We shall see.

The undercarriage looks great, I wanted to ask you, when you mount your rear tires, are they equidistant from the frame? Mine are off, with the Driver's side being about a mm or 2 closer to the frame than the other (I think), and I was thinking it was because of the tension sway bar attached to the rear end. It's probably not going to be noticeable when the body panels are mounted, but was wondering if you experienced this and if so, how you fixed it.

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!

May 11

Wow! Merci pour l'info!! 👌

May 11

On 5/1/2024 at 8:24 AM, Oliv79 said:

Bonjour,

La notice est bien erronée même si je n'ai pas eu de soucis à monter les pièces comme indiquées.

Si on compare le montage sur une vraie DB5, les barres sont bien inversées.

On peut facilement corriger le défaut. Je n'ai pas eu de problème pour inverser le sens de montage.

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!

DB5 Member Builds · May 10

On 5/7/2024 at 8:40 AM, Wtshark said:

Yes, there is a gap, I have no idea why. You seemed to get your carpet pads in very well, (looking at the seam in the shifter photo), and the printed shift boot seems to fit the car much better. I have no idea why the part fits this way, I am hoping it's by design, but we'll see I suppose.

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

DB5 Member Builds · May 10

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.

DB5 Member Builds · May 7

Is it just me? Why there's a gap in the shifter boot?

Decided to 3D print a replacement.

May 6

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. 😁

DB5 Member Builds · May 5

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! 😄

April 13

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!

DB5 Member Builds · April 7

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! 😁).

DB5 Member Builds · April 6

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.

DB5 Member Builds · April 1

On 3/31/2024 at 2:30 PM, Wtshark said:

I was very excited to receive pack 5 yesterday and began assembling through the steps. It was somewhat straight forward and relatively simple, though I did get a bit confused with a couple of the steps showing what appeared to be backwards photos. Namely when attaching the rear shocks, the photo appears to require the shock mounting under the rear axle, but it won't fit into the holes (which have locking lugs) and it would be upside down when mounted to the chasis. I worked it out, only to absent mindedly mount one of the sway bars backwards, requiring me to break out some small punches and undo a few steps to get to one of the pins, remove it and mount the sway bar properly.

I took a few photos, hope they're helpful, or at least fun to look at.

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...🤔

March 28

On 3/27/2024 at 11:16 AM, Wtshark said:

That is amazing, that model looks great, given the differences in technology and wheel building for the times, that wheel looks great, even with your issues, your skill seems to override it.

I agree, adding a few extra spokes (as we've discussed on previous posts) would be nice. Knowing, if I lose even 1 spoke, I'll have to either order more, or follow your lead and fabricate one out of a sewing needle, (that's still pretty amazing btw). Slow and steady wins the race, using our fingers to set, mount and thread the spokes into the wheel, then using tweezers to manipulate, cajole, harass, etc. them into their final place seems to be the key. My trouble is my fingers seem to stick to every other spoke, knocking them out of position as I insert the next, and I wind up chasing the rabbit around and round, replacing/resetting the previously installed spokes.... as I said previously, deep breath and ZEN. 😅

This morning I tackle the front of the wheel and the remaining 48 spokes, wish me luck

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, 👌

March 26

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...

March 20

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

DB5 Member Builds · March 17

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

DB5 Member Builds · March 17

22 minutes ago, Wtshark said:

That is my biggest fear, for the size and tendency of those spokes to "ping" off in any direction when held by tweezers, losing one almost seems to be a forgone conclusion. I had that happen during my first wheel build, but the white t-shirt I had surrounded my workspace happened to catch it. An extra spoke (or two) per wheel would help alleviate some of the pressure.

I lost not one, but two of the small pins for affixing the A-arms and shocks for build #3, I searched, used a magnet for an hour and finally resigned to being unable to finish, (I may be able to finish with the next pack of pins from Pack 4), but I asked for some extra from Agora, which they were happy to send to me, for 15 USD. I don't mind, it's my mistake, but a few extra spokes would be very helpful. Using a sewing needle is a great idea, one I hope not to need, but it's good to know- 😉

Thanks!

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... 😉

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