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That reminds me of the Hybrid AE buggy....

Although for a minute there I was kinda excited until my balloon was popped.

Wow, that's fantastic !

Great job Kym, definitely has the old racer look to it !

I concur, even the glass filled nylon tends to eat the aluminum over time. I've run some crazy power through the stock T4 gearbox, never stripped a nylon gear, never greased the gears and ran the slipper basically locked down. Obviously just be smart and don't keep the throttle pegged when you land ...

2006... that's modern!!

Is yours missing or just broken?

Very talented, I dig the retro palm tree body

Now the airflow through the fins is wrong

A normal body yes, a short course body no

Todd should have pine trees on his bodies, not palm trees !

What are the light up cubes that the Bandits are sitting on?

The ABC sleeve is nice, no wonder they were so popular, probably a better engine than the CZ/CV. The bearings also cleaned up surprisingly well with a bit of love. I tried something a bit different and used cutting oil to work the bearing followed by a solvent bath. This seemed to work better than j...

I chose to grind the starting pin and save the crank just in case.


Before


After

Since someone decided to pull the pullstart off and lose it I just so happened to stumble across one of these kits. 20240315_223231.jpg I'm surprised it came with a new crank, OS just told you to grind the starter pin off the crank. The new crank is standard length so you'd still have to cut it down...

I never had one on these as I was an OS guy but they look like a great little engine. This one came in a bulk lot of stuff and while fairly clean could still use some help. 20240314_221501.jpg Engine all stripped down, the sleeve was pretty stuck and I had to use a heat gun to get it out. The inside...

That's because your TV is listening to you and taking more and more of your data, and I wouldn’t surprised if the TV is watching you