saved from the closet: late 80's RC10 with vintage hop-ups

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Re: saved from the closet: late 80's RC10 with vintage hop-u

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RC10resto wrote:Very nice save :!:
Now make it look like an RC10 and not an SRB and dial out that positive Camber in the rear :wink:
Thanks.
Yeah, still lots of little things like that on the to-do list :wink:

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Because it was driving RC10resto crazy, I set the camber on all 4 to -1 degree last night :lol: :P

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Nice car. I personally think there are too many colors on it. I'd paint the nose plate and motor mount in a semi gloss paint, it'd match the rest of the black. I know you already took the time to strip those pieces too, but I just like the clean look of few colors.

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that motor plate is pretty rare, it doesn't need to be painted in my opinion. It's how the car looked back in the day, too many colors or not...

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yellowdatsun wrote:Nice car. I personally think there are too many colors on it. I'd paint the nose plate and motor mount in a semi gloss paint, it'd match the rest of the black. I know you already took the time to strip those pieces too, but I just like the clean look of few colors.
If I ever do a masami replica, I am totally using that advice! I'll just paint the body solid green and tell people it looked too busy with all of those colors! LMFAO :mrgreen:
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LMAO!

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do you have any screws holding the motor plate to the chassis? it looks like the trans/motor plate is only held in place by the top of the bulkhead, 2 screws. I think that plate should have some shortie 8-32 screws holding it to the chassis.

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Yeah, it's got a couple short screws holding it to the chassis

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Re: saved from the closet: late 80's RC10 with vintage hop-u

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mk-Zero wrote:that motor plate is pretty rare, it doesn't need to be painted in my opinion. It's how the car looked back in the day, too many colors or not...
Love the way this car looks, exactly as it came off the track in 1984/1985 - just with the dirt cleaned off. Dont change a thing, this time capsule needs to stay exactly intact.
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Thanks Joey, I'm glad some people get it 8)

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+ 1 what Joey said,

It's definitely a great time capsule!

Cheers, Dave. :)

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Thanks Dave. It was fun to restore it back to the way it looked sooooo long ago. It sits proudly on my shelf now. Although I do have one more thing to do to it. I bought a really nice Joel "Magic" Johnson 1987 World Championship Trinity motor, which is what I ran it way back when, that I need to wire up and install. After that it will truly be finished. Too many colors and all, lol.

The other thing, if I ever get around to it, is swapping the blue hardware for gold. Not sure what I was thinking with the blue, lol.

BTW, the cool thing about that MIP motor plate, is what a good job they did of matching the gold anodized color to the (early) cars of the same era. The nose plate I have on the car is obviously a pretty early one, being the lighter gold anodizing, and the MIP motor plate is an exact match.

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Hot Trick light gold/champagne (wide nose plates, steering & this motor plate that I remember) did match the early AE stuff nearly perfect. Great to see you stripped the paint off to show off the anodized beauty below.
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The funny thing is, the Hot Trick steering I have on this car is raw aluminum, no ano. I don't know that I've ever seen another plane set like that before, only red ones. They made them in gold too?

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