So- I have a original Eagle with the painted chassis on the shelf already- and then I found this slightly different chassis. It was obviously a truck at one time as the price tag is still on it. It has the extra holes for the Pro trans that the early Eagle chassis didn't have. I conclude it must be a Blue Eagle? I decided to put the long LS rear arms on it, which I probably shouldn't have. I'm pretty certain the LS would have never came with the painted chassis. Can anyone confirm the painted chassis was around for the Blue Eagle?
While your here...if anyone has a set of body mounts and gear cover let me know
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I'm sure your right about the LS arms. Chassis is way too early for those. The early/late thing makes sense, as I sure didn't remember the chassis on my BE bitd being painted
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Not sure if it is, (edit...at the very least the TRX1 is narrower up front) but it would make sense...rcca reviewed the Blue Eagle in Sept '91 and the TRX-1 in Feb '92 meaning your timeline would make sense. Oct '92 brought the LS. I think I will leave the LS suspension on it as a era correct update. It would seem reasonable as the upgrades were within a year
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blue eagle definitely had the painted chassis. I have one that I got as a hulk project with blue motor plate, missing a bunch of stuff. I'll show you some pictures later.
I used black parts to get it back together, gear cover, rear arms, body mount, and went with the newer one piece white wheels. the paint was really ugly on it so I stripped it with acetone and gave it a fresh coat on black semigloss. I gotta look in my threads, I'm sure I have some pictures on here already. rc10 battery box fits fine as well.
bummer.....traxxas website is all changed up again.....no legacy model stuff I can find.
fortunately for you, I have both eagle pdf files pulled from their site when i knew they would f it up again. strangely, the eagle and blue eagle LS are the sheets I have, but no 'blue eagle'. models 1902 and 1903. the eagle parts list show some blue eagle parts I think.
PM me your email, I can't attache PDF files it appears.
I just bent over and bought the way overpriced cup to keep it legit.
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Ok here's the deal, after the Blue Eagle trans came out, Eagle owners could turn in their old tranny and get a discount towards the new pro trans conversion. Came with a template to drill the glitter chassis and the trans, motor plate, etc. Shortly after that they came out with the LS conversion kit that came with F / R dished wheels, long drive shafts and rear arms. So if anything you could say it is an Eagle with those factory conversions on it. But gold shocks would make it more correct in this scenario. Thant was the progression of my Eagle bitd. The Blue Eagle chassis is slightly longer than the TRX-1 chassis as well.
Looking at the rcca article I think Jason is correct about the first Blue Eagles having the glitter chassis (oh cool it has a name! Haha)
This chassis has a $250 price tag on it so I'm pretty sure it was built from kit not upgraded- but I could be wrong.
The direction I'm headed is basically what you said- an updated Blue Eagle. I have a standard Eagle so I didn't want to go that route again
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Yeah I have a set of the proper rear arms but the proper wheels for that offset were gonna kick my butt which is why I did the LS arms. I'll just consider it a Blue Eagle with the LS conversion kit on it, as a popular upgrade path. If I stick with the upgraded path, I have a pair of new A&L dogbones for the LS rear that I might throw on it too.
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I hear ya. When I think of some of the stuff I have stupidly sold over the years it makes me sick
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Continuing the theme of bringing up old threads ......................
I can confirm the existence of another Blue Eagle with Bullet style chassis, just as shown by GoMachV and RCCA Sept. '91. Also missing body mounts. Why were people even taking these things off?
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From what I can see in pics, it appears that all 3 of these trucks have the same body. Next question, where can I find one of these? Original or re-pro.
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I actually prefer the boxy look of the Hawk body over the Nitro Hawk, but the original is so hard to find. Might go with a JRX-T body or something similar if I can find. I`m not a huge fan of today`s stadium truck bodies, they all look the same to...
Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster :lol: . Great site, loads of info. here. I recently won a Traxxas Blue Eagle on a well known auction site and I`m excited to say the least because this is one of the trucks that I desperatly wanted as a...
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Any pics of the Blue Eagle yet? :mrgreen: No, sorry. Still waiting for it to arrive in the mail. Soon hopefully. Which also reminds me, my camera recently took a dump :x . Guess I betterstop buying r/c`s and get a camera :lol: .
I need to know what was the original rear shock tower looks like. The one on my car is aluminium and looks kinda home made. Thanks!
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good luck with the restore, post some pics when you get some. I raced one of those trucks when they came out. It was a very capable race truck in it's day.