Hey everyone! Very cool that there is a vintage RC10 buggy forum. I've seen some great looking buggys here. I originally bought this buggy from a friend back in the early 90s. This buggy has been sitting in a Kyosho bag for at least 15 years.
I'm not sure how far I'll get, but my goal right now will be to strip it down, clean it, possibly dye the white plastic to black because of the wear marks and to match the graphite chassis, upgrade the electronics, change it's tires and then have some fun running it again.
"The most important part of tinkering is saving all the parts"
Hi John, welcome to the board, your buggy looks great, I personally would not dye your white parts black , unless your planning to turn your buggy into a runner.
Your white parts look good, I think you would be amazed at how well they will clean up.
Check out this thread for some ways to clean your white parts.
Chrominator wrote:Hi John, welcome to the board, your buggy looks great, I personally would not dye your white parts black , unless your planning to turn your buggy into a runner.
Your white parts look good, I think you would be amazed at how well they will clean up.
Check out this thread for some ways to clean your white parts.
Thanks for that cleaning link....I have been using Simple green, but just might try some bleach too....I have a 5 gal bucket in the garage that is 50/50% water/bleach mixture from cleaning up my fence.....I think I might drop some parts in for a bit.....
Ditto what the others have said about keep the white parts white if they're in decent condition. The only reason to dye them at this point would be if you got a car where someone had dyed them another color already. If you really wanted, you could pick up black molded RC10 parts relatively cheaper for the all black look. Post more pics when you get it done!
Nice RC10 John, apart from my stealth team car I have another one that needs a big cleanup and a few parts, it's just like this one of yours, carbon chasis style but perhaps not quite as original as this one
The chassis in the pictures above appears to be a Composite Craft RC10 chassis. The graphite AE chassis has a weave pattern to it very identifiable. The nose plate looks like it was cut to make a gold front bumper. Cleaned up this will be a beautiful car and I vote with the others not to dye the white parts it will be great with the white left alone but nicely cleaned. Welcome to the board.
I'll keep the parts white if they clean up good. I'll try that Iron Out as suggested by the link. The pics in that thread turned out very good.
Under the gold nose plate is a very worn composite nose (no graphite weave is correct), so the gold plate was put on to reduce that wear when jumping around the street at the time. I'm going to replace all of the chassis mount screws since most are very worn from bottoming out onto concrete. I 'm hoping to find those at Lowes.
As far as the gold plate over the tranny. I'm not sure if thats a stock part or not.
I'm not sure what the specs are for the Black Magic motor yet, but I had planned on keeping it in there for now.
"The most important part of tinkering is saving all the parts"
MONSTER wrote:I knew there was something funny about that Nose. Were the Graphite Chassis' never "supposed" to have a Nose Plate?
Sounds like something I might have come up with, considering something I have going right now.
Thats correct, graphite/composite chassis' never had nose plates. I've seen some where you would actually use the complete nose plate. Some companies did this because its hard to get the kick up in a piece of graphite.
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I hope the track increased the value of the house. I'd consider that a key feature. 😁. That's a cool layout.
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Cool, glad that worked out for you! You could dye your entire patio black. :lol:
as title states. Was tryin to get an idea of what it is from you Losi gurus here but I'm lost. Maybe JRX pro. I know its pry a mixture so let me know what you guys think and I'll go from there to see if I might just keep this one and fixer up....
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thanx for the info guys. With the tranny feeling pretty good, cvds, lundsford turnbuckles, puretech battery strap and it being in overall pretty good shape I think I might just do a lil work on it. See how it works out and if it doesn't it might...
Just wondering what buggy this is? I am going to build an eastern dirt modified out of it and just wanted to be sure that i knew exactly which one it is.
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Only the T2 had the aluminum chassis the b2 went to this style composite chassis.
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I race my B2 with a 14x2 brushed motor and nimh batteries at my local track with great results. Its by far my best buggy.
Need info on this, the more the better. I remember it had a white black and I think yellow body with yellow wing and yellow wheels. The dog (few years back) got the rear wheels and the body.
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The rear bulkhead gets the majority of the work. The battery cup needs shaved completely to fit in between the GT arm mounts and to make room for a battery. I shaved down where the trans brace mounts to get closer to the height of the GT trans. The...
To bad a Gold Pan Chassis gave its life for it. 
