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As you may have seen in another thread i recently had a bit of ebay luck and now have An Ayk Sidewinder and Bobcat to restore. http://i.imgur.com/ave21OW.jpg First photo is after a quick run through the dishwasher , this was my first mistake as it removed most of the red anodising from the Sidewinde...

Well the painting is done , I try'd the Sidewinder body with a Bobcat box art , its the most ambitious paint job I've done and it was mostly successful , i had a little paint bleed past the masking tape and one of the paints wrinkled/reacted with one of the other's , not badly but it was very annoyi...

Decals applied.

On the one I restored I seriously thought about moving the front suspension top links back at the inner end to be above the rear lower arm mount in order to reduce the slop in the front steering .

That takes me back. My second car was a Willy's wheeler , the Honda city turbo , I had a lot of fun with that car , later in its life I converted it to a wild willy

Well, I've been slowly working on on my Willy. Thought I'd snap off a quick pic

Didn't think this was that sort of forum

Gotta be Scootmikes SRB 4X4 , I'm just a sucker for em ! Not much stock SRB left on that one though !

A lot of you probably already know this but for those who don't Nylon has a water content that dries out over time , when it dries it becomes more brittle and hard that originally intended . Now many of the cars we collect and restore used a lot of Nylon parts , gears , suspension arms etc were all ...

There's a massive thread on the " Chinese blue ESC" on RC groups and extensive testing as well as stripping down and comparing to a genuine hobbywing ESC , as I recall is boils down to 1 it may say 2-3s on the sales page but it's not 3s really and will die fast on 3s 2 much below 10t motor...

Hi and welcome to the forum . I'll start with the obvious , yes you will need tyres , 30 year old rubber won't last 5min , next I'd replace all the bearings that you can with new ones . A replacement motor really opens up a big can of worms , modern motors ,electronic speed controllers and battery's...

Yes vote now , I'm only 9 votes from winning , the dream is still alive !

I know this doesn't help much but BITD there was a two bearing upgrade kit that replaced the one big bearing with an insert that accepted two standard bearings and I think then used kyosho axles , good luck finding a set of those though , I think your best bet is a spacer of some kind . It's worth m...

Well done a very worthy winner of the year

My little old Ayk , whats not to like

Thats really very pretty indeed , can't wait to see it finished .

Honestly when Martco78 posted his Rothmans NSU I thought the game was over , such a lovely scale looking car and the three points I got yesterday were my lot , its never over till its over guys and there are plenty of nice cars this month that deserve some votes !