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Yep!

I recently got a wild hair and decided to pull my old nitro hawk out and give it a bit of a freshen up. My uncle gave this to me probably 20 years ago. Back then I modified it for a standard style crank, and put a disc brake setup on from a nitro rustler using the rustler input shaft and some custom...

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...

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...

For the handful of you that have Platinum shocks.... Several months ago, while working on my shocks, I had tried new white P4 orings. They turned out to have been too tight and have too much friction. The original orange Kyosho orings were somewhat leaky, and after reinstalling them they still tende...

Best build ever! If it doesnt win build of year things are fishy. POLITICS delicate POLITICS.

Morning bench test, sort of...

Test run.

That's gotta be the slickest nitro conversion to ever wear a Tamiya badge... if someone didn't know better they'd think it was factory.

Two thumbs up!

Who would think there would be 2 Ultimas in the Build of the Month on an RC10 site? Both very nicely built too.

THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:09 pm Test run.

Love the geartrain sounds at off-throttle. Very mechanical. Beast!

coxbros1 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:04 pm Now it was all worth it after that comment! thank you!

Always welcome!

TheDiamondOne wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:58 pm Now when are you gonna strap a rocket to that thing and get down to business?!?!

Ya know... I couldn't agree more! ...

How do u guys do this stuff? I hate being a 🦕 with tech Like learning to play an instrument, just pluck along until one day you're in a Steel Dragons cover band and get pulled up on stage and into rock-n-roll history... ...wait... was that a movie??? https://emojis.slackmojis.com/emojis/images/1643...

Well almost the same