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My biggest surprise based on my own experiences is the vast chasm of performance difference between off-the-shelf motors and the proper full-blown team provided motors. I remember the whole time i was racing at club level the fastest motor i came across was (coincidentally) a 17turn Revolution motor...

Just for reference, here are two early pre-Yokomo endbells which have been converted to slot brushes. This service was offered by Checkpoint and sold through Bolink. slot igarashi.jpg I have located these two after much hunting but still haven't sealed the deal to get my hands on them yet....if anyb...

Thank you for documenting this build. I found #2 in pieces in the garage, I'll start seeing if I can get it all back together. Not sure if everything is there and I've got some other projects to do first, but now I at least know what car that is.

All done

Just electronics to fit now and then set up. Body off for paint soon.

I have been looking for a safer way to store and display a few of my builds and have had a sneaky search for Oakley display cabinets going on in the background for a while now. We have three young kids, two of which are under 5 so they do tend to play with my RC cars like ''toys'' when they get thei...

I wanted to introduce myself to everyone. A couple of you already know who I am, and maybe remember my sisters and I running around M&M Raceway as a kids picking up little parts (some broken), packaging them with my dad’s equipment, and trying to sell them back to you. I’m Daryl Lane’s son. Most...

Some of the very first racing I've done



This was my dad's velodrome top speed car, he had a different one for the multi driver races.

This is my first project in the garage on the RC side. Looking through some random boxes I found 6-8 graphite A&L chassis and after looking around at other spare parts I found a Kyosho front bulkhead that matched the hole pattern on all of them, so I’m guessing Ultima. Someone correct me if I’m ...

Had my new wheels installed today on my f150. Now I need to get my fender flares painted and my new cab corners I installed last year.

I cannot for the life of me remember the origins of this one. I’d hazard a guess that once it was a graphite or a 6 gear CE, If any of you guys have a better idea let me know. Anyway, I’ve just finished it having had it in a state of almost finished for over ten years. Equipped with a Strates chassi...

You noticed the 17 etched on to the endbell too, right?

Go back about 3 pages and look at the Checkpoint selection i posted showing the endbells on mine and you will see what i mean....

I have a 13 and two 14's, both of which have blue labels. I then have a 15, 16 and 17 and they all have silver labels. And then I have a 20 with a black label..... plus i have seen a photo on a forum of brand new in packet 18 and 20 both of which also have black labels. As such, there is definitely ...

Looks fantastic, I thought I remembered that the FW CC chassis set didn’t have the complete lower chassis with front kick up. That you would need to have a 10T noseplate ….. We made two versions- the “cheater” chassis are flat g10 chassis plates that use a bolt on stock nose. The other version was ...

Cheeky bit of rear-end lightening complete....