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3racing Mini MG Evo. Mini 1/10 scale FWD car.

Along way from a video, very limited time to work on crap....but it started!...that's all I can say at this point...the engine is a 1985 O.S. Max 21SE-B

Team Associated sc6.4.

FloTek body from a few years ago.

Used to be a thing in the pits with some older guys bitd...comparing/bragging about diff buttery smoothness. "I just rebuilt my diff, give that a spin and rejoice in it's buttery smoothness." "Meh, still a very slight crunch. Check mine out!" "Wow, that's smooth!" Meanw...

THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 3:34 pm Well, I'll be the first in the pool. Come on in fellas, the water is piss warm but the beer is ice cold!

poke poke

By the early 1990's Traxxas had created a stable of gas-powered vehicles, from the original Nitro Hawk to the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Street variants, as well as taking its first leap into large scale RC cars with the 1/6 Monster Buggy: Nitro Hawk: Introduced in 1992 the Nitro Hawk was a gas-powered v...

And another one of my firsts, the Nitro Street !
My first nitro powered rc. Still have it thankfully. Really do wish now I hadn’t dyed all the nylon parts on it but it is what it is…

I always thought that nitro buggy looked cool

Even if you hate EV’s, you might like this truck

An aesthetic update on Grendel showing off her backside. I'm going for a look that the purists are gonna hate, but I think the body color-painted bumpers and blacked-out grille and taillight surrounds will make her look more menacing. :twisted: TaillightFinishPanel-Installed1.jpg TaillightFinishPane...

Thumbs has the video of it idling..hopefully he'll get permission from his wife to post it 🤞....it starts right up, but won't idle low enough to disengage the clutch..the clutch and engine are all NOS parts, the carburetor was used...it being very finicky....the clutch is real aggressive as the spri...

Nothing compares to Hypercam (except Spacetech engineering for sure)

R6cowboy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2024 5:27 pm

RC10resto wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11, 2024 7:47 pm Even if you hate EV’s, you might like this truck

Hope they go bankrupt...

Trust me, you don't want that. Take it from someone in a country where there used to be a number of mainstream manufacturers.... but now there are NONE.

Finally had a weekend without babysitting the MIL, so the wife and I day tripped to Yorktown, Va on Saturday. It was just a fun day out, but the camera phone surprised me with a couple of pics.

Got a running vid! Thumbs has it, grabbed a carb off a vintage Max Power 8th onroad engine and machined throat down 2mm to fit it... idles down nicely now....only hold up, even with 2.4 radio, servos glitch badly, so I didn't get crazy with it, but did drive great, brakes worked....sent Benji (Thumb...